Galactic Solutions Industries (GSI), a weapons production enterprise, came into existence courtesy of Addalar Hyland, an inventor and notable business magnate. Its establishment coincided with the eruption of the Galactic War between the Galactic Republic and the re-established Sith Empire. Functioning as a neutral entity, GSI engaged in arms trading with both factions. Furthermore, it routinely engaged a diverse array of individuals to bolster the endeavors of its numerous research divisions, all focused on pioneering novel weaponry technologies and military hardware. Even during the New Sith Wars, a protracted conflict between the Republic and the Sith that unfolded over two millennia following GSI's inception, the company remained operational. Notably, Dessel, a soldier within the Sith's Brotherhood of Darkness, favored the company's disruptor pistols.
Around 3642 BBY, amidst the outbreak of the Galactic War between the Galactic Republic and the Sith Empire, Addalar Hyland, a prominent inventor and business leader, established Galactic Solutions Industries as a weapons manufacturing firm. Situated at the GSI Headquarters along the Promenade on the moon of Nar Shaddaa, GSI swiftly gained traction as a favored source for armaments. Its inaugural offering, the GSI-B4 blaster pistol, garnered acclaim for its notable firepower, especially considering its compact size, which made it an easily concealable weapon. As hostilities persisted, GSI maintained its neutrality, conducting trade with both the Republic and the Empire. The corporation frequently enlisted various combatants from planets across the galaxy to contribute to its research initiatives. GSI oversaw a multitude of weapons research divisions, including those dedicated to Animal Weaponization, Biodesign, Metallurgical, Natural Weapons, Starfighter, and Superweapons Divisions. Typically, GSI employees donned attire in the company's signature hues of white, orange, and light blue.
On Alderaan, GSI's Natural Weapons Division sought to obtain technology from the planet's weather towers, aiming to aid in the creation of a "Weather Dominator" prototype. Given the contested ownership of the technology, the company recruited individuals to procure scans of the towers for reverse-engineering purposes. Additionally, GSI equipped several red thrantas, indigenous flying creatures of Alderaan, with GSI technology to gather intelligence on troop deployments during the ongoing Alderaan Civil War, subsequently enlisting individuals to retrieve the collected data. The Shroud, an independent intelligence operative, commissioned a slicer to pilfer GSI weapons technology from the company's databanks. GSI traced the act to one of the Great Houses of Alderaan's communications networks, prompting the company to hire individuals to monitor the networks in order to locate and neutralize the perpetrator. Subsequently, the company's Recovery Division reclaimed the technology from the deceased thief.
Upon discovering that Czerka Corporation had improperly disposed of radioactive waste on Alderaan years prior to cut costs, GSI initiated orbital scans to locate the waste, recognizing its potential as a fuel source. Upon learning that the native Killiks had established nests over the dump sites, GSI engaged individuals to retrieve the waste barrels from the area, with the company's Starfighter Division utilizing the barrels to power new designs. The Killiks' hive mind also piqued GSI's interest, as it produced hybrid weapons using the collective knowledge of numerous individuals from diverse civilizations. Consequently, the company hired individuals to recover these weapons from their buried locations beneath Killik ruins on Alderaan.
The unique electromagnetic fields and gravitational pull of the icy planet Hoth often led to starship crashes on its surface. GSI's Natural Weapons Division sought external assistance in examining the wreckage across the planet, hoping to reverse-engineer the circumstances of these crashes. The White Maw pirates absconded with sensitive research from GSI's Superweapons Division, but their ship crashed upon their return to Hoth. This prompted GSI to hire individuals to recover the data from the crash site. The crash site of the Ambria's Fury attracted the company's attention when it was discovered that leaking radiation had mutated the ship's durasteel into a material believed to be useful in the construction of thermonuclear weaponry. GSI then hired individuals to retrieve samples from the heavily irradiated ship.
