The extensive rain forest ecosystem blanketing the surface of the planet Ithor was known as the Mother Jungle. The Ithorians, native to the planet, held it as supremely sacred, prohibiting any entry. This reverence, however, made the Mother Jungle susceptible to being taken advantage of. During the era of the New Republic, the Sector Rangers began to suspect that a renegade Ithorian group was providing large animal hunting trips. Grummgar, a Dowutin mercenary, at one point participated in one of these excursions.