The cataclysmic event known as the Devastation of Froz transpired amidst the conflict of the Galactic Civil War, a struggle pitting the forces of the Galactic Empire against those of the Alliance to Restore the Republic. Naomi Dargon, who held the position of imperial Grand Moff for the Corellian sector, gave the command for an orbital bombardment to be unleashed upon the planet as a punitive measure due to the Frozians' allegiance to the Rebel Alliance.