Stend IV Stend IV was an Outer Rim planet that lay in the Juris sector . Located on the Five Veils Route hyperlane , it was a tropical world with both jungles and oceans on the surface . The Gran inhabitants of the planet Malastare settled Stend IV decades before the Galactic Civil War in an attempt to locate new sources of energy . Shortly after the Trade Federation invasion of the planet Naboo , Stend IV , which was also home to Elomin colonists , was targeted by the eco - terrorist group known as the Army of Life , which conspired with the Humanocentrist group called the Knights of the Core . Their plan was to smuggle eggs of clodhopper s , omnivorous creatures native to Naboo and infamous for causing the devastation of whole planetary ecosystems , to Stend IV . The Army of Life hired a group of individuals that transported the clodhopper eggs to a settlement on the Gran colony world . Despite an attack by a Jedi Guardian ; a few Gran militia men ; and another , government - recruited group of individuals , the terrorist affiliates succeeded in releasing the clodhoppers into the environment of Stend IV . Description . Stend IV was a remote planet located within the Stend system , a part of the Outer Rim Territories ' Juris sector . The planet occupied the fourth orbital position around its star and lay on the hyperlane known as the Five Veils Route , which connected it to the Ninzam and Vergesso systems . Stend IV had at least one continent on its surface , as well as several clear , blue oceans . Land was dominated by lush , green jungle . The climate was tropical , with white cloud s in the atmosphere obscuring much of the planet ' s surface when viewed from space . The exact composition of Stend IV ' s atmosphere was different enough from the air on Naboo or aboard the freighter " Majestic Gundark " to render the use of chemically - bonded locks practical . History . Decades before the Galactic Civil War , Stend IV was settled by Gran colonists from the fellow colony world of Malastare . The settlement was an attempt by Malastare to find new sources of energy for exploitation ; that goal had not been reached , however , by the time of the Galactic Civil War . The Gran colonies , which also included Hok , Koensayr , and Silunes , were at first considered to be prestigious by the wider galaxy , but they eventually fell out of favor with the Gran homeworld of Kinyen due to rampant vice and violence on the colony worlds . Shortly after the Trade Federation invasion of the planet Naboo ended in 32 BBY , the eco - terrorist group known as the Army of Life formulated a plan to attack the settlers of Stend IV for political gain . To that end , the Army of Life , which had anti - technology goals and preached acts of violence against settlements on various worlds , conspired with the Knights of the Core , a Humanocentric terrorist group that wanted to target a continent on Stend IV inhabited by Gran and Elomin colonists . The Army of Life took advantage of the recently established peace between Naboo ' s Human and Gungan populations to steal four hundred eggs of clodhopper s . An omnivorous pest native to Naboo and infamous for destroying whole planetary ecosystems due to a voracious appetite and rapid rate of reproduction , clodhoppers were even known to consume sentient inhabitants of the worlds they infested . The Army of Life subsequently hired a group of individuals to pilot the freighter " Majestic Gundark " with two cargo containers aboard from Naboo to Stend IV . The group was to deliver the " bio - material " — which , unbeknownst to the group , was the clodhopper eggs — inside the containers to the largest settlement on Stend IV and release it into the environment . The freighter successfully traveled to Stend IV , albeit pursued by a government - tasked group of individuals on a mission to stop the terrorist plot . By that time , the Jedi Order had also learned of the theft of the clodhoppers and thus dispatched the relatively inexperienced Gran Jedi Guardian Dree - Tekes to Stend IV in order to prevent the terrorist plan from succeeding . Just as the freighter carrying the clodhoppers landed outside the settlement of Gev - Toosa , Dree - Tekes led a small group of local Gran settlers she had armed in an attack on the transport . Although the government - recruited group also attacked the terrorist affiliates , the latter prevailed in the intense skirmish and successfully released the clodhopper eggs into the environment . Inhabitants . By the time the Invasion of Naboo was repelled , Gran settlers had colonized Stend IV . The colony world was at a low level of technology and did not maintain a planetary defensive shield . The only military presence on the planet was a rag - tag colonial militia , with only four Gran members actually having military experience , albeit limited . One continent on Stend IV ' s surface was also home to Elomin colonists . During the clodhopper threat on Stend IV , the Gran Jedi Dree - Tekes gave the four Gran militiamen who had prior military experience primitive weapons , including blaster rifles , an antiquated heavy blaster cannon , and a grenade launcher . The militiamen fought zealously under the leadership of the Jedi to prevent the endangerment of their world , but in the end their adversaries were successful in releasing the clodhoppers into the planet ' s environment . Locations . There were only a few isolated settlements on Stend IV , of which the only one large enough to be considered a town was Gev - Toosa . Consisting of artificially constructed structures of refined metals , Gev - Toosa served as the planet ' s capital . It did not have a spaceport , instead relying on an automated signal that instructed new arrivals to land outside Gev - Toosa and walk to the settlement . Behind the scenes . Stend IV was first mentioned in " Secrets of Naboo " , a " Star Wars Roleplaying Game " sourcebook written by Steve Miller and J . D . Wiker , and published by Wizards of the Coast on February 8 , 2001 . The book mentioned the planet in an adventure seed named " The Defoliation Agenda . " The 2009 reference book " The Essential Atlas " placed the Stend system , and therefore Stend IV , in grid square P - 17 . In " The Defoliation Agenda , " which , like the rest of " Secrets of Naboo " , is set during the Trade Federation blockade of Naboo , the player - characters are called upon by a government official to stop a plan by the Knights of the Core terrorist group to release a cargo infested with clodhoppers on Stend IV . The characters confront the terrorists at a Naboo spaceport and pursue their freighter to Stend IV , where they have to convince the Elomin officials of the local starport of the impending threat . After being given permission to search the starport and impound the infested cargo containers , the characters face the terrorists and have to defeat them , as well as track down and stop a lone speeder that manages to leave the port with the dangerous cargo . The adventure seed also presented an alternate plot line in which the player - characters were , in fact , the group of individuals affiliated with the Knights of the Core . In this variation , the characters have to smuggle the clodhoppers off Naboo and onto Stend IV , thwarting the efforts of opposing parties on both planets . The first proper appearance of Stend IV was in " , " a " Secrets of Naboo " tie - in mini - adventure published on Wizards . com two weeks after the sourcebook . " Operation : Clodhopper " was an expanded and slightly modified version of the alternate variant of " The Defoliation Agenda . " This article assumes that as many events as possible of both " Operation : Clodhopper " and the original version of the " Secrets of Naboo " adventure seed play out as described , merging the plot lines of the two scenarios . Wherever contradictions arise , the online mini - adventure is assumed to take precedence due to its status as a more recent and fleshed - out source .