Colonization of Ohma-D'un

The colonization of Ohma-D'un in 32 BBY was the result of a joint effort between the Gungans and the Human inhabitants of Naboo.

History
In 32 BBY, the two sapient species that called Naboo their homeworld had forged an alliance after millennia of mutual mistrust: the Humans and Gungans had united their forces to reclaim their planet, which had been subjugated by the Trade Federation. In the ensuing period of prosperity and collaboration, the Gungan Boss Rugor Nass changed his long-standing policy of seclusion, opened the underwater capital of Otoh Gunga to offworld visitors. Because of that, the city gained more and more inhabitants, until it became threatened by overpopulation. Intent on preserving the ecological balance of Lake Paonga, in which the capital was located, and of the surrounding wilderness, Nass decided to establish a new colony on Ohma-D'un, the largest of the three moons in orbit around Naboo.

To help him handle that critical mission, Boss Nass turned to his new ally, Padmé Amidala, Queen of the Naboo. Under the guidance of Graf Zapalo, chief science advisor to Amidala, Gungan scientists and Naboo starship engineers worked together to come up with a number of new technologies. The crowning achievement of that collaboration was the Mantaris-class amphibious medium transport, a spaceworthy version of the traditional Gungan bongo submersible.

Before the arrival of the Gungan colonists, Queen Amidala travelled to Ohma-D'un in the company of the Jedi Knight Obi-Wan Kenobi, the Gungan Bombad General Jar Jar Binks and the astromech droid R2-D2. Together, they were to discover how the animals and plants they intended to introduce on the moon's surface would interact and how they would depend on each other to live. Once they obtained an ecologically sound environment, the Gungan settlers started to harvest valuable resources and use them to build the New Otoh Gunga.

Appearances

 * Star Wars Episode I: The Gungan Frontier