Jorj Car ' das ' s fortress Jorj Car ' das ' s fortress on planet Exocron was built inside a mountain at the outskirts of Rintatta City . On the outside the house looked like a small , light blue building with half - finished additional wing , but it was only a facade with most of the fortress being hidden inside the mountain and accessible only by a quadrail car . The inner structure included a large indoor garden , a conversation room , and a huge datacard library as well as guest rooms . The fortress was built by Jorj Car ' das , a retired smuggler and information broker . Car ' das ' s former employee Talon Karrde , Karrde ' s bodyguard Shada D ' ukal and protocol droid C - 3PO visited him in his house when they were searching for the Caamas Document , an important historical piece of information . Description . From the outside Jorj Car ' das ' s fortress on Exocron — a planet in Kathol sector located near the Kathol Rift — appeared to be a small , unassuming light blue house , constructed against the mountain side at the outskirts of Rintatta City . It only had two small rooms and an unfinished additional wing . Car ' das used this simple setting as a meeting place when he dealt with Exocron officials . In truth the small house was only a facade and acted as a starting point to a quadrail car , which connected it with Car ' das ' s actual home . The outer building was purposefully left dirty and showing signs of decay and neglect . The other end of the quadrail led deep inside the mountains , where Car ' das had built his residence . Underground Car ' das had constructed a large indoor garden , which was more than a hundred meters in diameter , and which had cultivated flower beds and a forest of tall trees as well as a small creek hidden between the trees — the sound of the running water , however , could be heard across the garden . Next to the garden , separated by a hidden door , Car ' das had built his conversation room borrowing from classic High Alderaanian style . It was contructed from dark wood , with a sunken conversation circle , and decorated with plants , which gave it an air of expansiveness . The heart of the fortress was a huge datacard library , a room that was constructed to resemble an amphitheater and was larger than the indoor garden . Most of the room was taken up by two meter high data cases , arranged into circles around the central data retrieval stations , and filled with thousands of datacards containing the information Car ' das had accumulated during his career . This extensive collection included information about the destruction of the Mistryl homeworld , Emberlene , files covering most of Grand Admiral Thrawn ' s Imperial career , and data that allowed Car ' das to piece together a special datacard for his former employee , Talon Karrde . Karrde was visiting Car ' das when searching for the Caamas Document , an important piece of information , that revealed the identities of Bothan saboteurs who helped Emperor Palpatine to destroy Caamas , but Car ' das did not have the information . Instead he gave Karrde the evidence he needed to reveal a plot by Moff Vilim Disra , con artist Flim and the clone of Grodin Tierce — a special clone created by Imperial Grand Admiral Thrawn to combine his own tactical genius with qualities of a stormtrooper — to drive the New Republic into a civil war . The doors in the fortress were designed to be opened with a Force trick Car ' das had learned from the Aing - Tii monks , but for people unfamiliar with the technique there was a secondary method . A hidden panel was placed to the door frame , which could be identified with touch as it was slightly cooler than the surrounding material and if the pressure on the plate was kept constant for thirty seconds , the door was opened . When Car ' das taught this technique to Shada D ' ukal — a disgraced Mistryl Shadow Guard traveling with Karrde and acting as his bodyguard — she wondered if it was intended to be an extra layer of defense as any intruders would not have had patience to wait for a door to open . Occupants . Despite his advanced age , Jorj Car ' das was active , tending his large indoor garden with only little help . Having once been the head of a large and well organized smuggling organization , after his retirement on Exocron Car ' das only had small number of people working for him as part of his household . Car ' das himself cooked the food he offered to his guests , when Karrde and his companions visited in 19 ABY . Entoo Needaan E - elz , more commonly known as Entoo Nee , was Car ' das ' s closest assistant , helping him in the fortress as well as running errants for him outside Exocron . He had served Car ' das long enough to call him by the first name , but had not yet joined him during the construction of the fortress and the datacard library . In addition to the man , Car ' das employed several other people , who worked in the fortress and were considered to be part of his household . History . The oldest part of Car ' das ' s fortress was the light blue house , which acted as a facade to the actual construction . It had been built by a previous owner from whom Car ' das acquired the house he arrived on Exocron . Entoo Nee believed that the house had once been built against the mountain side to give it extra stability against the seasonal winds of the planet . After buying the house , Car ' das had began to construct an additional wing to the side of the house , but had given up on the project without finishing the work . After his arrival to Exocron Car ' das had started to build his real fortress inside the mountains , because the location would be easy to defend . Shada D ' ukal , seeing the extensiveness of the construction , suspected that Aing - Tii had helped Car ' das to build his fortress , but the old smuggler did neither confirm nor deny aliens ' s involvement . The datacard library — of which a large portion had been collected long before Car ' das ever moved to Exocron — had found its place in the fortress before Entoo Nee came into Car ' das ' s service . Behing the scenes . Jorj Car ' das ' s fortress first appeared in the " Vision of the Future " , the second novel of the Hand of Thrawn Duology , written by Timothy Zahn and published in 1998 . In the novel Car ' das simply calls it his home , but the Wizards of the Coast roleplaying game sourcebook " Scum and Villainy " uses the word fortress to describe it .