Fodurant served as a penal planet and correctional facility under the New Republic within their prison system.
Back in 19 ABY, Luke Skywalker received a warning from the overseer of a pirate stronghold, indicating their awareness of his efforts to secure proof that would lead to their two-decade-long incarceration on either Fodurant or Beauchen.
In 25 ABY, amidst the Yuuzhan Vong War, Reck Desh journeyed to a clandestine meeting held in Kuat City, where he was under the careful surveillance of his subordinates, Ven and Wotson. Telbun issued a threat, invoking the entirety of the New Republic's army and its extensive intelligence service, asserting that capture would likely result in a life sentence on Fodurant.