Ixo Syndicate

The Ixo Syndicate is a smuggling ring and transport cartel which has gained effective control of a large number of mining colonies, local logistics infrastructure, and interstellar shipping lines in the Illyria Unaffiliated Zone. The syndicate is based on the planet Pan, where it has subsumed most organs of local government, and specializes in evading import controls on Illyrian bluegem. Although it has become a symbol of the governmental dysfunction that plagues the IUZ, its decentralized organization and cunning local leadership have allowed it to largely escape attempts at cleaning up the notoriously corrupt bluegem industry of the newly established mining worlds.