The members of the Special Unconventional Warfare Operations, better known as Commandos, are a specialised raiding force, based upon pre-contact special forces. The Commandos specialise as shock troopers, launching sledgehammer blows against enemy positions, as infiltrators, infiltrating enemy lines and sowing discord and chaos, and as quick reaction troopers, bolstering their brothers in arms wherever the Republic Army is in danger of being over run. To this effect, they have lightened combat armour, allowing them to infiltrate and move faster, with ease.