Black Sun

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Black Sun was a criminal syndicate that came into prominence during the Clone Wars as
the Jedi Order focused more on military affairs and less on law enforcement. Black Sun was
allied with the Shadow Collective and its leader, the renegade Sith Lord Maul. The syndicate
maintained bases on Mustafar and Ord Mantell and had many of the Falleen species as
members.

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History

The Clone Wars

During the Clone Wars, the syndicate was very influential throughout the galaxy and run by a
group of Falleen noblemen from a fortress on Mustafar.[11] One of its' members was Ziro the
Hutt.[12] During the war, Black Sun was coerced by the rogue Sith Lord Maul into joining his

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Shadow Collective[1] after his brother Savage Opress killed
their leader, Xomit Grunseit. Black Sun openly maintained a
base on Ord Mantell.[13]

Under direction of the Shadow Collective, Black Sun and the

Pyke Syndicate participated in the large Battle of Ord Mantell,
Black Sun members gather
defending against Separatist attackers led by Count Dooku
during the Clone Wars.
and Grievous.[13]

Towards the end of the Clone Wars, Black Sun's leader Ziton Moj proposed merging with the
Pyke Syndicate, which specialized in distributing illegal narcotics. When the Pyke leader
Marg Krim rejected his demands, Moj retaliated by kidnapping his family in order to force
Krim to change his mind. Krim then hired two independent bounty hunters—the former Sith
apprentice Asajj Ventress and the undercover Jedi Master Quinlan Vos—to rescue his family.
The two bounty hunters raided the Black Sun fortress on Mustafar and succeeded in rescuing
Krim's family. During the rescue mission, Moj and his Falleen guards were assaulted by
Ventress and Vos. Black Sun retaliated by sending a fleet to attack the Pyke stronghold of
Oba Diah.[14]

Age of the Empire

"Pilot Ashla. Congratulations. You have come to the attention of Black Sun."
―A Black Sun agent, to Ahsoka Tano

After Palpatine transformed the Republic into his own

Galactic Empire at the end of the Clone Wars, Black
Sun formed a durable relationship with the new
autocratic government[16] and kept watch over the
Outer Rim. A year after the establishment of the
Empire, Black Sun took notice of pilot Ahsoka Tano—
although they only knew her by her alias of "Ashla"
and did not know she was a former Padawan—after
she intruded in their sentient trafficking, as the secret
Force-sensitive had taken to helping the people of the
Outer Rim. Learning that "Ashla" had been hired by A Black Sun Guard with their signature
the Fardi clan, Black Sun knew they could pay her double-barrel blasters.
more than the smaller group, though they also wanted
her to work to make back the thousands of credits she had cost them. Thus, Black Sun
ordered their agents to either hire or kill the pilot. When one Black Sun agent found her on
an Outer Rim planet, Tano rejected their job offer, escaping aboard her light freighter as the
agent fired on her.[15]

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Using their sleek starship, the agent pursued Tano, even as she concurrently realized her
encounter with the agent had helped clear her mind of doubts. Tano and the agent's dogfight
was interrupted by Chardri Tage's starship, having been sent by Senator Bail Prestor Organa
to locate Tano, and the agent elected to escape instead of attack the larger craft. After
boarding Tage's ship and reuniting with astromech droid R2-D2, Tano rested aboard her ship
when she arranged for it to float above a nameless moon that orbited the planet she had
fought the agent on; even though she figured the agent would be repairing their ship, she was
certain they were not hiding where she was.[15]

During the Age of the Empire, Black Sun owned a Pantolomin cruiser.[17] At one point, Duke
Blazor of the Black Sun expected money from the Gatto Gang, leading to him hiring bounty
hunter IG-88B.[18] The former Imperial cadets Sabine Wren and Ketsu Onyo decided to join
Black Sun as bounty hunters. However, Ketsu got "greedy," left her former classmate for
dead, and joined Black Sun by herself. Years later, Ketsu accepted a Black Sun job to collect a
GNK-series power droid called EG-86, which was carrying information vital to the rebellion.
This mission brought her into conflict with Sabine, who despised Black Sun for engaging in
slave trafficking. However, the two former classmates reconciled and joined forces to escape
the Empire and to deliver the droid to the Rebellion.[19]

