Alderaan Royal Engineers

One of the earliest-known shipwrights during the founding years of the Old Republic, the Alderaan Royal Engineers were renowned for their design work with large-scale capital warships and smaller starfighters alike. As the centuries and millennia progressed, however, the Royal Engineers began to see their work outpaced by other, more aggressive competitors, leading to a new emphasis upon civilian luxury craft -- yachts and spaceliners, along with deep-space stations and the like.

Prior to the planet Alderaan's destruction by the Galactic Empire in 0 BBY, however, it was whispered that the company had secretly become involved in a scheme by the Organa Royal House to rearm the world's military forces, a move which would have provided badly-needed support to the then-growing Rebel Alliance. After the Death Star completed its deadly work, though, any such secrets went to the grave with their protectors, along with the rest of the planet's population.