Syndicate War

The Syndicate War, also known as the Great Crime War, was a series of both local and interplanetary conflicts between divisions of various crime syndicates including the Black Sun, Hutt Cartel, and Zann Consortium. These conflicts varied in size and often took the form of skirmishes between units comprised of mercenaries, gangsters, and slave-soldiers. These engagements, however, would sometimes grow into full-scale sieges of neighborhoods (or sometimes entire cities), spaceports, and/or palaces. In space, the Syndicate War was often much more fatal as entire fleets of privateers of various alignments battled for control of hyperlanes or simply to plunder their rival's goods and munitions. In between these larger conflicts, crime lords often sent bounty hunters to eliminate rival key figures or to sabotage important assets such as hangars, laboratories, data centers, and relay stations. While many considered the Great Crime War to be a legitimate interstellar war, many Republic/Imperial politicians often disregarded it as being the usual misconduct of criminal business. The exact start of the Great Crime War is disputed, though it is widely accepted that criminal organizations began to coalesce or expand into interstellar syndicates and began warring one-another at around 300 BBY, and significant differences between said syndicates continued well into the Sith-Imperial War over four centuries later.