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Bartyn, Hugo

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this man was an entrepreneur who made a name for himself some 500 years before the Galactic Civil War, when he founded Bartyn's Landing on the planet Lamaredd. A cruel man who was regarded as a pro-human bigot, Bartyn openly stated that other races and primitive species were little more than animals. His employer, Outer Rim Oreworks Corporation, saw a chance to get rid of him by assigning him to the Lamaredd operation and allowing him to run it as he saw fit. The only stipulation was that he keep credits flowing into ORO's bank accounts. This gave Bartyn the opportunity to retire in style, and he set out to remove any information on the Lamaro System from ORO's computers, which effectively made him the ruler of the system. While he ostensibly continued to work for ORO, Bartyn began amassing a huge fortune by exporting seafood from Lamaredd's oceans as part of Bartyn Gourmet Delicacies. He controlled Bartyn's Landing and the mining operations in the Lamaro System for some thirty years, before dying at the age of 84 when his hunting party disappeared. He had been hunting the native Menahuun, in an effort to remove "the vermin" from the area surrounding Bartyn's Landing. Many settlers feared that Bartyn's death would be just the beginning of a Menahuun revolt, but no overt actions ever occurred. Bartyn's descendents continued to control Bartyn's Landing and the Lamaro System for many generations, always working to keep the family businesses profitable.