Metatheran Cartel jungle base 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 . The base was a duracrete bunker set into a hill to the west of Gadrin . 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 the one office in Gadrin with two workers . Soon , a resistance movement formed to take action against perceived Cartel illegalities . They gained some evidence against the Cartel , but needed two final files to make a solid case , and attacked the Cartel ' s jungle base to recover them from base ' s computers . Over sixty members of the resistance dispatched the six external Cartel guards , then met in a firefight with 125 more guards , who had all been in the staging area at the time of the attack . With both forces pinned down at either end of a narrow corridor , the Cartel ' s superior numbers were not able to be brought into play . The group of heroes who had been there over a month before were now with the resistance , and they slipped away from the fighting to find the base ' s computers and the necessary files . Velin Wir met them in the computer center and fought them with a lightsaber , but he was defeated . The Cartel guards surrendered when they realized they were in a disadvantageous position with no escape route . After the Gungans of the resistance led the defeated guards and other personnel out of the base , it was suddenly destroyed by a salvo from fire - linked turbolasers fired from a Cartel ship in orbit . The base had two hundred security guards stationed there , but up to half of them could be out on patrol at any one time . The personnel at the base were largely Caarite s and some droids — such as 3B - IR , Y4 - E and LS - 121 in the personnel office — but there were also a few Filordi working in the mess hall and in the security headquarters . Behind the scenes . There is an interior map to the base provided in " A Revelation " . However , the map only has areas pertaining to the base ' s guards ( barracks , mess , supply closet , staging area , and personnel office ) and secured areas ( security headquarters , records room ) , and has no space for all the commercial activities which the base had been supporting since the offices and warehouses were closed in Gadrin and Hedrett . It appears that the map only covers the security portion of the base , which was not able to be accessed internally from the commerical area — although there was a hidden escape passage beneath one of the terminals in the records room . The map was specifically designed to make the heroes jump across the crossfire between the two opposing forces to reach the records room .