The Cell The Cell was a secret organization in the Cularin system during the waning years of the Galactic Republic . A faction in Nirama ' s criminal Organization , The Cell wanted to oust , replace , and execute the current crime lord . They believed Nirama was not making enough profits , mostly because he opposed slavery in a movement that many considered too soft . History . The Cell was the name of a secret conspiracy within the criminal Organization of the Cularin system . The aim of the conspiracy was to dispose of the Organization ' s leader , Nirama , and reinstitute the practices that Nirama had banned , such as dealing in the slave trade . In addition , they wanted to join forces with the Metatheran Cartel to form a trade monopoly within the Cularin system . Although there had always been those opposed to Nirama ' s policies since he took over from Riboga the Hutt in 53 BBY , the Cell didn ' t come together until decades later . In 31 BBY , they took advantage of the Metatheran Cartel ' s attention - drawing actions under Velin Wir to shift resources and approach other powers within the system . This did not escape Nirama ' s attention , however , and he discovered that there was an organization calling itself " the Cell " active within his Organization which wished to depose him . Not trusting his own people , Nirama turned to outsiders to investigate the situation . The outsiders were brought in as new recruits and set to work inside the Organizations ' s primary asteroid base . A recruiter for the Cell soon had a conversation with the outsiders , and found them to be sufficiently ambitious enough for recruitment . Soon , the outsiders were questioned by the Cell ' s leadership and then had their skills tested in Mokada ' s Place . A group of Trandoshans within the Cell discovered ( or believed to have discovered ) that the new recruits were plants , and wanting full credit , attempted to kill the recruits without reporting their find to the rest of the Cell . The recruits , however , were armed and defeated the Trandoshans . The recruits were quickly arrested by Nirama ' s guard , and in punishment , were cycled out to less prestigious assignments — a common enough punishment that it did not raise suspicions that the recruits had been working for Nirama . To cover their tracks in case the recruits had talked , the Cell ' s meeting places were abandoned and all the Cell members who had been involved in the Mokada ' s Place testing were killed . To protect their identities , the Cell members often wore hoods and black clothing . Even most of their leaders wore hoods when speaking to new recruits through a wall of boxes . One of the leaders of the Cell was Force - sensitive . Meanwhile , in the asteroid — repair station Darkside , the local Cell members were considered harmless urchins , not even worth of notifying Nirama . One month later , Nirama ' s forces found the hiding of most of the local leaders and wipe them out ; they also found a datapad suggesting that The Cell was trying to recruit some of Nirama ' s former allies . Unaware that The Cell in Darkside had suffered a devastating blow , Nirama called his one - time employees a second time and asked them to perform undercover work to find the local Cell leaders . The surviving Cell members , who were nevertheless having a very hard time recruiting Kaarl the Ithorian and some Wookiees , were captured and sent to the public asteroid . Nirama questioned them and discovered important information about other , more powerfull Cell members . The Cell then staged a new operation in Rothe Gate , Nirama ' s main weapon storage asteroid in the local belt . Apparently , the person behind all this scheme was Ari Melast , one of Nirama ' s lieutenants . Following her orders , the Cell reprogrammed Nirama ' s former protocol droid N3 - A2 , which had valuable information in its memory banks . They also took Nirama ' s reliable master of properties , Jobril the Twi ' lek , extracted his self - requested , surgically - implanted loyalty chip , and misled him to make him believe to still be following Nirama ' s orders . They made Jobril hire some independent mercenaries who had previously worked for Nirama and take them to Rothe Gate . There , N3 - A2 was programmed to give the agents some orders . The agents were supposed to discover some false proofs linking Nirama ' s most loyal agents in Rothe Gate with The Cell . Not all of the Cell ' s members in Rothe Gate were informed of this conspiracy . Nirama discovered that Jobril had been seen in Rothe Gate , and went there with his right - hand man Len Markus . The Cell decided to speed up their scheme and assassinate Nirama while in target : They replaced the security guard of Nirama ' s chambers with Cell members , and waited for the moment . They staged a distraction by sending N3 - A2 with an explosive to kill the previously - described mercenaries , although this plot failed and the independent agents survived to meet with Nirama . When Nirama was questioning them , the Cell attacked . Markus called for reinforcements , and the mercenaries held The Cell until they arrived . After this sound defeat , Nirama knew of Melast ' s implication , and sent Markus to capture her . Behind the scenes . The role - playing game adventure " UnderWorld " feature two possible endings : If the player characters side with Nirama , then he defeats a squad of Cell members and remains as the crimelord of the system . However , if the player characters chose to not help him , the Cell captures , deposes and eventually executes Nirama , replacing his rule and thanking the characters . The official RPGA teams were supposed to include this information in a " Critical Event Summary " that would be sent to the RPGA office , and the most common answer would be canon . Although the survey answers are not known , further sources still mention Nirama as the crimelord of Cularin , and thus implicitly reveal the results .