Jabba's criminal empire

Jabba's criminal empire was ruled by the Hutt crime lord Jabba Desilijic Tiure and was based on the desert planet of Tatooine. Jabba began his illicit operation out of his palace on Tatooine centuries before the onset on the Clone Wars, from where he spread his operations and influence across the Outer Rim by employing a network of smugglers who moved his goods across the galaxy, forming a powerful criminal empire that was affiliated with the Hutt Clan.

The criminal enterprise of Jabba had come to control a bulk of the Outer Rim piracy, slavery, and trafficking in illegal goods that generated a high amount of wealth during the era of the Republic to the Imperial Era, and was able to preserve it power base, despite the interference of the Galactic Empire, however Emperor Sheev Palpatine made a deal with Jabba during the Galactic Civil War to secure raw materials for Imperial Military production and allowed his empire to survive the Imperial crackdown against criminal elements in the Outer Rim.

Following Jabba's death, the Hutts were left to determine who would fill Jabba's seat and take reins of his criminal empire. Several months after, a decision had yet to be made and the debate over the matter of his will raged on. Meanwhile, his former majordomo Bib Fortuna, returned to the palace and took over its operations during the New Republic Era. However Boba Fett attacked the palace and executed Fortuna and took the throne for himself, forming his own gotra from the reins of Jabba's.

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