The company turned its attention to a starship of unknown origin, discovered frozen beneath ice spires, and hired individuals to recover components of the vessel for their Starfighter Division. GSI also sought to acquire samples of embersteel, a metallic compound formed when metallic ores were melted by lava vents, warped by Hoth's electromagnetic fields, and then rapidly cooled by Hoth's icy temperatures. The company therefore hired individuals to search near the active mini-volcanoes that lined the floor of the Glacial Fissure on Hoth, as they suspected embersteel could be useful in the construction of plasma cannons.
When a meteoroid disintegrated over the desert planet of Tatooine, GSI's orbital sensors detected the energy signature of an especially dense and rare variant of the material phobium, leading the company to hire individuals to locate and scan the fragments in order to determine whether the fragments could be useful in the construction of fuel cells. A shipment of starfighter repair droids was lost on Tatooine when it was scavenged by the local Jawas. Due to sandstorm activity in the area, the company hired individuals to pinpoint Jawa sandcrawlers so that GSI could send retrieval units. GSI's Animal Weaponization Division sought outside help in recovering eggs from Tatooine's native krayt dragon, the largest and most feared creature in Tatooine's entire ecosystem, so that they could potentially clone the creatures and conduct tests in laboratory settings. The company advised the searchers to look for penakin larvae, which fed on the nutrients from krayt dragon egg fossils.
GSI also aimed to develop portable moisture vaporators for military applications, and they therefore hired various individuals to take detailed scans of the the scaled-down vaporators used by Tatooine's settlers in cliff and mesa settlements across the planet. However, one of GSI's battle droid prototypes was stolen by a thief on Tatooine. Because the thief was using subsurface scramblers to hide the droid's location, GSI sought outside aid in locating and destroying the droid so that the company's technology was not copied.
When the Hutt Cartel conquered the remote world of Makeb in 3638 BBY, GSI began investigating the planet for potential research opportunities, and the company hired various individuals to scan the advanced transmission towers around the Sanctuary research complex on Makeb so that they could replicate the technology. GSI's Metallurgical Division sought to procure samples of the metal used in the Hutt Cartel's advanced isotope-5 droids, an alloy that consisted of rare metals only found in the caverns of Makeb's volcanic mesas. The company accordingly hired individuals to recover samples of the metals from the caverns so that they could use the alloy for their own battle droids and weapons. GSI also sought to acquire the schematics for the isotope-5 droids, leading them to hire various individuals to retrieve the schematics from Cartel-allied mercenaries on Makeb.
Makeb's proclivity towards severe groundquakes saw scientists try to create a system of subterranean vibration emitters that were intended to cancel out seismic tremors. Though the project failed, GSI believed that they could turn the devices into weapons that would cause groundquakes, so the company hired various individuals to locate and excavate the emitters. Makeb's makrin creeper interested GSI's Biodesign Division, which recruited several individuals to retrieve makrin protobark—the casings in which the tree-like makrin develops underground—so that they could research the creation of damage-resistant wilderness gear. Those individuals who completed multiple assignments for GSI were qualified for the company's Valued Partner Initiative, which rewarded individuals with discounts and access to special items. The company still existed several thousand years later by the end of the New Sith Wars, a conflict between the Republic and various Sith factions.
The primary focus of Galactic Solutions Industries was weapons production, and its initial offering was the highly regarded GSI-B4 blaster pistol. The company diversified into a wide array of weapon technologies, encompassing biological weapons, battle droids, starfighters, and superweapons. GSI also developed and manufactured military support technology, such as advanced fuel cells and portable vaporators. By the time of the New Sith Wars, two of GSI's products were the GSI-21D and GSI-24D disruptor pistols. Dessel, a sergeant in the Gloom Walkers, a unit in the Brotherhood of Darkness' Sith army, favored using Galactic Solutions Industries products.
The novel Darth Bane: Path of Destruction, penned by Drew Karpyshyn and released on September 26, 2006, marked the initial mention of Galactic Solutions Industries. Subsequently, the company was featured in Star Wars: The Old Republic: Rise of the Hutt Cartel, the 2013 Digital Expansion to the BioWare video game Star Wars: The Old Republic. In this expansion, GSI provides missions on Makeb, Alderaan, Tatooine, and Hoth for players who possess EV2 discreet reconnaissance macrobinoculars and Seeker Droids.