Black Sun

"'Pilot Ashla. Congratulations. You have come to the attention of Black Sun.'"
 * "―A Black Sun agent, to Ahsoka Tano"

Black Sun is a criminal organisation that has spanned the galaxy over the multiple millennia it has been around. It has been considered the largest criminal syndicate to ever plague the Galaxy given the Hutt cartels being more so divided than Black Sun as well as fearful of operating outside their space. No other organisation of the nature has managed to approach it's truly dizzying scale nor blend so seamlessly with the society as to have entire sub-organisations acting beneath it without the true knowledge of whom their masters are.

Structure
The current structure of Black Sun's hierarchy is based heavily on its traditional format derived from the leading powers all being a singular family. Under the leader, there are 8 Vigos (previously 9) where 'Vigo' is an old Tionese word meaning 'nephew'. These Vigos are responsible for territories across the Galaxy so that the leader isn't inundated with running everything. These territories are controlled from a sector in the general area or a planetary system if in the core regions or other specially designated space.

Below each Vigo and the Leader himself are networks of underbosses, lieutenants and other variously ranked members all the way down to grunts that make up the muscle or power behind the decisions and control of the higher ranks. The lower down the chain you are, the less likely you are to know just who exactly your bosses are. Quite often, these underbosses with enough power to make them well-known but not enough to defend them from bigger fish with and will result in utilising a majordomo whilst keeping their own identity hidden. Some will double-bluff and claim to be the majordomo whilst instead only confining ones secret with oneself. They all play the game differently according to what they believe to be smartest, but the only way they made it to a higher rank would've been because they were smart in the first place. In Black Sun, the people who can punch their way through anything will always end up the tool of a higher entity.

Speaking of a higher entity, the highest is the leader: Ziton Moj. There are only 2 souls in the entire galaxy that know this, however, both of whom being Falleen members within the ruling cabal back before Ziton became the 'Underlord' - the term that every other Black Sun member knows him by. To hide this association between himself and Ziton Transport Systems (the mostly legitimate shipping corporation he owns), the face of Ziton for ZTS is, in fact, another Falleen decoy who speaks for Ziton at any face-to-face meetings.

History
The most important history of this faction is that of Ziton Moj's reign given that everything else beforehand is already openly documented.

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(This lore has some elements of legends added in but none of it is contradictory with the canon. It's only been used to fill in the gaps where the Empire fell and very little more was detailed about the Black Sun in the canon).

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Ziton Moj fought ruthlessly to hold his rank and the Black Sun itself reflected his brutal determination as it evolved through the Clone Wars and expanded during the Age of the Empire. He brought temperance and civil coercion with it also and helped it transition from warring subfactions straining under the Shadow Collective’s dominance back to its original state of one of the most feared and powerful syndicates in the Galaxy. 

Moj was originally the Captain of the Guard for just one faction within the organisation, however, Maul’s Collective had him quickly rise through the ranks to eventually be leading the entirety of the syndicate by the end of the Clone Wars. He had severed his ties with the failing Sith apprentice and even managed to get the Pykes and the Hutts to follow suit eventually - not that he had at all let loose his grudge against the Pykes leader: Marg Krim. It would be fair to say that he better tolerated his majordomo - Fife - who was the representative of the Pykes within the Shadow Collective. 

Soon the Clone Wars drew to an abrupt end with the initiation of Darth Vader and the commencing of Order 66. As the Empire took control, the game changed entirely. Maul’s Shadow Collective was no longer forcing the syndicate to war with the CIS giving breathing room for expansion, however, the Empire bared down as a lawful force stronger than the Republic had managed to during its time of strife causing difficulties in said expansion. Ziton wasn’t letting this stop him. In fact, he decided that the best way to expand was to look for a blind eye where he needed it and contacted the Emperor himself to arrange agreements. Unofficially aligning with the Empire, the Black Sun traded its resources and abilities to recon and gather intelligence better than even the ISB could for allowance to conduct most of its businesses unhindered. Ord Mantell became a cesspit of corruption at the heights of this age and the Black Sun rose to once again become possibly the most powerful crime syndicate of its time. 

This age ended too soon, however, as the Rebellion rose and managed to topple the Sithspawn tyranny, leaving its multitudinous branches without a leader and forcing them into a survivalist frenzy. The Black Sun managed to avoid this turmoil having been a securely rooted organisation long before the rise of the Empire and watched as it all burnt down, wondering what the so-called New Republic had in store for them. 

