Blackstar Squad Blackstar Squad was a squad of commandos in the Republic Army ' s Special Forces Division during the Cold War between the Galactic Republic and the Sith Empire . Specializing in covert operations , the Blackstars undertook missions in hostile environments such as Hutta during the Cold War , and the squad was led by Sergeant Donbar until Larin Moxla reported her superior ' s corruption in 3643 BBY . Both Moxla and Donbar were dismissed from the army as a result , though the squad itself remained in service . General Elin Garza , the head of the Special Forces Division , later lent the Blackstars to General Var Suthra for a cover mission on Nar Shaddaa to repay a favor . History . A commando squad in the Special Forces Division of the Republic Army , Blackstar Squad was formed sometime before the year 3645 BBY . That year , during the Cold War between the Galactic Republic and the Sith Empire , the Blackstars were deployed to the planet Hutta , the homeworld of the neutral criminal syndicate known as the Hutt Cartel , on a covert mission . Another mission sent the squad into an urban guerrilla firefight that went bad when intelligence was leaked , and four members of the squad — including a Kiffar named Larin Moxla — were caught in a trap . They managed to escape the fighting with only minor injuries , and bacta treatments brought them back to full readiness . Moxla eventually decided to report her commanding officer Sergeant Donbar ' s corruption in 3643 BBY and Donbar was dismissed from service , but Moxla earned the nickname " Toxic Moxla " and was soon dismissed from the army as well . That same year , General Var Suthra of the Republic Military was involved in a military crisis involving superweapons stolen by the Sith Lord Darth Angral . When he learned that Angral ' s apprentice Sadic had wiped out the branch of the Republic Strategic Information Service — the Republic ' s intelligence agency — that was stationed on the moon Nar Shaddaa , Suthra contacted the Special Forces ' leader General Elin Garza for aid . Repaying a favor to the Mon Calamari general , Garza dispatched the Blackstars to the moon in order to reinforce the young Jedi Knight who was pursuing Sadic and the stolen Power Guard supersoldier project . The Blackstars were placed under the command of SIS Special Agent Korol Tander , who tailed the Jedi Knight to Sadic ' s laboratory and brought the squad in to reinforce the Jedi . Finding that Sadic had already been defeated , the squad followed the Knight ' s orders and destroyed the facility with explosives , permanently destroying the Power Guard project and ensuring that it would never be resurrected . Equipment and training . A Special Forces squad , the members of Blackstar Squad wore light combat armor of a dark grey color with orange and white markings . The Blackstars also wore helmets with black visors and built - in breath masks , and carried blaster rifles in combat . The squad was trained extensively in covert operations , extractions , slicing , and demolitions . Behind the scenes . Blackstar Squad was first introduced in Sean Williams ' 2008 novel " " , the first in a of tie - in novels for the BioWare video game " " . The squad ' s appearance in the Jedi Knight class mission " Showdown with Lord Sadic " marked one of the first times that content from " Fatal Alliance " was referenced in the rest of the " The Old Republic " metaseries , as the novel ' s characters and events have largely been ignored in the game and other material . Agent Tander identifies the commandos as Blackstar Squad , but the commando NPCs themselves are named " Black Star Commandos " . The squad can be ordered to either destroy the Power Guard project for light side alignment points , copy the files for dark side points , or sabotage it for dark side points . However , as the Jedi Knight is a Republic class and is therefore assumed to make only the moral light side choices , this article assumes that the Power Guard project was destroyed .