Aboard the [Herald](/article/herald], an _Imperial II_-class Star Destroyer, was a commander serving in the Galactic Empire's Special Forces. This commander put together an infiltration unit that infiltrated the CR90 corvette called Thunderstrike while attempting to capture the Imperial defector Everi Chalis. After the mission failed, Prelate [Verge](/article/verge], the commander's direct supervisor, punished them by using them as a subject to calibrate interrogator droids for a week or more.
During the Galactic Civil War, which pitted the Galactic Empire against the Rebel Alliance, a commander served within the Empire's Special Forces. This commander was stationed on the Herald, the personal Star Destroyer of Prelate [Verge](/article/verge], an Imperial II-class Star Destroyer. In 3 ABY, Verge, along with Captain Tabor Seitaron, were pursuing Everi Chalis, an Imperial governor and emissary to the Imperial Ruling Council who had defected to the Alliance's 61st Mobile Infantry. As part of the scheme to apprehend the defector, the Special Forces commander formed a team of Imperial spies to utilize the damaged rebel light freighter known as Trumpet's Call, whose crew had perished during its capture.
Disguised as injured rebels, the Special Forces commander's infiltration team piloted the Trumpet's Call to a rebel flotilla located in the Elochar sector. There, they managed to infiltrate the 61st's CR90 corvette, the Thunderstrike. The Herald journeyed to the sector in an attempt to seize Chalis, but the infiltration team was killed by members of the 61st on board their corvette, which then escaped. Verge, placing blame on crewmembers aboard his Star Destroyer for the failure to stop the Thunderstrike, selected the Special Forces commander, a gunner, and a scan officer to serve as calibration subjects for interrogator droids. This punishment was to last until they confessed every act of disloyalty they had ever committed. After a [week](/article/standard_week] of torture, the commander was still screaming, the scan officer had died, and the gunner had been released.
Alexander Freed mentioned the Special Forces commander in his 2015 novel, Battlefront: Twilight Company.