Czerka Arms

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Czerka Arms, also known as the Czerka Corporation,[1] was an arms manufacturer that produced the Adventurer slugthrower rifle, which was used by the bounty hunter Aurra Sing during the final decades of the Galactic Republic.[4] They also manufactured combat gear, such as the ACH-14 advanced combat helmet.[6] Czerka Arms made heavy use of slave labor and employed extensive mechanisms to both prevent slave escapes and recapture those who did.[1]

Princess Fanry of the planet Pijal described the Czerka Corporation as being nearly as powerful as the Galactic Senate. Czerka was thousands of years old, and rumored by some to be older than the Republic itself.[1]

History

Ancient history and High Republic Era

The Wookiees of Kashyyyk (pictured) rose up against the occupying Czerka Corporation.

The Wookiees of Kashyyyk (pictured) rose up against the occupying Czerka Corporation.

Four millennia before the Battle of Yavin, the planet Kashyyyk was discovered by the Czerka Corporation, who renamed the planet G5-623, and later to Edean.[3] Using superior technology, the company managed to enslave the Wookiees until an uprising drove the invaders away.[14] Over its history, the company made a mess of planets that it exploited for natural resources.[15]

Around 387 BBY, a plot of land on the Timekeeper Moon was handed over to Czerka by the government of Eiram, after its neighbor and rival E'ronoh failed to pay tariffs on their lease of the land. This contributed to renewed violence between the two planets, as E'ronoh believed that Eiram had stolen their centuries-old colony. The E'roni defended the colony, including chasing Czerka out of the system, a move which Monarch A'lbaran later defended by pointing out that Czerka had been polluting Eiram's oceans.[16] Romila Kaveh worked as an acquisition negotiator for Czerka[15] by 228 BBY. In that year,[17] she traveled to[15] the Mid Rim planet[18] Kenari and hoped to convincing the native Kenari to allow the company to open up gas mines on the world.[15]

Late Republic Era

"Czerka Corporation will own Pijal no more!"
"Princess Fanry, please, wait! You don't know what you're doing. You're hardly more than a child—"
"A child? There are queens my age on Naboo! Princes my age on Toydaria! Alderaan's queen took Princess Breha to help her negotiate a treaty, and she's younger than I am! And I've seen how Czerka's strangling Pijal when my elders haven't. Don't lecture me about being 'a child.'"
―Fanry and Orth[1]
Jedi Obi-Wan Kenobi and Qui-Gon Jinn (both pictured) discovered the complex situation on Pijal.

Jedi Obi-Wan Kenobi and Qui-Gon Jinn (both pictured) discovered the complex situation on Pijal.

In 40 BBY, Czerka Corporation sought a permanent legal influence on the planet Pijal by way of inserting themselves into a treaty that would shift the planet from an absolute monarchy to a democratically elected Assembly. The corporation had been in alliance with Pijal for centuries and had slowly been given more power, including overseeing the prison system. This allowed them to hand out long sentences of slave labor, including claiming any children born into slavery. An organization called the Opposition decried the new treaty through acts of performance art and public protest. The Opposition believed that citizens of Pijal's moon, and those enslaved by Czerka, would not be fairly represented by the new government.[1]

The Jedi Knights Obi-Wan Kenobi and Qui-Gon Jinn were dispatched to the planet in order to oversee the young princess Fanry's coronation and treaty ceremony on behalf of the Republic, but discovered the hidden complexities. A mysterious group referred to as the Blackguard was perpetrating violent terrorism and letting The Opposition take the blame. Qui-Gon advised the princess and her regent, Jedi Rael Aveross, not to sign the treaty, but the ceremony went ahead. Instead of signing the treaty, Fanry seized absolute power for herself in order to eject Czerka Corporation from the system. Her first act would have been to destroy Czerka's ship Leverage, which was full of enslaved sentients, but the Jedi and their allies staved off the potential civil war. Fanry's successor prohibited slavery in the Pijal system before signing the treaty forming a democratic Assembly. Czerka's influence on Pijal was formally ended when their contracts were cancelled by the new leader of Pijal's democratic Assembly, former minister Orth.[1]

