Zi'am was a male Human who lived on the planet Nal Hutta during the Cold War between the Galactic Republic and the Sith Empire. Zi'am was the child of a failed Sith named Kendrel and his wife Gianna. Like his father, Zi'am was Force-sensitive, and when his mother found out, she wanted for him to be sent to the planet Korriban to train as a Sith as his father had attempted to do before him. Kendrel, however, did not want to risk his son being killed by the Sith on Korriban if he failed his trials, and so tried to flee Nal Hutta with him. Gianna learned of Kendrel's plan and sent an Imperial-aligned individual to bring Zi'am back to her. The individual found Zi'am and his father still on Hutta in the spaceport of an industrial town called Jiguuna. When the individual explained why they were