Hutt Cartel

This article is about the existent criminal syndicate. For its defunct predecessor, see The Hutt Council.

Hutt Cartel
General Information
Motto	"Scum and Villainy"
Status	Active
Leader	Voragga Zuuma Ajurr (Sultan) Qaun Wain (Majordomo)
2IC	Tobba Nokko (Retired) Feth Ophoxi (Grand Vizier)
Owner	Hutt Conglomerate
Historical Information
Founded	Year 3 Day 81 (see: Hutt Council) Year 10 Day 60 (re-established)
Political Information
Affiliation	Independent
Industry	Criminal Sultanate
Holosite	The Hutt Cartel

The Hutt Cartel, also known as The Cartel or the Zuuma Kajidic, is a criminal sultanate led by Hutts which employs mercenaries and smugglers of various species. Although its foundation date occurred on Year 10 Day 60, the Cartel claims symbolic descent from the earlier Hutt Council organized by the legendary Angobba the Hutt circa Year 3 Day 81. The perennial ruler of the Cartel is the vile gangster, Voragga the Hutt. His second-in-command is Tobba Nokko. The ramshackle organization is staffed by a diverse lineup of repugnant henchmen including Gamorrean thugs and Rodian enforcers. Currently, the Kubazi assassin Qaun Wain serves as the Majordomo of the Cartel and thus supervises its day-to-day operations, with the Duros star-pilot Feth Ophoxi as his Grand Vizier.

The Cartel is rumored to possess a large independent army, and the Cartel offers this private military on the open market. The Cartel's military is a superficially-loyal and poorly-equipped security force that consists of dimwitted guards, outdated vehicles, and obsolete starfighters. The Cartel also specializes in obtaining illicit goods that have been prudishly outlawed by the various galactic regimes. If an individual wishes to obtain contraband such as deathsticks, insanity-causing holopuzzles, or Giggledust, they should consider the Hutt Cartel as a possible source. Last but not least, special customers occasionally receive the pleasurable services of the organization's Twi'leki dancing girls.

Overview

Voragga Zuuma Ajurr formed the Cartel from the ashes of the Hutt Council.

From the darkened alleyways of Mos Eisley to the crowded spaceports of Corellia, the scoundrels who lurk in the galaxy's underworld come in all shapes and sizes. Some are Human, and some not. Some thrive within the Core Worlds of the Galactic Empire, while others subsist in the backwater systems of the Outer Rim. A few are deadly assassins, while most are cowardly thugs. Common to all, however, is the desire to make a fast credit, regardless of how many innocent sentient beings are harmed in the process.

The Hutt Cartel is a wretched hive for such ilk and is seeking the scum of the galaxy to augment its ranks. To join, one must be willing to fraternize with Zygerrian slavers, spice-smugglers, bounty hunters, gun runners, Rodian enforcers, slimy double-crossing no-good swindlers, and anyone else the Hutts do business with. The Cartel bumps uglies with the lowest of the low and you must accept that. Above all, one must be willing to serve and to obey the vile gangster, Voragga Zuuma Ajurr, the grand overlord of this criminal sultanate.

Filthy and corpulent, Voragga the Hutt rules the Cartel with an iron fist from his desert alcazar on wind-swept Reltooine. Renowned for his carnal appetite and penchant for licking Twi'leki slave girls, Voragga is a shrewd businessman and a powerful voice among the Hutt clans. However, both Voragga and his more reputable cousin Tobba Nokko would never condescend to manage the daily operations of the Cartel. Instead, they hired an underpaid majordomo to dutifully steward their business affairs. As majordomo, the steward oversees certain projects on behalf of other individuals; in this case, those individuals are the Hutts. Under his tenure, the group has expanded its lucrative activities from selling Zeltron pornography to peddling the finest death-sticks in the galaxy, one hundred percent pure.

History

Origins

Angobba Desilijic Lucar governed the earlier Hutt Council in Year 3.

During a more civilized age when the Old Republic reigned, the Cartel was a vast syndicate that encompassed all of Hutt Space, a dangerous swath of the galaxy between the Mid Rim and the Outer Rim Territories. A grand Hutt Council controlled the region by overseeing the activities of the Hutt clans — kajidics — and their business syndicates. Their capital was located in the Y’toub system and was called Nal Hutta which translates as Glorious Jewel in Huttese. The terrestrial bog-world of Nal Hutta was owned by the Hutt kajidics who also ruled its orbiting satellite, Nar Shaddaa, colloquially known as The Smuggler's Moon. Nal Hutta and Nar Shaddaa were once the center of a popular galactic trade route. This was before the dark times, of course, before the Empire. With the rise of the Galactic Empire and the encroachment of Eidola Pirates into Hutt Space, the Cartel began to fall into ruin and disrepair. Within two years, the Hutt Council led by Angobba Desilijic Lucar lost its power and virtually disappeared. This decline changed with the emergence of the Zuuma kajidic led by Voragga the Hutt.