Now is the time of miracles, because in 5 ABY everything changed once more. The New Republic rises to power and the spider’s web of Imperial splinters dance around, but more importantly, a problem at home arises. The headquarters of the Black Sun is on the planet of Mustafar with other major bases closer to civilisation on Coruscant and Ord Mantell, but the HQ is attacked in this year. Up until this point, Ziton had 9 bosses or Vigo’s run sectors around the Galaxy, but one of them - Killar - tried to subsume control of the syndicate by overrunning the HQ that happened to fall under her sector. Vigo’s are powerful in their own right being crime bosses in control of entire sectors but even then, Ziton did his best to keep each one blind to his own power other than it being stronger than theirs. Killar didn’t believe it of course but very quickly was her movement crushed as Ziton’s own fleet as well as one of his very much loyal Vigo’s stormed the planet. Killar was personally executed, and her actions sparked Ziton’s revamping of the system. He needed to keep the power belonging to those below him divided enough to make sure he reigns ultimate yet stop the Vigos from becoming too power-hungry and hot-headed. 

Ziton divided the power likewise: If a fleet is to be mobilized, it must be headed by two Vigos and never one. Each Vigo’s selfishness will act as a failsafe. Furthermore, the sectors of control were revised. Ziton is in direct control of Coruscant, Mustafar (Atravis) and Ord Mantell (Bright Jewel) as well as Raxus (Tion Hegemony) and Christophsis (Savareen) with new bases being built in Raxulon and Chaleydonia respectively. This was done to give him a direct point of control in every corner and the core of the galaxy. Then, each Vigo had domain over one of the following sectors each (with the exception of Hutt Space which had two Vigo's representing the Black Sun there): Daedalis (Dorin), Mandalore (Zanbar), Obtrexta (Muunilist), Anoat (Burnin Konn), Brema (Sullust), Hutt Space (Nal Hutta) and the Corporate Sector (Cantonica). The Vigos had their fingers in almost all the pies but bases such as those on Muunilist, Sullust and Cantonica are strategically marking major points of production for trade goods, Burnin Konn and Dorin being prime waypoints of trade routes and Zanbar and Nal Hutta being stationed near political strongholds. 

Over the course of the years leading up to the beginning of 7 ABY, the major wars around Kuat and Correlia along with different treaties and factions spawning and combining had made trade rather difficult on both a legitimate and illegal basis, but the Black Sun stayed prominent through it and held its grounds. Newer criminal organisations such as the Crimson Dawn and the Lekkian Cartel made blips on the radar but are not being deemed as threats. The Crimson Dawn rose massively during the Age of the Empire of course and was learnt about then, but in comparison to the near four millennia, the Black Sun has existed for it was still somewhat small. It became more interesting around this time period though for Ziton found records that said that it was founded by Maul himself, with even more rumours saying that he still controls it from the shadows. To think that that scoundrel Sith could still be clinging on to dear life is definitely a thing of wonder for Moj as he tosses the idea of killing Maul for himself… although it is very likely he is already dead. Finally, however, these wars came to a halt and things stood still for a while as people became fearful of a supposed enemy in the outer reaches. Rumours of Kanon’s return managing to create peace between the Republic and Empire is something the Black Sun never thought could be possible, but they’ll abuse it whilst they can.

The last three years up to now (10 ABY) have crawled slowly with a few moments of importance scattered through them. The incorporation of the Prell Consortium has opened windows of opportunity for trade with the Black Sun but no moves have been made up until now. Ziton is currently looking to engage the Prells with commerce deals that could help link it with the Corporate Sector where the Black Sun holds territory under the legitimate organisation of Ziton Transport Systems. This would, in turn, boost the prevalence of ZTS and expand its network as well as making Correlia a friendly system to establish in. Something else that interested Moj were the rumours of the so-called ‘Ghost Destroyer’ lurking in the Outer Rim. Given that it has even got the Galactic Concordance scared, Ziton has upped the scale of recon and info-scouring conducted in the Outer Territories by the Black Sun in order to try and spot the possible threat and work out how to handle it from there. Lastly, the newly appointed Chancellor of the Republic has brought economic reform - greatly harming the business situation of the Black Sun and ZTS. On the bright side, it has harmed many corporations and banking clans also as well as the largely populist political cabinets. Ziton and the Black Sun struggle onward to thrive in the galaxy. For more information, visit: https://docs.google.com/document/d/1je5G1NYguMtwhuK0SchFks9iEIE8Fd1_0ZP09qeDpK0/edit?usp=sharingLl