Lamalla Rann was a Human female journalist operating on Ord Mantell. She was gathering footage and reporting on the Ord Mantell Civil War at Mannett Point, along with her personal holorecorder, a Human named Waxx. Waxx, however, was persuaded to join the Separatist movement, leaving Lamalla without the holodiscs containing the footage she desired, which contained graphic images of the carnage inflicted by a Separatist attack, or as she described it, "fantastic, gory stuff."