Renowned for his carnal appetite and penchant for lolly-licking Twi'leki slave girls, Voragga had been a member of Angobba's Hutt Council in Year 4. He had been the strategic mastermind behind the Council's bloody feud against Dark Prince Qel Dar's Black Sun crime syndicate and was dismayed by the organization's decline. Thanks to an earlier alliance with Rahm Zarkov's fearsome Lumini Pirates in Year 2, the Hutt had a large coffer of Imperial credits in order to rebuild the Cartel.

Joining Voragga in his endeavor was his distant cousin and shrewd associate, Tobba the Hutt, the leader of the Nokko kajidic. The Nokko kajidic is a rare exception among the Hutt clans because it abstains from criminal affairs. The members of the Nokko kajidic dwell in small outposts scattered throughout the galaxy and their livelihood is derived from business arrangements with other species. Their kajidic became famous for their financial skills as investors and traders. However, due to widespread prejudice against the Hutts, rumors still persist that the Nokko kajidic specializes in money-laundering, spice-smuggling, gun-running, chattel-slavery, and other shady matters. Together, the Zuuma and Nokko kajidics forged a business alliance and restored the Hutt Cartel to its rightful place as the parasite of galactic trade.

Thus Voragga and Tobba assumed leadership of the Hutt Cartel. Under their auspices, the Hutt Council was re-established and the Cartel reinvigorated. However, both Voragga and his cousin Tobba would never condescend to managing the mundane day-to-day operations of their sultanate. Instead, they hired an underpaid majordomo to do so. Specifically, a majordomo is the head person of a domestic staff and serves an absentee owner of a typically large residence, plantation, or corporation.

Early Adventures

Circa Year 10, the Hutt Cartel was tentatively headquartered on Kailor II in the Lytton Sector situated within the Core Worlds, a vibrant region that contained some of the most prestigious, well-developed, and heavily populated planets in the galaxy. Voragga Zuuma Ajurr quickly exhausted his limited finances to acquire a swift fleet of battered freighters such as YT-1300s, YT-2000s, and YT-2400s in order to provide transportation for his inexperienced employees. Offering high salaries and low expectations, Voragga levied a motley crew of petty thieves, interstellar vagabonds, and former convicts to serve his every depraved whim. Notable henchmen from this era included Asmo Bodan, Dessel Katarn, Elden Payne, Galen Kesser, Kun Zhi Hui, Mac Vasco, Turien Malakait, Valkyrie Rulz, Xander Ffnargon, and Vosh Omega.

During this era, a rival criminal syndicate known as the Galactic Intelligence Agency unwisely attempted on Year 10 Day 184 to establish a foothold on a neighboring planet in the Kailor system. Annoyed by this clumsy incursion, the Cartel surreptitiously declared war upon the Agency. After infiltrating its ranks, the Cartel publicly unmasked the Agency's inept schemes to embezzle various businessmen and succeeded in black-listing its prominent leaders from the trading community. As a more vindictive rebuke, a Cartel henchman — Azalus Outmian — executed one of the Agency's personnel, cut off his ear with a vibro-knife, and placed the gory appendage at the entrance of the Agency's headquarters. Shortly thereafter, the Agency dissolved on Year 10 Day 188 and Voragga hosted a victory banquet at his desert alcazar. However, circa Year 11, Emperor Vodo Bonias' Galactic Empire soon expanded its iron-fisted hegemony to the Kailor system. With Imperial fleets now monitoring the system and armored stormtroopers patrolling the planetary streets, the Cartel decided to shutter its operations and, using the major rimward hyper-lanes, speedily relocated to the Outer Rim Territories.