Between 3 ABY and 4 ABY[20], the crime syndicate Crimson Dawn returned after a long
absence and sent out a message to various criminal factions in the underworld. In the
message, the syndicate's current leader Lady Qi'ra invited the other syndicates to join in an
auction for the carbonite encased Han Solo.[21] Black Sun answered the call and arrived at the
planet Jekara, where one of their ships was hit by the Millennium Falcon. In response, Black
Sun sent out their fighters to destroy the ship, though it managed to evade them and crashed
onto the planet below.[10] Gyuti, a Boss in Black Sun then entered the Vermillion along with
Xet and a few other Falleen.[22] Black Sun bid for Solo during the auction, but they were
quickly stifled by a mind trick done unto them by Imperial[23] Sub-Administrator[24] Sly
Moore. The auction was won by Jabba Desilijic Tiure of the Grand Hutt Council, but his
victory was short-lived as it was interrupted by the arrival of Darth Vader. Guarded by two
death troopers, the Sith Lord declared that Solo belonged to him.[23] In the ensuing chaos,
Vader attacked several of the present syndicates, including Black Sun, forcing them to retreat
from Jekara.[25]

New Republic

At the time of the New Republic's founding, Black Sun was one of several major crime
syndicates operating in the Outer Rim.[26] In 5 ABY, the Black Sun Boss Gyuti placed a
bounty on the head of the Zabrak bounty hunter Jas Emari for debts incurred by her aunt
Sugi. Underboss Rynscar and her henchmen ambushed Jas and Sugi while they were visiting
Nar Shaddaa for information on Han Solo's whereabouts. Jas managed to convince Rynscar
not to turn her in by offering to repay them double the amount she owed. Rysncar also
provided Jas with information about Han Solo's whereabouts.[27]

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Shortly before the Battle of Jakku, the bounty hunter
Mercurial Swift decided to collect Gyuti's bounty on
Emari's head in retaliation for her role in ambushing him
on the planet Taris. Later, Black Sun conspired with the
upstart Red Key Raiders to prolong the Galactic Civil War.
They bribed and blackmailed five New Republic Senators
Ashmin Ek, Dor Wieedo, Rethalow, Grelka Sorka, and Nim
Tar into opposing Chancellor Mon Mothma's resolution to
send New Republic Defense Force forces to the Inner Rim
world of Jakku, where the Galactic Empire had retreated
to. Their plot was foiled by a team led by Sinjir Rath Velus
and Han Solo, who managed to rescue Nim Tar's child and
convince the senators to change their votes in return for
pardons and political favors.[8]
A Pantoran Black Sun member's
mugshot

Organization
A major criminal power, Black Sun dealt in illegal ventures like sentient-trafficking. While
that activity was considered awful by others, members of Black Sun simply called it a
"business venture."[15]

Behind the scenes

Black Sun first appeared in the now-Star Wars Legends multimedia project Star Wars:
Shadows of the Empire, released in 1996 as a novel, comic book, video game, and more.
During the development of "Eminence," the fourteenth episode of the fifth season of Star
Wars: The Clone Wars, it was decided that Maul would be given a base of power within the
criminal underworld. Dave Filoni, the show's supervising director, had remembered Black
Sun from Shadows of the Empire, and knew that the Expanded Universe showed Maul as
having fought against Black Sun prior to the events of Star Wars: Episode I The Phantom
Menace. With that, Filoni and his team opted to bring Black Sun into the show.[28]

Appearances

Darth Maul (2017) 2

Darth Maul (2017) 3
Darth Maul (2017) 4
Star Wars Battlefront II (Mentioned only)
Age of Republic - Jango Fett 1 (Mentioned only)
Choose Your Destiny: An Obi-Wan & Anakin Adventure (Mentioned only)
Star Wars: The Clone Wars film (First appearance)
Star Wars: The Clone Wars – "Assassin"
Star Wars: The Clone Wars – "Evil Plans"

