Pyke Syndicate
Another member of the five syndicates, the Pyke family were the primary operatives of the Spice Cartel, specializing in the manufacturing and smuggling of the drug out of its mining operations on Kessel. By the Clone Wars, the Pyke Syndicate almost exclusively locked down the production and selling of spice in the underworld, giving them great power and making them a consistent thorn in the side of rival entities like Black Sun. The Pykes briefly joined the Shadow Collective, but quickly backed out after the group’s moves against the Separatists went awry, leaving them largely unharmed by the Collective’s splintering. The Pykes largely remained influential throughout the Empire’s reign due to their control over the flow of spice in the galaxy, but had eventually shrunk in prominence by the time of the New Republic.
