The Haxion Brood was a crime syndicate that operated throughout the Outer Rim, led by the crime boss Sorc Tormo. The syndicate's headquarters was Ordo Eris, an asteroid stronghold that served as the center of the Haxion Brood's power structure. The Brood seemed to dominate the gambling and parts of the smuggling sector of the underworld. The Haxion Brood consisted of a number of cybernetically augmented bounty hunters and their accompanying reprogrammed bounty droids made from stolen droid parts.
Undergoing this process of cybernetic augmentation was seen as a sign of commitment and loyalty within the Brood. Haxion Brood's bounty hunters and commandos were also equipped with repulsors and A280C blaster rifles.
A Haxion Brood commando
During or before 18 BBY, the Haxion Brood syndicate hired Yam'rii bounty hunter Sylar Saris to assassinate a number of top criminal bosses for them. The bounty hunter, who became known as the "Slayer of Ordo Eris" (after the syndicate's headquarters space station), escaped with a cache of credits after performing the job, resulting in a bounty being placed on his head which was eventually claimed by Fennec Shand.
In 14 BBY, the former Jedi Padawan Cal Kestis was kidnapped by a bounty hunter of the Haxion Brood, due to his companion Greez Dritus' large gambling debt to the syndicate, and was locked up in a cell on Ordo Eris. After his escape he was forced to fight in the Haxion Fight Pit before Sorc Tormo. Dritus rescued Kestis in his starship, the Stinger Mantis, much to Tormo's anger. Following Kestis' escape from Ordo Eris, the Haxion Brood continued to send bounty hunters after him.
In 9 BBY, Sorc Tormo sent Korej Lim after Kestis, but the bounty hunter was quickly dispatched by the Jedi Knight on Koboh. Watching the battle was Caij Vanda, a former bounty hunter who made a proposition to Kestis: Vanda would use her underworld connections to locate the Haxion Brood's hunters, and Kestis would turn the tables on his pursuers, hunting them instead, and deliver their bounty pucks to Vanda as proof.
Along Kestis's journey to reach Tanalorr, he dispatched many more bounty hunters. Kestis would go onto face an allied force of Brood bounty hunters and Bedlam Raiders forces working together under a droid named Jo. When Kestis bested Jo, he hoped she would be the last of the Brood he had to deal with. When at last he had defeated every hunter the Brood had sent after him, Kestis returned to Pyloon's Saloon to find Vanda, only to find her missing, and a message telling him to meet her where their business relationship had begun. Kestis obliged, finding that the ex-bounty hunter was waiting for him.
Vanda then betrayed Kestis, revealing herself to not be retired after all. Instead, she had manipulated Kestis into both killing all of her competition and raising his bounty high enough for her to consider bringing him in. The two then engaged in a duel that ended in Vanda's defeat. As Kestis gave Vanda one last chance to surrender, Boba Fett appeared, having come to collect a bounty on Vanda's head. After Vanda's failed attempt to bargain with them by using a thermal detonator, Kestis allowed Vanda to be captured by Fett.
Around 9 ABY, the Haxion Brood was working to spread its control further across the Outer Rim Territories.
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