Home Planet Party The Home Planet Party was a political party that was founded by the year 45 BBY on the planet Bandomeer . Its goals were to replant fields on the planet and gain control of Bandomeer ' s resources from the off - world corporations that controlled them . Founded by the Meerian VeerTa , the party controlled the Home Planet Mine near the capital city of Bandor . VeerTa was arrested after it was discovered that she had betrayed the group by secretly partnering with Xanatos , a member of the Offworld Mining Corporation , who used her in his plot to attempt to kill his former Jedi Master Qui - Gon Jinn . History . The Home Planet Party was formed as a political party on Bandomeer , a world covered in mines , by 45 BBY , and was founded by native Meerian patriot VeerTa . In order to achieve their goals of improving Bandomeer , the party first focused on ending the dependence on off - worlders for financial help . Seeking to accomplish this , the Home Planet Party , under the leadership of VeerTa , went into partnership with the Arcona Mineral Harvest Corporation in order to create a mine of their own that was not controlled by off - world corporations , such as the Offworld Mining Corporation . In 45 BBY , VeerTa , along with Governor SonTag , Arcona Mineral Harvest Corporation member Clat ' Ha , and Jedi Knight Qui - Gon Jinn , met with Offworld Corporation ' s representative Xanatos , who was also Jinn ' s former Jedi Padawan . During the meeting , Xanatos offered ten percent of Offworld ' s profits to help the reclamation efforts of the Home Planet Party in order to persuade them that Offworld , which had a tainted history , was sincere in wanting to be friends with the Home Planet Party . However , in the middle of the meeting , a gas explosion occurred at the Home Planet Mine , seriously damaging it and destroying the building where the meeting had been originally scheduled to take place . In the aftermath of the explosion , ionite , a rare material worth much more than the azurite initially mined at the facility , was found deep in the mine . The explosion also destroyed the stockpile of azurite that they had accumulated , leaving the mine bankrupt . Wanting the profit from the ionite despite their current bankruptcy , VeerTa diverted some of the funds that Xanatos soon gave them to repair the mine to dig for the material . VeerTa , however , joined forces with Xanatos secretly , telling him about the ionite and covertly letting him control the Home Planet Mine ; Xanatos then tricked VeerTa and used her to place ion bomb s all over Bandomeer . VeerTa ' s betrayal was discovered after Jinn and the young Jedi Obi - Wan Kenobi found that Xanatos was out to kill his former Master by destroying Bandomeer with Jinn still on - world , and stopped Xanatos ' s ion bombs from detonating , saving the planet . VeerTa was later arrested after it was discovered that she helped Xanatos . Organization . The Home Planet Party ' s goals were to regrow fertile fields on Bandomeer once again , in order to restore their planet to its original beauty , and to regain control of the planet ' s resources , as most of it was owned by off - worlders . Founded by the patriot VeerTa , the group shared the Home Planet Mine with the Arcona Mineral Harvest Corporation . Behind the scenes . The Home Planet Party first appeared in 1999 ' s " " , written by Jude Watson . The group later received an entry in " The Complete Star Wars Encyclopedia " , published in 2008 .