Imperial Environmental Preservation & Refocusing Authority The Imperial Environmental Preservation & Refocusing Authority , also known generally as the Imperial Preservation & Refocusing Authority , or the IEPRA for short , was a government department of the Galactic Empire staffed by a Deputy Associate Operations Director , Lieutenant Rille Nuder and other Imperial officials during the time of the Galactic Civil War . The department conducted operations on multiple worlds throughout the galaxy , including Naboo , and comprised of a branch named the Office of Biosphere Control and Repurposing . Although the department was responsible for benefiting planetary environments by reducing the proliferation of dangerous flora , fauna , viruses and disease s , the IEPRA also drew criticism for their policy of exploiting natural resources under the cover of progress , turning natural worlds into factory planets , and endangering entire planetary ecosystems . History . Activities on Naboo . By the time following the Battle of Yavin in 0 BBY , the Imperial Environmental Preservation & Refocusing Authority , or the IEPRA for short , conducted routine missions to expunge dangerous and nuisance animals from any area where Imperial agents were scheduled to establish service posts on the planet Naboo . According to the IEPRA , these temporary survey sites were established in the wilds of Naboo for the purposes of galactic security . The IEPRA found it expedient to hire private contractors for this type of work , and frequently sent coordinates to hunters who wished to aid the IEPRA in removing wildlife . However , the IEPRA also experienced problems with the larger creatures of Naboo somehow managing to encroach upon their temporary sites . They consulted the Royal Naturalist Society of Naboo for advice , but the IEPRA alleged that they offered no insight as to why their wildlife eradication protocol was failing . As the IEPRA continued to research this problem , they called upon additional hunters to manually clear these areas again , so that their agents could conduct their business in peace . Consequently , the Royal Naturalist Society of Naboo became incensed at the behavior of the Imperial Environmental Preservation & Refocusing Authority . According to the Society , to accommodate the various Imperial sites on the planet ' s surface , the IEPRA had interfered with the rich ecosystem of Naboo . This was argued to have disrupted the natural balance of predator and prey on the lush Mid Rim world . To restore this balance , the Society identified several habitats in which both predatory and prey species needed to be culled in order to realign the population . The Society called on hunters to participate in their program . However , the efforts of the Society did little to deter the actions of the IEPRA . Even after the Society ' s attempts to preserve the natural balance of Naboo ' s ecosystem , the IEPRA continued to eradicate additional creatures . The Royal Naturalist Society likened the killers of these animals to " despicable murderers . " Feeling as though they had no choice but to respond again , the Society called upon the services of outdoorsmen willing to euthanize the starving animals which survived what the Society referred to as the " Empire ' s heartless campaign . " In an effort to save Naboo from the apparently destructive actions of the Empire , the Society provided the coordinates to the locations of these killing grounds . Indeed , the IEPRA was on occasion forced to solve problems created by the very Empire they served . In one instance , local animals ended up ingesting contaminated runoff from the Emperor ' s Retreat , a private sanctuary for Emperor Palpatine nestled within Naboo ' s Gallo Mountains . The IEPRA feared that the creatures which ingested the runoff posed a significant risk to the planetary ecosystem . The creatures had since dispersed to various places on the planet , forcing the IEPRA to contract additional hunters to dispose of these animals as quickly as possible . IEPRA satellite droids isolated several potential locations where these contaminated animals might be found . These coordinates were made available to qualified applicants . Meanwhile , in Naboo ' s city of Keren , a petty thief by the name of Brennis Doore made an effort to turn his life around . Feeling as though a government job would be the answer to all his problems , Doore tasked a spacer with delivering an application to Lieutenant Rille Nuder , a representative of the Imperial Environmental Preservation & Refocusing Authority . Although Brennis Doore surmised that the IEPRA was a flawed institution which exploited a planet ' s natural resources under the guise of progress , he believed himself well suited for a position within the department . The spacer agreed to help Doore , and delivered his application to Lieutenant Nuder , who was conducting business in an off limits area of Naboo being surveyed by the IEPRA . When Lieutenant Nuder finally received Doore ' s application , the Imperial officer told the spacer that he would review it after he finished processing the almost ten thousand applications waiting for him at his office . Assassination of an Imperial Environmental Refocusing Official . In the meantime , a citizen became angered at an Imperial Environmental Refocusing Official for their alleged plans to destroy the ecosystem of their homeworld and turn it into a factory planet . To