The Galactic Merchants Union was an alliance of Merchants and Arms Contractors around the galaxy founded during the waning of the Galactic Civil War. The Union was a replacement of lost or defunct trade organizations that once kept trade running smoothly through out the galaxy and kept taxes and tariffs on goods from being manipulated by corrupt individuals. Centered in the Middle Rim around Eshan the GMU expanded throughout the galaxy with trade hubs in systems as fare coreward as Coruscant and as far into the outer rim as Bastion.