The scene takes place after the aneantissement of the race of Rakatas by Mandaloriens and Revan. the old republic had forbidden the traffic in this system.
But the empire has of it to find the track, and conscious of the dark influence of the side on this planete and after the déstruction of the star forge, made a training camp for its troops and a base of research for the technology rakata (with the fragments of the star forge).
But the troopers influenced by the dark side eventually kill between them, soon two camps made their aparitions, each looking has controler the planete...