Usha'kk Nem'ro

Usha'kk's Criminal Empire

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**Usha’kk Nem'ro** was a hutt from the Nem'ro Clan who was Suddaa Nem’ro’s nephew on his sister’s side. He became Nem'ro's heir through fraud and deceit and would go on to become a more powerful gangster than his Uncle ever was, until his demise a on Tatooine in 3630 BBY.

## Biography

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"I like to keep my ears to the ground. You never know what juicy tidbits might be hiding in all the confusion."

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### Early Career and Servitude to Darth Baras

Usha’kk began as an information broker and blackmailer who specialized in high-profile targets, ranging from Cooperate Executives, Republic Senators, Imperial Moffs and even Sith Lords. That is, untill the day Usha’kk attempted to blackmail Darth Baras. The young gangster learned the hard way that several of his informants were actually loyal agents to the Sith Lord who provided him with a particularly compromising bit of information on Usha’kk himself; that the Hutt had been compiling blackmail material on his uncle in order to steal his empire. Usha’kk and his resources were then incorporated into Darth Baras’ galaxy wide espionage network, which greatly aided Baras in his preparations to seize the title of the Voice of the Emperor by providing leverage over several members of the Dark Council. While Baras allowed Usha’kk a great deal of leeway in his actions, the Hutt resented being controlled and often made snide remarks to Baras during their interactions, which the Sith found amusing. During his time in Baras’ service, Usha’kk discovered an appreciation for Sith and Jedi artifacts and technology. He expanded into artifact smuggling and would often keep the choicest artifacts for himself, even hiring professional thieves and mercenaries to steal and raid archealogical expeditions from both the Republic and the Imperial Reclamation Service. In anticipation of thieves from both the Sith and Jedi seeking to reclaim the artifacts, Usha’kk commissioned scientists to design security systems meant to counter Force-Sensitive intruders in his vaults and kept the location of his hoard a close secret.

### Freedom from Baras and the beginnings of an Empire

After Baras’ death at the hand of his apprentice, the current Emperor’s Wrath Darth Tolerus, along with the untimely demise of his Uncle Suddaa at the hands of the houk Skadge, Usha’kk was able to regain control of his network, and even convinced much of Baras' remaining agents to switch alleigance to thim. Using his newfound resources, he blackmailed several leading members of the Hutt Cartel in order to pass a forged will written in Nem’ro’s name bequeathing his possessions and position in the Cartel Hiearchy to Usha’kk alone. With his newfound wealth and power alongside his blackmail network, Usha’kk became one of the most powerful hutts in the Cartel, so much so that many Hutts believed he would seek the title of Grand Mogul after the previous Mogul, Karagga the Unyielding, was killed by Darth Nox of the Dark Council during the “Vyron Incident.” To everyone's surprise, Usha'kk ultimately declined to seek the position, allowing his long-time rival Toborro to take power.
Unbeknownst to the Cartel, Usha'kk's agents had informed him of Toborro's discovery of Isotope V on the planet Makeb and his intentions to seize the planet in hopes of fueling a galactic campaign of conquest and the reestablishment of the Hutt Empire. Usha'kk had no interest in this course of action, which he predicted would draw the attention of both the Sith Empire and the Galactic Republic, dragging the Cartel into a long and costly conflict. Usha'kk distanced himself from the Cartel during the Hutt takeover of Makeb and was able to avoid the terms of the disadvantageous alliance ultimately established by the remnants of the Cartel and the Republic in return for safe passage off Makeb before its destruction.

Usha'kk's extortion network allowed him to amass connections and wealth across the galaxy. He made his first power grab against the Nar Shaddaa Labor Alliance to branch out into the business of slavery. His agents infiltrated the organization while Usha'kk ingratiated himself with the current leadership. Vaarko Tiyai, the Cho'mash of the Alliance at the time, was strongly suspicious of Usha'kk's intentions but his investigations were hampered by the Hutt's inflitrators without his knowledge. Usha'kk contributed many credits to the NSLA's actvities and even used his network to extort Republic and Imperial customs officials into allowing them to operate in previously inaccessible areas, such as the Core Worlds and the Seat of the Empire. With his position as a close ally of the Labor Alliance solidified, Usha'kk made his move. He framed Tiyai by planting evidence that the Cho'mash intended to sell out the Labor Alliance leadership to the Republic. The other members of the Labor Alliance's leadership then had Tiyai's own lieutenants kill him by throwing him off the top of their headquarters. The Labor Alliance, grateful for what Usha'kk had "done," had the remaining leaders name him as the new Cho'mash in the wake of Ti'yai's death. The hutt invited the leaders of the Labor Alliance to his new palace on Tatooine to celebrate. As they drank a toast to their success, Usha'kk dropped the leaders into his beast pit, where they were promptly eaten by Usha'kk's rancor, *Azalu*. His takeover of the Labor Alliance complete, Usha'kk had the lieutenants who resisted him killed before absorbing the whole of the Labor Alliance into his organization, marking the rise of Usha'kk's criminal empire.

### Invasion of Zakuul and "Legitamate" Business

In 3631 BBY, as Usha'kk's wealth plummeted with the aftermath Invasion of Zakuul and the Hutt sought a new market to recoup his losses. He had previously purchased a small stake in Solida Hesk's mining coorporation, and with Hesk's death, the subsequent destruction of Makeb, and the brutal invasion of the Eternal Fleet, most of the company's stockholders abandoned them in order to flee Zakuul's onslaught. As they were on the cusp of bankruptcy, Usha'kk made them a generous offer for one of their remaining assets; an exonium mining facility on Rishi. Wanting his new investment to return dividends quickly, Usha'kk came upon a plan to halve shipping costs. His agents in the Republic had acquired a list of the various Republic sponsored "privateers" whose contracts with the Republic were terminated after their sponsor, Senator Bevera Dodonna, was revealed to have been working for the Imperial Admiral known as the "Voidwolf." He contacted them with the promise that he would keep the Republic off their backs if they would ship the collected exonium from Rishi for a steep discount. By the end of the year, Usha'kk had managed to return to financial stability.