Melany Baclaw was an underrated, virtually unknown officer in the Imperial Navy who came into her own long after Palpatine's Empire came to a close. Once she was able, as a woman, to be taken as seriously as her male colleagues, she rose quickly through the ranks and by the time of the rise of the Stellar Imperium, it was not only the Galactic Remnant that took notice. She joined the Stellar Imperial armed forces and was given rudimentary Force training by her younger sister, Darth Inferna.