The cliff wampa was a brown-furred, rock-climbing subspecies bioengineered from the wampa ice creature native to the frozen Outer Rim Territories planet Hoth. After learning of the ice wampa's powerful ferocity during the Battle of Hoth, the Galactic Empire captured several of the creatures, and Imperial biologists artificially adapted them to various environments. By 3.5 ABY, the Empire had placed the resulting cliff wampa on the rocky Outer Rim moon of Gall to guard local Imperial interests.