


In retaliation, the Imperial Star Destroyer Glory invaded the sector and seized the corporation's deep-space research facility. However, following the Battle of Hoth a contributing company, Galactic Electronics, developed a new magnetic pulse warhead and sold it to the Rebel Alliance. Following the Clone Wars, and the dissolution of the Trade Federation, Techno Union, and other commerce guilds, the Corporate Sector Authority became their closest replacement.ĭuring Emperor Palpatine's reign over the galaxy, many of the Corporate Sector's companies developed technologies for use by the Empire. However, they were meant to be supervised by the Galactic Republic. The corporations allowed to operate in the sector could purchase entire regions of space. The Corporate Sector Authority (CSA) was the government of an interplanetary fiefdom, administered by a brutal and tyrannical corporatocracy, that operated in the Corporate Sector.įirst formed in 490 BBY, in order to resolve differences between Galactic Republic lawmakers and the heads of many of the galaxy's largest corporations that largely existed in the Inner Rim, the Corporate Sector was located in the Outer Rim Territories, and originally consisted of a few hundred star systems, all of which were supposedly devoid of sentient species.
