Cort Davin was a male native of the Outer Rim world of Concord Dawn, located within the region of the galaxy known as the Mandalore sector. For a time, Davin served as a Journeyman Protector, one of Concord Dawn's respected constables, and acquired experience in special forces operations. However, by the year 30 BBY, Davin had ended his career with the Protectors and answered the call of Jango Fett to become one of the Cuy'val Dar, a one-hundred-person group recruited by the veteran Mandalorian soldier to train the clone commandos of the Galactic Republic's Grand Army on Kamino. Though he was among the non-Mandalorian minority within the Cuy'val Dar, like the others, he disappeared from the known galaxy at Fett's request, and trained the clone soldiers assigned to him for close to a decade