Outer Rim Oreworks Company The Outer Rim Oreworks Company , also known as ORO , was a mining company . Policies . The Outer Rim Oreworks Company ( ORO ) offered extremely low pay and forced their workers to live in very small company housing quarters . While it was possible to rent larger quarters , ORO charged very high prices for living space . ORO gave out loans to workers who needed money for food , housing , or other essentials , but charged the workers extremely high interest rates so that they would have to work even longer shifts in the mines to pay back the debt . ORO forbade the workers from leaving the planet until their debt was paid in full . The entity would be able to leave to fight for the Republic Army , but their wages would be garnished until their debt to ORO was paid . The Outer Rim Oreworks was a huge corporation that had several departments , including an exploratory branch responsible of finding useful planets that could be settled and exploited ; a Security and Law Enforcement division that could pay the needed guards ; and the Administrators , who managed the planetary mines . The mines were regularly audited by inspectors , but the Administrator was required to pay ORO for that " privilege " — as such , in at least one case , the Administrator instead bribed ORO officers so that ORO would " not " send inspectors . ORO was a ruthless company that sometimes performed illegal activities ; federal police and the Jedi Order were not welcome on their planets . ORO instead would rather deal with incidents themselves , one instance being when a group of spaceport customs officers seized ORO employees ' supplies for their personal use and created a smuggling ring . Locations . Apatros . ORO built a colony and opened a cortosis mine on Apatros in the Outer Rim Territories near the end of the New Sith Wars . Before he became the Sith Lord Darth Bane , Dessel worked for the company as a cortosis miner , as did his father , Hurst , and Hurst ' s friend , Gerd Corporate Sector . Thanks to the work of scout Hugo Bartyn and others , ORO had several assets in the Corporate Sector . Engebo V . ORO built the sole settlement on Engebo V , known as the Landing , and started a quickly profitable but ecologically hostile venture . The company deprived Engebo from valuable minerals and vital elements using questionable methods for several centuries . As soon as the deposits stopped being profitable , ORO officials left the planet , although many miners were left behind . Jaffro Davengatt , a nerf rancher and entrepreneur , settled on Engebo V soon afterward , recycling ORO ' s facilities and former staff for his own business for the following ten years . Gertafuu VI . ORO held a mining facility in the remote , frigid planet Gertafuu VI , settled by Aqualish and Whiphids who also earned a living by trading with furs and exotic foodstuff . Lamaro . Circa 529 BBY , a team of the exploratory branch used long - range spectrometry equipment , a then - new technology , to chart the Lamaro system — which had been previously analyzed and dismissed as having little value . The long - range scouts still dismissed the icy planet Lamaremm , but noticed that Lamaredd had a higher concentration of useful metals than previously believed ; scout leader Hugo Bartyn hypothesized that this could have been due to geologically recent volcanic activities , which would make the mining easier than expected . Bartyn them contacted the Senate Mining Bureau to claim the planet in the name of ORO , and afterward sent ORO his report . Bartyn then retired as a scout and used his reputation and skills to become the local ORO Administrator of the following mines in the mountain range later known as Krakana ' s Maw . ORO also registered a land in the bay to Bartyn ' s name , allowing him to use it at his whim . ORO sent engineers and droids to build the ORO Mining Station LM0228 , rooms for the crew , and waste pipelines that threw garbage to a northwestern ocean . Once the building was complete , Bartyn bribed several ORO officers so he could keep the droids . ORO assumed that Bartyn would be wiping out the locals , known as Menahuun , and maybe obtaining more money through illegal activities . Due to this , the company retired from the planet and waited for Bartyn to give the first results . Bartyn indeed managed the mines and provided ORO with profits in little time — even though Bartyn skimmed part of ORO ' s money . This prevented ORO from discovering Bartyn ' s real activities : He was obtaining the deeds to key planetary locations , creating a fishing city known as Bartyn ' s Landing , and taking control of the budget of Security and Law Enforcement to pay the Security Chief , or constable , of the city and the Security Chief ' s Second s , as well as providing the Chief with advanced gear , and interfering little in the Chief ' s work . As such , the Chief used an ORO insignia . Only too late to react did ORO discover that Bartyn had taken control of the whole planet , and still not all of the ORO leaders wanted to go against Bartyn — after all , Lamaredd was still profitable . Nonetheless , ORO sent a security force and a flight controller to take over the spaceport . Bartyn agreed , as long as these ORO employees would answer to the ORO Administrator , which allowed him to export seafood without telling ORO . This also allowed the Administrator to reassign these guards to other duties outside the port . The customs check performed by this unpopular staff was brief but rough . During the five following centuries , the Administration of the fully automated mine went to Bartyn ' s descendants , and ORO still received money from the mines . Officially the planet still belonged to ORO while the contracts were kept . As such , ORO prevented Bartyn ' s Landing town council from having any influence in interplanetary trade or the fully automated mines , theoretically operated by ORO droids . No one knew that the mines were also inhabited by the Menahuun , who had survived Hugo Bartyn ' s attacks by migrating northwest , but centuries later they migrated southeast again because they were too close to ORO ' s waste pipeline , which they assumed was some form of attack . The Menahuun were learning about ORO technology and indeed used stolen ORO insignias as a token of respect . At that time , although ORO increased its security under Administrator Guther Bartyn , it was not enough ; instead , part of the ORO staff was busy with a smuggling ring that was eventually discovered by the local Miss Mylla . Eventually , the Menahuun revealed their existence and , after diplomatic talks , joined the community of Bartyn ' s Landing . This was a problem for ORO , as the mere presence of living , sentient Menahuun was proof of Hugo Bartyn ' s genocidal activities . To avoid a potential scandal , ORO abandoned Lamaredd , leaving the mine behind . Administrator Guther Bartyn lost all of his political and economic power , and an election was held to name a new Administrator . ORO Personalities . A notable scout of the exploratory branch was Hugo Bartyn , working in the fifth century BBY . Over the course of his career , Bartyn located several Outer Rim planets that were then settled and exploited for gas and mineral resources , including some of the most productive assets of ORO in the Corporate Sector . ORO knew that Bartyn was a speciesist who hunted the primitive sentient species of the planets he explored , but Bartyn was also a good employee who filled ORO ' s pockets , and , due to this , ORO turned a deaf ear to Bartyn ' s extracurricular activities — for as long as that was possible . Gall was a miner for ORO in Engebo V ' s the Landing , but he lost an eye in an accident . ORO gave him a large compensatory payment and named him security chief for the station . When ORO left Engebo V ten years later , Gall remained there , losing his job . Behind the scenes . Outer Rim Oreworks was first mentioned in the roleplaying - game adventure " Death , Dirt , and the Nerf Rancher ' s Daughter , " written by Cory Herndon . Alternate endings . The article assumes that the player characters of " Reckonings " achieve the best possible ending , but , should they fail , the adventure offers an alternative path that takes place during an open war between the Menahuun and the citizens of Bartyn ' s Landing . In this situation , Administrator Guther Bartyn gains control of the people and wages several battles against the Menahuun . He eventually asks ORO to send shock troops to clear the mines of the Menahuun threat ; these ORO soldiers would then be permanently assigned to Lamaredd to stop any possible new infestation of Menahuun .