Kyr Uneris was a metropolis situated on the world of Cato Neimoidia. Back in 22 BBY, a transport for inmates, holding the one-time Neimoidian Royal Guard member Ruug Quarnom along with four other captured individuals, experienced a catastrophic failure and plummeted to the surface beneath the city. Quarnom remarkably emerged as the only one to survive this crash, an incident intentionally designed to eliminate her. She then managed to endure in the surrounding wildlands near Kyr Uneris until Obi-Wan Kenobi and Anakin Skywalker, both Jedi, orchestrated a clandestine extraction to save her from pursuing battle droids.