Galactic Solutions Industries Galactic Solutions Industries was a weapons manufacturing company that was founded by inventor and business tycoon Addalar Hyland as the Galactic War broke out between the Galactic Republic and the Sith Empire . A neutral corporation , GSI dealt weapons to both governments , and frequently hired various individuals to aid its many research divisions in their efforts to develop new weapons technologies and military gear . The company was still in business during the New Sith Wars , a conflict between the Republic and the Sith over two thousand years after GSI ' s founding , and the company ' s disruptor pistol s were favorites of a soldier named Dessel in the Sith Brotherhood of Darkness . History . Galactic Solutions Industries was a weapons - manufacturing company that was founded by Addalar Hyland , a well - known inventor and business tycoon , around the year 3642 BBY as the Galactic War broke out between the Galactic Republic and the Sith Empire . Based in the GSI Headquarters on the Promenade on the moon Nar Shaddaa , GSI soon became a popular source of weaponry , and the company ' s first product — the GSI - B4 blaster pistol — was praised for its impressive firepower compared to its small size as an easily - concealed holdout weapon . As war resumed , GSI remained neutral and did business with both the Republic and the Empire , and it often recruited various combatants on planets across the galaxy to aid in the company ' s research . GSI maintained a number of weapons research divisions , including their Animal Weaponization , Biodesign , Metallurgical , Natural Weapons , Starfighter , and Superweapons Division s . Employees of the company typically wore GSI ' s colors of white , orange , and light blue . On the planet Alderaan , GSI ' s Natural Weapons Division sought to acquire technology in Alderaan ' s weather towers that could aid in the construction of a " Weather Dominator " prototype , and because the rights to the technology were in dispute , the company recruited various individuals to acquire scans of the towers so that they could reverse engineer the technology . GSI also fitted several red thranta s , flying creatures native to Alderaan , with GSI technology to gather data on troop deployments in the ongoing Alderaan Civil War , and recruited various individuals to retrieve the data . The independent intelligence operative known as the Shroud hired a slicer to steal GSI weapons technology from the company ' s databanks , and the company traced the perpetrator to one of the Great Houses of Alderaan ' s communications networks , so GSI hired individuals to monitor the networks in order to locate and defeat the thief . The company ' s Recovery Division then reacquired the technology from the dead thief . Upon learning that Czerka Corporation had buried radioactive waste on Alderaan years earlier instead of following proper disposal protocols in order to save money , GSI initiated orbital scans of the planet to locate the waste as it was a potential fuel source . When the company learned that the native Killik s had built nests over the dump sites , GSI hired several individuals to retrieve the waste barrels from the area , and the company ' s Starfighter Division made use of the barrels to power new designs . The Killiks ' hive mind also drew the interest of GSI , as the hive mind produced hybrid weapons using the collective knowledge of dozens of individuals from various civilizations . As a result , the company hired several individuals to retrieve those weapons from where they were buried underneath Killik ruins on Alderaan . The ice planet Hoth possessed a unique combination of electromagnetic fields and gravitational pull that often caused starships to crash on its surface , and GSI ' s Natural Weapons Division employed outside aid in examining the wreckage across the planet in hopes of reverse - engineering the circumstances in which the ships crashed . The White Maw pirates stole sensitive research from GSI ' s Superweapons Division , but the pirates crashed on their return to Hoth , leading GSI to hire several individuals to retrieve the data from the crash site . The crash site of the " Ambria ' s Fury " drew the company ' s attention when it was discovered that leaking radiation had mutated the ship ' s durasteel into what they believed could be a material useful in the construction of thermonuclear weaponry , and GSI hired a number of individuals to retrieve samples from the heavily irradiated ship . A starship of unknown origin that was discovered frozen underneath ice spires drew the attention of the company , which hired individuals to recover components of the vessel for their Starfighter Division . GSI also sought to acquire samples of embersteel , a metallic compound that formed when metallic ores were melted by lava vents , warped by Hoth ' s electromagnetic fields , and then instantly cooled by Hoth ' s icy temperatures . The company therefore hired a number of individuals to search near the active mini - volcanoes that lined the floor of the Glacial Fissure on Hoth , as they suspected embersteel could be useful in the construction of plasma cannon s . When a meteoroid broke up over the desert planet of Tatooine , GSI ' s orbital sensors detected the energy signature of a particularly dense and rare variant of the material phobium , leading the company to hire individuals to locate and scan the fragments in order to determine whether the fragments could be useful in the construction of fuel cells . A shipment of starfighter repair droids was lost on Tatooine when it was scavenged by the local Jawas , and because of sandstorm activity in the area , the company hired individuals to pinpoint Jawa sandcrawlers so that GSI could send retrieval units . GSI ' s Animal Weaponization Division sought outside help in recovering eggs from Tatooine ' s native krayt dragon , the largest and most feared creature in Tatooine ' s entire ecosystem , so that they could potentially clone the creatures and conduct tests in laboratory settings . The company advised the searchers to look for penakin larvae , which fed on the nutrients from krayt dragon egg fossils . GSI also sought to develop portable moisture vaporators for use in military settings , and they therefore hired various individuals to take detailed scans of the the scaled - down vaporators used by Tatooine ' s settlers in cliff and mesa settlements across the planet . However , one of GSI ' s battle droid prototypes was stolen by a thief on Tatooine , and because the thief was using subsurface scrambler s to hide the droid ' s location , GSI sought outside aid in locating and destroying the droid so that the company ' s technology was not copied . When the Hutt Cartel conquered the remote world of Makeb in 3639 BBY , GSI began investigating the planet for potential research opportunities , and the company hired various individuals to scan the advanced transmission towers around the Sanctuary research complex on Makeb so that they could replicate the technology . GSI ' s Metallurgical Division sought to procure samples of the metal used in the Hutt Cartel ' s advanced isotope - 5 droid s , an alloy that consisted of rare metals only found in the caverns of Makeb ' s volcanic mesas . The company accordingly hired individuals to recover samples of the metals from the caverns so that they could use the alloy for their own battle droids and weapons . GSI also sought to acquire the schematics for the isotope - 5 droids , leading them to hire various individuals to retrieve the schematics from Cartel - allied mercenaries on Makeb . Makeb ' s proclivity towards severe groundquakes saw scientists try to create a system of subterranean vibration emitters that were intended to cancel out seismic tremors , and though the project failed , GSI believed that they could turn the devices into weapons that would cause groundquakes , so the company hired various individuals to locate and excavate the emitters . Makeb ' s makrin creeper interested GSI ' s Biodesign Division , which recruited several individuals to retrieve makrin protobark — the casings in which the tree - like makrin develops underground — so that they could research the creation of damage - resistant wilderness gear . Those individuals who completed multiple assignments for GSI were qualified for the company ' s Valued Partner Initiative , which rewarded individuals with discounts and access to special items . The company was still in existence several thousand years later by the end of the New Sith Wars , a conflict between the Republic and various Sith factions . Products . Galactic Solutions Industries was primarily a weapons manufacturer , and its first product was the critically - praised GSI - B4 blaster pistol . The company also branched out into a wide variety of weapon technologies , from biological weapons and battle droids to starfighters and superweapons , and GSI also developed and manufactured military support technology such as advanced fuel cells and portable vaporators . By the time of the New Sith Wars , two of GSI ' s products were the GSI - 21D and GSI - 24D disruptor pistol s . Dessel , a sergeant in the Gloom Walkers , a unit in the Brotherhood of Darkness ' Sith army , preferred to use Galactic Solutions Industries products . Behind the scenes . Galactic Solutions Industries was first mentioned in the novel " " , written by Drew Karpyshyn and released on September 26 , 2006 . The company was later featured in , the 2013 Digital Expansion to the BioWare video game " " , where GSI issues missions on Makeb , Alderaan , Tatooine , and Hoth for players who possess EV2 discreet reconnaissance macrobinoculars and Seeker Droid s .