A Cularin Presence A Cularin Presence was the first Living Force adventure , part one of the Eye of the Sun trilogy . It was written by Morrie Mullins . Plot summary . In 31 BBY , on the 200th anniversary of Reidi Artom ' s founding of the settlement on Cularin which became Gadrin , Velin Wir interrupted Gadrin ' s celebrations with a hologram transmission into the town ' s central square , announcing the Metatheran Cartel ' s intention to build a trading and distribution center on the planet . The party continued , but became a bit more subdued . A young human named Darin burst into a cantina , telling the people in there that Cularin was in danger . A moment later , a group of House Hirskaala security guards came in and arrested him . A small group of the cantina ' s patrons momentarily questioned their right to do so and were shown authorization signed by Hirskaala ' s head of security . Darin was taken away . Those cantina patrons sensed that something was amiss , and took it upon themselves to investigate . The concerned cantina patrons went to the Hirskaala offices to speak to the head of security , a Trandoshan named Nim ' Ri . He let them know that the uniforms had been stolen from a laundry company and the authorization was a form letter that was also stolen . Darin was actually an employee of House Hirskaala and they were concerned about his disappearance . Nim ' Ri was able to tell them that Darin claimed to have information that could " sink " the Metatheran Cartel . Investigating further , the cantina patrons discovered that there had been a rash of cargo thefts and hijackings , some of those carried out by individuals wearing other uniforms stolen from the same laundry service . From the laundry service , they learned that uniforms for Renna ' s Transport Service had been stolen at the same time as those for Hirskaala . Going to Renna ' s , they came upon the scene moments after the thieves had attacked . They stopped one of the thieves fleeing the compound on foot . Renna offered these thief - catchers jobs on her security force , as they proved themselves more capable than her existing security . She told them that the hijackers took a full ship from her landing pad and headed west low over the jungle . Borus Ferthyn had told them in his crazy rants that there was hidden base in the jungle to the west of Gadrin . Renna lent them a speeder to pursue the hijackers . While traveling over the jungle , they were attacked by a pair of speeder bikes . Though they defeated their attackers , they crashed in the jungle . After being attacked by unusually territorial Mulissiki , they were found by a patrol of Caarite s from the Metatheran Cartel . The hidden base that Borus had mentioned belonged to them . Meeting with Velin Wir , he told them that he knew of a landing platform further to the west which had a large amount of traffic coming and going . He agreed to send a security squad to show them to the platform . The group that had come together in the cantina saw that Renna ' s shuttle was parked on the platform , and there was a group of pirates working around it . Capturing and interrogating the pirates , they verified that they were indeed the group that had captured Darin , but that Darin had escaped and run off into the jungle . They uncovered that the pirates had been working for somebody else , but these pirates were not important enough to know for whom . Some of the stolen goods were found in a nearby cave , but many high - tech supplies were still missing . The cantina patrons became famous for a short while for defeating the thieves . The Metatheran Cartel came out publicly about their base in the jungle , and Velin Wir filled the news with stories of how the Cartel helped the local heroes root out the pirates . Darin was assumed to have fallen victim to a jungle creature .