On the 200th anniversary of Reidi Artom's founding of Gadrin, the envoy of the Metatheran Cartel, Velin Wir, announced to Cularin the Cartel's intention of building a new trading and distribution center on the planet. In actuality, there was already a Metatheran Cartel jungle base which would suit those purposes, built in secret. The base was a duracrete bunker set into a hill to the west of Gadrin. When actions taken by a group of pirates hired by Velin Wir led a group of Cularin's heroic residents to find the jungle base, Wir helped the heroes locate the pirates, taking partial credit for their defeat. The presence of the jungle base became known to Cularin at that time. Following this revelation, the Cartel shifted most of its operations to the base, leaving open only the one office in