Addalar Hyland was a human male who founded Galactic Solutions Industries

Galactic Solutions Industries Organization Manufacturers

, a personal weapons manufacturing company, on the moon of Nar Shaddaa

Nar Shaddaa Planet

around 3642 BBY as the Galactic War erupted. He also had a relative named Arnell Hyland who he employed at GSI Headquarters. The entrepreneur also founded The Hyland Organization for Rakghoul Neutralization (THORN), in hopes of eradicating the rakghoul

Rakghoul Creature Non-sentient

plague in the galaxy; however, few were aware that Hyland had lost two of his children to the rakghoul pandemic on Tatooine

Tatooine Planet

. The loss of his children led him to divert a great deal of wealth to THORN in hopes of eliminating the plague.