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"There's a shipping company just outside of Mos Eisley called White Thranta. I have information that leads me to believe they aren't a simple shipping company."
―Reimos Taligg, to a spacer[3]

White Thranta Shipping Company, also known as White Thranta Shipping, or simply White Thranta, was a small shipping company based on Tatooine during the Imperial Era. In fact, the company was a front for illegal activities of Jabba the Hutt's criminal empire.

Description[]

"White Thranta Shipping delivers to most of the known galaxy."
―An advertisement for the White Thranta Shipping Company[2]

Officially, the White Thranta Shipping Company was established by a consortium of Tatooine business owners seeking to meet a demand for secure galaxy-wide shipping. The company was specialized in shipping hazardous materials to most of the known galaxy.[2]

The White Thranta Shipping Company had headquarters located not far outside of the city of Mos Eisley, on the planet of Tatooine.[2] The company was ostensibly legitimate,[4] despite it was actually a cover for Jabba the Hutt's criminal activities.[3] A large number of security guards were hired, for security as well as to make sure no one found out what they were really doing deep in the confines of their bunker.[3] The security personnel of the White Thranta used a modified version of a popular Sg-82 sonic rifle.[5]

History[]

"I have been watching the progress of subject 23. While the stim he was administered was a failure, the resulting mutation created sores that seep a highly contagious viral agent."
―White Thranta internal medical report.[3]
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The White Thranta Shipping bunker.

During the Galactic Civil War, the White Thranta served as a smuggling base of operations and most of the goods shipped were destined to the Alliance to Restore the Republic.[4] People involved with the White Thranta criminal activities included Bib Fortuna, Ree-Yees, Kane Ezruud, Kaazo Barrezz, Carh'la Bastra, Kosto Maggio and Manu Rippodo.[3]

By the time of the Battle of Yavin, members of the White Thranta Shipping Company got involved in more questionable activities. Brok Ziam and Durr Roddack started steal money to the company, that is to say to Jabba,[1] in order to conduct medical experiments. They performed unethical experiments on sapient races in the bunker bellow the White Thranta offices,[6] without Jabba being aware of it.[7] In total, White Thranta had kidnapped and infected at least 41 victims for medical experiment, including Dakk Jenzik, Leon Kovalski, Tork Magzyn and a woman named Dina.[3]

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The deep recesses of the headquarters offered a glimpse of illegal experimentation in one of the complex's medical bays.

In 1 ABY,[8] Jabba's employee Reimos Taligg figured out something went wrong in the White Thranta bunker and tasked a spacer to slice the computers of the company, eventually discovering the situation.[3] Reimos then requested the spacer with questioning Durr Roddack. Roddack refused to cooperate, forcing the spacer to kill him. Using information found on Durr's datapad and personal computer, Reimos then discovered Brok Ziam was resposible of the complete operation. Ziam refused to surrender and was finnaly killed by the spacer.[1]

In the meantime, a bounty hunter went to the White Thranta offices in order to execute the indebted Untas.[9]

Behind the scenes[]

The White Thranta Shipping Company appeared in the 2003 video game Star Wars Galaxies, a massively multiplayer online roleplaying game, a massively multiplayer online roleplaying game developed by Sony Online Entertainment and published by LucasArts,[2] prior to its closure on December 15, 2011.[10] The White Thranta Shipping Company was added to the game as part of the "Legacy Quest" with the release of the "Publish 25," a.k.a. the "New Game Enhancements," on November 15, 2005.[11]

In the cut quests "Opening Moves" and "Information Control," the Trandoshan Aigorn would have tasked the player with eliminating one of the medical staff in the White Thranta infirmary and steal medical data. The company is known as White Horse in game files pertaining to this quest.[12] In another cut quest, the woman Kashi VanDeef would have requested the player to rescue her husband Pilar from the White Thranta.[13]

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Notes and references[]

  1. ↑ 1.0 1.1 1.2 Star Wars Galaxies (post-NGE) — Legacy Quest: "Shipping Out" on Tatooine
  2. ↑ 2.0 2.1 2.2 2.3 2.4 2.5 2.6 2.7 Star Wars Galaxies (post-NGE) — Legacy Quest: "Special Delivery" on Tatooine
  3. ↑ 3.0 3.1 3.2 3.3 3.4 3.5 3.6 3.7 3.8 Star Wars Galaxies (post-NGE) — Legacy Quest: "Digital Infection" on Tatooine
  4. ↑ 4.0 4.1 4.2 The Complete Star Wars Encyclopedia, Vol. III, p. 329 ("White Thranta")
  5. ↑  Star Wars Galaxies Trading Card Game — The Nightsister's Revenge Card: White Thranta Rifle (backup link)
  6. ↑ Star Wars Galaxies (post-NGE) — Legacy Quest: "Data Purge" on Tatooine
  7. ↑ Star Wars Galaxies (post-NGE) — Legacy Quest: "Jabba's Dirty Work" on Tatooine
  8. ↑ The opening crawl of Star Wars Galaxies: An Empire Divided dates the game to after the events of Star Wars: Episode IV A New Hope, and additionally, Serji-X Arrogantus, who died in Star Wars (1977) 10—the events of which The New Essential Chronology dates to 0 ABY—appears in the game. Therefore, at least a portion of Star Wars Galaxies must be set in that year. Furthermore, in the game Ruwan Tokai references the destruction of the Death Star as having occurred one year earlier, and Strongholds of Resistance also places the events of Galaxies' Chapter 9: "The Fury of Exar Kun" in 1 ABY. Lastly, while Chapter 11: "The Battle of Echo Base" features the Battle of Hoth—dated to 3 ABY by The New Essential Chronology—the developers have stated that the portrayal of that battle in the game is intentionally anachronistic. Therefore, the events of Star Wars Galaxies must span from 0 ABY to around 1 ABY.
  9. ↑ Star Wars Galaxies (post-NGE) — Bounty Hunter Quest: "Faeto's Job" on Tatooine
  10. ↑ IMPORTANT INFORMATION ABOUT STAR WARS GALAXIES™ on the official Star Wars Galaxies website (original site is defunct)
  11. ↑ Publish Archive 2005 on the official Star Wars Galaxies website (original site is defunct)
  12. ↑ tatooine_eisley_epidemic.stf, tatooine_eisley_aigorn.stf, tatooine_eisley_information_control.stf
  13. ↑ tatooine_eisley_kashi.stf

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