The Durkteel excavation transpired in 34 ABY on the world of Durkteel. A construction team was in the process of clearing the remnants of the Tak-Beam complex for a communications tower when this event occurred. During this ground clearing, the workers accidentally breached a room packed with soil and various artifacts dating back to the Galactic Civil War era. Out of all these discovered items, just a single vault, holding The Rebel Files, a collection of data written by the Alliance to Restore the Republic, was considered to have substantial worth for military or intelligence purposes.
Consequently, The Rebel Files were dispatched to the planetary governor, Vaxvissh Kal Ness. The governor then forwarded it to the New Republic, as Leia Organa, a key figure, was among the few remaining high-ranking individuals from the Alliance. The artifact was entrusted to Major Heck Ensio, who in turn passed it to Master Archivist Mordianius. Mordianius then sent it to Commander Korr Sella of the Resistance, so that she could deliver it to General Leia Organa, the leader of the Resistance.