Taro Goneril was the third-born child of Baron Leir Goneril on New Javis in the Tapani sector's Pelagia Province. The Baron Goneril held an insignificant barony in the name of House Calipsa the coalition of noble families that ruled the Calipsa Province, of the Tapani sector. House Calipsa was considered the most conservative of the noble houses and Leir Goneril was more conservative than most. Taro's older siblings, Hiro and Regan, were fraternal twins male and female and Leir Goneril's old-fashioned ways meant that only his sons would inherit. This made Regan intensely jealous of her younger brother. Until the a Jedi arbiter who attended his father's court as a mediator in a trade dispute noticed young Taro's Force-sensitivity. Five years old at the time, Taro was considered nearly too old to begin training, but given the rarity of Jedi from the Tapani Sector, the Jedi Council allowed him entry. Furious at losing one of his heirs, Lier officially had his youngest son disowned and all his birthrights transferred to his sister. His older siblings seemed to like him better after that, they never saw each other again, but they'd send him holo-leters around his birthday most years. They seemed happy.

Taro Goneril might have been taken out of House Calipsa by the Jedi Order, but the Jedi Order never managed to take House Calipsa out of Taro Goneril. Even as a child, he'd already been molded into a proper nobleman's heir: logical, disciplined, pragmatic, and oftentimes stubborn. Although not the most naturally intelligent youngling in his class, he was studious and dedicated, quickly catching up to the rest of his peers. The Arkanian Jedi Master Kyōami, a respected Jedi arbiter and legal scholar who had never taken on a padawan learner before, saw something in the youngling that he liked and requested him as his apprentice.

Kyōami would train Taro in the finer points of rhetoric, debate, Republic law and the important difference between "law" and "justice." Kyōami and Taro spent the Clone Wars not on the front-lines, but in the courts. Smoothing over disputes between sector governors and military commanders, keeping the peace between the mega-corporations supplying the vital war materiel and the free trader captains who delivered it to the front, and a thousand other legal battlefields. Kyōami decided after several years that his apprentice was worthy of undertaking the trials of knighthood and they returned to Coruscant... a mere seven days before the Clones marched into the Jedi Temple and opened fire.

Kyōami and Taro were in the Jedi Archives when it happened, Kyōami and Jocasta Nu the chief librarian were debating some arcane point of legal history when the heard the first shots. Master Kyōami ordered his apprentice to run and now he often feels like he hasn't stopped since. Being part of the Jedi Order was supposed to be his destiny, not this life of terror. He was supposed to become a Jedi Knight, but Order 66 and Emperor Palpatine changed all that. Instead of his knighthood he became a hunted criminal.

Taro spent the years since then drifting from one planet to another, always looking over your shoulder and always trying to stay one step ahead of the Empire. Taro's training in the Force has proven less useful to him in hiding than his education in matter of history, law, and negotiation. Plenty of frontier worlds and remote colonies have need for a teacher, lots of small shipping companies or independent miners need some legal papers drawn up. After all this time, Taro has become used to living like scholastic knight-errant, drifting from planet to planet, always moving on before too long. Father always said a true nobleman was always brave and Master Kyōami taught that fear is the path to the dark side... but Taro has become accustomed to that constant sense of terror gnawing at his gut.

But even in darkness, there is hope. The Rebel Alliance is growing and perhaps with them Taro can find a path to restore the galaxy to peace and order. But the Emperor and his COMPNOR henchmen have not made it easy. Nor has the fact that far too many of these Rebels seem to be little better than smugglers, pirates, and hired-guns. Anarchists who seem to be using the civil war as an excuse to commit crime. Taro believes the galaxy needs a strong, central government with a singular leader... Just not that weakling Palpatine