The CoCo Commandos, also simply referred to as the Commandos and abbreviated as CCC or Triple C, were a Black Sun-affiliated street gang that operated in and around the Collective Commerce District (also widely known as CoCo Town) of Coruscant.
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The CoCo Commandos were founded in 39 BBY when a Black Sun spice dealer settled in CoCo Town after serving years in the Republic Judiciary Central Detention Center after being caught with several kilograms of illegal spice and dozens of unregistered blasters. After his release, this criminal returned to spice dealing and became CoCo Town's biggest slythmonger; the enforcers and allied gangsters he hired to protect his operation would eventually come together to form the CoCo Commandos. Considered a vassal of the Black Sun, the CoCo Commandos participated in many turf wars with rival street gangs in the area and sold narcotics that were brought to Coruscant by Black Sun smugglers.
By the time of the Clone Wars, the CoCo Commandos were one of Coruscant's largest street gangs, having around 30,000 affiliates, most of whom made a living as drug dealers, scammers, and scavengers. Following the rise of the Galactic Empire, the Coruscant Security Force cracked down on trafficking operations across Coruscant, and the CoCo Commandos were one of hundreds of local street gangs targeted in a series of police raids and drug busts; this severely crippled the gang's income and influence in Coruscant's criminal underworld, though the gang remained active thanks to funding from the Black Sun itself. The rise of the New Republic would see the reinvigoration of many criminal enterprises, and the CoCo Commandos quickly returned to their position as one of the most successful and feared street gangs of Coruscant.