The Aging Mercenary
"Zann Consortium, which only became active ten or twenty years later? Governor, what do you mean by that?" Yuri Orlov asked in alarm.
Tang Xiao glanced at him and said, "Mandalore... Indeed, I've wanted to get involved there for a long time, but I never had an excuse. Now, this really is an opportunity. As for the Zann Consortium, you don't need to worry too much. If what I saw in the Force was correct, they won't be around for much longer anyway."
Indeed, the Zann Consortium only began to rise to prominence after the Battle of Yavin 4, in the era when the Galactic Empire's superweapon, the Death Star, was destroyed. At that time, the leader of the Zann Consortium was a formidable figure named Tiber Zayne. But right now, Tiber Zayne was only a child.
The Zann Consortium was not yet called that. It should have been known as Zann Remanufacturing, whose main business was recovering old military vessels that had been retired or abandoned, stripping their parts, processing them, and converting them for civilian use. The company's owner should have been Tiber Zayne's father, Old Zann.
So it was not surprising that Zann Remanufacturing had business on the peace-loving Mandalore. What was surprising was why they would resort to murder.
Unlike Tiber Zayne, who was vicious by nature and had begun engaging in illegal smuggling and running illegal card-flipping machines while studying at Carrick Military Academy, then immediately entered the gangster business after being expelled, his father Old Zann had been a fairly respectable businessman.
PS: I looked it up, and it really was a card-flipping machine. In the Star Wars universe, it was a card game called Sabacc.
"Governor... but my brother..." Yuri Orlov did not quite understand what Tang Xiao was saying