Bumani Exchange Corporation

] The Bumani Exchange Corporation, commonly known as The Exchange, was a criminal organization active around 4,000 BBY that dealt in smuggling, extortion, and bounty hunting.

The organisation was active on many planets and employed notorious bounty hunters such as Calo Nord. Some branch heads included Davik Kang, the crime lord of the planet Taris until he was killed by Revan, and Loppak Slusk of Telos. Another was Goto of Nar Shaddaa, though the Jedi Exile would later learn that he was something other than what appeared.

Goto managed to use the illegal actions of the Exchange for his ultimate purpose of stabilising the Republic. Its smuggling ring caused the deaths of destabilizing persons or organizations, developed unoffical profits for entire sectors, and strengthened Republic worlds that would otherwise be poor and ignored. Believing also that the major source of the Republic's problems revolved around the Jedi/Sith conflict, it also enacted bounties for live Jedi and Sith. Many bounty hunters simply killed Jedi and Sith instead of capturing them, but the outcome remained: less Jedi or Sith to fight against each other meant less fighting period.

The Exchange was one of the most powerful criminal organizations that operated throughout much of the Outer Rim Territories in that time. The shadowy group was led by an even more mysterious entity called the Compeer, with a command structure that included individual crime lords controlling profitable worlds. The only way to be accepted into this elite group was to be nominated by several other crime lords.

Appearances

 * Star Wars: Knights of the Old Republic
 * Knights of the Old Republic II: The Sith Lords