Star Wars_ Edge of the Empire Rule Book

Other Organizations

T

he galaxy is vast, by most estimates containing at

least 180 billion star systems. Even with only a small

fraction of those systems being inhabited, there are

so many different organizations, groups, clans, tribes,

companies, and other factions as to be impossible to

fully catalog. The farther from the Core Worlds a group

of fringers travels, the more likely it will come across

entirely new entities and unheard of experiences.

What follows are a few of the more well-known or

notable factions that fringers might have cause to en-

counter. Such encounters might mean paying work, or

they might mean a desperate fight for survival. A lot

depends on the fringers' collective skill and luck.

THE CORPORATE

SECTOR AUTHORITY

The Corporate Sector contains a mix of opportunities

and danger for any fringer. A vast region in the Out-

er Rim completely controlled by mega-corporations

through the Corporate Sector Authority, the Corporate

Sector is largely free from Imperial control (see page

352 for more information on the Corporate Sector

and its formation). However, most fringers may find the

CSA as dangerous an adversary as the Empire if they

cross its myriad bureaucratic and corporate policies.

The CSA is a byzantine and complex entity, run entire-

ly as a standalone corporation that happens to oversee

the sector in which all of the signatory companies do

business. Anyone doing business in the Corporate Sec-

tor has to be very careful about the management of his

affairs; he must pay the right fees, fill out the right forms,

and be absolutely certain all of the minutia are covered.

Even then, he finds himself at a severe disadvantage if

he's not one of the major shareholders in the CSA.

The Corporate Sector's governance consists of an

Executive Directorship Board of 55 executives (or

Direxs) and an Executive Officer (The ExO). Senior

positions also included the President (Prex), several

different Vice Presidents (Viceprexes) overseeing

the CSA's various departments, and the Imperial

Advisor. The CSA relies on its Security Division to

enforce its rule, which they do using their feared

and hated Security Police. Though the "Espos" are

essentially corporate security thugs, they are as

well armed and equipped as a full military. They

possess the ships, vehicles, and weapons they need

to conduct everything from standard law enforce-

ment to full scale war. The rule of law varies at the

CSA's whims. Since those within its borders have

LAW AND SOCIETY

EDCE OF THE EMPIRE

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human crime lord based on the world of Etti

IV, Ploovo Two-for-One controls a great deal

of criminal and underworld activities within the

Corporate Sector. Ploovo began his career as

a loan shark, and was well known for sending

around hired muscle to collect debts from his

"customers." Currently, Ploovo's operations go far

beyond simple loan-sharking; the crime lord has

expanded into running mercenaries, protection

rackets, and smuggling across Corporate space—

at one point. Ploovo provided funds for repairs

to the Millennium Falcon. Generally, Ploovo is

considered a "mid-level" crime lord by Imperial

Intelligence—he is too unwilling to get his own

hands dirty and lacks a greater sense of ambition

to be counted as a real threat. It is perhaps this

underestimation of Ploovo's abilities that makes

him such an excellent facilitator for illegal activity.