Blackthorne Enterprises

Blackthorne Enterprises, founded by Cadden Blackthorne's great-great grandfather, Trak, was a reknowned mining and shipping company. It also had its hands in experimental ship design, most of which never saw the market. And those few that did, only a couple were ever successful. The company went through two full generations, being handed down to Cadden's grandfather, Akitane, before it fell from bankruptcy, as well as Akitane devoting more time to family.

Because of this, Blackthorne Enterprises' operations in Udine became lost, possibly as a result of Faarel Blackthorne's tampering with the Coruscant galactic library through Belyn Kumar, at the end of the Clone Wars. Only three pieces of evidence about the company remained, all hidden from the wandering eye. Two secret asteroid facilities (one being a hangar and the other a small outpost and hideout), and an experimental ship inside the hideout's small docking bay that Cadden and his two sons, Jerik and Guan, stumbled upon, when he re-founded the company (its second reincarnation) in the system.

Before Blackthorne Enterprises sought the light of day in the Udine System, however, it was re-established in the Hoth System by Cadden. It saw marginal success, and even had a favoring hand with the Loris Empire, then the Loris Alliance, with its unique line of starships. However, in a bold and daring move for Cadden to seal his revenge against the Galactic Empire for his parents' deaths, a plan gone wrong to crash an experimental craft into Bilbringi resulted in the company's destruction. The ship had successfully crashed, and its cargo full of highly explosive material and devices tore a huge chunk out of the planetoid Bilbringi. However, the Empire had tracked the ship back to Hoth, and launched a massive counter-assault. Most of the civilians got out safely, but nearly all of Cadden's security forces were destroyed. Cadden and his friends onboard the YT-1300 Hyper Lightning were missing, and presumed dead from the battle.

When Cadden re-surfaced as a fully-trained Jedi Knight, and well on his way to Master status, he re-founded Blackthorne Enterprises in the Udine System. It was at this time he found the experimental craft, and his sons after him. However, at this time, Cadden was under the control of the Nomad Soul, and he fell to the Dark Side for the second time. With the help of his sons, however, the Nomad Soul was torn from Cadden's essense and the spirit destroyed. Cadden sold off all assets he owned, and handed over the rest to the Wild Star Confederacy, and ordered his sons to destroy the asteroid hideout and take the experimental ship. However, the order would not be fulfilled, as things got in the way of the plan, and the facility's existence forgotten for some time, until just before the Battle of Taylon, when Faarel instructed Cadden to return to the place and unlock their true legacy from its computer databanks.