Nagarian and his wife, Velia, both pureblood Sith, gave birth to three children: Velian, Takariak, and Anticlea, born in 92, 89, and 75 BBY, respectively. The same year of Anticlea's birth, the government of the Sakaros homeworld of Andaria collapsed into civil war. Seventeen-year-old Velian joined the Nationalist forces, and one of his first missions was to eliminate the families considered traitorous in local bureaucracy, one of whom was his father (or so the government alleged). Velian accompanied the raiding party, though he did not fire the shots that killed his mother and father, before being killed himself by his brother Tak. Outraged, Tak took Anticlea and fled to the rebels.