Battle of Dawn (IV)
"Ha ha ha ha!" Amid a burst of cold, grating laughter, a pale-skinned Hutt in a vest threw back his head and laughed loudly on the bridge of a Hiigaran-class battlecruiser.
The fleet under his command was the largest, numbering more than a thousand ships! It even included large warships such as Hiigaran-class battlecruisers and Generous-class Communications Escorts!
The Hutt, Oruba Goresla!
A Hutt who had built his own smuggling and criminal empire around Terminus Planet with Tang Xiao's secret assistance!
Though the Goresla Family was ancient in Hutt history, it had long since declined and was now crushed beneath the pressure of the two strongest Hutt families—the Besadi kajidic and the Desilijic kajidic.
Yet Oruba remained an ambitious patriarch. He survived in the cracks between the two great families, formed an alliance with another Hutt magnate, Marlo, and secured a place for himself in the Hutt Elder Council.
It had to be said that Hutts truly were better than anyone else at smuggling and crime. It was not because they were particularly clever, but because Hutt Space prevented the Galactic Republic from interfering, allowing them to run wild.
With such an advantage, even Ni Yongxiao's gang, Tang Xiao's direct criminal organization, could not compare with the Hutts.
For now, however, Ni Yongxiao's gang remained allied with Oruba.
Besides Oruba, large numbers of mercenaries and smuggling crews had gathered here as well. The Endor system was no longer merely an international spacecraft exhibition—it had practically become a smuggling syndicate exhibition. Nearly every gang with any reputation in the Outer Rim Territories had come!
"United Mining Group escort fleet has arrived." A Cachalot-class industrial flagship appeared at the edge of the system, surrounded by large numbers of frigates and an equally massive number of Grey Horse-class escort