1878, Black Sun Rekindled
"My lord, I have to say... Black Sun's recent actions have gone too far! They've crossed the line!" In Tang Xiao's office at the Duchy Palace on Dawn Star Planet, a hologram spoke through gritted teeth.
The man wore a vicious expression, with a scar across his face. He was none other than Dryden Vos, leader of Crimson Dawn—one of Tang Xiao's earliest underworld friends and now an important partner in smuggling all manner of contraband.
Although Dryden Vos's Crimson Dawn and Madam Proxima's White Worm Gang were not particularly large, their territories were both in the Corellian system, making them the Duchy of Dawn's most important smuggling links. Through them, Tang Xiao could smuggle contraband such as spice and slaves into the Core Worlds for sale, reaping enormous profits.
This illegal trade actually held an extremely important position within the Duchy of Dawn. Though it could not be brought into the open and could even be called official drug trafficking, Tang Xiao no longer cared about such moral concerns.
After all, most of the Milky Way Galaxy's wealth was controlled by the great noble families of the Core Worlds. Rather than doing business with the impoverished planets of the Outer Rim Territories, it was better to make money from the Core Worlds.
The Duchy of Dawn's policy had always been—build in the Outer Rim, invest in the Mid Rim, smuggle into the Core Worlds. Thus, the Duchy of Dawn secretly maintained a massive trade surplus over the Galactic Empire, which was also the main source of funding for Tang Xiao's various domestic construction projects.
But this time, Dryden Vos had clearly hit a wall.
Tang Xiao frowned and asked, "When did you provoke Black Sun again?"
"It wasn't us who provoked Black Sun. They're the