The Corporate Sector Authority, also known simply as CSA or CorpSec, was a corporate authority that administered the Corporate Sector in the galaxy's Outer Rim.

Expanding the Corporate Sector Authority Security Police, the CSA made use of militarized forces to enforce its jurisdiction during the New Republic Era. The CSA and its forces allied with the First Order and put down a revolt on Basta Core. By the time of the Cold War, the Corporate Sector Authority monetarily supported the First Order.

History[]

Early foundations[]

Prior to the Imperial Era, the Corporate Sector was made up of a series of loosely-aligned autonomous star systems. Independent from the Galactic Republic, the Corporate Sector became home to numerous corporations as well as tax evaders, arms merchants, and pirates.^[5] During the Clone Wars, a majority of the sector supported the Confederacy of Independent Systems.^[4] These star systems were considered to be slowly coalescing into a unified entity, which was one of the main reasons the Galactic Empire decided to send a message to the systems defying it by occupying the Salient system on the edge of the sector.^[5] Despite this, these systems eventually coalesced to create the Corporate Sector Authority.^[1]

Despite the Corporate Sector's support for the CIS during the war, Galactic Emperor Sheev Palpatine decided against bringing its territory into his Empire. Instead, the CorpSec was allowed to spread into tens of thousands of systems, placing them under the CSA's control. The CSA and Empire did create a cooperative relationship with each other, with the authority selling services and goods to the Imperials, while the Empire helped with the Corporate Sector's security when needed; when a group of pirates were active in the sector and launching raids, Admiral Wullf Yularen was dispatched to deal with them in a campaign.^[4]

Age of the Empire[]

The criminal Big Bunji once worked with the smugglers Han Solo and Chewbacca on a scam that involved running counterfeit Authority cash vouchers to the poor people on the far side of the Cron Drift.^[3] Like it did with the Empire, the CSA sold goods and services to the Rebel Alliance.^[4]

New Republic Era[]

The New Republic Era saw the expansion of the Corporate Sector Authority Security Police as well as a covert alliance between the CSA and the First Order in the Unknown Regions.^[6] By 21 ABY,^[7] the CSA controlled an army of Espos with more armor and equipment than their security police predecessors. At the same time, the CSA secretly funded the Imperial remnant. An officer of the remnant, High Colonel Enric Pryde, worked with the CSA as a supervisor and was given authority over its forces. Viceprex Coromun, an official of the CSA, served as Pryde's second-in-command. In order to maintain the secrecy of the remnant's connection to the CSA, Pryde was assigned the code name Steadfast.^[6]

During a CSA mission on Basta Core, Steadfast was sought out by the Jedi hunter Ochi of Bestoon. An operative of the Sith Eternal cult on Exegol, Ochi requested Steadfast's assistance with the search for Dathan, Miramir, and their daughter Rey. Steadfast reassigned a company of CSA troopers to Ochi's command, overruling the objections of Coromun. Ochi initially failed to capture Rey and her family, despite the CSA's support, and returned to Steadfast to request more detachments of CSA troops. Instead, Steadfast denied the hunter's request, having terminated their arrangement and further warned Ochi to avoid the Corporate Sector.^[6]

During the Cold War, the Resistance leader General Leia Organa received intelligence that the Corporate Sector Authority was giving monetary support to the First Order who was channeling large sums of money to Senator Erudo Ro-Kiintor's accounts through shells and third-party corporations via the CSA.^[1]

A former Councillor, Sturg Ganna, was untouchable by the Canto Bight Police Department and the Corporate Sector Authority Security Police.^[8]

Organization[]

Military[]

The Corporate Sector Authority was a tyrannical power that controlled the Corporate Sector. The CSA possessed a force of capital ships it organized into a fleet,^[4] and its Security Police served as the main law enforcement agency in the Sector. Those police were made up of at least three branches, the Ground Forces, Locational Enforcement, and Situational Enforcement. The Picket Fleet served as the naval force of the Corporate Sector Authority. Viceprex was a position within the CSA.^[2]

Outside affairs[]

The Corporate Sector Authority was loyal to itself^[4] and profits.^[6] As such, the CSA established economic relations with both the Galactic Empire and Alliance to Restore the Republic.^[4] The CSA later lent its support to the First Order, a successor of the Galactic Empire, during the height of the ongoing tensions with the New Republic, the then-galactic government, where shells and third-party corporations on behalf of the Order sent large sums of money via the Corporate Sector Authority into a Republic senator's personal accounts.^[1]

Appearances[]

• Catalyst: A Rogue One Novel (Indirect mention only)
• Catalyst: A Rogue One Novel audiobook (Indirect mention only)
• Shadow of the Sith (First appearance)
• Shadow of the Sith audiobook (First appearance)
• Before the Awakening (Mentioned only)

Sources[]

• Star Wars: Build the Millennium Falcon 18 (Guide to the Galaxy: Sectors of the Galaxy) (First mentioned)
• Solo: A Star Wars Story: Tales from Vandor
• Star Wars: Scum and Villainy: Case Files on the Galaxy's Most Notorious
• Star Wars: Smuggler's Guide
• Allies and Adversaries
• "Scarif and Other Planets in the Outer Rim" — Star Wars Encyclopedia
• Star Wars: Dawn of Rebellion: The Visual Guide

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