Leadership

List of Sultans

Name	Biographical Details	Tenure
Voragga the Hutt Sultan	His Excellency Voragga Zuuma Ajurr is a festering mountainous pustule who fancies himself to be a high lord of petty criminals. He was a member of the Hutt Council circa Year 5 and witnessed its painful decline as well as the encroachment of Teniel Djo's Eidolan Pirates into its territory. He became openly critical of Kavvel the Hutt's later reign as leader of the Council and abruptly departed for the Unknown Regions. Half a decade later, he re-emerged from obscurity to form the Hutt Cartel from the charred ashes of the Council on Year 10 Day 60.	Year 10 Day 60 — Present
Tobba the Hutt Former Sultan	His Excellency Tobba Nokko is an imperious merchant, a distant cousin of Voragga, and the ruler of the Nokko kajidic. Together, Voragga and Tobba became the robber barons of the hyper-lanes. He was a key figure in the Cartel hierarchy until his retirement banquet on Year 10 Day 115. Tobba felt there comes a time when the jewels cease to sparkle, when the credits lose their luster, when the throne room becomes a prison, and all that is left is an old Hutt's desire for solitude. Tobba returned to Nal Hutta and quietly dwells in the marshy bogs of his youth.	Year 10 Day 60 — Year 10 Day 115

List of Previous Majordomos

Name	Biographical Details	Tenure
Azalus Outmian Former Majordomo	Azalus Outmian was artificially created in one of Voragga Zuuma Ajurr's genetics laboratories in an ill-fated experiment to engineer the perfect warrior-slave. Splicing Noghri and Falleen DNA strands, the final product proved to be a dangerously uncontrollable life-form. Trained by the Cartel's war-masters and forged in Voragga's gladiator pits, Azalus emerged a savage killer and roamed the stars murdering the enemies of the Hutts. As his reward, Outmian was appointed by Voragga as his loyal majordomo and proved to be an adept administrator.	Year 12 Day 76 — Year 12 Day 164
Feth Ophoxi Former Majordomo	Feth Ophoxi is a star-pilot from the toxic planet of Duros. After spending his youth aboard a spice freighter, he joined the Tamerin Foundation. Following its merger with New Anzat Order, Ophoxi was a line officer in the Royal Azantan Navy until the murder of Regent Wilhelm von Ismay. Resigning his commission, he became a freebooter and was hired by Voragga to oversee his crime syndicate. A year later, Feth was waylaid by Mandalorians and incapacitated. He nominated Qaun Wain as his successor and now serves as Voragga's Grand Vizier.	Year 12 Day 164 — Year 13 Day 241
Qaun Wain Current Majordomo	Qaun Wain is a bipedal Kubaz assassin with an abnormally long snout, greenish-black skin, short bristly hair, and several rows of razor-sharp teeth. For the past several years, he cut a bloody swath through the Core Worlds as an unpredictable blaster-for-hire for his sultan Voragga Zuuma Ajurr and amassed a grisly collection of severed ears as a result. On Year 13 Day 241, he succeeded the Duros star-pilot Feth Ophoxi as the underpaid majordomo of Voragga's Cartel and immediately began expanding its corrupting influence to even more sectors of the galaxy.	Year 13 Day 241 — Present

Alleged Murders

• Jssippi Ryter (Year 10), a Corporate Sector Authority employee.
• Donnie Deffland (Year 10), a Corporate Sector Authority employee.
• Nexus Colar (Year 10), a self-declared spy for Corey Kylani.
• Entaro Enkidu (Year 10), a Bothan.
• Morris Yeltsin (Year 10), a Coruscanti thief.
• Sinrad Siduko (Year 10), a Kuati brigand.
• Duk Baz`Cazk (Year 10), a Hutt who stole ships.

Alleged Kidnappings

• Jennifer Sheppard (Year 10), a Hapan scientist.

Chronology

• Year 3 Day 81: The Hutt Council is founded by Angobba Desilijic Lucar and Ollo Shan.
• Year 3 Day 101: The Hutt Council pledges fealty to Emperor Charon and declares war on the Dark Empire.
• Year 5 Day 294: The Eidola Pirates murder Regnar Lodbrog, the Hutt Council's former governor of Tatooine.
• Year 5 Day 347: After losing its Imperial patronage, the Hutt Council goes bankrupt and is liquidated.
• Year 10 Day 60: Voragga Zuuma Ajurr and Tobba Nokko form the Hutt Cartel, the successor of the Council.
• Year 10 Day 115: Tobba Nokko announces his retirement and travels to the marshy bogs of Nal Hutta.
• Year 12 Day 76: Azalus Outmian, a genetically-engineered Noghri-Falleen warrior, is chosen as majordomo.
• Year 12 Day 164: Voragga Zuuma Ajurr appoints Feth Ophoxi as majordomo of his criminal sultanate.
• Year 13 Day 241: Following an ambush by Mandalorians, Qaun Wain succeeds Ophoxi as Voragga's majordomo.

Holographics

• (Year 10)
• (Year 14)