Black Sun

Black Sun, also known as the Black Sun syndicate, was a criminal syndicate and one of the five syndicates. Controlled by the Falleen and led by Underlords and Dark Princes,

Description
Black Sun was one of the many organized crime groups in the galaxy, and one of the five syndicates. It was controlled by the Falleen as a powerful underworld player.

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. Black Sun was friendly with the Exotic Entertainers' Union thanks to a longstanding deal borne from a relationship between Mayli Weng and Prince Xizor.

It was led by ruthless and relentless Underlords and a Dark Prince said to use potent pheromones to his advantage in aggressive negotiations with women. Among its members were vigos. Some members took consorts, and vigos routinely took slaves and concubines, sometimes using slaving drugs mixed with Falleen pheromones to keep them enthralled. Black Sun employed bounty hunters and assassins.

Underlord Grunseit headquartered his Black Sun faction on Mustafar. Black Sun and the Hutt Clan controlled worlds such as Naj Varla, Llewebum, Elerion, Ohma-D'un, and Nar Shaddaa, though they lacked a presence on Aralia. It maintained vast territories on Coruscant including the Old Galactic Market and Southern Underground, as well as brothels including Ziro's Palace and Nash Thracken's brothel on Level 3115. Thugs ran on the streets of Bespin's Cloud City.

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

Republic Era
The Hutt loan shark Ziro Desilijic Tiure joined Black Sun as a vigo, and established a pleasure palace that would, in later years, operate as a brothel said to be run behind-the-scenes by Black Sun. Ziro's lover, Sy Snootles, was a consort to Black Sun vigos.

Black Sun joined an auction of the Jedi Padawan Eldra Kaitis, held by the Xrexus Cartel. Jue Shen conducted a mission to Ando Prime to investigate Black Sun, but was left stranded and taken in by the handsome Falleen Sen. Working undercover as an exotic dancer at Café Ember, Shen secretly spied on Vigo Toma Garyn, and earned a place in his bed with her sensual dancing skills. Jue's true identity was uncovered, and Garyn inflicted hours of punishment upon her with his depraved sex machines. Ultimately, Shen escaped.

The Master of Teräs Käsi Dux Pike was said to have connections with Black Sun prior to his death before the Clone Wars. His daughters went on to train in a dojo on Panatha supported by Black Sun.

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. Underlord Grunseit headquartered his Black Sun faction on Mustafar until it was decapitated by the Sith Lord Maul. Although the leadership was brought down, Black Sun survived under subsequent leaders.

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

Black Sun was a rival to Crimson Dawn. The Dark Prince of Black Sun gifted Dryden Vos with the Dancing Green Goddess of Godo, which Vos kept in his personal museum aboard the First Light. The Dark Prince was said to use his potent pheromones to his advantage during aggressive negotiations with women.

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, holding sway over drug-peddlers and whores. It engaged in territory feuds on Level 1313 and across Corusca Circus. At some point, Mayli Weng of the Exotic Entertainers' Union began a relationship with Prince Xizor that introduced a longstanding deal between the two groups.

Black Sun was crossed by Senator Daivik's gang of criminal politicians, and in return Vigo Kendra Veris had his daughter, Tyleah Daivik, kidnapped from under the notice of bodyguard Danni Ora. Tyleah was forced to work in the Black Sun brothel on Level 3115, becoming the plaything of Nash Thracken, but was ultimately rescued by Ora and Dengar. The trio managed to seduce Veris to their side afterwards.

Rystáll Sant became the property of a Black Sun vigo on Coruscant, and used her to orally service him. Sant's sensuality was squandered in the underworld until she was unexpectedly sold during a sabacc game to Lando Calrissian, who gave Rystáll her freedom from sexual abuse.

Meenosh had business ties to Black Sun as a notorious Outer Rim Territories gunrunner. Dalmun Hess worked as a bounty hunter and assassin for Black Sun after training with the Antarian Rangers. Ketsu Onyo also joined Black Sun after convincing Rynscar of her seductive abilities. 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
"The Black Sun vigo Ursil Toomar is said to have been especially interested in The Girls of Jabba's Palace, and any information on Leia Organa's role in the Solo rescue mission in general."

- Rinnrivin Di

Black Sun competed for Oola, a Twi'lek dancer from the Ryloth Dance Academy, but Bib Fortuna purchased her to deliver to Jabba Desilijic Tiure.

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.

New Republic Era
"You're on a right-to-work planet, baby. No Exotic Entertainers' Union here for us girls to pay dues to just so they can tell us what we can't do! Especially with their Black Sun friends not having a presence here. That always helps. But speaking of black suns...."

- Supanovvva, to FN-2187

The year between the Battles of Endor and Jakku, which saw the shattering of the hegemonic Hutt Cartel and the Empire itself, spurred a glorious flowering of criminals in the galaxy. While the New Republic struggled to reach stability, Black Sun and the Red Key Raiders attempted to keep the fledgling government fractured by interfering in the internal electoral schism between Chancellor Mon Mothma and her would-be successor Tolwar Wartol. The criminal syndicates hoped to keep the Galactic Civil War prolonged in order to maximize the galaxy's chaos, and gained an edge into New Republic politics.

The Zabrak Thora became a Black Sun vigo, and later helped Nat Secura, Lyn Me, and Tyleah Daivik form the Daivik Triad to take control of the spice trade on Ryloth. The Triad was eventually defeated by Rinnrivin Di and the Di Cartel, who believed he had a chance to best Black Sun and the Hutts after having bested the Twi'leks.

Following the Vigo Ascension affair, Vigo Ursil Toomar emerged to lead Black Sun and steer it in a new direction. However, he wasn't above using the syndicate's vast wealth to obtain beautiful sex slaves for a harem deep in the unexplored regions of space. He was said to be interested in The Girls of Jabba's Palace, a holocube containing footage of Leia Organa's enslavement to Jabba Desilijic Tiure, which Di obtained on Ryloth and used to aggressively negotiate with Lady Carise Sindian, as well as general information on Organa's part in the rescue of Han Solo from Jabba's Palace.

It was suggested that an old Toydarian club owner in Talanc City on Naj Varla decided to graduate from owning a strip club to a brothel, partly due to a disagreement with Black Sun. Anja Gallandro became entangled both with Black Sun and an addiction to andris spice, but Lowbacca, Lumpawaroo, and Raabakyysh helped her overcome these entanglements.

Despite its major illicit stimspice trade, the resort world of Aralia avoided the attention of Black Sun, the Hutts, Zygerrians, and Kanjiklub. Black Sun's allies in the Exotic Entertainers' Union also lacked a presence, making it a free-to-work planet.

Resistance Era
Ziro's Palace on Coruscant was rumored to be run behind-the-scenes as a brothel by Vigo Ursil Toomar, who was believed to pull the strings over several Coruscant brothels.

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.

In the wake of the Hosnian Cataclysm and the Skirmish of Docking Bay 3733, Black Sun and the Guavian Death Gang launched attacks on some of the spaceport brothels in Coruscant's Eastport sector and elsewhere. Some women who sold their bodies for credits while waiting to board Refugee Relief Movement ships were paid for "quality time" with Black Sun members, only to be taken to a safe house to be held as a captive "guest". The properties on Melidon Lane were spared from attack thanks to Black Sun's Underlord maintaining their longstanding deal with the Exotic Entertainers' Union.