Shedu Maad was once exploited as a mining world. During this period, Uroro Station served as a transfer station for Hapan ships traveling along the Throat to Shedu Maad. However, mining resources eventually vanished and the entire world was abandoned.
An abandoned mining complex on Shedu Maad was used as a hidden base for the Jedi Coalition after they evacuated their temporary base at Endor. It was here that the Coalition defeated Darth Caedus and ended the Second Galactic Civil War. A Jedi academy was established on the planet after the war.
In 43 ABY, during the Lost Tribe of Sith emergence, Leia Organa Solo carried four Jedi who had contracted Force psychosis — Natua Wan, Seff Hellin, Yaqeel Saav'etu, and Bazel Warv — to the academy in order to prevent them from being frozen in carbonite by Galactic Alliance Chief of State Daala.
When the New Jedi Order withdrew from The Galactic Federation of Free Alliances, after defeating Abeloth and the Lost Tribe of Sith, they moved to a secret base in Shedu Maad, where they would begin their search for Kesh, the homeworld of the Lost Tribe.
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