Black Sun

Black Sun, also known as the Black Sun syndicate,

Description
Black Sun was one of the many organized crime groups in the galaxy. It used a prominent, Falleen-owned transportation systems company as a front for its criminal activities in the galactic economy. Its starships were painted in the company's colors, and bore a recognizable insignia.

Its members took consorts.

It had an insignia that appeared as a graffiti marker on durasteel glow lamp poles on Coruscant, and was worn as a gang tattoo.

The Clone Wars
Black Sun was at its peak as of the beginning of the Clone Wars. Its insignia was found on a durasteel glow lamp pole outside the Star Whores strip club, used as a marker for the organization. Senator Leto Borian worried about defiling the marker when he scribbled graffiti onto the pole in honor of Padmé Amidala.

During the war, Black Sun was among the criminal groups unified into the Shadow Collective by Maul and Savage Opress. Black Sun operated alongside the Pyke Syndicate, the Hutt Clan, Nightbrothers, and Death Watch, and the collective almost became a viable third force in the war between the Galactic Republic and the Separatist Alliance.

Imperial Era
"I know that the underworld, the gangs and pirates and assassins and smugglers and bounty hunters and mercenaries are the best way to raise forces immediately. If I thought that the best course, I would have no problem offering myself as the consort to a member of Black Sun, or even joining a Hutt's harem in return for their pledge of support."

- Leia Organa, to Leto Borian

After the Clone Wars, Black Sun became a shadow of its former self. During the Imperial Era, it was one of the affiliated crime groups under the Crymorah Syndicate colossus, and kept the peace in the Coruscant underworld alongside the Pykes and the Droid Gotra. The criminal gangs were capable of keeping order among those who refused to obey the Galactic Empire. It operated in Crymorah territory on Level 1313.

Leia Organa considered offering herself as a consort to a Black Sun member in order to secure their support for the Alliance to Restore the Republic in opposition to the Empire.

Rebellion Era
A prominent Falleen-owned transportation systems company was infamously revealed to be a front for Black Sun shortly before the Battle of Endor, though the timing lessened the impact on the galactic economy. Nonetheless, the revelation of a massive example of economic criminalization came to drive the early financial regulation laws of the New Republic.

Resistance Era
A number of patrons of Maz Kanata's castle on Takodana sported Black Sun gang tattoos and symbols during Bazine Netal's visit prior to the Hosnian Cataclysm.