Hutts

The Hutts were a race of intelligent, massive slug-like creatures native to the planet Nul Hutta and it's moon Nar Shadda. Divided into a number of families and clans, the Hutts were scattered across the galaxy of Galactic Prime. They dominated large sectors of interplanetary and interstellar commerce, and the local governments on many planets were controlled (often covertly or indirectly) by Hutt clans. Some Hutts engaged in blatantly illegal and criminal activities such as space piracy, smuggling, extortion, murder, slave trading, etc.

Hutts often lived under the authority of non-Hutt interstellar governments like the Imperial Republic and the Sith Empire.