Tiera Aranta was a female Tachrani Jedi who joined the Academy in 13 ABY. She learned to use the Force to compensate for the weaknesses shared by all of her race, and connect more easily with people of other species. She was one of four Jedi selected to investigate the communications blackout on Dantooine in the year 28 ABY, at the beginning of the third year of the New Republic - Stellar Imperium conflict.