Lara was born in a slum in the heart of the Hutt sector, abandoned as a child the young Shi-Ido was taken in by a group of Iridonian mercenaries who raised her in hopes of recruiting her into there ranks when the time came. Lara grew up in there strange warrior culture till her teens, keeping her true hideous form hidden from her new family until there ship was ambushed by a Republic blockade, causing the crew to suffer casualties and her to be left for dead until a Sith scouting company recovered the vessel and brought her in where she revealed her true nature to her captors, resulting in her being sent to the Sith academy.