Hutt Empire

Between the fall of the Infinite Empire and the founding of the Republic, the Hutt Empire was a major power in their little corner of the Galaxy. The influence of the Hutts was primarily economic, as they seemed to regard political or military power as secondary to commerce. The only true example of the Hutts using military might to any extensive degree is in the war against Xim the Despot, when Kossak the Hutt united the races of the Si'Klaatu Cluster against Xim's forces. The Hutt Empire never truly collapsed, but in the decades after Kossak's death, the Hutts splintered once more as they had prior to the official formation of their Empire, and though Hutt Space is still considered a coherent region, there is no single figurehead leader. Each clan leads itself and its worlds more or less independently of the others.