Republic Privateers (Mist Atom)

The Republic Privateers were an emergency privateer organization created and employed by the Galactic Republic during the Clone Wars. Literally a group of pirates, they were given lease - and in fact encouragement - to attack vessels, trade routes, colonies, installations and other holdings of the member-states of the Confederacy of Independent Systems. They thrived mostly in the Mid- and Outer Rim, but benefited from numerous safe houses called anchorages scattered throughout space.