Cloudflower Wall Cloudflower Wall was a massive stone wall that surrounded Eliior , the capital city of Romin , a world that was , before 23 BBY , governed by an oppressive dictatorship . Ironically named for the planet ' s lovely native " cloudflower " , the virtually impregnable security wall was designed by tyrant - ruler Roy Teda to shut out the planet ' s impoverished worker - citizens from both its wealthy elite and its rich criminal - refugee contingent that resided within the capital city . Rising hundreds of meters above the ground and reconnoitered by guard droid s and security devices , including surveillance droids , Cloudflower Wall made of Romin ' s capital city a bastion or fortress for the wealthy , effectively dividing the planet into two parts — one for the privileged rich , the other for the wretched poor . Outside the wall , worker hovels rose in concentric rings away from the city — which grew progressively worse in nature the further they extended from the capital . Passes were required of all workers who wished to venture beyond Cloudflower Wall into the city , and they were required to have a work reason in order to gain entrance . The wealthy , including " Great Leader Teda , " living in the city ' s palatial villas and estates framed by lush gardens and sparkling fountains , rarely ventured outside Cloudflower Wall . Those who did usually were escorted under heavy guard in order to adequately protect them from the fierce backlash of such extreme social and economical disparity — desperate counter - movements embodied in the organized Citizens ' Resistance , under the leadership of Joylin . To conceal the truth about Cloudflower , visitors to the city were fed lies about the wall by the dictator ' s security officer s , including Becka , who was responsible for Teda ' s grand palace complex . In 24 BBY , for example , the Jedi Order dispatched a Jedi team to Romin on a mission to track down and capture an escaped criminal of the Republic , mad scientist Jenna Zan Arbor . Becka was the first to welcome the new arrivals , who came impersonating a captured criminal gang , the Slams , in order to gain admittance to the criminal - harboring world . As Becka took the undercover Jedi on a brief tour of the capital city , he lauded the virtues of Eliior and of Romin , painting for the new guests a utopia of bliss that ostensibly was afforded " all " planetary citizens — both those within the capital " and " those outside its walls . However , when Jedi Master Obi - Wan Kenobi noted and inquired about the battered security bastion that was Cloudflower Wall , he was given a practiced rose - colored response by the security officer : it was built for those citizens who " preferred " to live outside the city in the beautiful countryside , giving them " " the illusion that they live in wilderness . It is planted with cloudflower vines on the opposite side . Another great step of progression by Great Leader Teda ! Truly , he is remarkable " . " In extending his personal welcome to his new criminal guests , Teda became entranced and enamored with ' Valadon ' ( Jedi Master Siri Tachi ) , professing that her beauty would only add to the beauty of his planet , telling her that she was " prettier than a cloudflower . " Later , when Tachi and the other undercover Jedi attended the dictator ' s reception for all of his wealthy criminal refugees , they couldn ' t help but notice that , unlike the lies concerning the " real " Cloudflower Wall , its small - scale " replica " ( that encircled a miniature " world tableau " of representative Eliior ) was " actually fashioned " out of cloudflowers .