slow their progress , the citizen took it upon themselves to murder the IEPRA official . However , because the assassin left behind their sniper rifle , the Empire discovered the identity of the assailant . The Empire subsequently issued a bounty on the target , who was believed to be " moderately armed " and " medium - threat . " A bounty hunter contracted by the Bounty Hunters ' Guild ultimately succeeded in locating and eliminating the target , but not without being ordered by the Empire to give the following message to the target before termination : " You left your sniper rifle behind . Very sloppy . " Following the death of the target , the Empire sent their congratulations , but discouraged the bounty hunter from publicizing their success . The Empire believed that these types of murderers often wished to die a public death , and become seen as martyrs . Environmental Activities Throughout the Galaxy . Despite its often negative reputation , the Imperial Environmental Preservation & Refocusing Authority did on occasion conduct environmental initiatives for the benefit of citizens throughout the galaxy . For instance , the IEPRA , beset by manpower shortages , nevertheless contracted the services of individuals willing to help nerf herders plagued by creatures spooking their nerfs and causing stampedes . Likewise , when a separate group of nerfs infected with an experimental virus were accidentally released into the wild instead of being destroyed , the IEPRA tracked down all the possible locations where the diseased animals may have ended up and performed extensive surveillance . Although the nerfs in those areas were vaporized , some of the areas also contained a variety of other dangerous predators . Not willing to risk the virus spreading , the IEPRA called on individuals to wipe out the predators on the off chance that they devoured infected nerfs . To allay the hunters ' concerns , the IEPRA assured them that the virus was harmless to most sentient species . Furthermore , to halt the spread of Hesken Fever , the IEPRA hired individuals to destroy vermin related to the infestation , thus preventing the disease from spreading to other settlements . Every year , the IEPRA also oversaw the extermination of pests during seasonal infestations , paying usual fees for every nest that was cleared . The IEPRA was also forced to undo the damage caused by a geneticist who had been performing illegal cloning and gene manipulation experiments in an attempt to create exotic animal hybrids . Although the geneticist was arrested by the Imperial Office of Criminal Investigations , some of his experiments were already released into wilderness areas so that he could study their adaptability . Unfortunately for the residents of these areas , many of the hybrids survived and began reproducing . With dens of these creatures spread throughout the Empire , the IEPRA deemed it prudent to clean them out . To succeed in this endeavor , they paid enterprising individuals a handsome reward for every den that was destroyed . The IEPRA also became concerned with the Periodic Overland Migration , an irregular large - scale movement of local herbivores between widely separated feeding grounds . Predators followed this herd in unusually large numbers . Due to recent settlement of the area around the migration , these predators started to present a danger to the locals . According to the IEPRA ' s research , if one pack were to make a successful attack on the local sentients , other packs would converge and adopt the practice opportunistically . Ergo , the IEPRA ' s Office of Biosphere Control and Repurposing began contracting with experienced strike teams to cull designated packs in high - threat areas . The IEPRA instructed these strike teams to report successful culls to their Deputy Associate Operations Director . Additionally , after the fall of the Old Republic , many predators destined for the Geonosian Petranaki gladiator arenas of Geonosis ended up spread throughout the Outer Rim Territories and even in many Core Systems . Most of these beasts died out on their own or were hunted by locals , but a few had survived here and there . The IEPRA paid experienced hunters to visit these systems and wipe out the beasts that survived . In many cases , the IEPRA believed that they would be doing the system ' s ecology a favor , as many of those creatures should never have made it to those systems in the first place . Nevertheless , many of the IEPRA ' s actions were not necessitated by environmental concerns , but rather by commercial importance . When a dangerous pack of predators began terrorizing the workers of a land owner , the IEPRA demanded a fortune to clear out the pests . Ultimately , the frustrated land owner ended up losing six of his workers to the flesh - eating creatures , while another twelve ended up quitting . Unable to rely on the services of the IEPRA , the land owner resorted to hiring a private individual to eliminate the predators . Although they would not help the land owner , the IEPRA did become involved in the process of clearing other undeveloped land so that Corporate Sector Authority land surveyors could assess the property for purchase . To allay concerns lobbied by the Intergalactic Zoological Society , the IEPRA assured them that the greatest care would be taken in relocating any indigenous creatures . In actuality , however , the IEPRA instructed their contractors to " just blast