In the years after the Great Sith War, the Republic Marines sent a company of troopers from the 21st Marine Battalion there, later supported by the 5th Marine Starfighter Squadron. The planet was the site of one of the first battles of the Mandalorian Wars, a skirmish which helped to propel the career of Marine officer Laera Reyolé. Many centuries after the conflict the planet, which had been all but forgotten, was rediscovered by a group of smugglers. Bad Alshir then became a remote refuge for those fleeing from the Galactic Empire or other agents, such as bounty hunters, throughout the time of the Galactic Civil War and afterward.