Setting: 20 BBY — The Twilight of the Republic
Star Wars Zero Company takes place in 20 BBY, approximately one year before the tragic climax of Revenge of the Sith. The Grand Army of the Republic is stretched paper-thin across the Outer Rim sieges.
In this climate of galactic exhaustion and military bureaucracy, covert private outfits like Zero Company operate in the shadows to handle missions the Jedi Council and Republic Senate cannot officially acknowledge.
The Antagonist: The Infinite Coil
Led by the enigmatic charismatic figure Kundri Fathom, the Infinite Coil is a Separatist-aligned paramilitary cult that has weaponized the Shadow Plague—a biotechnical contagion that corrupts biological nervous systems and reprogrammed battle droids into zealots.
Commander Hawks and Zero Company must unravel Fathom's conspiracy from the Outer Rim to the Core Worlds before the contagion sweeps across the galaxy.