CompForce was the military wing of COMPNOR, created to provide Emperor Palpatine with an army of utterly loyal soldiers seperate from the Stormtrooper Corps. Stormtroopers were trained to obey orders without thinking, but at the same time, they were proudly independent of the line military; CompForce units, in contrast, were embedded within the hierarchy of the Imperial Army and Imperial Navy, and their members were motivated primarily by conscious adherence to the tenets of the New Order. In theory, they were shock troops and officer candidates; in effect, they were security troops and political police, answerable to the New Order's ideologues rather than the High Command - an army within the Army, designed to tighten the grip of the Imperial hierarchy on the military.