Nyra Zess was a near-human Force-sensitive girl of unknown origin who was found by Jaylin Kumar in 17 ABY on a world controlled by Kroda the Hutt. The smuggler saved her from the planet and her captors and took her to Taylon, whereupon she was given apprenticeship to Reina Krailles. Reina was hesitant, at first, to accept the young girl as her apprentice, given the emotional trauma she had just gone through with the Battle of Taylon, but reluctantly agreed, and soon found herself developing a bond with Nyra.