Hutt Cartel

Description
The Hutt Cartel or Hutt Clan is a secondary antagonist faction in Rico's Brigade. They are a crime syndicate that has existed long before the Empire was founded, led by the powerful Hutt crime family (and seemingly Jabba the Hutt, specifically) and controlling much of the crime the galaxy. In terms of official territory, though, they can only ever control a few planets in the mid and outer-rim, notably Tatooine. Their only fighting force is a rag-tag army of pirates, bounty hunters, members of the Mandolorean clan Deathwatch that the crime family can hire at any given time, though they were briefly bolstered by Battle Droids Jayden Dooku provided them as part of an alliance between their two factions. The bounty hunter Boba Fett is also frequently hired by the syndicate for various jobs.

The Hutt Cartel first came to Rico's Brigade's attention when Boba Fett called Rico to a meeting early on in the war to announce that their leader, Jabba the Hutt, was declaring war on Rico's Brigade for making an alliance with the Rebellion. This suggests that the Hutts have some sort of alliance or friendship with the Empire, however, Boba Fett would forge an alliance with Jayden Dooku's Droid Army on behalf of the Hutts immediately afterwards.

The Hutts, possibly acting on behalf of the Empire, had mercenaries raid villages and homesteads on Tatooine in search of a force-sensitive young boy Obi Wan Kenobi was hiding on the planet. With the help of battle droids Jayden Doolu provided them, they were able to kill Dodger when Rico sent him to protect the boy. But despite occupying the boy's homstead, they failed to find the boy or his guardians, who hid in their basement long enough for Rico and Obi-Wan to arrive with reinforcements.

Members

 * Hutt Mercenaries (a combination of bounty hunters and Deathwatch Mandoloreans)
 * Battle Droids
 * Boba Fett (contractor)
 * Jabba the Hutt (apparent leader, unseen)

Trivia

 * The Hutt Cartel in Rico's Brigade is based on the faction of the same name from Star Wars canon.
 * Although Jabba the Hutt, their leader is mentioned a few times in Rico's Brigade, he has never appeared on-screen (likely due to technical limitations of having a giant slug-like creature in a mod for a World War 2 game), and his fate after his faction's apparent defeat remains unkown.
 * Why the crime syndicate declared war on Rico's Brigade for allying with the Rebellion, but allied with Jayden Dooku's faction, who is either hostile or neutral to the Empire, is unknown. It is possible the former deal was done to appease the Empire and that the latter was done in secret