Northern Windfarm The Northern Windfarm , also known as the Geonosian Compound , was a windfarm and storage complex in the northern Jundland Wastes on the planet Tatooine during the Cold War between the Galactic Republic and the Sith Empire . One of the facility ' s warehouses was used by local criminals to store spice , but the windfarm was overrun by members of the Geonosian species during the Cold War . The facility fell into disrepair as a result , and in addition to conducting raids on local settlements , the Geonosians occupying the farm were also employed by the Sith Empire to construct droid - borne bombs . Description . The Northern Windfarm was a windfarm in the Deathly Heat , a region in the northern Jundland Wastes on the planet Tatooine . A number of other houses and facilities were located in the area and formed a kind of unofficial township . The facility occupied a large depression in the sands of the desert and consisted of a number of buildings as well five large wind vanes . The largest were two rectangular warehouses ; four smaller circular buildings were situated just west of the northern warehouse , and one of the buildings was topped by a large moisture vaporator . A second warehouse was located to the southwest , and a large circular tower was situated south of the main farm . The windfarm ' s five large vanes were situated just north of the farm ' s buildings , though the farm was taken over by members of the Geonosian species during the Cold War between the Galactic Republic and the Sith Empire , and two of the vanes had collapsed due to disrepair . Three other wind vanes were located south of the southern warehouse , along the edge of the Northern Jundland Plateau . History . The Northern Windfarm had been in operation before the Cold War but had been abandoned by the year 3643 BBY , when Geonosians took over the windfarm along with most of the region , leading to the area being named the Geonosian Compound . Despite the farm ' s abandonment , the southern warehouse had been used by local criminals to store spice . After taking control of the compound , the Geonosians began to raid nearby settlements . Two months after the Geonosians invaded the windfarm , Colonel Gorik of the Sith Empire employed the Geonosian Kyvax to construct droid - bombs that were used to attack the settlement of Anchorhead . After learning that the Geonosians were producing the bombs , the elite Republic Special Forces unit Havoc Squad investigated the warehouse at the Northern Windfarm , where its members encountered Kyvax and overheard a conversation between Kyvax and Gorik that confirmed the Empire ' s involvement in the bombings . After fighting its way out of the warehouse , Havoc Squad then returned to Anchorhead and continued to track down Gorik . Around the same time , a Jedi Knight visited the windfarm to set up an ultrasonic sensor as part of an effort to locate the Shock Drum , a superweapon that caused seismic vibrations ; the Jedi Knight fought through the Geonosians in the area and set up the scanner before departing . Also around that time , the Geonosians from the windfarm attacked the nearby Ut ' ttailri Jawa Camp , a Jawa settlement built around a damaged sandcrawler , and stole parts that the Jawas needed to repair their vehicle . A Jedi who was searching for the Jedi Master Eriz Vossan made a deal with the Jawas to recover their stolen parts in exchange for information on Vossam ' s whereabouts , and the Jedi Consular reacquired the parts from around the compound . A smuggler was sent to reacquire a tooth from a rare krayt dragon from the southern warehouse for Tookreek , the owner of Tookreek ' s Cantina at the nearby Dreviad Outpost , and the smuggler fought through the raiders to find the tooth . Behind the scenes . The Northern Windfarm is an area on the planet Tatooine in " " , a video game released by BioWare in 2011 . It is visited during the Jedi Knight class mission " Race Against Doom " and the Jedi Consular mission " Looking Out for the Little Guy , " and the two warehouses are a class - restricted phase for the Trooper mission " Interception " and the Smuggler mission " Bugged - Out . " The area was pictured , though unnamed , in a map of the Jundland Wastes that appeared in the " " .