c. 231 BBY 20,000 (32 BBY) The city of Gadrin, along with its
twin city Hedrett, was the only major non-Tarasin settlement on
the surface of Cularin. The other non-native cities were built
on platforms which towered over the jungle. Scout Reidi Artom
helped found Gadrin, the first alien towns in Cularin, on the
west bank of the Estauril River, near the location of the
Hiironi irstat. Artom had met with the Hiironi and they helped
her to build the first buildings, made out of native woods,
where the Estauril flowed to the base of the Cloud Mountains.
Urban planning for Gadrin was supposed to use a grid, but the
quick growth of the city and the incoming population made it
impossible. The spaceport was built to the other side of the
river, where there was nothing. Later settlements in that side
of the Estauril would become a second town, Hedrett. After
Hedrett was founded on the opposite side of the river, Artom
built a great bridge to connect them. Further expansions of the
cities, some of them using prefab bui