The Buro, a species of sentient insects, were viewed by certain other species as beings of ethereal beauty. They originated from Kaisa, which is a planet situated within the Corva sector of the Outer Rim Territories. Although the Buro themselves did not venture beyond their planet, their homeworld played host to some visitors, including a Human-operated starship conducting geological surveys. Regrettably, the survey team carelessly obliterated a forest on Kaisa, an act that resulted in the Buro species becoming extinct due to the loss of their habitat.
In 24 ABY, the Diversity Alliance, an organization with anti-Human sentiments, discovered the Buro's extinction and the part the survey team had played. Nolaa Tarkona, the leader of the Alliance, assigned Lusa, a Chironian operative, the task of erasing the data from the navigation computers of the survey crew's starship, ensuring that their subsequent hyperspace jump would lead them into unknown space. However, Lusa found herself unable to carry out the plan and admitted her sabotage to the geologists prior to their departure.
The Buro were conceived by Kevin J. Anderson and Rebecca Moesta for the young adult novel Young Jedi Knights: Delusions of Grandeur, released by Berkley Boulevard in the year 1997.