Tefani was a male Zabrak member of the Second Battalion of the Republic Medical Corps living during the Galactic War. More commonly known as the "Protectors", this humanitarian division served alongside the Republic Military on battlefields across the galaxy, conducting rescue, reconnaissance, and evacuation operations to help civilians who were caught in the crossfire. In 3639 BBY Tefani along with the rest of the Battalion was deployed on the disaster-stricken planet of Makeb, where he and Cash Zarrin worked on evacuating civilians from the groundquake-hit Talaos City, asking a Republic agent on the planet to clear out the InterStellar Regulators to allow the Protectors to do their job. When a group of workers refused to leave, believing the Hutts's lies about the nature of groundquakes,