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 Star Wars: The Clone Wars – "Hostage Crisis"
Star Wars: The Clone Wars – "Hunt for Ziro"
Forces of Destiny: Daring Adventures: Volume 1 (Mentioned only)
Star Wars: The Clone Wars – "Eminence"
Star Wars: The Clone Wars – "Shades of Reason"
Star Wars: The Clone Wars – "The Lawless" (In flashback(s))
Star Wars: The Clone Wars – "The Lost One"
Dark Disciple
Dark Disciple audiobook (Mentioned only)
Darth Maul—Son of Dathomir 1 (Mentioned only)
Darth Maul—Son of Dathomir 2
Darth Maul—Son of Dathomir 3 (Mentioned only)
Darth Maul—Son of Dathomir 4 (Appears in hologram)
Star Wars: The Clone Wars – "The Phantom Apprentice" (Appears in hologram)
Ahsoka
Ahsoka audiobook
Tarkin (Mentioned only)
Tarkin audiobook (Mentioned only)
Star Wars Jedi: Fallen Order (Mentioned only)
Han Solo - Imperial Cadet 3
Star Wars Rebels – "Blood Sisters"
"Too Late to Change"—Star Wars Rebels Magazine 28 (In flashback(s))
Star Wars: Forces of Destiny – "Newest Recruit" (Mentioned only)
"The Second Chance"—Star Wars Rebels Magazine 24
"Final Round"—Star Wars Rebels Magazine 34 (In flashback(s))
Battlefront: Twilight Company (Mentioned only)
Battlefront: Twilight Company audiobook (Mentioned only)
Bounty Hunters 14 (In flashback(s))
Doctor Aphra (2020) 11
Star Wars (2020) 14
War of the Bounty Hunters 2
Doctor Aphra (2020) 12
War of the Bounty Hunters 3
Doctor Aphra (2020) 13
War of the Bounty Hunters 5 (Mentioned only)
Doctor Aphra (2020) 15 (Mentioned only)
War of the Bounty Hunters – Boushh 1
Doctor Aphra (2020) 16 (Appears in hologram)
Crimson Reign 1
Crimson Reign 2 (Mentioned only)
Bounty Hunters 19
Star Wars (2020) 22 (Mentioned only)
TIE Fighter 2 (In flashback(s))
"Tales from Wild Space: IG-88 vs. the Gatto Gang"—Star Wars
Adventures (2017) 9 (Mentioned only)
Aftermath (Mentioned only)
Aftermath audiobook (Mentioned only)
Star Wars: Uprising (Mentioned only)
Shadow Fall (Mentioned only)
Shadow Fall audiobook (Mentioned only)
Aftermath: Life Debt (Mentioned only)
Aftermath: Life Debt audiobook (Mentioned only)

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 Aftermath: Empire's End (Mentioned only)
Aftermath: Empire's End audiobook (Mentioned only)
Last Shot
Last Shot audiobook
Star Wars Resistance – "The Recruit" (Emblem only)
Star Wars Resistance – "The Triple Dark" (Emblem only)
Star Wars Resistance – "The Platform Classic" (Tattoo only)
Star Wars Resistance – "Neeku's Reward" (Emblem only)
Star Wars Resistance – "Kaz's Curse" (Emblem only)
Star Wars Resistance – "The Escape" (Tattoo only)

Sources

Black Sun in the Encyclopedia (content now obsolete; backup link)

