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Corporate Sector

Category: Locations
Type: Galactic Sectors
Affiliation: Corporate Sector Authority

This area of the galaxy originally was set aside by the Old Republic for corporations to use for mining raw materials, several centuries before the Galactic Civil War. It was created some 490 years before the Battle of Yavin, after an experiment at corporate control in the Expansion Region failed. Several hundred systems - all supposedly devoid of intelligent life, according to extensive neutrino research - made up the original Expansion Region Corporate Sector, and corporations could purchase the use of entire systems under the watchful eye of the Republic. Huge corporations began moving into the area, hoping to acquire a piece of the huge profits it was generating. Thus, the Corporate Sector was more of a huge corporation than a political area of the galaxy. The corporate executives were bound by the Old Republic's Senate until Emperor Palpatine rose to power. Under the New Order, executives convinced the Emperor to expand the Corporate Sector to include nearly 30,000 star systems. Eleven new intelligent species were discovered, but their existence was kept secret by the power-hungry corporations. The executives agreed to pay Palpatine a percentage of their corporate profits if he would allow them to manage the sector by themselves, to which Palpatine agreed. Thus was born the Corporate Sector Authority and the CSA Security Police force. The current Corporate Sector was bordered by the Aparo and Wyl Sectors. During the Yuuzhan Vong invasion of the galaxy, much of the pathway known as Vector Prime traveled through the Corporate Sector, and planets such as Brigia and Ruuria were overrun as the Yuuzhan Vong moved toward the Core.

Source Abbreviations Listing - HSE, CSA, HT, HG, UVG

For more information, please read or view the following material(s):

Agents of Chaos: Hero's Trial, by James Luceno, copyright 2000, from Del Rey Books

Han Solo and the Corporate Sector Sourcebook, by Michael Allen Horne, copyright 1993, from West End Games

Han Solo at Stars' End, by Brian Daley, copyright 1979 (by the Star Wars Corporation), from Del Rey Books

Hero's Guide, by Rodney Thompson and J.D. Wiker, copyright 2003, from Wizards of the Coast

Star Wars: The Ultimate Visual Guide, by Ryder Windham, copyright 2005, from DK Publishing

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