Commerce Guild / Legends The Commerce Guild was a trade conglomerate made up of major commercial entities , such as the SoroSuub Corporation . The Guild was known for pressuring smaller companies to join . The guild was dissolved following the execution of Presidente Shu Mai and was imperialized by the Galactic Empire in 19 BBY . History . The guild went as far back as 700 BBY , when it maintained a trading station in the Bpfassh system . Companies that resisted the Guild were placed under tremendous pressure by the Guild , including its security forces . Like the Trade Federation , Corporate Alliance and the InterGalactic Banking Clan , the Commerce Guild had its own security forces . The Guild was also politically powerful as it was economic and had several corrupt planetary officials , senators , and industrial spies in its fold . The Commerce Guild also had the power to buy entire planets . One such planet was Castell , the homeworld of the Gossam . The Commerce Guild enslaved the entire population of Castell . At the time , Shu Mai was the Commerce Guild ' s Chief of Property Resources . She initially used her position to liberate her people , but then followed this by raising the required tribute from her fellow Gossam . The Commerce Guild Chief of Staff was so pleased with Mai that they gave her the office of Presidente of the Commerce Guild . Afterward , Mai negotiated aggressively and managed to end the financial crisis that had ravaged Castell for a decade . The planet then gained importance for the Guild as a manufacturing center . In 27 BBY , the Commerce Guild introduced a bill for Galactic Senate approval , one that would give the Guild a " de facto " monopoly over banking practices in the Outer Rim Territories . To improve the possibilities of its adoption , the Guild bribed several voting Senators to sponsor it . Many others , including Senator Bail Prestor Organa of Alderaan , openly opposed it , even swearing to stop the legislative motion . To get rid of the Senatorial opposition ' s interference , the Guild arranged to incriminate the Senators , tarnish their reputations , and possibly ruin their careers , by using their names in " falsified betting " on various events and by rigging an accident at an " illegal " podrace during the Galactic Games of 26 BBY on Euceron . The Guild ' s plot would have a podracer collide into the spectator - filled grandstands , taking many lives , and leaving the Senators to blame . Liviani Sarno , a member of the Guild and head of the Games Council , organized the conspiracy with the help of Maxo Vista , who desired Guild membership . The plot was discovered by Obi - Wan Kenobi and Jocasta Nu , and stopped by Anakin Skywalker . As Organa and the rest of the opposition were left still standing , politically ( the falsified betting having been uncovered ) , the law was vetoed . Nevertheless , the guilty parties were not brought to justice , thanks , in large measure , to the perjury of the power - hungry Bog Divinian , a Games Council member who wanted the Guild to be indebted to him — something he achieved . With the help of the Guild and other sponsors , Divinian obtained political power by being elected to the Galactic Senate , and thus retained the sympathies of the Guild . However , Divinian ' s career was soon forfeit , with the debacle that became the 24 BBY anti - Jedi factional petition to sever all future Jedi affiliation with the Senate . The petition failed miserably , accompanied as it was by a vicious attack by two of the galaxy ' s greatest criminal minds upon that august body , assembled as it was in full - body session in the Senate Rotunda to debate the petition . With that unmitigated failure and near - catastrophe ( the Jedi having ultimately foiled the attack ) , the Guild lost all interest in further helping Divinian . In 25 BBY , the criminal Slam gang attempted to break into a security vault of the Commerce Guild . Before they could perform their heist , the Slams were captured and sent to prison . In 24 BBY , the Commerce Guild opened an office on the tax - free world of Korriban . Guild members deserving a punishment were sent there , although the Guild motivated other corporations to open offices in the Korriban spaceport of Dreshdae . By 23 BBY , local Guild executives were being robbed in their hotels with alarming frequency . Using local crime against Guild workers as an excuse , the Guild sent a droid army ( including dwarf spider droids and homing spider droid s ) to Korriban , violating Republic laws . This likely was the beginning of the corroborative relationship of Shu Mai and Count Dooku , for some of these droids , as well as new Republic regulation - violating super battle droids , were employed by Dooku ' s alter - ego Darth Tyranus in fending off Jedi intrusion into the long - abandoned Great Temple and Sith Academy , where he had set up a base for rendezvousing with galactic criminals Granta Omega and Jenna Zan Arbor , to establish an alliance with them . In the years leading up to the Clone Wars , Shu Mai greatly increased the military and commercial clout of the Guild . She also instigated strife on Ansion , resulting in the Mission to Ansion , and aligned the Guild with Count Dooku ' s Separatist movement . In 22 BBY , Mai was present in a meeting of Separatist leaders on Geonosis which saw the birth of the Confederacy of Independent Systems . She knew that support of the Separatists would be treason against the Galactic Republic , but she could not resist the lure of promised wealth . She allied the Commerce Guild with the Confederacy during the Clone Wars , and supplied armies of battle droids to their Droid Army and starships to their starfleet . During the Clone Wars , Shu Mai attempted to use combined military might from both the Confederacy of Independent Systems and Commerce Guild to distribute deadly trihexalon on Coruscant and therefore eliminate the Republic Senate . The plot was prevented by a group of Jedi padawans led by Mavra Zane and Chewbacca . Following the execution of Shu Mai at Mustafar by Darth Vader in 19 BBY , the Commerce Guild ceased to exist , and its remaining holdings were absorbed by the Galactic Empire . At least one Commerce Guild employee , Iaco Stark , took refuge within the Corporate Sector Authority .