Kell-Hutt War

The Kell-Hutt war was a large-scale interstellar waged between the Kell Empire and the  from 171 to 155 ABY. The five-year long war was incredibly brutal and resulted in the near-extinction of the. Historically, the Kell-Hutt war was seen as the opening conflict of the long-running Kell Wars.

Background
When the Kell first arrived in the galaxy in 97 ABY under the guise of a naive and peaceful race of merchant-nomads, the Hutts welcomed them with open arms with the intent to take advantage of the newest galactic visitors. A pact between the two races was created which granted the Kell full access to Hutt Space for trading purposes in exchange for payment of fairly hefty taxation. While the Hutts believed that they controlled the dynamic of this agreement, it was the Kell who took advantage of the Hutts' greed.

The Kell used their trading operations as a false-front to gain intelligence on the galaxy's races, locations, technologies, and defensive capabilities; none were so thoroughly analyzed over the years as the Hutts however.