Ziana Sazen was a female Falleen Jedi Padawan and later a fugitive, becoming the gunner of the freighter Akula. Fighting during the Clone Wars, Ziana was sent on a mission on a backwater forest planet during the final weeks of the conflict. She found the Separatist base to be full of shut down battle droids, and found out later in a nearby spaceport that the war ended and the Galactic Empire was founded. As a Jedi, Ziana fled into hiding for a few weeks, and then hitched a rid aboard a transport to the urban world of Trantor. There, she eventually became in debt to a crime lord, and joined freighter pilot Dragomir Jovanović's crew as a gunner. Ziana later found that he was a former Separatist ace pilot.