Red Key Raiders The Red Key Raiders were a criminal syndicate that emerged following the Battle of Endor . Its members included Adwin Charu , Lorgan Movellan , and Bivvam Gorge . Following the death of Jabba the Hutt , Red Key attempted to establish a presence on Tatooine by posing as a mining company called the Red Key Company . This brought them into conflict with Cobb Vanth , the mayor and sheriff of Freetown . Later , Red Key conspired with the more established Black Sun to prolong the Galactic Civil War by coercing and bribing five senators into opposing Chancellor Mon Mothma ' s resolution to intervene on Jakku . Their conspiracy was foiled by a team led by Han Solo and the former Imperial loyalty officer Sinjir Rath Velus . History . The Red Key Raiders were an upstart criminal organization that emerged shortly after the Battle of Endor in 4 ABY . In the months after the events on Endor , Red Key started a presence on the desert planet Tatooine by posing a mining organization called the Red Key Company . A Red Key operative named Adwin Charu tried to procure a set of Mandalorian armor from several Jawa traders . However , he was accosted by a mysterious vigilante named Cobb Vanth who stole the armor from him . In 5 ABY , two Red Key Raiders including Bivvam Gorge ambushed Jabba Desilijic Tiure ' s former Beastmaster Malakili near Mos Pelgo , which had been renamed Freetown . The gangster s were killed by Cobb Vanth and the Twi ' lek woman Issa - Or . Vanth subsequently recruited Malakili into his community and hired him to tame a pair of ronto s and to look after a Hutt let named Borgo . Vanth soon incurred the wrath of the Red Key mob boss Lorgan Movellan , who wanted to exploit Tatooine for its dilarium oil , silicax oxalate and slaves . Lorgan ' s forces invaded and occupied Freetown , taking Vanth and the town ' s inhabitants prisoner . Movellan planned to sell the Huttlet Borgo to the Hutts and kill Vanth . However , Borgo at Malakili ' s signal let out a loud cry which gave the signal for a group of Tusken Raider s to attack . Vanth and Malakili had earlier forged a pact with the local Tuskens for protection in returning for supplying them with water and a pearl from a krayt dragon ' s belly . Most of Movellan ' s henchmen were killed during the attack . Despite Movellan ' s threats that his masters would come after them , Vanth carved a message on Lorgan ' s head with his knife . The Red Key Raiders later forged an alliance with the more established Black Sun crime syndicate to prolong the Galactic Civil War . They bribed the New Republic Senator s Rethalow , Dor Wieedo , and Ashmin Ek into opposing Chancellor Mon Mothma ' s resolution to send New Republic military forces to the Inner Rim world of Jakku , where most of the Galactic Empire had retreated to . They also blackmailed Senators Grelka Sorka and Nim Tar by kidnapping the former ' s pet jerba and the latter ' s child . This conspiracy was unmasked by Sinjir Rath Velus , Han Solo , Temmin Wexley , Jom Barell , and Conder Kyl . Despite Red Key kidnapping Conder , Jom captured Rethalow and managed to extract a confession from him . The Red Key and Black Sun gangsters kept Nim Tar ' s child and Conder at a warehouse near the Quarrow Senate house on Nakadia . They , however , sold Sorka ' s jerba to black market butchers . Conder used his transceiver tooth to transmit the coordinates of the warehouse to his comrades . Solo and his team landed the " Millennium Falcon " in the warehouse and attacked the gangsters . Following a brief gun battle , they freed Conder and Nim Tar ' s child . Posing as an adviser to the Chancellor , Sinjir then managed to convince the five senators to change their vote in favor of Mothma ' s resolution by offering them pardons and political favors . As a result , the New Republic was able to send military forces to Jakku ; foiling Red Key and Black Sun ' s plot to prolong the war . Behind the scenes . The Red Key Raiders first appeared as secondary antagonists in Chuck Wendig ' s " " , which ran between 2015 and 2016 . Two Red Key characters Adwin Charu and Lorgan Movellan were given point - of - view interlude chapters in " Aftermath " and " " .