Garen IV penal colony

"Your would-be husband spent a year in a penal colony on Garen IV after he was kidnapped and dumped there with a false ID."

- Altronel learns of Makintay's time in the colony from Rebels.

A penal colony belonging to the Galactic Empire was located on the planet Garen IV during the Galactic Civil War. In 2 BBY the heir to the throne of the planet Hargeeva, Lord Stevan Makintay, was imprisoned in the colony by his father, Governor Makintay, for deciding to marry the lowborn Ketrian Altronel. A year after the lord's incarceration he was freed during a raid on the colony by members of the Alliance to Restore the Republic.

Behind the scenes
The colony was first mentioned in "Firepower" a short story written by Carolyn Golledge and published in 1995 within Star Wars Adventure Journal 8, part of the Star Wars Adventure Journal series.