61st Mobile Infantry

The 61st Mobile Infantry, also referred to as the 61st Infantry Company, simply the 61st, or Twilight Company was a military unit that served the Alliance to Restore the Republic under the command of Captain Micha Evon, Howl, during the Galactic Civil War against the Galactic Empire. Their headquarters was the CR90 corvette Thunderstrike, which was escorted by the Braha'tok-class gunship Apailana's Promise, which carried the company's two X-wings. The soldiers of Twilight Company fought the forces of the Galactic Empire before and during the Galactic Civil War.

During the Mid Rim Retreat Twilight Company battled on various planets to distract Imperial forces and allow the Alliance Fleet to gradually withdraw from the Mid Rim. When the company attacked Haidoral Prime, the planet's governor, Everi Chalis, defected to them. She offered to support Twilight Company with information that could help slowly cripple the "Imperial war machine." During the Coyerti campaign, she gave them information on a distillery on the planet, which First Sergeant Hazram Namir and his squad destroyed.

Following their departure from Coyerti, Twilight Company was attacked three times by Imperial forces. The Thunderstrike chief engineer M2-M5 concluded that the corvette was being tracked due to a hyperdrive leak that came about during a run-in attack prior to the Coyerti campaign. To fix this, Twilight Company boarded an Imperial heavy freighter for supplies. The Thunderstrike and Apailana's Promise then rendezvoused with three other battle groups in the Elochar sector while Howl, Chalis, Namir and two others went to Hoth for an Alliance High Command strategy conference. However, the Thunderstrike was infiltrated by Imperial spies, who killed the high-ranking officers on the bridge.

After killing the Imperial spies, Twilight Company escaped the Elochar Sector and hid on Ankhural. Namir and Chalis returned from Hoth, having lost Howl and the other two soldiers in an Imperial attack. The company proceeded to repair their two ships and have a funeral for Howl. In the meantime, Chalis devised Operation Ringbreaker, a campaign targeting a number of Imperial worlds before ultimately attacking Kuat Drive Yards to cripple the Imperial Navy. Leaving Ankhural, Twilight Company began Operation Ringbreaker by attacking Mardona III. The company continued by fighting the Empire at Najan-Rovi, Obumubo, Nakadia, and several other worlds.

Twilight Company continued Operation Ringbreaker by capturing the Inyusu Tor mineral processing facility on Sullust. However, before they could be extracted, the Thunderstrike was shot down by a TIE fighter squadron, which . Being stranded on Sullust, Twilight Company set up defense on Inyusu Tor. Namir led mission down to the planet's capital city Pinyumb to find the Sullustan Resistance. Namir was able to meet with them and planned to holdout at Inyusu Tor and help the Sullustans in the city.

After the Imperial II-class Star Destroyer Herald arrived, the Sullust Imperial garrison attacked Inyusu Tor. The defense, led by Namir, held out against these forces, and the Apailana's Promise returned to distract the Herald. Chalis, who disagreed with Namir's decisions in defending the Processing facility, fled and allowed herself to get captured by the Herald in a shuttle, which she had rigged with twenty ion bomb. Detonating the bombs, Chalis effectively reduced the Herald power, forcing it to retreat. Having defeated the ground forces, Twilight Company helped keep order at Pinyumb, but planned to leave to avoid a harsh Imperial attack.

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