those little buggers into oblivion . " The IEPRA assured their exterminators that if the IZS lodged a protest with their office , they would be able to provide them with proper documentation . The IEPRA made it clear that their only concern was to ensure the absolute safety of the land surveyors . Indeed , the IEPRA often found itself frustrated by the IZS and other wildlife preservationists promoting what the IEPRA called their " bleeding heart causes . " Annoyed by the preservationists attempts to save every obscure beast in the galaxy , the IEPRA facetiously considered sending a bill to the Intergalactic Zoological Society for all the nests they had to destroy due to overpopulation concerns . Organization . The Imperial Environmental Preservation & Refocusing Authority was a government department of the Galactic Empire tasked with the responsibility of controlling the ecology of multiple worlds throughout the galaxy , including the lush planet of Naboo . This involved clearing away wild vegetation and dangerous fauna which threatened to encroach upon newly constructed Imperial settlements . The IEPRA was also responsible for minimizing the spread of diseases and viruses which posed a risk to the public . This often involved the use of satellite tracking to locate herds of harmful species , as well as the use of private hunters contracted by the IEPRA to expunge large numbers of nuisance creatures . The IEPRA also worked towards controlling the population of various species . However , many of the IEPRA ' s actions drew ire from citizens and institutions alike for their part in industrializing worlds , exploiting natural resources , and endangering entire planetary ecosystems . As a department of the Galactic Empire , the Imperial Environmental Preservation & Refocusing Authority oversaw at least one branch named the Office of Biosphere Control and Repurposing . They also employed a Deputy Associate Operations Director and multiple Imperial officers , including a lieutenant named Rille Nuder who served as a representative of the IEPRA . As representative , Rille Nuder oversaw survey sites and processed thousands of job applications for positions within the department . The department as a whole held something of a rivalry with the Intergalactic Zoological Society and other environmentalists who interfered with the department ' s objectives . However , the IEPRA did attempt to collaborate with the Royal Naturalist Society of Naboo for advice on how to best pursue their wildlife eradication program . Behind the scenes . The Imperial Environmental Preservation & Refocusing Authority , or the IEPRA , appeared in the 2003 massively multiplayer online role - playing game " Star Wars Galaxies : An Empire Divided " , developed by Sony Online Entertainment and published by LucasArts , prior to its closure on December 15 , 2011 . In the game , the IEPRA was featured in multiple generic " destroy " of various difficulty , requiring players to destroy lairs on multiple , including , for a payout . In addition to the standard mission terminal quests , a quest titled " Killer of Imperial Environmental Refocusing Official " also featured the IEPRA . Aside from these mission terminal quests , the IEPRA was also involved in the third and final quest given by , a non - player character located in the of . In this quest , Brennis Doore tasked the player with delivering a job application in the form of a datadisc to Rille Nuder , a representative of the IEPRA . For completing this task , the player would receive 100 credits . The directory tree files contain details for additional NPC quests that are not known to have made it onto the live . Two of these were NPC " destroy " quests titled " Become a Mighty Hunter " , and " Balance of Nature " . The other two , titled " Honor a Pioneer " , and " Gasbladder Researcher " , were designed as NPC " escort " quests . The IEPRA is featured in the quest dialogue for all these quests . For instance , " Honor a Pioneer " includes information on Haum Choda , an individual who started a local bureau of the IEPRA . However , as this specific content is not known to have appeared on the live servers , this article considers the material cut , and therefore non - canon in Legends . Cut content . At some point during the reign of the Galactic Empire , a wilderness aficionado by the name of Haum Choda successfully introduced Imperial environmental regulations to his homeworld and started a local bureau of the Imperial Environmental Preservation & Refocusing Authority . Sometime following 0 BBY , an admirer of Haum Choda went on a hike outside of town to honor the 111th anniversary of his birth . However , when the hiker failed to return home , a concerned neighbor tasked a spacer with finding the scatterbrained wanderer , and returning them safely to town before the weather turned bad . Elsewhere , a hired researcher discovered new evidence of the off - world origin of the perennial stinking gasbladder , a noxious type of weed . However , before the researcher could complete their report on the local flora , they ended up getting lost in the wilderness . Nevertheless , the researcher was saved by a spacer tasked with the responsibility of finding and escorting the individual back to safety . After the researcher was rescued , it was believed that the data collected from the study could be used to secure a grant from the IEPRA to destroy all of the noxious gasbladder weeds .