Murkhana IV is a massive blue gas giant that hosts a vast array research stations in its orbit. At its core, Murkhana IV is filled with resources, including gems, minerals, tibanna gas, and spice. The near impossibility of navigation in the planet's inner atmosphere has led it to become a haven for daring smugglers and spice runners eager make a fortune and avoid detection and arrest. To combat the perrenial piracy problem has led the Tresarian government to mobilize its army and crackdown on all smugglers and spice runing operations operating on the planet. With the detained smugglers crowding prisons elsewhere in the system, Tresario decided to use the smugglers' confinscated loot to fund the transformation of Murkhana IV into a high-security prison planet, using those convicts as labor for the mines in order to extract resources from the planet's ring. Now, Murkhana IV is safe and a rich planet within the Murkhana system.