The homeworld of the Nikto, Kintan was a rather inhospitable place in a lot of areas but the most developed areas were in the more temperate areas both because it was easier to build there and because it was easier for the Hutt masters of Kintan to disembark there. On paper the Nikto people were independant but they had been indentured to the Hutts for thousands of years. At this point Max was almost certain that no one alive even knew the cause of the indentured servitude, let alone the wording of the actual contract.
He wouldn't be surprised if the contract had expired literally thousands of years ago and the Hutts had simply not told the Nikto because it was in their best interests that the other race not realize that they had nothing binding them to their Masters. Of course, as was often the case with relationships the Hutts fostered, by this point the entire society that had been grown on Kintan was symbiotic with the Hutts.
If you removed the Hutts from their society it would collapse like a decayed wall robbed of it's structural scaffolding.
Being a native of the Tion cluster, Max knew this very well. It had been the same with his own people and even now, thousands and thousands of years since the despot and his empire or the Sith and theirs... his home still bore the scars of their presence. The structure they had provided had been what his own culture had been built around several times, each time it fell latching onto another to build itself back up only to collapse again when that support fell just like all the others before it. So unlike many Jedi he understood Kintan.
Didn't mean he liked it of course, which was one of the reasons he was okay with stealing the pleasure yacht of one of the local crime lords here. Honestly, he wasn't sure if the crime lord himself was actually a big player or just a proxy for a Hutt and it didn't matter. Enjoying a beer on a terrace of a bar overlooking the spaceport, Max waited for Hannibal to show up.
If he was late he didn't mind - he'd not had this brand of beer since leaving his home before becoming a Jedi. It had some additives that Core worlds found "questionable" so it wasn't readily available.
Tasted like misspent youth... and lots of tin.
@Mr. Teatime