Greater Javin Corporate Authority
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The Greater Javin Corporate Authority is a civilian agency established to help foster and support corporate interests and growth in the Greater Javin.
It was founded in 11 ABY by Sector Governor Ceto Rübezahl, who desired to put a "friendlier face" on the leadership and administration of the Greater Javin, in an effort to attract businesses and corporations that might be discouraged by overtly Imperial leadership. Despite this objective, the difference between the Corporate Authority and the Imperial leadership of the Greater Javin is negligible, and most of the Corporate Authority's work is done in concert with the Coalition for Improvements and the Coalition for Progress, aspects of COMPNOR.
Hierarchy
The Corporate Authority is led by the incumbent Moff or Sector Governor for the Greater Javin, who wields complete authority over the organisation. Similar to the Corporate Sector, and the corporate leadership of Cloud City, the Corporate Authority featured a board of executives and advisors to assist in leadership decisions. However, while the Exex and Direx Board functioned as a government or parliament, the Corporate Authority board was treated as largely an advisory body, there to petition the Sector Governor on matters that affected their businesses, but without any sort of substantive power to force issues or overturn leadership.
Trade Spine League
One of the Corporate Authority's chief concerns is the provision of security and defense to corporations based in and operating in the Greater Javin. When the Corporate Authority was established in 11 ABY, such security and defense was largely threatened by piracy and smuggling, with the Greater Javin deemed too far from the Alliance of Free Planets and other potential aggressors for the threat conventional attack to be a significant concern. However, the Greater Javin, and in particular the Anoat Sector had a history of being on the receiving end of Imperial brutality, and between the Destruction of Anoat and the Iron Blockade, Moff Rübezahl felt that an increase in overt military presence was more likely to cause instability and unrest than it was to provide security and peace of mind to his citizens.
In the Corporate Sector, security was provided by the Corporate Sector Authority and their militia, but in the case of the Greater Javin, such an organisation might have been seen as merely a different name for the same militant Imperial activity. Instead, Rübezahl made the controversial choice to outsource security in the Sector to third parties from the private sector, distancing those protections from direct Imperial authority. In specific facilities and locations of interest, such as in the Bespin city of Tibannopolis, companies such as Santhe Security were hired for specific contracted circumstances. However, for defense against piracy and smuggling, no one organisation seemed sufficient to protect the entire three sector span of the Greater Javin.
Instead, Governor Rübezahl approached an unexpected third party: the Trade Spine League, a semi-official network of traders and privateers that had operated in the Anoat Sector and beyond throughout the Galactic Civil War. While the League had a reputation for sympathy - if not outright support - of smuggling and civil unrest, Rübezahl offered them the opportunity to be formally sanctioned as a spacers' union on a par with the Lantillian Spacers' Brotherhood or the Corellian Merchants' Guild, complete with financial support from the Corporate Authority and integration into political institutions within the region, such as the Parliament of Guilds on Cloud City. Essentially, the Trade Spine League became a merchant navy, with corporations invested in the Greater Javin encouraged to "sponsor" larger vessels for the League, or to otherwise donate or contribute to its operations.
As intended, the Trade Spine League largely relies on civilian transports and freighters to maintain an active awareness of hostile forces within the Greater Javin, deploying squadrons and starships as response or rescue forces whenever a distress call is needed. The League is particularly effective against piracy, though - perhaps by design - it is less effective against smuggling, as spacers and traders are unlikely to report each other for carrying contraband. For this, the Corporate Authority is content to look the other way however, relying on the customs and import infrastructures of local law enforcement to filter out the worst instances of trafficking, and tolerating mild smuggling as a show of good faith towards the League - something that does on occasion (unofficially) benefit the sector's corporations as well.
Appendices
The Greater Javin Corporate Authority uses the logo of the Uprising from the Star Wars: Uprising mobile game.
