Romort Raort was a sadistic criminal from the planet Irith. Raort eventually joined with the Elaginn gang, a group of spice-jackers, and was responsible for tracking down the spice smugglers from whom the group stole. He murdered the leader of the Elaginn gang, Elaginn himself, and took control of the spice-jacking group. Under Raort's control the group flourished and made deals with the neighboring Hutt clans. Though Raort wished to take over the entire operation for himself, he was quite content making people suffer at his current job. Raort performed many of his spice-jacking runs by disabling targeted ships with a stolen ion cannon and selling their crews into slavery. By 10 ABY, Raort and his group had settled down on Nar Shaddaa, Nal Hutta's largest moon.