Black Sun

Black Sun
General Information
Motto	"Family, Honour, Profit."
Status	Active
Leader	Alexander von Ismay
Historical Information
Founder	Gabriella Storm
Founded	Circa Year -1
Political Information
Affiliation	Imperial Union
Industry	Trading
Holosite	Black Sun

Black Sun, originally known as the Black Sun Trading Company, is an infamous galactic industrial syndicate. Founded several centuries ago, the group achieved prominence with the rise of Princess Gabriella Storm. Over the years, Black Sun has approached itself in varied ways, including: a legitimate trading corporation, an independent paramilitary force, intelligence brokers, and a massive government authority. Historically, Black Sun has contended with the Galactic Empire, New Republic and other galactic powers as one of the most powerful forces in the galaxy.

Operating as a monolithic organization, Black Sun is centered around and supported by its legitimate companies: Hyrotii Corporation, White Star, and DroMor Motors. Sharing a common organizational structure and code of conduct, the Black Sun syndicate is run by the Underlord who is advised by a Family Council, consisting of up to nine Vigos (Old Tionese for "nephew"). Beneath the Family Council sits the Consiglio, a lesser council of various Consigliere who hold various positions within Black Sun. Central to Black Sun's endeavors is a strict protocol of conduct and behavior which defines the relationships and actions of its members. Though much of Black Sun's inter-workings and ideals are corporate secrets, the company statement provides some insight into their operations:

"It is a public secret that at the heart of the multi-billion credit trade organization, Black Sun, there is an empire of villainy, vice, and violence based around a Family which holds itself above any law but its own: Family, Honor, Profit. It is a vast financial enterprise whose presence can be felt on every planet, from the Core Worlds to the Outer Rim. Black Sun has existed for hundreds of years, seeping its corrupting tendrils deep into each of the galactic governments.

Infamous for having a hand in every known type of illegal activity, Black Sun’s intelligence networks flourish with information from all throughout the galaxy. The criminal syndicate boasts the most advanced technology from both sides of the Galactic War, supported by unique and powerful designs of its own. With thousands of fiercely loyal soldiers, Black Sun has solidified its position as a galactic superpower."

— Black Sun

History

Origin

Although existing in more nebulous forms for hundreds of years, an organization recognizable as the current Black Sun was first mustered under the Dark Princess Gabriella Storm. Opening its business front on Year 0 Day 5 (CGT), under Storm, Black Sun thrived and, by Year 1, had established itself ostensibly as a reputable trading concern. According to accounts from the period, the first Princess eventually grew bored with continuing success and faked her own death in order to escape the group (Year 0 Day 318). The existing pattern of loyalties, when confronted with the sudden departure of the Princess, created a rift in the organization. Many who were loyal to the Princess reasoned that where their leader went they must follow and so they departed. For the first time the leadership of the Sun was shaken and the organization set to tear itself apart.

The First Interregnum

Following Storm's departure, there were intracompany loyalty games which divided Black Sun internally. Many members of Black Sun were enticed with financial opportunities, while others were motivated purely by a desire to change. In order to address these concerns, Dark Prince Blood assumed the position of interim ruler and attempted to quell the chaos. He did his best to stabilize Black Sun in a very difficult time and was instrumental in foiling several attempted coups. However, Blood did not wish to remain as leader of the organization and desired to abdicate. After a lengthy deliberation between the high command, a new leader was chosen: Keevan Colton.

Prince Keevan Colton assumed the mantle of ruler on Year 1 Day 318 and gradually stabilized the organization. However, like his predecessor Prince Blood, Keevan had never wanted the position of leader and quickly set about training a successor. Electing to step down once an appropriate successor was available, he appointed Qel Dar as the new leader.

Galactic Development

Prince Qel Dar immediately centralized Black Sun's power structure, before declaring war upon the Hapes Consortium and creating diplomatic ties to the Falleen Federation, due to his membership in the Huruk-Rah clan. Qel Dar also took as his protégé the galactic businessman Kosh Naranek, who was the former governor of Lorell. Together, they pushed construction on Lorell and Dathomir, in an effort to wrest control from Hapes (Year 3 Day 107, CGT). The further pushed to take control of the bog-world of Nal Hutta from the Hutt Council. The reason for their sudden push towards war is still unknown. Unfortunately, Qel Dar's ambitious plans to wrest territory from Hapes and Hutt Council both failed. Despite his other works as Dark Prince, Qel Dar's plan to seize the planet Lorell was his most grandiose action, and his failure there irrevocably marred his reign. These events would come to be known as the Black Sun Crisis. He was further disgraced when his diplomatic envoy, Vigo Acria Larkin, was captured by the Hutt Council and extradited to the Galactic Empire. A year later, on Year 4 Day 61, Qel Dar stepped down and retired with his consort, Dark Princess Krystal, to the Inner Rim. In a surprising move, Qel Dar bypassed his protégé Kosh Naranek and chose Plojo Rosom to be his successor. Naranek disappeared from the galactic stage following this event.

