Around 3640 BBY at the start of the Galactic War, the Hutt Cartel ruled by the Supreme Mogul Karagga the Unyielding saw a power vacuum caused by the inferfought between Republic and Sith and tried to occupy it, becoming a third part in the war; so Karagga severed all ties with both the Sith Empire and the Galactic Republic. Seeing Karagga’s actions as a threat, both the Republic and the Empire send representatives to confront Karagga and forced him to stop his aggression. In the end Karagga and all his minions were killed.