Kaeline Ungasan

Kaeline Ungasan was a Human male employee of the Corporate Sector Authority, a podracing producer and an up-and-comer crime lord. He dared to defy the Hutt control over Ando Prime. At different points, he employed Benkudi, Ree and Rikal Stargunner.

Biography
Kaeline Ungasan was a mid-level agent for the Corporate Sector Authority. Ungasan had previously dealt with the Hutts, although they were unaware of his relation to the CSA. He also was a hopeful crime lord, with the CSA ignoring his shadiest businesses.

The CSA had been trying to wrestle financial control of Ando Prime from the Hutts, but they had failed repeatedly. They entrusted Ungasan with this task. Ungasan considered it a chance to become a full-time gangster and take some profits from the Desilijic Hutt clan.

Podracing business in Ando Prime was under Hutt control thanks to the Ando Overland, a podrace course belonging to the Desilijics. Ungasan organized his own, alternative course: The Ungasan Cross Country. He hired podracing pilot Ree, a disgruntled employee of the Hutts, to become his chief scout for race locations.

During the scouting, Ree accidentally found traces of Vonium, a valuable mineral. Ungasan decided to mine the seams illegally and use the money to fund his crime empire. Ree and Ungasan doctored podracing equipment with scanning devices and sold it to the pilots at a very low price; after the race, Ree's team could scavenge the equipment from the unavoidable debris of crashed podracers. Ungasan promoted the race saying that the course changed every time to provide the racers and the audience with exciting new challenges; the course was really chosen looking for the most probable veins of Vonium. This had the side effect of avoiding Hutt reprisals, as the Hutts did not know where to it, Ando Prime was too scarcely populated to attack any permament post, and the bets were made through the HoloNet. The local authorities were bribed with CSA surplus luxury articles.

Ree warned Ungasan about Benkudi, a Dug friend of his who had previously worked both for Ungasan and for the Hutts. Ree believed that Benkudi could sell any useful information on Ungasan to the Hutts. Ungasan sent some contract workers of the Authority to thrash Benkudi, as a warning against him talking about Ando Prime.

However, by then the Hutts were already angry with Ungasan, and they had discovered Ree's involvement in the Ungasan Cross Country. The Hutts decided to send an assault team of Gamorreans led by Human bounty hunter Davon Gitta, to capture Ree alive, so that they could question Ree and find the well-hidden Ungasan. As Ree himself was hard to be find, the Hutts hired some well-disposed independent agents, who believed to be looking for a runaway child. These people were unbeknowstly carrying a tracking device so that Gitta could follow them.

Unaware of this, Ungasan travelled to Ando Prime with his bodyguard, Rikal Stargunner. They met with Geon Justic, head of mining union in the town of Elesa. Justic told them that Ree wanted to survey the Juaka Canyon, and Ungasan decided to meet with him there. Although Ungasan did not know it, the Authority had began to doubt of his loyalty and had sent some people to follow Ungasan's steps.

Ree's four-sentient survey team was under the attack of the Talids, native people who claimed the podracer ruins. The independent agents of the Hutts were also there. It is believed that Gitta's band and the CSA faction joined the fight soon afterwards.

In 27 BBY, Ungasan's shady activities and his use of the Cross Country as a front were discovered and probably stopped, in what was the first of many controversies in podracing, leading to the ultimate criminalization of the sport.