In the final decades of the Galactic Republic, the Czerka Corporation sponsored podraces in the Outer Rim Territories. Czerka Arms had a sordid reputation, and was long suspected of laundering money into the Outer Rim by the Coruscant Security Force.[19]

Imperial and New Republic Eras

In 4 ABY, during the Iron Blockade of the Anoat sector by the Galactic Empire, the local branch of Czerka Arms found itself cut off from its corporate masters.[2]

This section of the article assumes 100% game completion of Star Wars: Uprising. Any alternate stories may be noted in the "Behind the scenes" section. The events in this section may or may not have been confirmed as canon.

In exchange for fortifying their facility, the Czerka employees of the Anoat sector eventually agreed to join the cause of the Smuggler, a young scoundrel who led the resistance against the Empire.[2]

Assumption ends here.

Behind the scenes

Czerka Arms was first created for The Rebel Alliance Sourcebook, released by West End Games as a supplement for its Star Wars Legends Star Wars: The Roleplaying Game. It was featured in the Legends video game Star Wars: Knights of the Old Republic and its sequel, Star Wars: Knights of the Old Republic II: The Sith Lords, appearing as an occasional antagonist faction in league with groups such as the Sith Empire.

Appearances

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Notes and references

  1. ↑ 1.0 1.1 1.2 1.3 1.4 1.5 1.6 1.7 Master & Apprentice
  2. ↑ 2.0 2.1 2.2 Star Wars: Uprising—Crew Run: "Corporate Recruiting"
  3. ↑ 3.0 3.1 Star Wars: Build the Millennium Falcon 43 Guide to the Galaxy: Kashyyyk's Fight for Freedom
  4. ↑ 4.0 4.1 4.2 4.3 Ultimate Star Wars
  5. ↑ Star Wars Helmet Collection: Biggs Darklighter Weapons & Uniforms: Growing up on Tatooine
  6. ↑ 6.0 6.1 Star Wars: Rogue One: The Ultimate Visual Guide
  7. ↑ Choose Your Destiny: A Han & Chewie Adventure
  8. ↑ Star Wars Encyclopedia: The Comprehensive Guide to the Star Wars Galaxy
  9. ↑ Star Wars: The Rise of Skywalker: The Visual Dictionary
  10. ↑ Knights of Fate
  11. ↑ 11.0 11.1 Star Wars: Smuggler's Guide
  12. ↑ "Melee and Ranged Weapons" — Star Wars Encyclopedia
  13. ↑ Master & Apprentice, which takes place around 40 BBY per Star Wars: Timelines, states that Czerka Corporation has existed for thousands of years. Therefore, Czerka Corporation must have been formed thousands of years before 40 BBY.
  14. ↑ Collapse of the Republic
  15. ↑ 15.0 15.1 15.2 15.3 The High Republic: Into the Light
  16. ↑ The High Republic: Convergence
  17. ↑ Star Wars: Timelines dates Starlight Beacon's destruction to 230 BBY. The implementation of the Guardian Protocols, which Star Wars: The High Republic Character Encyclopedia places in 229 BBY, took place one week after Starlight Beacon's fall according to The High Republic – Shadows of Starlight 1. As The High Republic Adventures (2023) 16, which features the Stormwall going down, takes place one year and a few months after the destruction of Starlight Beacon, it must be set in 228 BBY. The events of The High Republic: Tears of the Nameless also take place in 228 BBY per the reasoning here. As The High Republic: Into the Light states its events occur after the events of Tears of the Nameless and before the Stormwall goes down, they must also take place in that year.
  18. ↑ StarWars-DatabankII Kenari in the Databank (backup link)
  19. ↑ Star Wars: Scum and Villainy: Case Files on the Galaxy's Most Notorious
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