Nysillin Cartel

The Nysillin Cartel was a criminal organization associated with the Hutt Cartel that capitalized on nysillin, a crop that contained a compound used in various medicines (typically as a painkiller, antipyretic, and in high doses even an antibiotic). The group may have been formed when nysillin was first introduced by Hutt merchants as early as the New Sith Wars era. They had nysillin farms on numerous Hutt worlds including Ylesia and Poytta, and were regarded by the Grand Hutt Council as an extremely essential asset. Some nysillin smugglers also became involved in the trade of exotic creatures. Higher quality nysillin was cultivated by the indigenous sentients of Felucia, and the Nysillin Cartel subsequently conspired with numerous distinguished pirate captains such as Hondo Ohnaka and Yorn Nuro to acquire the valuable crops by raiding native Felucian farms. Republic military forces intervened in the raids on at least three different occasions, and the raids eventually ceased by the early Imperial era. The Nysillin Cartel remained active until the start of the Galactic Civil War, after which point it was likely fragmented and its assets were absorbed into other organizations under the Hutt Cartel.

Nysillin crops themselves were illegal under Republic/Imperial law, though the plant's active compound, obtained by extracting the plant's oils, was permitted for use in prescription antibiotics in a few Republic sectors. The most successful of these antibiotics companies was Nysillex, which provided nysillin-based antibiotics on over eighty Republic worlds. Through a network of smugglers, the Nysillin Cartel supplied most nysillin products on Republic worlds where it was illegal, where it was typically used as a recreational drug. The Black Sun also involved themselves in the nysillin trade, leading to several clashes with the Nysillin Cartel as part of the Black Sun's longstanding feud with the Hutts. Tuga SalPivo, a Corellian mercenary, was an enforcer in the Nysillin Cartel as well as part of Jabba the Hutt's cabal of assassins; his father was a high-ranking, albeit corrupt, member of the Judicial Intelligence Bureau stationed throughout Hutt Space, and used his position to profit from the illegal nysillin trade by collaborating with smugglers and farmers.