Hutt Cartel

> "*If not us, then someone else. So why not us?" - Traditional Hutt saying*
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Daring Counter

Vulta Blitz

The Fall of Fortressa

The Exodus Event

The **Hutt Cartel** is a massive, galaxy-spanning criminal syndicate, and business alliance, made up of thousands of members of the Hutt species and those who serve them. Made up of a multitude of different Hutt Clans throughout the Galaxy, the Hutt Cartel maintains a personal military comprising of an army and a starfleet, and rules over many worlds across the stars, including a vast swath of territory known as Hutt Space. Presently, the Cartel is the largest, farthest-reaching, most influential member of the Galactic Underworld, and is respected, feared, and reviled in equal measures Galaxy-wide. The Hutt Cartel is controlled by the Hutt Ruling Council, made up of the most powerful of the Hutt gangsters, and led by the Supreme Mogol, though the present Supreme Mogul has chosen a unique title for himself. Currently, the leader of the Hutt Cartel is Sovereign Magnate Brogol the Hutt.

## Galactic Conquest Activities

* **The D'Astan Campaign**
	+ Anti-Imperial rebels in the D'Astan Sector purchase armaments from the Khib Kajidic, one of the many families within the Hutt Cartel.
	+ Darth Xackorov makes an unlawful incursion into Hutt Space with several Imperial warships, pursuing a Chiss thief with ties to the Hutt Cartel, known as "Tess" that has stolen his personal starfighter.
	+ Ships of the Hutt Cartel Defense Fleet engage Darth Xackorov in northern Hutt Space, and engage in a small skirmish with him, capturing the Darth.
	+ The Khib Kajidic trades Darth Xackorov back to the Empire in exchange for two *Harrower*-class Dreadnoughts.
	+ Seizing an opportunity, the Khib Kajidic lures in and captures Green Jedi Knight Daara-Ri Roben and her lover, Xancach Tahvek, on the planet of Hijado, hoping to use them as leverage to free the captured Moff Garrett Whitmore from Republic custody.
	+ Overboss Gasper Daxos of the Khib Kajidic conspires with former Imperial Intelligence asset Jaxon Mat'rn to free Moff Whitmore.
	+ Following the successful rescue of Moff Whitmore from Republic custody, Daara-Ri Roben is traded by the Khib Kajidic to Whitmore in exchange for exclusive salvaging rights in the D'Astan Sector.
	+ The Khib Kajidic proceeds to salvage the D'Astan Sector in the wake of the conflict.
* **The Thesme Campaign**
	+ The combined forces of the Khib Kajidic, the Tesilljic Kajidic, and the Varad Warband heavily occupy the world of Hijado, essentially bringing it under Cartel control.
	+ Chief Marshall Jesse "Hardtack" Renson of the Thesme Sector Rangers begins organizing resistance to the invading forces, sending a number of *Foray*-class Corvettes to support the remaining Ranger forces on the planet Hijado.
	+ Commodore Toorvar Dorek of the Galactic Republic Navy jumps into the Thesme Sector with the Republic 12th Strike Fleet's Battlegroup Tranquility, aiming to drive the Cartel out of the sector, headed for the planet Thesme.
	+ A flotilla of vessels of the Corellian Crusade, commanded by Knight Commander Aquillan Arens, arrives in the Thesme Sector, aiming to aid the people.
	+ A *Defender*-class starship, full of Selkath seeking to provide humanitarian aid, enters the sector, and arrives on the world of Thesme.
	+ Captain Skunge of the Republic 12th Strike Fleet’s Battlegroup Tranquility takes several ships to reinforce the Corellian and Ranger forces at Junction.
	+ Vintori Varad and Admiral Vinzago launch concurrent strikes on the planet of Qusyte and the Republic fleet over Thesme, respectively.
	+ Vintori Varad’s forces decimate the Sector Rangers on Qusyte in the capital of Qusyte City, taking control of the metropolis and incurring significant losses against the Ranger Forces. 22% of the city’s population is killed. 68% of the remaining population is captured by Clan Varad.
	+ Vintori Varad offers the excess population of Qusyte City to the local gangs as slaves, after taking his pick for conscription into his own forces. The local gangs swear fealty to Clan Varad, and the Black Sun and Exchange cells on the planet are pacified.
	+ Admiral Vinzago loses his orbital battle above the planet Thesme to Commodore Toorvar Dorek of the Republic 12th Strike Fleet, incurring significant losses, but dealing considerable damage to Dorek's fleet. The Admiral retreats back to Hijado.
	+ On the heels of Vinzago's defeat, Overboss Gasper Daxos arrives with the *Harrower*-class Dreadnought *Varl's Vengeance*, and strikes against Commodore Dorek's force in retaliation, destroying one *Ankylon*-class Battlecruiser, and one *Thranta*-class Support Cruiser, forcing Dorek to retreat from the world of Thesme.
	+ Commodore Toorvar Dorek retreats with the remainder of his squadron to Feriae Junction.
	+ The Varad Warband tracks the location of the last Quyste Rangers to the Arcos Mountains. The *Adenn'ati Khan* launches an attack followed by a large portion of the quickly growing Varad Warband. After a hard fought lightning raid on the ranger's last defensive position the Mandalorians overrun the Sector Rangers and achieve victory.
