Czerka Corporation

**Czerka Corporation**, also known as **Czerka Arms** or just **Czerka**, was a galaxy-spanning Galactic Republic-based corporation that existed from 11K.366 BTC/25K.003 CE to its' dismantling by the Republic government following the end of the Second Galactic War 3638 ATC/40K.007 CE. Created from a merger of various Arms and Droid manufacturing corporations on the planet of Teffan in the Colonies, Czerka would go down in history as one of the galaxy most infamous corporations.

Formed on the planet of Teffan in the year 11K.366 BTC/25K.003 CE, Czerka started out as a minor arms manufactoring corporation before eventually branching out into other fields, the first of which was droid production. In its' first few centuries Czerka was effectively an unknown entity in both arms and droid production, and yet it grew all the same, eventually becoming one of the galaxy's top 50 arms and droid manufactories. Then in 10K.804 BTC/25K.565 CE, Czerka acquired the Herbex Technologies Corporation which greatly expand not only their range of products but also their wealth, which later historians would point to being the start of the company's monopolistic practices from that point on.

Two centuries after it acquired HTC, Czerka slowly started to expand upon every field imaginable, beit biotechnologies, computer technologies, and even entertainment and media industries. Buying and or acquiring numerous corporations in a bid to monopolize the entire Republic economy. But in 10K.554 BTC/25K.815 CE, after an attempted buy of a major shipmaking corporation, the Republic government stepped in and put a stop to Czerka's attempts. Then in the months to come the Republic would began a monopoly busting campaign against Czerka, forcing them to give up control of 85% of the Czerka's conglomerate as well as paying an exess over 952 trillion credits in fines for breaking several Republic anti-monopoly laws.

From there it seems that Czerka would eventually be regulated to history, but that did not occur, largely due to the actions of one of its' CEOs, Carmart Millib. Through Millib's actions and rather ruthless business sense, she ensured Czerka slowly but surely recovered from the major defeat it suffered when its' conglomerate was dismantled by the Republic government. and within 20 years of her leadership Czerka was once a major corporation and one of the leading corporate entities in the fields of weaponry, droid manufacturing, AI research, and Computer technologies. But another part of her plan to rebuild Czerka was to regain not only its' wealth but also its' power it once held, and part of this plan is the rarely spoken but no less important action Millib ordered, and that was the colonization of what would become the planet Hilov.

For years Czerka spent time and resources searching for a world to colonize, one not yet controlled by any galactic nation, especially the Republic. And after five years of searching, they found it, a mid-rim largely arid world they called Hilov. Soon there after they colonized the planet and took control over it entirely. As to why Czerka did this, it was entirely due to Millib's plan, specifically to almost completely relocate Czerka's assets to Hilov so it can effectively govern itself without official government involvement. While still fundamentally headquartered on Teffan, for all practical purposes Czerka was now located on Hilov, a planet under the control of the Czerka corporation completely. And after 53 more years of growth and expansion, Millib passed away at the age of 150 years and would succeeded by CEOs that while successful, held no candle to the impact Millib gave to Czerka in her century of leadership.

From that point on, the relationship between the Republic and Czerka would always be tense and often confrontational, yet neither one could realistically do anything to the other. Czerka could not damage their relationship with the Republic too much or risk losing profits, and the Republic couldn't raid Czerka's facilities on Hilov as it was not apart of the Republic and was an independent state from the Republic government, albeit one more or less controlled by Czerka. It can be safe to say that the Republic and Czerka had a quasi-cold war going even since the Republic's anti-monopoly breakup of Czerka and Czerka's colonization of Hilov and moving of assets to the newly colonized planet.

And yet there's has been period of near open conflict between the two entities before, one of the more infamous involving Czerka's invasion and attempted occupation of the Republic world of Kashyyyk during the Jedi Civil War and another involving CZ-198 and its' attempted succession from the Republic in the first decades of the post First Galactic War era.

But the final straws came in the form of Czerka's partnership with the infamous Arasaka Corporation, which saw the creation of a crazed group of pirates dubbed the Ravagers and eventually saw the Republic invasion and occupation of Anrykean Space, all in a effort to dismantle the Arasaka Corporation as well as other Anrykean Corporations, although Czerka managed to escape punishment from the Republic, all it did was prolong their eventual nationalization for 15 years allowing it to ally itself with the Terran Imperium in the Second Galactic War, and when it ended, so did Czerka, and numerous other Imperial-allied corporations as well.