Kijo-Taisen was an assassin and infiltrator, the end result of an Obsidan Order experiment to make easily expendable, yet highly proficient operatives that could be disposed of in the event of failure of their mission. Originally named Alyssa, she was one of the post-Empire Terran children. (Star Trek: New Empire) Something that Stephen April would later comment as being wretched due to the similarity to the eyes of Letheans. The alterations primarily done to alleviate the fears and doubts within the senate of possessing a Terran bodyguard, regardless of how well she was programmed.