The Revengers, a team whose members were called "heroes," functioned within the time of the Imperial Era. This group, spearheaded by Ankala Sahm and including S'ira and Tanka, sought to hunt down and attack operatives of the Crimson Dawn criminal organization, after all three had their homes obliterated by them.
On the planet Calior, the Revengers stepped in during an incident where Chief Regional Auditor Cygnus Anton of the Galactic Empire, who was in league with Crimson Dawn, tried to seize the southern water works for the Empire. Even though the Revengers were tricked by Anton's use of a hologram, and were then attacked by an All Terrain Scout Transport containing the genuine Anton, they received help from followers of the Sith Lord Darth Vader. As a result, the Revengers considered Vader a heroic figure, and the Sith Lord enlisted them to aid in his mission to dismantle the syndicate.