Grim Dawn Archive Of Fates Untold
Asia Jordan
Crimson DawnGeneral informationOrganization type
- Mercenaries[1]
- Crime syndicate[2]
- Maul[1]
- Dryden Vos's predecessor[3]
- Dryden Vos (publicly)[2]
- Lady Qi'ra[4]
- Beckett's gang[1]
- A Crimson Dawn cell[5]
- Decraniated[1]
- Hylobon Enforcers[1]
- First Light[6]
- Dathomir Fortress[1]
- Vermillion[4]
- Dawnfall Base[7]
- Crimson Dawn Sub-Headquarters
- Crimson Dawn Regional Outpost
- Ore hub, Athus Klee[8]
- Cantonica[9]
- Jekara[10]
- Outer Rim Regional Outpost[5]
- Sub-Headquarters, Laecor[11]
- Savareen[1]
- Vandor[1]
- Shadow Collective[14]
- Five Crime Syndicates[1]
- Unbroken Clan[15]
- Knights of Ren[16]
Crimson Dawn was a criminal syndicate once led by the former Sith Lord Maul, who became the leader of the Shadow Collective near the end of the Clone Wars. Maul employed the gangster Dryden Vos as the public face of the syndicate during the reign of the Galactic Empire. During its existence, Crimson Dawn quickly cemented a reputation for being ruthless. Qi'ra publicly served as Vos' top lieutenant, but later directly worked with Maul after she killed Vos.
After Maul's death during a mission to Tatooine, Qi'ra became the new leader of Crimson Dawn and was given the title "Lady." She rebuilt Crimson Dawn and planned to use it to destabilize the galaxy in her ultimate plan to take down Darth Sidious and his apprentice, Darth Vader. Qi'ra hoped that she could succeed where Maul failed and use the chaos and disorder Crimson Dawn created to take down the Sith and the Empire. In preparation for its secret war against the Sith, Crimson Dawn also grew by creating a web of agents throughout the powers of the galaxy.
In 3 ABY, Crimson Dawn announced its return with an auction for the carbonite-frozen Han Solo that they had had stolen from Boba Fett. Syndicates and organizations from all over the galaxy were invited and attended, and Crimson Dawn used the auction to demonstrate their power and cause a rift between the Empire and the Hutts by manipulating them into a battle over Han Solo. This eventually led to a Syndicate War over which syndicate would take over the Hutts' contract with the Empire, escalated by a series of anonymous attacks carried out by Crimson Dawn.
Once Crimson Dawn was found to be behind the war and their campaign against the Sith became clear to Sidious, Qi'ra ordered all of the Crimson Dawn agents across the galaxy to cause as much chaos for the Empire as they possibly could. She also used her agents to come into possession of the Fermata Cage, an ancient dark side weapon she planned to use against the Sith. However, during a Battle at Amaxine Station against the Empire for which Qi'ra rallied all of Crimson Dawn's troops and forces, Qi'ra failed to trap Vader and Sidious, leading to Crimson Dawn's defeat and ultimate destruction at the hands of the Imperial forces. However, because the organization revealed the existence of the Empire's DS-2 Death Star II Mobile Battle Station to the Rebel Alliance and kept the Empire occupied while the Alliance regrouped, Crimson Dawn ultimately did contribute to the Empire's defeat.
