Gadrin Gadrin was a city on Cularin and along with its twin city Hedrett was the only major non - Tarasin settlement on the planet . The city ' s industrial sector was nicknamed Ged . History . The city of Gadrin , along with its twin city Hedrett , was the only major non - Tarasin settlement on the surface of Cularin . The other non - native cities were built on platforms which towered over the jungle . Scout Reidi Artom helped found Gadrin , the first alien towns in Cularin , on the west bank of the Estauril River , near the location of the Hiironi irstat . Artom had met with the Hiironi and they helped her to build the first buildings , made out of native woods , where the Estauril flowed to the base of the Cloud Mountain s . Urban planning for Gadrin was supposed to use a grid , but the quick growth of the city and the incoming population made it impossible . The spaceport was built to the other side of the river , where there was nothing . Later settlements in that side of the Estauril would become a second town , Hedrett . After Hedrett was founded on the opposite side of the river , Artom built a great bridge to connect them . Further expansions of the cities , some of them using prefab buildings imported from other planets , reached the jungle . This led the native Tarasins to oppose to new buildings , and eventually to the Tarasin Revolt . The Revolt ended with a treaty , the Cularin Compact , recognizing the Tarasins ' s rights and the obligations of the aliens to respect the local ecology . Military equipment that the Tarasins had left after the war , was re - sold in Gadrin and off - planet . To avoid further expansions to the jungle , further cities in Cularin would not be built on the surface , but " over " it : The platform cities could expand without affecting the jungle . The building of the platform cities reduced the importance of Gadrin and Hedrett , and their populations declined . Despite this , the " twin city " was sometimes viewed as the unofficial capital of Cularin . As Artom used her wealth and fame to improve the development of Cularin and to transform it in an advanced planet comparable to the Core , she was well - loved in Gadrin , Hedrett and the platform cities . One of the more notable locations in Gadrin , as the first Cularin city ever , was a museum built for Reidi Artom in Gadrin . The museum had holovids , personal effects , and logbooks of the explorer , along with other displays . A twenty meter tall statue of Artom stood in front of the museum . A road led from Gadrin to the Hiironi irstat . A silver archway stretched above the start of that road . Though the other people of the Cularin system tended to see Gadrin and Hedrett as one city , the two towns had their own distinctive flavors , architecturally and politically - and in fact were rivals in many senses . At some point , for instance , Hedrett annexed the spaceport that Gadrin had built in what was by then Hedrett soil . Gadrin considered the creation of a new spaceport but , as Hedrett ' s was comfortably near , the population showed no interest in that . Gadrin had the more rambling layout of the two . Most Gadrin buildings were wooden , though there were some prefabs brought in as well . Gadrin didn ' t have a spaceport , its original one having been corrupted by Hedrett . Plans had been made for a new one , but not carried through , as the Hedrett spaceport was close enough to make another one unnecessary . Gadrin maintained close ties with the platform city of Lissken . Gadrin was led by a governor , who was supposed to be elected every four years . In actuality , votes for governor often passed with most citizens not even realizing it . The people of Gadrin had a general apathy when it came to government and politics . The governor of Gadrin in 31 BBY was Barnab Chistor . He enjoyed galactic culture , and imported as much as he could to Gadrin , such as holotheaters , concerts , and opera , spending public money though most citizens of Gadrin didn ' t attend those events . As Chistor enjoyed his job , he did nothing to correct the population ' s disinterest towards politics . Around 32 BBY , Gadrin had a population of 20 , 000 , including no more than 2 , 000 Tarasins . Hedrett had less inhabitants , but a greater Tarasin population . In 31 BBY , there were a series of pirate attacks on the various trade houses within Gadrin and Hedrett . These had been secretly arranged by Velin Wir of the Metatheran Cartel . On the 200th anniversary of Reidi Artom ' s settlement of Gadrin , a huge celebration was thrown in the town . This celebration was interrupted by a hologram of Wir , announcing the Cartel ' s plans for a trading and distribution center on Cularin . The pirates were soon traced to a platform out in the jungles near the already built Metatheran Cartel jungle base . Though no proof connected the Cartel to the pirates , concerned citizens of the twin towns removed themselves from their daily lives and came together in a secret resistance movement against the Cartel . The Cartel suspected something was amiss , and armed Cartel guards were seen patrolling the streets , causing people to become nervous that they were returning to a time akin to when the Trade Federation was in control . When the Cartel ' s jungle base was destroyed and the Cartel withdrew from the planet , another celebration was thrown in the streets of Gadrin . During this celebration , a vote was held to determine if the Cartel would be allowed to reestablish offices on the surface of Cularin . The vote ended in a dead tie , so Governor Chistor decided the matter , refusing the Cartel ' s request . Later in 31 BBY , the system ' s crime lord Nirama recruited prospective employees using a landing platform 500 meters west of Gadrin . Even later that year , dark Jedi Karae Nalvas did the same twice in a local restaurant known as Bath Rabbud ' s . Nalvas ' s enemy Alec , a Jedi Knight , also booked a table there to gather and brief his allies against Nalvas . During the Clone Wars , when the Almas Academy was blockaded by Jedi Master Darrus Jeht , all classes from the facility were temporarily moved to the facility in the area .