Desrini District The Desrini District was a civic district in the northern hemisphere of the Republic ' s capitol planet of Coruscant , near the CoCo District . In 22 BBY , the entire district was evacuated after a garbage launcher misfired , spreading toxic waste over the area . Forty - eight individuals were killed , with more then 200 injured . Investigations into the matter led to the discovery of a group of squatters who had been living in the canister ' s launch tube , resulting in the misfire . The district was quarantined while clean - up was under way , and some Coruscanti politicians used the disaster to argue for more regulations on immigration into Coruscant , saying that the unregulated immigration had caused the Desrini District to become overpopulated , forcing the squatters to live in the launch tube . Due to the large amounts of biological toxins released by the disaster , a large amount of dianogas — large scavengers — infested the district , killing at least 25 more residents . Description . The Desrini District was a civic district in the northern hemisphere of the Galactic Republic ' s capitol world of Coruscant , near the CoCo Town District . The Desrini District was constructed sometime prior to 22 BBY , and had several spaceports that were heavily overcrowded , some said due to illegal immigration into Coruscant . Due to the district ' s overpopulation , many of its residents were homeless , some of which lived wherever they could find shelter . Several different species lived in the district , including Humans , Cereans , Trandoshans , and Advozses , among others . In 22 BBY , Waste Canister Delivery Port 84 - D - 21 — a garbage launcher situated in the Desrini Disrict — misfired its payload of industrial waste sealed in a shielded container , destroying four city blocks and filling the district ' s atmosphere with the container ' s highly toxic payload . As a result , the district was forced to be evacuated while Coruscant Rescue Ops began a district wide sanitary clean up . A month after the accident , most of the district ' s residents were left homeless , and large amounts of garbage began to pile up in the districts lower levels . History . Twenty - two years before the Battle of Yavin , the Desrini District suffered disaster when a garbage launcher , Waste Canister Delivery Port 84 - D - 21 , misfired its regularly scheduled payload of industrial refuse due to a previously unknown obstruction in its launch tube . The waste canister shredded into pieces in the launch tube , causing the entire cannon assembly to collapse , destroying four of the district ' s city blocks in the process . The delivery port ' s collapse killed at least 48 of the district ' s residents and injured over 200 more . Rescue crews from the district ' s local Coruscant Rescue Ops department arrived at the accident site in less than half an hour and immediately began to recover survivors and attend to the injured . Rescue Ops later identified the cannon ' s obstruction as a small shantytown made up of at least four refugee families that were living in the launcher ' s barrel , between the canon ' s fourth and fifth accelerator gate . The squatters had tapped into the launcher ' s energy grid which disabled its obstruction sensors , which would have warned about the shantytown before the canister ' s launch . The waste canister contained 115 highly toxic metric tons of concentrated industrial waste — including hyperbaride run - off , tricorrinium hexifluorine and destabilized hrucium — which was spread over the disaster site when the canister exploded , and emergency workers were forced to dress in full toxgear to carry out rescue efforts . The Coruscant WeatherNet canceled prevailing winds in the area , but natural air currents caused by undercity convection began to spread a dangerous cloud of industrial toxins across the Desrini District , forcing all non - pressurized structures in the district to be evacuated . Once the evacuation was complete , rescue crews began a district wide cleanup of the hazardous waste . After the catastrophe , the Coruscant Ministry of Ingress — which regulated immigration into Coruscant — issued new restrictions on all in - bound interstellar flights into Coruscant , aimed at reducing illegal immigration into the Galactic City . The new regulations were created partially due to the canister misfire in the Desrini District , with Ingress Minister Zelebitha Effhod claiming that the squatter families had been forced to live in the garbage launcher ' s cannon barrel because they had no where else to live , due to Desrini ' s overpopulation caused by large amounts of unauthorized immigrants moving into the district . One month after the canister ' s misfire , the Desrini District continued to be plagued with problems . Many of the district ' s residents were left homeless after the accident , and large amounts of garbage from the destroyed canister began to pile up district ' s lower levels . Due to the large trash pileup , many dianogas — large scavengers — infested the district , attracted to the organic waste . The dianogas attacked the district ' s homeless , killing at least 25 , and social activists on behalf of the destitute warned that the scavengers might spread to nearby districts , including Coco Town . The disastrous events of the Desrini District were reported on by HoloNet News in several small articles that year . Behind the scenes . The Desrini District first appeared in the in - universe " HoloNet News Vol . 531 50 " article , " Garbage Launcher Misfire Kills 48 ; Closes Desrini " , posted on the HoloNet News website April 4 , 2002 . The district later appeared in HoloNet News article ' s " Coruscant Restricts Immigration " and " Desrini Plagued by Dianogas " , released in " HoloNet News Vol . 531 51 " on April 11 , 2002 , and in " HoloNet News Vol . 531 55 " on May 9 , 2002 , respectively . The Desrini district was also mentioned in Star Wars . com Databank entry on the Coruscant Rescue Ops , and was given its own entry in " The Complete Star Wars Encyclopedia " , which was released on December 9 , 2008 .