The Aurora was originally assigned to patrol the Rimma Trade Route. In one engagement, the defeated twenty eight corvettes and frigates of the Hook Talon pirates, wiping them out.
At the end of the Great Galactic War, the ship was given under the command of Jedi Master Kellian Jarro and Captain Ofaree while serving as a deep space commando training center where elite Special forces units practiced boarding action scenarios.
That would come to an end during the Cold War, when bounty hunter Tarro Blood was captured on board and admitted to an Imperial assassination attempt on the Jedi Master. Shortly after, the Grand Champion of the Great Hunt's D5-Mantis Patrol Craft arrived to kill the Jedi Master and Tarro Blood.
The Aurora, as visible in the galaxy map
The Aurora is described as being a heavily-modified Valor-class cruiser in the Codex of the video game Star Wars: The Old Republic, but appears in-game as a Thranta-class corvette. According to Charles Boyd, the ship was most likely intended to be a Valor-class and the wrong model was used.