The Pykes in the Encyclopedia (content now obsolete; backup link)
Shadows of the Sith on StarWars.com (backup link)
Star Wars: Build the Millennium Falcon 44 (Starship Fact File: Sith Infiltrator:
Scimitar)
Star Wars: Build the Millennium Falcon 53 (Guide to the Galaxy: Districts of
Coruscant)
Star Wars: Galactic Atlas
Star Wars Helmet Collection 6 (Databank A-Z: Jar Jar Binks–B'omarr Order)
Star Wars Helmet Collection 17 (Databank A-Z: Ewoks–Finn (FN-2187))
Star Wars: Build the Millennium Falcon 68 (Secrets of Spaceflight: Smuggling
Bosses)
Star Wars: The Visual Encyclopedia
Star Wars: X-Wing Miniatures Game – C-ROC Cruiser Expansion Pack
(Card: Tansarii Point Veteran)
Forces of Destiny: Tales of Hope & Courage
Star Wars: The Rebel Files
Star Wars: Build Your Own R2-D2 16 (Droid Directory: IG-Series Assassin Droids)
Star Wars Helmet Collection 36
Star Wars Helmet Collection 39 (Databank A-Z: Kwazel Maw–Sly Moore)
Star Wars Helmet Collection 41 (Databank A-Z: 'Occupier' Tank–Oola)
Star Wars Helmet Collection 49 (Databank A-Z: Serenno–Anakin Skywalker)
Star Wars Encyclopedia of Starfighters and Other Vehicles
Solo: A Star Wars Story: Tales from Vandor
Star Wars: X-Wing Second Edition – Scum and Villainy Conversion Kit (Card:
Ketsu Onyo (Lancer))
Star Wars: X-Wing Second Edition – Scum and Villainy Conversion Kit (Card:
Tansarii Point Veteran) (Reissued in M3-A Interceptor Expansion Pack)
Star Wars: Scum and Villainy: Case Files on the Galaxy's Most Notorious
Star Wars: Smuggler's Guide
Star Wars Helmet Collection 68 (Databank A-Z: Pre Vizsla–Quinlan Vos) (Indirect
mention only)
TIE Fighter Owners' Workshop Manual
Rise of the Separatists
Collapse of the Republic
Star Wars: How Not to Get Eaten by Ewoks and Other Galactic Survival Skills

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 Star Wars: The Rise of Skywalker: The Visual Dictionary
"The Phantom Apprentice" Episode Guide on StarWars.com (backup link)
Star Wars: Card Trader (Card: Ketsu Onyo - 2020 Base Series 2)
The Star Wars Book
Star Wars: The Clone Wars: Character Encyclopedia - Join the Battle!
"BB-8 and Other Astromech Droids" – Star Wars Encyclopedia
"Scarif and Other Outer Rim Planets" – Star Wars Encyclopedia
"Crime and Punishment" – Star Wars Insider 209
Asajj Ventress in the Databank (backup link)
Black Sun in the Databank (backup link)
Falleen in the Databank (backup link)
Ord Mantell in the Databank (backup link)
Xomit Grunseit in the Databank (backup link)
Ziton Moj in the Databank (backup link)

Notes and references

1. ↑ Jump up to: 1.0 1.1 1.2 1.3 1.4 1.5 Star Wars: The Clone Wars – "Eminence"
2. ↑ Ziton Moj in the Databank (backup link)
3. ↑ Star Wars: Build the Millennium Falcon 53 (Guide to the Galaxy: Districts of
Coruscant)
4. ↑ Black Sun in the Encyclopedia (content now obsolete; backup link)
5. ↑ Ord Mantell in the Databank (backup link)
6. ↑ "The Second Chance"—Star Wars Rebels Magazine 24
7. ↑ Crimson Reign 1
8. ↑ Star Wars: Smuggler's Guide
9. ↑ Black Sun in the Databank (backup link)
10. ↑ Dark Disciple
11. ↑ Jump up to: 15.0 15.1 15.2 15.3 Ahsoka
12. ↑ Star Wars: Uprising
13. ↑ Han Solo - Imperial Cadet 3
14. ↑ "Tales from Wild Space: IG-88 vs. the Gatto Gang"—Star Wars
Adventures (2017) 9
15. ↑ Star Wars Rebels – "Blood Sisters"
16. ↑ Star Wars: War of the Bounty Hunters, which feature the Auction for Han Solo,
take place after the Escape from Cloud City and before the Rescue of Han Solo,
which are dated to 3 ABY and 4 ABY, respectively, by Star Wars: Galactic Atlas.
Therefore, the events of Star Wars: War of the Bounty Hunters must take place
between those two years.
17. ↑ Doctor Aphra (2020) 11
18. ↑ Doctor Aphra (2020) 12
19. ↑ Darth Vader (2020) 14
20. ↑ Aftermath
21. ↑ Aftermath: Life Debt
22. ↑ Shadows of the Sith on StarWars.com (backup link)

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