The orphanage was located in an old, derelict building in a city on the planet Gaaten. The grounds surrounding it were littered with ruins and debris from ancient buildings, and an abandoned temple lay a short distance away. Inside the orphanage was a dormitory with several bunks where the children slept and a single window overlooking the ruins below. There were also schoolrooms and staff offices.
The orphanage was managed by staff divided into night and day shifts. Following the discovery of the Grand Inquisitor's visits to the orphanage to abduct children, some of the night staff started performing patrols in the grounds to deter him. Among the staff there was also an old woman in charge of the school facilities.
The Grand Inquisitor kidnapped Force-sensitive children from the orphanage.
The orphanage was established sometime after the Clone Wars to house orphaned children who had lost their families in the war. It offered accommodation and tutoring to the orphans as well as school classes. Each season several Imperial transports would arrive to bring more orphans newly discovered around the galaxy and pick up others who had been chosen by a family to be adopted. Unbeknownst to the staff, the Grand Inquisitor, leader of the Imperial Inquisitorius, was visiting the orphanage once in a while to kidnap Force-sensitive children housed among the others. The Inquisitor would break in through the dormitory's window and silence his target using the Force, capture them and take them off-world. Several children had witnessed this happening and began circulating rumors about a monster abducting kids, but the staff dismissed those as overactive imagination.
At some point, a Force-sensitive girl from Malloran named Elish was taken to the orphanage and learned of the rumors herself. She used her innate connection to the Force to calm her peers, comforting them when they were having nightmares and helping them overcome their fears of the monster, eventually succeeding in creating a positive environment in the orphanage. A season after she arrived, however, a boy named Samil disappeared during the night and the investigations that followed yielded no results, sparking rumors of the monster's return. Having sensed Samil's sensitivity, Elish suspected it was the reason the monster had chosen him, and took it upon herself to protect fellow Force-sensitive Kessurian girl Gee'far. From then on she accompanied Gee'far everywhere, getting closer to her and becoming friends. Soon, however, the Inquisitor returned, this time spotted by Elish as he entered the dorm and took away Gee'far. Silencing her through the Force, the Grand Inquisitor spotted her himself and left before she could notify the orphanage staff.
This time the staff took Elish's testimony seriously, intensified their nighttime patrols and installed a new lock on the dorm window. Knowing that these measures would not stop the monster, Elish visited the nearby temple and prayed for another Force-sensitive person to come and protect her. Her prayers were answered in the form of former Jedi and Great Jedi Purge survivor Kira Vantala, who came to Gaaten and convinced the staff to let her stay and protect the children. Soon after she sensed the Inquisitor's arrival to the planet and warned Elish, preparing a plan to counter him and save her.
The same night, the Inquisitor broke in the dorm again, silenced Elish and took her away in his arms. As he was making his way through the grounds, Vantala stepped out of her hiding place and confronted him with her lightsaber drawn. The Inquisitor recognized her and dropped Elish, engaging her in a duel and using the Force to knock her lightsaber from her hands. Elish was able to return the saber to Vantala who sliced the Inquisitor with it and pushed him in some ruins, wounding him and forcing him to escape.