Dark Prince Plojo Rosom set out to reconstruct Black Sun, dividing the collective up and appointing Lords, each with the responsibility of conquering volumes of space. Each of these task forces would be a microcosm of the way Black Sun itself had been run in the past and the Family grew to its largest point since its inception under Dark Princess Storm. Freed from the day-to-day management of territory and assets the Prince could take on larger issues and those of personal interest. Realizing the Sun's need for military muscle, Rosom contracted mercenary groups among these was Irv Howie, a petty warlord based in the Jospro sector. This mercenary's relationship with Tee ubo Tarkona (then fiancé to the Emperor Uebles). These events drew Irv Howie into conflict with the Galactic Empire. Tee fled Imperial space aboard her YV-666 the "Leap of Faith" to join with Howie's fleet just outside the Sullust system, it was here she changed her name and appearance to avoid pursuit. Tee became Xyanax Jasper and then Xya Howie after the pair married and combined their resources into a new group, the Shadow Walkers, which was hidden from those who were not members. During this period of self-interest, Rosom further granted asylum to Tara Tylger, another exile hunted by the Galactic Empire. In retaliation, the Empire declared war upon Black Sun. Dark Prince Rosom married Avalon Larkin on Year 4 Day 159, and when the war with the Galactic Empire fizzled, Prince Rosom decided to retire to the life of self-endeavors he had created for himself.

Despite being an exile of the Galactic Empire, under Prince Rosom, Xya Howie led The Shadow Walkers in their task to remove Family members who broke their pact with the Sun. It was her successes here and in other arenas, alongside Tara Tylger, which led to her appointment as Prince Rosom's successor. Because Princess Howie had led Black Sun through many dangers, she was beloved by many of its members. Slowly, Black Sun became self-sufficient and gained more members by seizing control of smaller organizations. Under this mantle, she created a Black Market which set up to sell rare and expensive technology anonymously through Black Sun as an intermediary. Ironically, the two principal sources of military goods for the Black Market were Emperor Uebles (who was faced with the prospect of either, working with BS or continuing hostilities against them) and Irv Howie (who maintained volatile relations with his now ex-wife the Princess and her organization). Through Irv Howie's relationship with Black Sun, he and business partner Adam A Flynn were gifted the SoroSuub shipbuilding company. SoroSuub began its golden age around Year 5 Day 181 (CGT), very loosely interwoven into the Sun and indebted to the Sun due to its foundational relationship. However, despite her successes, Princess Howie only ruled Black Sun for eight months before retiring.

The Second Interregnum

Prince Joseph Roscha reign was short, only three months, before continued disagreements with the former Princess prompted a turn of events that saw him expelled from the group and Dark Princess Xya's return to the throne, until her and Irv Howie's death due to ship malfunction. Tara Tylger assumed Xya's place as Princess of Black Sun.

Princess Tara Tylger's reign was equally short. The specifics of her downfall are unknown but most historians believe it was caused by a massacre she ordered on Kiffex. Following the carnage on Kiffex, Regent Camaris sa Vinitta seized the throne of Black Sun on Year 6 Day 326 and proclaimed himself ruler.

Prince Camaris sa Vinitta was unable to bring to stop the rampant squabbles and, during his brief tenure, the organization was sundered again. Predicting this eventuality, Camaris had groomed a successor who now stepped in to restore control to the fractured group: Daa`iata Tnaysc. During the reign of Dark Princess, the SoroSuub Conglomerate had pushed forward the creation of a massive city-world on Galalryn, eventually becoming the leading Galactic Government, replacing the Galactic Empire. Count Ingo R. Vailis made a famous speech to the Galactic News Service, outlining his political views.

Meanwhile, Count Adam A Flynn was heavily involved with Black Sun, supporting Princess Tnaysc's efforts to rebuild. Unfortunately, due to external events her reign did not last long and given their professional relationship, she handed control over to Prince Adam A Flynn. In such a short period Black Sun had undergone tremendous political turbulence. SoroSuub was willing to contribute massive amounts of credits to sustain the syndicate but to no avail. Rivalry among the remaining Family members made their position untenable and Black Sun was gutted. The group was held as part of the SoroSuub Conglomerate, stripped of all but its Kiffex holdings, the flagship Darkstar-class battleship and a fleet of vipers.

