As of 15 ABY Day 200 Deadman Lines was bought up and rebranded under the banner of Galactic Express. As of nowadays since smuggling turns out to be less profitable and high risk, the newly rebranded GalEx has established on the legit Logistics and Management Services sector

 

History:

Deadman Lines was incepted on the last day of the Eriadu Trade Summit, year 33 BBY, just hours before the tragic moment when most of the members of the Trade Federation Directorate were assassinated.

Many participants of the summit foretold the increase of pressure against commercial ventures and alliances by the Galactic Senate, which was growing more tumultuous. The premonition was true: a year later The Senate passed the Resolution BR-0371, that resulted in increased taxation of hyperspace trade routes in order to pay off the growing Republic debt crisis. The Trade Federation, on behalf of its allied members, submitted the Free Trade Petition to The Senate, asking to lift the Resolution. The Republic and the Jedi, in their best tradition, ignored the petition. It was a very bad time for honest merchants: smaller factions and alliances busted like bubbles smashed against a brick wall, medium-sized ones had to go underground and resort to smuggling, and the Trade Federation was forced to begin the blockade of Naboo, which resulted in the beginning of the Galactic War.

 

At that time, numerous experienced members of dissolved trading factions united under the unofficial title of Smuggling Alliance, later renamed to Deadman Lines, proposed by a founding member, a Jawa by the name of Tik Nkik. The goal of this union was to make profit from providing transports for people and goods to the remote worlds avoiding taxation station, in other words ... Smuggling. During the Clone Wars, the group thrived, as conventional trade routes became too dangerous, but the economy of distant worlds still required supplies from the galactic centers. Sparse smuggling jobs transformed into framework agreements, with whole worlds depending on the mastery and skills of the smuggler pilots of Deadman Lines. The faction managed to maintain neutrality in the war by avoiding being contracted by either of the quarreling parties.