Eclipse Platoon History
by LT Talon Zanar

     It was back in the early days of the Palpatine when a platoon of infiltration troopers was formed. Out of the elite Stormtroopers, a small group was chosen to lead the Empire to victory in countless situations. They would train with the Imperial Royal Guard and work very closely with them. Palpatine had been pressured by his advisors for many years to form a platoon of elite soldiers who could move in when a situation became stagnant.
     The Emperor decided to allow the creation of such a platoon, and it was immediately formed. They performed admirably for many years, unnoticed and unaccounted for by the Rebel forces. Just before Palpatine's death, Eclipse Platoon was brought to Coruscant in order to have some time off and run some training exercises. They managed to recruit a few members, but Eclipse was mostly veterans by this time. When Palpatine died tragically over the forest moon of Endor, the Empire was in a severe disarray.
     Eclipse made a drastic move. They disappeared from site and went to the outer rim territories. They stayed there in a deadly silence, waiting for the right time to emerge. The Rebel forces were invading the planet they were stationed on and Eclipse moved in to destroy the army.
     Everything went spectacularly well up until the Rebel reinforcements arrived. Eclipse managed to eliminate somewhere in the vicinity of 2500 Rebel soldiers, but they were not holding out well against the entire invasion army. There were members of Eclipse dying all during the retreat, and after the pullback there were only two men yet alive. Sgt. Talon Zanar and CPL Demosthenes made it to a mountain hideout where they had a transport stashed.
     But the rebels were closing in too fast and one of them would need to stay behind and hold them off. Both of them wanted to stay back and die honorably in service of the Empire instead of running away, but they decided one of them needed to carry on the legend of Eclipse. They flipped a coin, and Demosthenes won. He told Talon to get out as quick as he could. Talon did just that, and as he was leaving, saw Demosthenes cut down by a blast to the chest.
      Sgt. Zanar made his way back to Carrida II and found the Imperial base. He offered to lend his fighting expertise and combat skill to teaching the soldiers the basics, so long as he could form a platoon of the elite. Everyone agreed--and so it was that Eclipse Platoon came to be in the Hammer's Fist.