

The First Order's search for Resistance spies led the 709th to the Den of Antiquities, where they interrogated the shop's owner, Dok-Ondar. Tasked with hunting Resistance spies, the 709th began interrogating the population of Black Spire. It would be a pity…if all your rare relics were reclassified as contraband and ordered destroyed." ―A stormtrooper sergeant, to Dok-Ondar " Consider this a friendly warning to report any contact with the Resistance. Such measures were proposed by the sergeant and supported by his commanding officer, Agnon, who expected nothing less from the soldiers under his command. Fervently loyal to the First Order, the 709th despised the Resistance and were prepared to destroy all of Black Spire in order to draw out and kill any insurgents in the vicinity. The 709th were dismissive of the residents of Black Spire, referring to them as "Batuuan rats" and the outpost as a "rats' nest." However, they did enjoy the fear that the locals felt in the presence of the 709th. In 34 ABY, following the ascension of Supreme Leader Kylo Ren, the 709th were deployed to the Outer Rim Territories of the galaxy their mission at the time was to occupy the Black Spire Outpost on the planet Batuu and eliminate Resistance forces in the area, Arriving at the outpost in the TIE echelon, a sub-unit of the 709th operated under the command of a First Order officer, Lieutenant Agnon, as well as a stormtrooper sergeant. The 709th Legion was active during the galactic war between the First Order and the Resistance. And before we are done, Batuu will never be the same." ―Lieutenant Agnon Ī detachment of the 709th Legion "Red Fury" arrived at the Black Spire Outpost, located on the planet Batuu, via a TIE/es assault shuttle. During the occupation of Black Spire, a squad of 709th stormtroopers attempted to capture the Clawdite fugitive Remex Io.

Part of their mission was to seek out and destroy Resistance forces on Batuu as such, they took a coercive approach when dealing with members of the local population, such as Dok-Ondar who was warned against aiding the First Order's enemies by the sergeant in the 709th. The 709th occupied the Black Spire Outpost of the Outer Rim world of Batuu during the war between the First Order and the Resistance.

The TIE/es assault shuttle was the legion's starship and main transport. Lieutenant Agnon and a stormtrooper sergeant served as staff officers of the 709th. The legion's ranks were chosen by Ren himself, and included specialized units, such as megablaster heavy assault troopers, consisting in total of eight thousand infantry troopers of the Stormtrooper Corps. The 709th Legion, also known as the " Red Fury," was an elite stormtrooper legion in the military forces of the First Order under the command of Supreme Leader Kylo Ren. " There are Resistance scum hiding out here somewhere on Batuu-and the Red Fury will burn down this entire rats' nest to smoke them out, Lieutenant Agnon." ―A stormtrooper sergeant
