During the time of the Galactic Civil War, specifically in 3 ABY, a group of 20 soldiers from the Rebel Alliance's 61st Mobile Infantry initiated an attack on the Kuliquo belt, which was an Imperial mining asteroid field. This operation was part of Operation Ringbreaker. Captain Hazram Namir himself hand-picked these soldiers for a mission to cripple equipment within an exceedingly dangerous, dark, and airless environment.
The initial depiction of the assault on the Kuliquo belt's asteroid mines can be found within Battlefront: Twilight Company, a novel written by Alexander Freed and published in 2015.