Black Sun Black Sun was a criminal syndicate that came into prominence during the Clone Wars as the Jedi Order focused more on military affairs and less on law enforcement . Black Sun was allied with the Shadow Collective and its leader Darth Maul . The syndicate maintained bases on Mustafar and Ord Mantell and had many of the Falleen species as members . History . The Clone Wars . During the Clone Wars , the syndicate was very influential throughout the galaxy and run by a group of Falleen noble men from a fortress on Mustafar . During the war , Black Sun was coerced by Darth Maul into joining his Shadow Collective after he killed their leader . Black Sun openly maintained a base on Ord Mantell . Under direction of the Shadow Collective , Black Sun and Pyke Syndicate participated in the large battle on Ord Mantell , defending against Separatist attackers led by Count Dooku and Grievous . Towards the end of the Clone Wars , Black Sun ' s leader Ziton Moj proposed merging with the Pyke Syndicate , which specialized in distributing illegal narcotics . When the Pyke leader Marg Krim rejected his demands , Moj retaliated by kidnapping his family in order to force Krim to change his mind . Krim then hired two independent bounty hunter s — the former Sith apprentice Asajj Ventress and the undercover Jedi Master Quinlan Vos — to rescue his family . The two bounty hunters raided the Black Sun fortress on Mustafar and succeeded in rescuing Krim ' s family . During the rescue mission , Moj and his Falleen guards were assaulted by Ventress and Vos . Black Sun retaliated by sending a fleet to attack the Pyke stronghold of Oba Diah . Age of the Empire . After Palpatine transformed the Republic into his own Galactic Empire at the end of the Clone Wars , Black Sun formed a durable relationship with the new autocratic government . A year after the establishment of the Empire , Black Sun took an interest in Ahsoka Tano , one of their agent s finding her and offering a job with them . When she refused , they attacked , but were driven away by Bail Organa ' s forces coming to her defense . During the Age of the Empire , the former Imperial cadet s Sabine Wren and Ketsu Onyo decided to join Black Sun as bounty hunter s . However , Ketsu got " greedy " , left her former classmate for dead , and joined Black Sun by herself . Years later , Ketsu accepted a Black Sun job to collect a GNK - series power droid called EG - 86 , which was carrying information vital to the rebellion . This mission brought her into conflict with Sabine but the two reconciled and joined forces to escape the Empire and to deliver the droid to the rebellion . Some rebels like Sabine despised Black Sun for engaging in slave trafficking . New Republic . At the time of the New Republic ' s founding , Black Sun was one of several major crime syndicates operating in the Outer Rim . In 5 ABY , the Black Sun Boss Gyuti placed a bounty on the head of the Zabrak bounty hunter Jas Emari for debts incurred by her aunt Sugi . Underboss Rynscar and her henchmen ambushed Jas and Sugi while they were visiting Nar Shaddaa for information on Han Solo ' s whereabouts . Jas managed to convince Rynscar not to turn her in by offering to repay them double the amount she owed . Rysncar also provided Jas with information about Han Solo ' s whereabouts . Shortly before the Battle of Jakku , the bounty hunter Mercurial Swift decided to collect Gyuti ' s bounty on Emari ' s head in retaliation for her role in ambushing him on the planet Taris . Later , Black Sun conspired with the upstart Red Key Raiders to prolong the Galactic Civil War . They bribed and blackmailed five New Republic Senator s Ashmin Ek , Dor Wieedo , Rethalow , Grelka Sorka , and Nim Tar into opposing Chancellor Mon Mothma ' s resolution to send New Republic military forces to the Inner Rim world of Jakku , where the Galactic Empire had retreated to . Their plot was foiled by a team led by Sinjir Rath Velus and Han Solo , who managed to rescue Nim Tar ' s child and convince the senators to change their votes in return for pardons and political favors . Behind the scenes . Black Sun first appeared in the now - " Star Wars " Legends multimedia project " " , released in 1996 as a novel , comic book , video game , and more . During the development of " Eminence , " the fourteenth episode of the of " " , it was decided that Darth Maul would be given a base of power within the criminal underworld . Dave Filoni , the show ' s supervising director , had remembered Black Sun from " Shadows of the Empire " , and knew that the Expanded Universe showed Darth Maul as having fought against Black Sun prior to the events of . With that , Filoni and his team opted to bring Black Sun into the show . Black Sun also appeared as minor antagonists in two of Chuck Wendig ' s " " novels and in E . K . Johnston ' s 2016 young adult novel " Ahsoka " .