Before reorganizing into a larger criminal enterprise, the forerunners of Crimson Dawn were a band of ruthless mercenaries who traveled from planet to planet, seizing the resources they coveted or needed while brutalizing the natives into complying. One such world was the desert planet Savareen, which possessed a resource that they desired. After several raids on their world, the Savarians rose up against them, refusing to comply anymore. As punishment for their defiance, the mercenaries cut out the tongues of every single man, woman, and child they could find.[1]
Crimson Dawn became known for its ruthlessness and rose to prominence during the final years of the Galactic Republic.[18] Eventually, Crimson Dawn would dominate the criminal underworld and become the most powerful of what came to be known as the Five Crime Syndicates, the others being the Crymorah Syndicate, Black Sun, the Pyke Syndicate, and the Hutt Clan. Crimson Dawn also enjoyed a fragile alliance with the Pyke Syndicate.[8]
In 19 BBY,[12] Crimson Dawn became a member of the Shadow Collective, a vast criminal organization under the control of the rogue Sith Lord Maul. After they joined the Collective, Crimson Dawn participated in the taking of Mandalore.[18] Sometime later, after delays in the Pyke Syndicate's operations, including the raiding of one of their Spice shipments on Coruscant by the Galactic Republic, Maul contacted Marg Krim, the leader of the syndicate, to assess the issue. Krim assured Maul that the syndicate's delays would not change things. Maul declared that he had more important things to deal with than his incompetence, and then threatened to have Crimson Dawn take over the Pyke's operations if there were any more delays. Krim regarded Maul's tactic of pitting the syndicates of the collective, including Crimson Dawn, against each other was an efficient way of dealing with their business.[14] At the time of the Siege of Mandalore, Crimson Dawn was led directly by the near-human man Dryden Vos,[19] who had taken power from a predecessor.[3] Just prior to the enactment of Order 66, Maul ordered Vos, as well as the other leaders in the Shadow Collective, to go into hiding, in anticipation for the chaos following the rise of the Empire.[19]
After the war, Maul secretly took control of Crimson Dawn but kept Vos as the public leader.[18] Maul also took a more direct role in Crimson Dawn's activities but elected to rule from the shadows rather than establish himself as the visible leader of his syndicate. Indeed, most of the rank-and-file of the organization did not report to him directly[1] and few even knew his identity, with Dryden Vos referring to Maul as a mysterious overseer.[3] Instead, Maul relied on Dryden Vos to serve as a figurehead and the executor of his will to his men.[1] Despite the fall of the Shadow Collective after the Siege of Mandalore,[21] Maul also retained a great degree of power over the Five Families and ruled over them, such as by ordering them not to wage war against each other. While his identity remained hidden, rumors would spread of a mysterious figure who ruled over not just Crimson Dawn, but all five major syndicates.[3]
During the reign of the Galactic Empire, Crimson Dawn had significant influence in the area of Wild Space that the planet Pashvi was located in.[8] Crimson Dawn's base of operations at this time was the night-black Nau'ur-class yacht named the First Light which was owned by Vos and also served as his private residence. The organization was also known to utilize Fang-class Starfighters.[22] Also during this time, the Galactic Empire often clashed with Crimson Dawn in security enforcement missions, many of which pilot Yrica Quell participated in on the Imperial side and would remember long after her Imperial career. Quell noticed that the Crimson Dawn gangsters she killed knew knew better than to try to negotiate, and they also recognized that there was no place for their cartels under the Empire.[23] On the planet Athus Klee, Crimson Dawn operated an ore hub in a valley on the world and offered lucrative one-year contracts for labours to work there. The syndicate employed Doctor Cornelius Evazan to cybernetically alter the workers in a gene-mod chop shop housed on site in a cluster of hexagonal silos. The Besalisk Dexter Jettster eventually discovered Crimson Dawn's ore hub. He then rescued a single Rodian worker from the hub and the pair headed back toward the spaceport. Upon reaching the port, Jettster contacted a politician on Coruscant, who he was friends with and informed him of the hub. The politician sent a ship to pick up the Rodian and Jettster's surveillance scans so that they could be taken before the Imperial Senate Council of Labor Abuses and report Crimson Dawn's activities on Athus Klee.[8]
Around this time, during the reign of the Empire and of Crimson Dawn, Crimson Dawn had a Zabrak male named Jarm Brock infiltrate the operations of Hutt crime lord Jabba Desilijic Tiure in Mos Entha on the planet Tatooine as part of a ruse to send Jabba after the Hutt Council. The plan worked as Jabba believed that Bokku, a fellow Council member, had been behind Brock's infiltration. In response he sent several teams to kill Brock and his enforcers, though these attempts failed, leading Jabba to send the notorious former bounty hunter Deva Lompop, now an information broker, alongside the bounty hunter Boba Fett to complete the job. The pair traveled to a cantina in Mos Entha where they were ambushed by Brock. Fett managed to capture Brock while Lompop took care of his enforcers. Lompop then questioned Brock about what he was doing on Tatooine, Brock revealed that he was not working for the Hutt Council, as Jabba had been led to believe, but for Crimson Dawn instead. Brock revealed that Crimson Dawn was making 'big moves' and expressed his belief that they were going to bring about a reckoning. When Lompop asked where the residents of Mos Entha were, as she had noticed that the town seemed very empty, Brock informed her that they had killed those who refused to joined Crimson Dawn, and that the rest except a bartender had left Mos Entha instead of joining. Lompop then began to eat Brock, though she was unable to eat Brock's horns and left his head. She took the head back to Jabba, and explained that the job had not gone as planned. However, she did not inform him of Crimson Dawn's machinations and led him to believe that Bokku had stolen his slaves from Mos Entha, encouraging Jabba to send Brock's head to him.[24]
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