Revival

Prince Adam A. Flynn saw many changes. Under him, Black Sun was now part of the SoroSuub conglomerate led by Ingo Vailis. Prince Flynn and Vailis debated the future of Black Sun but neither would afford to divert time from the development of SoroSuub to repair the collective. At this time, SoroSuub merged with the Rebel Alliance to form the New Republic. As events came to a head with the merger, Black Sun was forgotten almost completely. Prince Flynn and Count Vailis had never been able to answer the question of how to restore the group and so it languished, neglected.

The New Republic outlined plans to transform Black Sun into Republic Trading, severing the group from its criminal past and setting it on the course for a legitimate future as a trade consortium. Flynn and Vailis proposed a deal to sell the group to Teniel Djo with the hopes that a pirate could become a solid candidate as the new leader of organized crime in the galaxy. The idea of selling to a pirate sickened the moral majority in the New Republic. The Chief of State and leader of the Republic, Ingo R. Vailis, unable to reconcile his past and current identities or achieve his goals within the framework of the Republic, pushed on the deal. However, the citizens of the New Republic rallied against what they saw as unethical behavior and, on Year 8 Day 310, they passed a vote of no confidence in Chief of State Vailis. Vailis secreted himself on Sulon and there he met with Adam A Flynn, Corvis Orion and other key individuals to plan their response.

On Year 8 Day 338 Vailis began sending orders to Black Sun agents in the New Republic. He ordered the deaths of several key political opponents and the transfer of massive amounts of military technology and credits into Black Sun. He and Adam A Flynn worked closely together over this period and, by Year 8 Day 350, Dark Prince Flynn had ascended to the mantle of Black Sun, this time with the full intentions of restoring the crime syndicate to its former infamy.

Legitimization

After the events of the New Republic coup had calmed down, Corvis Orion having served an integral leadership role in the reclamation of the Black Sun identity, took up the mantle of Dark Prince in Year 10. Serving for nearly two years, hi leadership is remembered for smoothing out political tides which had previously overcome the syndicate. Under Prince Orion, Black Sun had acquired The Azure Empire and opened other relations. However, as time went on, the reins of leadership appeared to be loosening and a decline had yet again set-in.

Dark Prince Tar Alaks succeed Corvis Orion during this period of decline. In order to strengthen the ideological foundations of Black Sun, Prince Alaks had every member reaffirm their oath to the family. Alaks also succeeded in organizing a take-over of both Aurora Technologies and Aurora Mining Technologies which were absorbed into Black Sun. Aurora Technologies was reborn as a Black Sun nationalized ships producer. Alaks also relinquished the title of Dark Prince in favor of the title of Lord Marshal.

Following Alaks stepping down, Dark Prince Banquo Knox began his rein, choosing to continue the return to the focus of Family within the organization. Additionally, Knox worked hard to keep diplomatic bridges open between Black Sun and other governments striving for a degree of legitimization. In keeping with these ideals, pn Year 13 Day 209 Black Sun was renamed to The Veragi Consortium. However, the change in name would be a relatively short lived affair with it becoming Black Sun again on Year 13 Day 264. Throughout his galactic exploits, Dark Prince Knox had developed a diplomatic relationship with the Lord Seele of the Galactic Empire. The animosity of the pass had seemingly been quelled by shared political, economic, and military goals. It was through this relationship, that Black Sun became one of the original signatories of the restructured Imperial Union, alongside the Tresario Star Kingdom.

Structure

Underlord

Main article: Leader of Black Sun

Holographics

• (Year 4)
• (Year 9)
• (Year 13)
• (Year 14)

References

Black Sun
Affiliations
Subsidiaries	Gesenix Mining · Shobquix Yards
Allies	Imperial Union	Galactic Empire · The Faerytail Family · Tresario Star Kingdom
	Other Allies
Territories
Sectors	Ash Worlds · Clacis · Dynali · Gree · Mieru'kar · Veragi
Systems	Asation · Gree · Gwori · Ibanjji · Iego · Jentares · Licha In · Lonatro · Malanose · Malicar · Revyia · Sartoy · Taspir · Te Hasa · Tiragga
Organization
Structure	Dark Prince · Family Council · Consiglio · Máurari Blackguard
Other	Governance · Bolo-ball · Shockball