Trade Syndicate

The Trade Syndicate is an interstellar shipping and trade conglomerate and controlled most trading routes and passageways. Their ultimate goal is to control all galactic trade routes, ports, and freighters, and are willing to do anything to increase profits and avoid Atlas Empire taxes. The Trade Syndicate became a major military benefactor for the Atlas Empire in the fight against the Pirates and the Alliance of Independent Systems during the Galactic Pirate Wars. If a planet does not comply with the Trade Syndicate, they will issue a blockage to cut off that planet from receiving outside resources. The Syndicates will use their profits to tyrannize system after system, in league with the Empire.

The Trade Syndicate is a trading cartel mega corporation which trades all manner of goods, all around the galaxy. Due to the vast range of goods that are only available on certain planets or worlds, it means that entire star systems will rely on trade to survive. This is the reason that the Trade Syndicate has managed to dominate entire star systems. They have so much power that they hold a seat in the Galactic Senate.

This mega corporation formed for pursuing and monopolizing trade within the seven nebula of the galaxy. The Trade Syndicate traded mainly in spices, textiles, metals, exotic wildlife, weapons, rum and opium. The Syndicate was granted a Royal Charter by The Emperor. Shares of the Syndicate were owned by wealthy merchants and aristocrats. The Empire owned no shares and had only indirect control. The Trade Syndicate eventually came to rule large areas of the Galaxy with its own private armies (including mercenaries, bounty hunters, and privateers), exercising military power and assuming administrative functions.

The pirates are natural enemies to the Trade Syndicate due to their disruption of trade and profits. The Trade Syndicate employed bounty hunters or Buccaneers to fight the pirates and dissuade them from entering trade routes.

Bounty Hunters exist in a gray area between the rigid laws of the Empire and the utter lawlessness of the underworld. For a price they enforce the will of the empire by tracking down fugitives, especially pirates.