Black Sun/Legends

"The ignorant even call it the most powerful force in the known universe."

- Darth Sidious

Black Sun was the most powerful and most infamous crime syndicate in the Galaxy. It held a massive amount of reach and influence, extending its tendrils of corruption deep in the various galactic governments of each era. It was infamous for its involvement in illegal activities, including piracy and smuggling.

Late Republic Era
Black Sun existed in some form or another for centuries. Although headquartered on Coruscant, its influence stretched the length of the Galaxy. Around 32 BBY, Black Sun was headed by Alexi Garyn, who was killed by Darth Maul on his master's orders. Below the leader of Black Sun were nine Vigos (Old Tionese for "nephew"). Each Vigo ruled over his or her own territory and sector.

During the Clone Wars, Black Sun dealt extensively with the plant Bota, which was found on Drongar. Originally, Admiral Tarnese Bleyd was the main contact with Filba the Hutt for the smuggling. He was later assassinated by Kaird, a Nediji, following the death of the former operative Mathal. Another partnership was later established with Thula and Squa Tront to secure the bota. Upon learning that the bota was losing its potency, Kaird escaped from Drongar with a supply as a gift for his Vigos; it was subsequently discovered that the case was filled with explosives, in attempt at betrayal by Thula and Tront.

After the Rebel Alliance destroyed the the first Death Star, Tyber Zann was left in control of a large fleet of Black Sun pirate ships.

Rise of the Empire
During the early days of the Galactic Empire, Black Sun was led by Dal Perhi, though his mantle was soon usurped by a Black Sun Captain named Xizor. The Falleen crimelord continued to lead Black Sun into the Galactic Civil War. Assisting Prince Xizor was the feminine Human Replica Droid by the name of Guri. Guri played the role of bodyguard/assassin for the Falleen Prince. Under Xizor's leadership, Black Sun became so powerful that the Prince was considered by some Coruscant courtiers to be surpassed in power by only Emperor Palpatine and Darth Vader.

Black Sun's influence was tremendous, indeed. They had an almost limitless amount of credits – more than enough to finance any operation they wished to complete. They ruled the underworld and few individuals or organizations dared to cross them. The Tenloss Criminal Syndicate was hit particularly hard when it failed to pay the proper tribute to Black Sun; Xizor had the Empire destroy their main operations fleet and shipyard when he leaked the information that it was a Rebal base and fleet to Vader.

Xizor also dealt with a rival criminal organization, the Zann Consortium, using them to steal tibanna gas from a mining facility on Bespin owned by the Empire. Knowing that Vader was stationed on Bespin, he planned to put Tyber Zann, leader of the Zann Consortium, in a dangerous situation which Xixor hoped would result his rival's death. However, Zann betrayed Xizor by planting evidence that pointed responsibility for the theft towards the Black Sun.

Xizor had a personal reason to hate Vader. After an accident at a biological weapons laboratory on Xizor's homeworld Falleen, Vader ordered the area and all of the contaminated Falleens to be "sterilized." In other words, the area was bombed and the Falleens were killed – including Xizor's family. Xizor deleted all records of his family's deaths to hide any apparent motives for a grudge against Vader.

When Xizor learned that Luke Skywalker was Vader's son, he decided to kill Skywalker so as to foil Vader's plan to turn Luke to the dark side of the Force and embarrass him in the eyes of the Emperor. However, when Vader learned of the scheme, he made sure Xizor paid with his life by destroying his skyhook above Coruscant with the Executor, killing Xizor and dealing a large blow to the organization.

Shortly before the Battle of Endor, the Black Sun made some dealings with the Viraxo trading cartel, supplying fighter craft, weapons, and soldiers, which the Viraxo used against Ace Azzameen and his family.

New Republic and beyond
Several attempts to restore the power of the syndicate were made, including one by Xizor's niece Savan and one by the Jeodu Dequc, who termed his enterprise "Black Nebula."

In 6 ABY, as part of the Rebellion's attempt to liberate Coruscant, sixteen of the Galaxy's most notorious criminals were released from the prison colony on Kessel in order to cause disruptions that were intended to allow infiltration by Rebel agents, including the members of Rogue Squadron. This tactic backfired, as the released prisoners (including Zekka Thyne and former Moff Fliry Vorru) went on to successfully resurrect Black Sun.

By the time of the Thrawn crisis and the return of Palpatine, Black Sun was headed by Y'ull Acib. Working with Grappa the Hutt, he attempted to take control of the Imperial Interim Ruling Council, to no avail.

In 24 ABY, Czethros attempted to bring back the criminal syndicate to its former glory and to dominate the Galaxy. He planned to take over by sending spies and opratives in the most key points in it, and sending them out all at once. He sent them in many places including Cloud City, Ord Mantel, Anobis, Kessel, and Crystal Reef. In their failed Kessel uprising, the New Jedi Order retreved Czethros and the signal he planed to send. The New Republic, then one at a time, warned the locals, sent the signal to a planet, and arrested thousands of Black Sun agents across the galaxy and effectively destroyed the organization.