Velin Wir Velin Wir was a male Caarite business manager , Force Adept and the Metatheran Cartel ' s envoy to the Cularin system before Thurm Loogg . Biography . Around 31 BBY , Velin Wir was involved in the Metatheran Cartel ' s attempt to obtain a charter on Cularin , where they intended to build a trading center . The Cartel had to bribe some key members of the Trade Federation and staff members of the Baron Administrators of the main cities in Cularin , Gadrin and Hedrett . Wir kept records of those bribes in a personal datapad . Although Velin Wir was slightly Force - sensitive , he was not truly skilled in lightsaber ' s use . He did own a lightsaber , a gift from crimelord Riboga the Hutt , linked with a proximity sensor that fried the saber ' s circuits and set off a tiny thermal detonator implanted in Wir ' s chest should he ever be separated from the lightsaber by more than three meters . On the 200th anniversary of Reidi Artom ' s founding of Gadrin , Velin Wir interrupted the city ' s celebration to announce the Cartel ' s intention to build a trading and distribution center on Cularin . What he did not say was that a Cartel base already had been built hidden in the jungle west of Gadrin . Velin Wir had hired a group of pirates to steal a shipments of high tech supplies from various trading concerns . The pirates used a landing platform close enough from the Cartel ' s base to be convenient , but far enough for plausible deniability about a connection between the Cartel and the pirates . Unconfirmed rumors suggested that Wir had met with seedy entrepreneur Rufus Trammel , but the Metatheran Cartel refused to confirm or refute those claims . When the pirates kidnapped a House Hirskaala employee named Darin who had information he said would ruin the Cartel , a group of people looking for him followed the pirates ' movements and rumors to the vicinity of the Cartel base and the pirates ' platform . The visitors were found by a security patrol and shown into the Cartel base . Velin Wir told them about a platform near his base which saw a considerable amount of traffic , but said he knew nothing more about it . He sent one of his security patrols to lead the investigators to the platform , and later filled the news with stories playing up his role in helping the " heroes of Cularin " in rooting out the pirate threat , revealing the presence of the jungle base at the same time . Those heroes re - entered Wir ' s life over a month later when they helped the Cularin resistance . The resistance had proof of Wir ' s wrong - doing , including cutting down ch ' hala tree s , a violation of the Cularin Compact . One final piece of proof was needed to build a concrete case , and following an attack by the Cartel ' s forces on the resistance ' s hidden base , the resistance attacked the Cartel ' s jungle base to get that piece . The heroes slipped around the firefight to get the information in the records room , and came upon Wir , who faced them with his lightsaber ignited . In the course of battling the intruders , he was disarmed and died . The Metatheran Cartel destroyed Wir ' s jungle base and retired from Cularin , but they maintained that Wir had become rogue individually and that they would look for more corruption in their staff before returning . Thurm Loogg was appointed the next Metatheran Cartel envoy . He spent much of his time trying to overcome the public relations debacle left by Velin Wir , and seemed to hold less real power .