Field Agent Burne was a human male SIS

Strategic Information Service (SIS) Organization Galactic Republic (GGW, CW and GW)

operative who served the Galactic Republic during the Cold War. During the Separatist War, he was stationed outside the entrance to the Separatist Stronghold housed inside Mount Avilatan on the planet Ord Mantell

Ord Mantell Planet

. He received a tip that the separatists

Mantellian Separatists Organization Planetary and Sector

are meeting with the leaders of violent splinter groups from across the galaxy. He tasked a group of Republic operatives

Republic Operatives Organization Temporary Unions

to access the separatist database innside the stronghold and hunt down the splinter groups' leaders.