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Nebula Front

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this protest group sprang up in response to the Trade Federation's control of trade routes in the Mid and Outer Rim Territories during the last decades of the Old Republic. Based on the planet Asmeru, in the Senex Sector, the Nebula Front had issues with the Old Republic as well, and took great pains to hamper the activities of the Trade Federation and Republic starships in the Outer Rim. These were the so-called "free trade" zones, despite the fact that the Federation exercised a great deal of control there. Several decades before the Battle of Naboo, Finis Valorum's father had a chance to eliminate the Nebula Front, but simply chastised them and allowed them to regroup and rebuild. It was known that the Nebula Front tried to negotiate a truce with the Trade Federation, but the two groups were unable to see eye to eye. The Nebula Front refused to accept funding from the Hutts or any group which supported slavery. After the Trade Federation was given a full franchise by the Old Republic, a militant branch of the Nebula Front set out to hire pirates and mercenaries to strike against the Federation. They were later accused of plotting the assassination of Chancellor Valorum, and only the timely intervention of Qui-Gon Jinn and Adi Gallia prevented Valorum's death. In the wake of their failure to kill Valorum and break up the Trade Federation, and with the death of Havac at Eriadu, the Nebula Front disintegrated.