Special Forces

The Imperium maintains Special Forces units in both the Imperial Army and Imperial Marines, as well as the IISS.

• See: Sylean Rangers
• See: Imperial Marine Commandos
• See: IISS Special Security Service (S-3)

• See also: Zhodani Consular Guard

Description (Specifications)

The names of these units often remain undisclosed or, when publicised, build a mystique that allows the owner to hide other related units in the shadows so created. Many Governments within the Imperium maintain their own Special Forces units in their Colonial Troops as do many Police Forces. Particularly at a planetary level, one Government's Special Forces are another's Guerrillas/Terrorists.

Special Forces may be deployed in many roles under many titles: -

• Long Range Reconnaissance Patrol
• Intelligence Gathering
• Counter-Insurgency
• Counter-Terrorism
• Hostage Rescue
• Sabotage
• Direct Action
• Covert Operations

Special Forces will often be trained to operate in:

• Difficult Terrain
  • Steep or Broken Terrain e.g.
    • Mountains
    • Rifts & Cliffs
  • Obstructed Terrain e.g.
    • Underground
    • Built Up Areas
    • Forests & Jungles
• Difficult Environments (see also Protected Forces)
  • Underwater or in other liquids
  • Corrosive or Insidious Atmospheres
  • Extremes of Temperature

Worlds & Sectors (Astrography)

This institution is primarily based out of the following sector:

• Imperium

References & Contributors (Sources)

This page uses content from Wikipedia. The original article was at Special_forces. The list of authors can be seen in the page history. The text of Wikipedia is available under the Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 3.0 Unported License.

This list of sources was used by the Traveller Wiki Editorial Team and individual contributors to compose this article. Copyrighted material is used under license from Mongoose Publishing or by permission of the author. The page history lists all of the contributions.

• Marc Miller. Players' Manual (Game Designers Workshop, 1987), 51.
• Traveller Wiki Editorial Team
• Author & Contributor: BackworldTraveller