	+ Alor'ad Vintori Varad fights the acting Marshal, Lieutenant Ward in single combat. Vintori takes victory and kills the last Sector Ranger on Quyste, effectively seizing the planet. Vintori orders Shipmaster Khan to kill the civilians who escaped Capitol City with an orbital bombardment on the caverns.
	+ The Corellian fleet begins evacuating civilians from Junction.
	+ Admiral Vinzago takes the Killer Queen and a flotilla of ships to the Junction System on a scouting excursion, and is engaged by the Sector Fleet, sustaining losses.
	+ The Corellian Fleet engages the Killer Queen Fleet, incurring more losses against them.
	+ Captain Keyan Brusk of the Khib Kajidic Armada arrives in the system, attacking the Corellian fleet and destroying one of their Sphyrnas, sending them into a full retreat from the Thesme Sector.
	+ Captain Keyan Brusk engages the Sector Fleet, and destroys the majority of it, before jumping back to the Thesme System to assist with the Siege of Thesme.
	+ The remnants of the Sector Fleet attempt to break the Cartel's blockade of Hijado, losing another Foray to the Killer Queen Fleet before landing three Forays on the surface, reinforcing the Sector Rangers on the planet.
	+ Vintori Varad mounts an assault on Tierell, but is pushed back during his initial attack by Terry and his Sector Rangers.
	+ Lieutenant Romik Vanar leads the Cartel charge on Thesme, securing victory in his first assault on the planet.
	+ The Rangers hold out a valiant counterattack against the Mandalorian reavers, inflicting heavy casualties and eliminating most of the first wave of attackers. Causing a significant dent in the Mandalorian's numbers and inspiring the militia to fight harder for the survival of their world.
	+ The Mandalorians launch another assault, blitzing through the capital city and achieving victory over the Sector Rangers through the central quadrant of the city and putting the Sector Rangers on the defensive.
	+ The Mandalorians launch a final assault against Sector Ranger forces holed up in the Administration District of the city, between the selective orbital bombardment from the *Adenn'ati Khan* and the fresh Mandalorian reinforcements-- the Sector Rangers suffer a staggering loss.
	+ After a brutal fight, Vintori Varad beats Marshall Terry into submission, and the Mandalorians slaughter the remaining Sector Rangers on Tierell, securing Tierell for the Cartel forces.
	+ Romik Vanar defeats the Sector Rangers in the second phase of his assault on the capital of Thesme.
	+ The Cartel forces push the Rangers back even further, killing off the last of them in Thesme's capital, before Romik Vanar confronts and kills Chief Marshall Jesse Renson of the Thesme Sector Rangers, eradicating the rest of the planet's defenses and taking control of Thesme for the Cartel.
	+ Romik Vanar defeats Jedi Master Fyar Hano and takes Governor Raldraan Tayvast of the Thesme Sector into custody.
	+ The Republic forces under command of Commodore Toorvar Dorek depart the system.
	+ After a negotiation with the Sector Ranger Marshal on Junction, Gasper Daxos secures the planet's surrender and submission to Cartel rule. The Hutt Cartel takes the planet of Feriae Junction, securing victory in the Thesme Sector.
	+ Gasper Daxos executes the Governor of the Thesme Sector live on the HoloNet, thus ending the Thesme Campaign
* **Daring Counter**
	+ On Euceron, Tolurobb the Hutt of the Khib Kajidic strikes a deal with Admiral Artemis Deckard. In order to gain Tolurobb's usage of a portion of the Cartel-controlled Great Dordon Caves in order to land troops, Deckard's forces remove members of the Eusebus Exchange from the caverns.
	+ Overboss Gasper Daxos strikes a deal with Green Jedi Knight Daara-Ri Roben, acquiring the captured Sith Lord Kiy'ra Vaanir in exchange for use of the Cartel's tunnels beneath the city of Eusebus to evacuated civilians from the city.
	+ In the wake of the nuclear bombing of Eusebus, a team of Cartel mercenaries aids Republic soldiers combating Sith War Droids and looters in order to extract a stranded Gree ambassador from the city's remains, hired by the Gree Enclave to do so, before exfiltrating.
* **Vulta Blitz**
	+ As the Vulta Blitz comes to its conclusion, hospital ships owned by the Khib Kajidic arrive to treat injured civilians and Republic forces as a result of the deal struck between Admiral Carmen Saldana and Overboss Gasper Daxos.
* **The Fall of Fortressa**
	+ Several high-ranking officials of the Khib Kajidic became stranded on Fortressa when the Empire began its invasion, having been present on the planet in order to assist a local kajidic that was having trouble with a newly-arrived Black Sun presence on the planet. After engaging in a few skirmishes within the city of New Bothawui, both the Black Sun and Hutt Cartel forces withdrew from the planet when awakened Rakata war droids began to wreak havoc upon the planet.
	+ Mercenaries from the secretly-Cartel-aligned private military contracor company known as Konzasa Company were hired to assist Republic forces in their defense of Fortressa.

## Major Heroes

* Gasper Daxos
* Jaxon Mat'rn