Hutt Empire The Hutt Empire was an ancient interstellar empire founded by the Hutt species before the formation of the Galactic Republic . History . Conquests and expansion . Between the fall of the Infinite Empire and the rise of the Galactic Republic , the Hutt Empire was the major power in the galaxy , although its influence was primarily economic ; the Hutts generally seemed to regard political or military conquest as less important than control of commerce . Despite this , the Hutts could be ruthless warriors when necessary , enslaving those species they considered useful and exterminating those they did not . One of the few species in Hutt Space that escaped either of these fates were the Sakiyans , who won the Hutts respect and kept their independence in exchange for tribute payments . The histories of ancient Rim worlds like Delacrix and Rinn recorded the fate of planets caught between feuding Hutt clans or offended the Hutts , and had been depopulated , poisoned , bombarded or incinerated . War with the Tion . One of the greatest expressions of Hutt militarism was the war against Xim the Despot . During Xim ' s reign his own empire attempted to vanquish the Hutts and rule the Si ' Klaata Cluster , resulting in the Xim Wars . However , the Hutt Empire made a pact with the Nikto , Klatooinians and Vodrans . This new slave army was crucial to the Hutt victory at the Third Battle of Vontor circa 25 , 100 BBY which saw the defeat of Xim ' s War - Robots . Following the battle , the Treaty of Vontor was signed by the Hutts , Klatooinians , Vodrans , and Nikto . This treaty set the Hutts up as eternal overlords of the three other species and of the Si ' Klaata Cluster . The Hutts then launched a devastating invasion of the Tionese colonies in the Kiirium Reaches known as the Devouring , which utterly obliterated and depopulated the Tionese empire there , leaving an uninhabited stretch of space that from then on would be known as the Ash Worlds During the Tionese War in 24 , 000 BBY , the Galactic Republic won its war against the Honorable Union of Desevro & Tion ( one of the feuding states that rose from the ashes of Xim ' s empire a millennium after his death ) by using its agents to stir up trouble in Hutt Space . This worsened the divide between the Hutts and Tionese . Collapse and legacy . After the devastating civil war known as the Hutt Cataclysms of 15 , 000 BBY , the Hutt Empire collapsed , with their destruction of their homeworld Varl , moved to Nal Hutta and all that was left became known as Hutt Space , with Nal Hutta as the new capital . In the aftermath , the Hutts under the leadership of Budhila Hestilic Amura established a Council of Elders to mediate clan disputes and adopted a new philosophy known as " kajidic " . This was a pragmatic renunciation of war and conquest , instead advocating indirect control through commerce and , as it developed , the criminal underworld . The Hutts continued to be a galactic power until the territory ' s demolition in 26 ABY by the Yuuzhan Vong empire during their Extra - galactic invasion . After their defeat in 29 ABY , the Yuuzhan Vong had left the oversector in anarchy for at least twelve years , but the untouched Bootana Hutta world of Mulatan became the empire and sector ' s third capital in the aftermath of the war . By 41 ABY it had mostly recovered and joined the Confederation and thus the Hutts , had once again , dominated the oversector and beyond , at least up until the time of the New Galactic Empire . Astrography . This empire was based mainly in the Outer Rim though it also covered a portion of the Mid Rim . The Hutt Empire was near the Tion Hegemony and occasionally both fought . The major trade routes of the Hutt Empire included the " Pabol Hutta " , the " Pabol Sleheyron " , and the " Pabol Kreeta " . The route that would be known as the " Pabol Hutta " reached from Varl to Boonta . The " Pabol Sleheyron " crossed the " Pabol Hutta " at Sleheyron from Nimban to Formos . Military . By 0 BBY , very few records survived of the Hutt Empire ' s military forces . Ancient Sakiyan chronicles recorded Hutt cavaliers armored with iron shells and maneuvering via metal limbs , treads or wheels . These would later be compared to the Shell Hutts of Circumtore . Sakiyan tribute - counts also recorded payments for the Sakiyans ' assistance in building Hutt " planechanga " - massive tubular rail gun s built to accelerate asteroids to planet - destroying velocities . Behind the scenes . In " " , Bastila Shan says the Hutts never built an empire . The opposite is stated in " " .