Asajj Ventress was a Force-sensitive Dathomirian female who was, at various points throughout her life, a Nightsister, a Jedi Padawan, an assassin of the Sith, a commander in the Confederacy of Independent Systems military, and a bounty hunter. In the final decades of the Galactic Republic’s reign, Ventress was born into a clan of magick-wielding Nightsister witches led by Mother Talzin on the planet Dathomir. When she was only a baby, her coven was forced to surrender her to the criminal Hal’Sted, who spirited Ventress away from her sisters to the war-torn world of Rattatak, where she was enslaved in his service. She was orphaned when Weequay pirates killed her master but was later discovered by the Jedi Knight Ky Narec, who was stranded on Rattatak and waging a battle against the pirate marauders.