The 1337 N00B5, also known as the Leet Noobs or simply the l33t, were a gang of pirates formed in the early days of the Clone Wars by Kaffman and Radar Spectros. The gang, founded in order to unlock Vergere's Holocron, which had been discovered by Kaffman's archeological team on Korriban, was an unorthodox pirate league, as its code of ethics was based on Jedi's light-sided perception of morality. The gang was led by Ilmar Grmek, a cunning, disciplined, though principled tactician who was unable to become an officer in the Republic Navy when the Clone Army was authorized. It communicated in secret using 1337, which neither the Republic nor the Empire could decipher with their decryption programs.