Akelish the Hutt The organization headed by Akelish the Hutt is vast and resourceful, its tendrils of influence reaching across several systems and influencing countless beings. Our intelligence has been able to uncover no fewer than three front companies Akelish uses to perpetuate her criminal dealings and strengthen her position in the Celanon Sector. Operating out of Valex III, Akelish is as disturbed a Hutt as I have ever come across. Not simply content to wallow in the profits from her various criminal dealings, Akelish also takes grim satisfaction in skinning her adversaries. Rumors suggest she has quite a collection of Wookiee pelts in her drawing room. Raptor Squad�s connection to Akelish is worth mentioning. Vic Palisades worked for her briefly before joining the team, as did Koort Ter�chon. Thankfully both saw the error of this decision and quit before anything unfortunate happened to them, although gaining a death mark by a Hutt is certainly unfortunate enough!	JAded Ivory Enterprises A front company owned by Vic Palisades to fund his rebellion activities.	Mew-Tao A religious sect of Trianni warriors.
	Locti Syndicate Beginning his life as a small time thief and spice smuggler, Chevin Locti�s criminal empire began modestly-on the gentle slopes of Crystal Mountain on the planet Shelvic 9 in the Seloric Sector. Locti invested his pay from a particularly profitable spice deal on a stretch of land that housed the now famous Cryline Trees. Following up on a rumor he heard during one of his smuggling runs, he hired a group of scientists to tap the trees and analyze the mysterious sap contained within. The rest, of course, is history. The sap turned out to contain �Euphorxine 37� the base component of the pleasure elixir, �Crystal Wave.� Locti turned the find into a major planetary export, it�s success surpassing his wildest dreams. But as they say in the underworld, you may take the smuggler out of Nar Shadda but you never take Nar Shadda out of the smuggler. Using Crystal Enterprises as a front, Locti continued his life of crime, eventually falling under the employment of crimelord Ploovo Two-for-One. He now acts as Ploovo's front man on Ord Mantell where he sponsors an annual underground swoop race.