Corporate Sector Authority

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The Corporate Sector Authority, also known simply as CSA or CorpSec, was a corporate authority that administered the Corporate Sector in the galaxy's Outer Rim.

Expanding the Corporate Sector Authority Security Police, the CSA made use of militarized forces to enforce its jurisdiction during the New Republic Era. The CSA and its forces allied with the First Order and put down a revolt on Basta Core. By the time of the Cold War, the Corporate Sector Authority monetarily supported the First Order.

History

Early foundations

Some form of the Corporate Sector Authority existed by the year 132 BBY[5] during the High Republic Era as the governing body and security enforcement of the Corporate Sector, which existed as a region independent from the Galactic Republic. As such, Republic law did not exist within the Corporate Sector, necessitating the creation of the region's own security force and governing organization.[7] Nonetheless, the Corporate Sector was only made up of a series of loosely-aligned autonomous star systems. Even if it was not yet a unified, singular entity, the Corporate Sector became home to numerous corporations as well as—within the Salient system specifically—tax evaders, arms merchants, and pirates.[8] Complex extradition treaties existed between the Corporate Sector Authority and the Republic's Judicial Department.[7]

While still not a single, unified body,[8] a majority of the Corporate Sector supported the Confederacy of Independent Systems during the Clone Wars.[9] The star systems of the Corporate Sector were considered to be slowly coalescing into a unified entity[8] as of 17 BBY[10] during the Imperial Era. That was one of the main reasons the Galactic Empire decided to send a message to the systems defying it by occupying the Salient system on the edge of the sector.[8]

Age of the Empire

The Corporate Sector Authority existed during the Imperial Era. Despite the Corporate Sector's support for the CIS during the war, Galactic Emperor Sheev Palpatine decided against bringing its territory into his Empire. Instead, the CorpSec was allowed to spread into tens of thousands of systems, placing them under the CSA's control.[9]

The CSA and Empire did create a cooperative relationship with each other, with the authority selling services and goods to the Imperials, while the Empire helped with the Corporate Sector's security when needed; when a group of pirates were active in the sector and launching raids, Admiral Wullf Yularen was dispatched to deal with them in a campaign.[9] The criminal Big Bunji once worked with the smugglers Han Solo and Chewbacca on a scam that involved running counterfeit Authority cash vouchers to the poor people on the far side of the Cron Drift.[4] Like it did with the Empire, the CSA sold goods and services to the Rebel Alliance.[9]

New Republic Era

"Corporate Sector Authority. I'd heard they were back in play, building themselves up, but I haven't seen that many together, ever. Looks like the rumors were true, they've formed some kind of army."
―Lando Calrissian, to Komat[3]
Enric Pryde used the code name Steadfast to conceal the First Order partnership with the CSA.

Enric Pryde used the code name Steadfast to conceal the First Order partnership with the CSA.

The New Republic Era saw the expansion of the Corporate Sector Authority Security Police as well as a covert alliance between the CSA and the forming First Order in the Unknown Regions.[3] By 21 ABY,[11] the CSA controlled an army of Espos with more armor and equipment than their security police predecessors. At the same time, the CSA secretly funded the Imperial remnant. An officer of the remnant, High Colonel Enric Pryde, worked with the CSA as a supervisor and was given authority over its forces. Viceprex Coromun, an official of the CSA, served as Pryde's second-in-command. In order to maintain the secrecy of the remnant's connection to the CSA, Pryde was assigned the code name Steadfast.[3]

During a CSA mission on Basta Core, Steadfast was sought out by the Jedi hunter Ochi of Bestoon. An operative of the Sith Eternal cult on Exegol, Ochi requested Steadfast's assistance with the search for Dathan, Miramir, and their daughter Rey. Steadfast reassigned a company of CSA troopers to Ochi's command, overruling the objections of Coromun. Ochi initially failed to capture Rey and her family, despite the CSA's support, and returned to Steadfast to request more detachments of CSA troops. Instead, Steadfast denied the hunter's request, having terminated their arrangement and further warned Ochi to avoid the Corporate Sector.[3]

During the Cold War, the Resistance leader General Leia Organa received intelligence that the Corporate Sector Authority was giving monetary support to the First Order who was channeling large sums of money to Senator Erudo Ro-Kiintor's accounts through shells and third-party corporations via the CSA.[1]

A former Councillor, Sturg Ganna, was untouchable by the Canto Bight Police Department and the Corporate Sector Authority Security Police.[12]

Organization

Military

The Corporate Sector Authority was a tyrannical power that controlled the Corporate Sector. The CSA possessed a force of capital ships it organized into a fleet,[9] and its Security Police served as the main law enforcement agency in the Sector. Those police were made up of at least three branches, the Ground Forces, Locational Enforcement, and Situational Enforcement. The Picket Fleet served as the naval force of the Corporate Sector Authority. Viceprex was a position within the CSA.[2]

Outside affairs

The Corporate Sector Authority was loyal to itself[9] and profits.[3] As such, the CSA established economic relations with both the Galactic Empire and Alliance to Restore the Republic, with the CSA and the Empire enjoying a cooperative relationship with each other, which sold services and goods to it and was assisted with security matters in the sector by the Empire.[9]

The CSA later lent its support to the First Order, a successor of the Galactic Empire, during the height of the ongoing tensions with the New Republic, the then-galactic government, where shells and third-party corporations on behalf of the Order sent large sums of money via the Corporate Sector Authority into a Republic senator's personal accounts.[1]

Appearances

Sources

Notes and references

  1. ↑ 1.0 1.1 1.2 Before the Awakening
  2. ↑ 2.0 2.1 Allies and Adversaries
  3. ↑ 3.0 3.1 3.2 3.3 3.4 3.5 Shadow of the Sith
  4. ↑ 4.0 4.1 Star Wars: Smuggler's Guide
  5. ↑ 5.0 5.1 Star Wars: The Acolyte: The Visual Guide establishes that the Corporate Sector Authority existed by the events of Star Wars: The Acolyte, which occur in 132 BBY per the reasoning here.
  6. ↑ Star Wars: The Rise and Fall of the Galactic Empire
  7. ↑ 7.0 7.1 Star Wars: The Acolyte: The Visual Guide
  8. ↑ 8.0 8.1 8.2 8.3 Catalyst: A Rogue One Novel
  9. ↑ 9.0 9.1 9.2 9.3 9.4 9.5 9.6 Star Wars: Build the Millennium Falcon 18 Guide to the Galaxy: Sectors of the Galaxy
  10. ↑ Star Wars: Timelines
  11. ↑ Star Wars: Timelines dates the events of Shadow of the Sith to 21 ABY.
  12. ↑ Star Wars: Scum and Villainy: Case Files on the Galaxy's Most Notorious
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