Red Guard

The Red Guard, or Palpatine's Royal Guard, are an elite class of Imperial Guard that served with the Galactic Republic during the Clone Wars and continued to served their leader, Palpatine, when he reformed the Republic into an Empire. They were highly skilled in battle and in hand to hand combat, but are most famous for their fighting styles with a Force Pike. The Guard, although the existed during the War, when the Republic became the Galactic Empire, the Red Guard replaced the original Blue Guard and Senate Commandos. Members of the guard were hand picked by Palpatine and some even knew about his true Sith identity during and after the Clone Wars. Their faces, over time would become corrupt after living a long life of serving the Emperor and being injected with The Dark Side, as a result of working with The Sith.