Red Smoke was a group consisting of ten experienced troopers from the Alliance to Restore the Republic, designated as a squad. They were among the forces dispatched to the planet Goratak III with the mission of retrieving an I2-CG droid that had been ejected from a Tech 4 PDV. Every member of the squad was equipped with a blaster rifle, and the squad also had two specialists: one who wielded a repeating blaster, and another who carried four grenades.