The Zygerrian Slave Empire was one of the largest slave trading powers in the outer
rim during its height before it was taking down by the Jedi Order after the Zygerrians
started to intrude onto outlying Republic worlds for potential slave stock.
Following the destruction of the Empire by the Jedi, Zygerria remained largely irrelevant
until the Clone Wars, where the Zygerrians created their historic empire once more after
aligning themselves with the Separatists.
Although during the war they had a setback following the death of their Queen, the new
Zygerrian Slave Empire remained a dominant power in the outer rim as King Molec took
over and began to focus building up his people’s wealth purely off the slave trade rather than
involving themselves with the clone wars.
So when the Galactic Empire came into power, what did it do with the Zygerrian Slave Empire
that still remained a great power on the edges of the galaxy?
During the early stages of the Imperial era, Zygerria had made multiple alliances with
other, smaller slave trading guilds and factions in order to strengthen its position in the
galaxy.
As the Zygerrian Slave Empire became more powerful, it started to get more confident
it its ability to wield its power.
As a result, Zygerria began to raid the nearby Corporate Sector, an independent region that
housed all the major galactic corporations, originally created to simplify the corporation
taxes and regulations onto a single region than onto different places all across the
galaxy.
Once news came to the Imperial Senate of what was happening at the Corporate Sector, Zygerria
came into the spotlight to the Empire which was beginning its major campaign to reconquer
the galaxy from former Separatist planets and other factions that had left during the
Clone Wars.
This major Imperial campaign was known as the Reconquest of the Rim, and the specific
campaign within it that involved taking out the Zygerrian Slave Empire was known as the
Listehol campaign.
The Listehol campaign was actually led in part by Admiral Wullf Yularen, making it one
of his last contributions to the Navy before retiring and joining the ISB.
Once the Empire got to the Zygerrian Slave Empire, it wiped out all of its proxy planets
and began a major siege on the planet of Zygerria.
Fully understanding that they were on the edges of being completely wiped out, King
Molac called for a surrender and to negotiate with the Galactic Empire.
The negotiation resulted in the Empire to set up a military base on Zygerria as a staging
ground for it to conduct raids on nearby slaving guilds, the very same ones that the Zygerrians
had aligned themselves with earlier but had betrayed following its Imperial occupation.
Following the destruction of the other slave guildes, King Molac was able to convince Emperor
Palpatine to unoccupy Zygerria on the promise that they would only conduct their slave operations
in the Outer Rim and not intrude onto any Imperial planets.
Likely not seeing the Zygerrians as a threat anymore as well as a possible asset in the
future with their slaves, Palpatine decided to remove his forces from the planet and agreed
to the King’s promise.
As such, Zygerria began to grow in power once more as it maintained all of its operations
in the Outer Rim.
Years later, and the Empire came to pass legislation that legalized slavery under certain conditions,
including those who committed crimes against the Imperial regime and specific species that
were no longer deemed as sentient beings, many of which happened to reside in the Outer
Rim, where all the slaver operations were taking place.
This bill considerably helped Zygerria to grow as it was able to conduct legitimate
trade with the Empire as it began to transfer legal slave stock in exchange for credits.
This trade between the two was so prosperous, that Commander Terrinald Screed wrote a memo
to Palpatine highlighting the fact that Zygerria had become one of the Empire’s most important
trade partners and that they were its greatest import of slaves from the Outer Rim.
Due to this, Zygerria was given special privileges from the Empire, including lower permit costs
for trading slaves and the like.
However, this prosperity for Zygerria didn’t last indefinitely, as when the Galactic Civil
War broke out, the Zygerrians became a prime target for the Rebel Alliance.
The Rebellion staged multiple raids to disrupt the slave trades of Zygerria, to the point
where it began genuinely hinder their influence in the outer rim.
Once Emperor Palpatine was killed during the battle of Endor, and the Empire split into
multiple Warlords seeking control of the remaining Imperial territories, Zygerria started to
get raided by Imperial forces as well which sought to steal the planet’s great wealth
that it had accumulated from its slave trades.
Due to the raids from both sides at that point, Zygerria began to fall into irrelevancy once
more and no longer remained a significant power in the galaxy for the decades that came
after.