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 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.

Below the leader of Black Sun were nine Vigos (Old Tionese for "nephew"). Each Vigo ruled over his or her own territory and sector.

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, as well as the other Vigos, severely damaging the organization.

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.

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. They had an almost limitless amount of credits&mdash;more than enough to finance any operation they wished to complete. They ruled the underworld and few individuals or organizations dared to cross them or pose a threat to 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 Rebel base and fleet to Vader.

The Zann Consortium
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 presumably planned to put Tyber Zann, leader of the Zann Consortium, in a dangerous situation which Xizor hoped would result his rival's death.

However, Zann betrayed Xizor by planting evidence that pointed responsibility for the theft towards the Black Sun, which further encouraged Vader to destroy Xizor.

Humiliation at Tansarii Point Station
Black Sun had an interest in Tansarii Point Station, and sometime after the destruction of the Death Star, they had placed three bases of operations near Tansarii Point Station in the Ord Mantell system, from which they would commit acts of piracy against traders and civilians. A team of Black Sun hackers even managed to infiltrate the station.

The Black Sun dominance in the Ord Mantel system changed with the arrival of a spacer whose identity remains unknown, brought there by Han Solo and Chewbacca. The spacer ended up in the employ of Car'das who were responsible for law enforcement in and around the station; this proved to have serious consequences for Black Sun.

The spacer was involved in an operation that successfully removed the threat from the hackers, and would also fight against the local Black Sun pirates in the Battle of Tansarii Point Station, in which all of the Black Sun commanders in the Ord Mantell system were killed and most of the local Black Sun wing destroyed. As a result of the battle, the Black Sun presence in the system diminished drastically and their influence disappeared totally.

The final years of the Galactic Civil War


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

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.

When Xizor learned that Luke Skywalker was Vader's son, he decided to kill Skywalker so as to foil Vader's plan to turn him 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 Black Sun.

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 New Republic'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 New Republic 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 operatives 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 retrieved Czethros and the signal he planned 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.

Ships

 * Darnada's station
 * Interceptor-class frigate
 * Ixiyen-class fast attack craft
 * Kihraxz light fighter
 * Rihkxyrk Attack Ship
 * Stinger
 * Supa Fighter
 * Vaksai
 * Virago