During the initial years of the Galactic Empire, a person of male gender served as an operative for Alderaanian Security, which was the security organization of the planet Alderaan. Around 17 BBY, this operative ventured into the Deep Core to spy on the Empire's activities within the Deep Core Security Zone, by scouting numerous worlds recently found by the Empire in that sector. Upon the completion of his task, the operative encased himself in carbonite to evade detection during his return trip to Alderaan. The carbonite-encased operative was then transported to Sel Zonn Station, an XQ2 Platform orbiting the planet Brentaal IV, where the droid information broker Switch received it and stored it within the space station's Blue Deck. Maya, an Alderaanian Security agent, was sent to retrieve the frozen operative. However, soon after her arrival at Sel Zonn Station, she was ambushed by stormtroopers, leading a group of spacers to meet with Switch instead to negotiate the agent's release. Subsequently, the spacers retrieved the carbonite slab from Blue Deck, and the operative was transported back to Alderaan aboard the Baudo-class star yacht called the Banshee. Upon reaching the planet, the agent was freed from the carbonite.