A Rhydonium mining installation was constructed on the remote planet of Abafar, in the city of Pons Ora and controlled by the Confederacy of Independent Systems. It was used mainly for mining rhydonium, a volatile fuel used by the CIS for stocking on a stolen Republic ship so as to destroy the Valor Station, a space station located in the Carida system that was hosting a Republic strategy conference. Around 20 BBY, the Republic D-Squad's ship crash-landed on Abafar, and later, with the help of a clone commando named Gregor, who suffered from amnesia, they managed to steal a heavily guarded ship from the facility, and return the encryption module to Coruscant, which they got from their previous mission.