Chasmeene, a planet, suffered greatly when large areas of its agricultural land were irradiated as punishment for not fulfilling Imperial production requirements. This resulted in a prolonged period of starvation lasting several years. In the year 3 BBY, Leia Organa, the Princess of Alderaan, launched a humanitarian aid operation to the world, delivering food, seeds, and farming machinery. Organa tasked R2-D2 with gathering planetary scans to demonstrate that the Empire was responsible for the destruction. To support the gathered scans, the droid also acquired supplementary information, which Organa then copied onto multiple datacards.