Kett Shipping Kett Shipping was a transport company that operated in the Rseik sector owned by the Kett family . After having great problems with local piracy , they were among many companies who approached the Trade Federation for help in the region , joining the company as subsidiaries . Following the Federation beginning to police the sector , the transportation company saw a huge increase in business . History . Origins . Kett Shipping was a transportation company that operated in the Rseik sector during the reign of the Galactic Republic . They primarily transported ore and nova crystals out of the planet Cotellier and up the Sanrafsix Corridor to the planet Kabal . There they would pick up agricultural supplies , grain or any other goods they could make profit with back on Cotellier . Troubles with pirates . The company suffered considerable losses to pirates during the tenure of Findal Kett as its owner . At the time of Kett ' s ownership , the Rseik sector had almost no Galactic Republic presence , and so piracy was rampant with no one to oppose the criminals . In one year Kett shipping lost four of six convoys to the Fujari pirates of Tertiary Fujar , who ransomed back three of them and sold the fourth as slaves to the Karazak Slavers Cooperative . In the following year , only one of five Kett Shipping convoys that left for Kabal returned to Cotellier . In an attempt to avoid the Fujari , Kett the diverted his convoys to travel along the Little Minos Run instead , but after several years of this another pirate group known as the Hajara gang began working out of the planet Corva Yag and capturing Kett ' s convoys . In 214 BBY , an outbreak of the Bordal Contagion disease on the world of Bordal drew the attention of the Republic , who manufactured an antidote on the world of Tauber . Kett Shipping along with several other organizations active near Bordal sent convoys to collect and deliver the antidote . Kett Shipping ' s convoy never reached Bordal as it was attacked by the Fujari , which caused all six million samples of the antidote on board to be lost . Agreement with the Trade Federation . This disaster led to Kett and a large number of other local interests , including Rseikharhl Hullspace , Cotellieri Transports Limited and the Ma ' ar Shaddam Weaponsmiths Guild , to approach the Trade Federation for aid . Kett and the others arranged a secret meeting with a Trade Federation agent on the planet Syned , and the following day all parties agreed to become Federation subsidiaries . Now protecting their own interests , the Federation established a military presence in the Rseik sector and quickly destroyed the Fujari pirates , followed by the Hajari gang a week later . Within a decade , thanks to the Federation ' s improvements in the area , Kett Shipping was successfully running twenty convoys a year to Kabal and losing none . Later history . Thanks to the security and increase in business the Federation brought to Kett Shipping , the Kett family were able to live well , purchasing interests on the worlds of Ma ' ar Shaddam and Rseik and a retreat on the planet Z ' trop . Findal Kett ' s great - great - great - grandson Firmus Kett , who served as a captain in the Federation ' s Trade Defense Force , spoke of the company ' s history in his memoirs . He admitted to feeling that Trade Federation control over the Rseik sector had grown to worrying levels by his lifetime , but considering what had happened before the Trade Federation came , he would never begrudge Findal Kett ' s decision . Behind the scenes . Kett Shipping was supposed to be first mentioned in " The Essential Guide to Warfare " , a sourcebook released in 2012 written by Jason Fry and Paul R . Urquhart , but they were ultimately cut from the final product . The section including the company was later published as part of " " , a series of articles published on the StarWars . com blog starting in 2013 .