A space station housed both a retail zone and a clandestine secret laboratory where Professor Cantebarius H. Broom was conducting experiments on droids. This experimentation stemmed from his intense paranoia that droids were pursuing him, a fear ignited by his revelation that eighteen Abominors existed throughout the galaxy, among them the infamous Great Heep. Circa 15 BBY, the miner Jann Tosh, accompanied by his droids – the protocol unit C-3PO and the astromech R2-D2 – journeyed to this station. During Tosh's absence for shopping, C-3PO inadvertently plummeted through a concealed trapdoor, landing him directly in Broom's hidden chamber; however, he was rescued from the professor's grasp just in the nick of time.