Corporate
Sector 78
Consisting of tens of thousands of star systems, the Corporate Sector is a free-enterprise fief located on the edge of the galaxy,
and bordered by the Aparo and Wyl sectors. The Corporate Sector is as wealthy and influential as the richest sectors in
Imperial space, and the skylines of its many urban worlds are lit by the multicolored flashes of countless advertising signs. It
offers the widest selection of products anywhere, and tourists come from all over the galaxy to purchase its unique goods. The
entire sector is run by a single corporation, known as the Corporate Sector Authority (CSA). The CSA is composed of dozens
of contributing companies (over 1000 companies are currently on the waiting list to join) and is run by the 55 members of the
Direx Board, who are in turn headed by the ExO. The CSA has exclusive rights to use the sector's resouces as they see fit--
typically they use up a planet and move on to another one, and are not above using slave labor or grossly polluting the
environment. Since it has no internal competition, the CSA can mark up the prices of their goods to many times their actual
worth, and businesses in the sector do not accept any currency except Authority Cash Vouchers and crystalline vertexes. A
portion of the CSA's enormous profits were secretly funneled to Emperor Palpatine, with the understanding that the Empire
would take no direct role in the operation of the sector. Therefore, the protective CSA has formed its own military forces,
including Security Police (or "Espos") and a comparatively poor and outdated starfleet. Planets in the Corporate Sector, in
addition to its sterile, climate-controlled capitol worlds, include Ammuud, Bonadan, Roonadan, Etti IV, Kalla, Kail, Orron III,
Duroon, Mytus VII, Gaurick, Rampa, Mall'ordian, Reltooine, Knolstee, Mayro, and the Trianii colony worlds of Fibuli, Ekibo,
Pypin, and Brochiib. The feline Trianii have been actively opposing the Corporate Sector's annexation of their worlds, and
much of the fighting occurred in the Tingel Arm. An armistice in this conflict has recently been called after three years of fighting.
Originally established several hundred years ago by the Old Republic, the Corporate Sector was once a group of several
hundred systems all devoid of intelligent life. The corporations allowed to operate in the sector could purchase entire regions of
space, but were held in check by the watchful eye of the Republic. During the Emperor's rise to power, however, several
corporate allies of Palpatine convinced him to expand the sector to encompass nearly 30,000 stars. Eleven native intelligent
species were discovered in this expanded region, though this fact has been effectively covered up. The CSA was soon
established to manage all aspects of the sector's operations, and thus the "modern" era of the Corporate Sector began. Han
Solo and Chewbacca had several legendary exploits in the Corporate Sector during their early adventuring, including a
jailbreak from the infamous Stars' End. Following the Battle of Hoth, the Corporate Sector company Galactic Electronics
developed a new "mag pulse" weapons technology and sold it to the Rebel Alliance. In retaliation, the Imperial Star Destroyer
Glory traveled to the sector and seized the corporation's deep-space research facility. Emperor Palpatine once had plans to
build a great palace for himself in the sector, and construction continued even after Palpatine's supposed death at the Battle of
Endor. Six years later, during the Emperor's reappearance, the Corporate Sector declared its neutrality in the conflict and
began supplying weapons and arms to both sides.
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