Zero Company recruits a roster of up to 20 Operators per campaign across diverse galactic species (including Umbaran, Togruta, Tognath, Devaronian, Mandalorian, and Clone veterans like Trick and Aurelio). 12 Specializations have been confirmed — 8 standard and 4 exotic — alongside the named Bespoke companions below.
Every Operator draws from the same pool of 12 Specializations (8 standard, 4 exotic). What matters on this page is not the catalog but who can reach which tree: each named companion below states its own progression path, and Dual Specialization opens a second tree for the roster once Luco joins.
Roles, confirmed abilities and how each tree shapes a build are documented in full on Classes & Specializations.
Handcrafted Star Wars Zero Company characters — Star Wars Zero Company Tel Rea Vokoss (Tel-Rea) is the squad's Jedi Padawan — with unique origin talents and personal progression paths.
Human · Joins: Campaign start
The player character. A former Republic officer who assembles Zero Company after the Clone Wars. Always deployed in story missions.
Hawks' signature command talent (exact effect per build path).
Clone trooper · Joins: Early campaign companion
A clone trooper and Hawks' oldest friend. Their shared history is the emotional core of the squad — and the subject of the 'Old Friends' bond achievement.
Survives being downed once per battle.
🏆Story: The Trooper achievement
Clone trooper · Joins: Prologue / Serolonis campaign opening
A battle-hardened clone veteran who served alongside Hawks during the Outer Rim Sieges. Deployed in the opening Serolonis tactical assault.
Pins down target enemy squads in an arc, cancelling readied Overwatch.
🏆Story: The Veteran achievement
Umbaran · Joins: Casualties of War — 3-mission companion arc
An Umbaran operator. The 'Sharp Shooters' achievement pairs Luco with Hawks at Very High Bond, and the Trick/Luco pairing is the squad's friction pairing.
🏆Story: The Umbaran achievement
A prizefighter with a background in the fighting pits. Shares the 'Mate and Marrow' bond with Hawks and the 'Baroness and the Boxer' bond with Jae.
Kills refund all of Kabb's Action Points.
🏆Story: The Prizefighter achievement
Luunata noble · Joins: After the 'In Debt to the Hutts' story beat
A Luunata aristocrat navigating the fall of her homeworld's old order. Her homeworld is central to the 'Behind Enemy Lines' story mission.
Sweeping Salvo generates 4 Advantage on use.
🏆Story: The Baroness achievement
Mandalorian · Joins: Late campaign — recruit at The Den
A Mandalorian of Clan Verminoth. One of the squad's two known exotic Specializations (alongside Tel-Rea Vokoss).
Jetpack mobility — drop in, mark, then extract.
🏆Story: The Mandalorian achievement
The squad's Jedi Padawan and the source of its Force capabilities, including Push/Pull in combat.
Force Push / Pull as Fast Actions, Lightsaber Throw at high levels.
🏆Story: The Padawan achievement
Beyond these named companions, the rest of the roster is filled with procedurally generated Operators recruited at The Den.
Seven authored companions, four deployment slots. A tier is simply how much a signature passive changes the action economy of the slot it occupies — refunded AP, out-of-turn damage, enemy control.
The only Operator with the Padawan → Wayseeker path, and the squad's Force control — Push and Pull as Fast Actions. She sits at the top on specialization access: no other slot buys you a second way to move enemies. Patch 1.1 also corrected her Force damage maths (ranged Cross Training was double-counted, crit bonuses were skipped).
With line of sight on an enemy left at ≤4 HP after an ally's attack, she fires again — and the shot does not spend her Action Points. Free finishing damage that never competes for the AP you already budgeted.
An Uppercut kill refunds all of Kabb's Action Points, which turns a spent turn into an unspent one. The single most direct action-economy swing on the roster.
Builds three Sharpened Senses stacks — +5% accuracy and +1 ranged damage each, consumed one per ranged attack. In a ranged-heavy squad he performs like an S-tier pick; in a melee or mixed squad he slides.
A force multiplier rather than a damage dealer: squad-wide Assist Damage, Advantage generation and the ability to hand an ally +1 AP. He is also the only Operator whose Specialization and weapon loadout are entirely your choice, which keeps him valuable in every composition.
Jetpack mobility that closes distance, ignores Overwatch and Retaliation when jumping, and shoves enemies out of position. The repositioning is genuine; the impact of the landing itself is widely reported as underwhelming, which keeps him situational.
Survives being downed (published coverage describes it as reviving on the following turn at half health). It only pays out if Trick is the one who goes down first, so on lower difficulties the passive can go a whole run without mattering.
Jay Dunna
A creator ranking of the same seven Operators. Different methodology from ours, so watch it next to the table above to see where the two agree.
Published tier lists converge on the same top three: Tel-Rea, Jae and Kabb. Tel-Rea for Wayseeker Force control, Jae for out-of-turn finishing damage that costs no Action Points, and Kabb for Uppercut kills refunding his entire turn. Which one is best for you still depends on whether your squad is built around AP economy, range or control.
Only four Operators deploy per mission from the seven authored companions, so half the named roster waits at The Den. We rank on what a passive does to the action economy in the slot it occupies — refunded AP, out-of-turn damage, control — rather than on raw stat totals, which are also heavily weapon-dependent.
He is the most situational, not the weakest. His passive only triggers when he is the first to be downed, so it pays off in sloppy or high-difficulty fights and rarely in clean ones. Cly's Combat Jump has the same profile: strong effect, narrow window, which is why both sit in B rather than below it.
Four families cover the whole roster, and each is a statement about how an Operator wants to fight: a Blaster Pistol buys cheap actions and leans on Quick Draw, a Blaster Rifle is the neutral mid-range pick, a Heavy Repeater trades accuracy for area denial, and a Longarm Blaster (Sniper) is the payoff weapon for a held sightline. Load the family that matches the range your Specialization already wants to stand at — not the one with the biggest numbers on paper.
AP cost, effective range, armor penetration and the range ladder live on Weapons & Weapon Classes.
The generic talent pool any Operator can pick, independent of Specialization. List confirmed by the Epic Games Store builds guide.
Melee-focused perk.
Readied counter-positioning perk.
Effect unverified.
Effect unverified.
Effect unverified.
Effect unverified.
Damage mitigation perk.
Effect unverified.
Forces enemies to target the Heavy.
Elite / boss-focused damage perk.
Effect unverified.
Mission character
Central figure of the 'Dark Waters' story mission ('Fathom Revealed' achievement).
Guest appearance
Joins the squad for a specific mission (noted by multiple reviewers).
Highlights pulled from the YouTube auto-captions — verify in-game before committing.
NorZZa
Creator breakdown of the standout specializations and how Dual Specialization changes team-building once Luco unlocks it.