Cynabar, shrouded in mystery, was a smuggler running Cynabar's InfoNet throughout the eras of the Galactic Empire and the Galactic Civil War.
Furthermore, Cynabar consistently published Cynabar's Droid Datalog, a scandoc focused on droids and their value to smugglers, compiling information gathered from diverse newsnets and data repositories.
Andor Javin, a reporter for TriNebulon News, at one point asserted that Cynabar's true identity was Platt Okeefe, the well-known smuggler from Brentaalan. Nevertheless, given Javin's less-than-thorough reporting practices, this identification of Cynabar as Okeefe remains highly speculative.
Cynabar declined to disclose the precise number of shadowports visited, but did indicate that the total was nearer to fifty than it was to forty.
Han Solo and Cynabar were on friendly terms. In contrast, Lord Triege's fleet, based out of Nar Shaddaa, was committed to pursuing Cynabar on behalf of the Empire.