Metatheran Cartel jungle base

"Gadrin and Hedrett are crowded and overly busy. We needed a base of operations that was more isolated, a lower-traffic area."

- Velin Wir

On the 200th anniversary of Reidi Artom's founding of Gadrin, the envoy of the Metatheran Cartel, Velin Wir, announced to Cularin the Cartel's intention of building a new trading and distribution center on the planet. In actuality, there was already a Metatheran Cartel jungle base which would suit those purposes, built in secret. When actions taken by a group of pirates hired by Velin Wir led a group of Cularin's heroic residents to find the jungle base, Wir helped the heroes locate the pirates, taking partial credit for their defeat. The presence of the jungle base became known to Cularin at that time. Following this revelation, the Cartel shifted most of its operations to the base, leaving open only one office in Gadrin with two workers.

Several months later, a group of individuals had formed a resistance movement to take action against perceived Cartel illegalities. They had gained evidence against the Cartel, but needed one final piece, and attacked the Cartel's jungle base to recover it. The group of heroes who had been there months before were with the resistance, and they slipped away from the fighting to find the base's computers and the necessary piece of evidence. Velin Wir met them in the computer center and fought them with a lightsaber. He was defeated when he was disarmed of the lightsaber, setting off a tiny thermal detonator implanted in his chest. After the Gungans of the resistance led the defeated Caarite guards out of the base, it was suddenly destroyed by a salvo from fire-linked turbolasers fired from orbit.

Appearances

 * A Cularin Presence
 * A Revelation