Kayla Masi has lived a trying life, ever since she was born. Her mother died while she was in childbirth, and her father was a spacer, who traveled to many distant planets from their homeworld of Corellia. He didn't know how to really raise a child, especially a daughter, but he did what he could. From an early age, Kayla learned how to shoot a blaster, because she was on the cargo hauls with him. Exposed to the nastiness of the galaxy, she responded by becoming very defensive and very protective of what she knew and could call her own. Her father taught her the spacer's code, the code of the people who's lives were bound to the void. It became a part of her, especially when she started to meet kinder folk, because they reminded her that there were good people out there, people like the wo