Asajj Ventress was a Dathomirian Nightsister who lived through the fall of the Galactic Republic, becoming an accomplished warrior in the Clone Wars. She was taken from her family as an infant on the planet Dathomir and enslaved by pirates on the war-torn world of Rattatak, where the stranded Jedi Knight Ky Narec found Ventress and took her under his wing. They defended the local populace against warlords and pirates, but Narec was killed before training was complete, and the Force-sensitive girl hunted Rattatak's warlords in rage.