Security Condition One, a legal decree established by the Galactic Empire, predated the Gorse Conflict. Its purpose was to locate and detain individuals recognized as troublemakers among the mining laborers. When the Imperial Count Denetrius Vidian conducted his review of the Gorse system, he invoked this very law to command the detention of forty-six miners on Cynda, a mining moon, citing "agitation" as the reason.