A clone trooper commando who functioned as the leader of the High Orbit Precision Entry Squad, or H.O.P.E. Squad, was clad in orange Katarn-class commando armor. Around 19 BBY, close to the conclusion of the Clone Wars, he and his team were dispatched to Yorn Skot to assist Jedi Master Treetower. Treetower's mission to seize a consignment of smuggled items from the Separatists had failed, leaving him stranded on a unipod beneath a landing platform. To extract the Jedi, the commando and his squad descended the platform's side via ropes, only to be ambushed by a band of jump droids. These droids killed the entire squad, except for the leader, who succeeded in both saving Treetower and eliminating the droids. Once they were safely back on the platform, Treetower informed the commando that the smuggled goods were, in fact, Ugnaughts who had been captured and were destined to be sold into slavery.