East India Trading Company

The East India Trading Company is the main antagonistic force of the two late movies of the Pirates of the Caribbean, Dead Man's Chest and At World's End.

Created by English merchants during the 17th century with the purpose of regulating the trade in the East Indies, it soon grew in power and influence, eventually being appointed by the king of Great Britain as their official trading company. Later on, Cutler Beckett join their numbers, climbing in their ranks and becoming their supreme leader, receiving the title of Lord Cutler Beckett from the king.

Having acquired complete control over the trade in the East Indies, Cutler Becket decides to expand their influence over all seas, setting his eyes into the Caribbean. However, he feared the piracy, deciding he had to eradicate it if he was to conquer the seas. For this goal, he wants to employ Jack Sparrow as a privateer, in exchange for his compass, which he needed to retrieve the Dead Man's Chest and thus control Davy Jones to exterminate all pirates from the seas.