Mirta Gev

Mirta Gev was born on the planet Mandalore, the daughter of bounty hunter Ailyn Vel and a Mandalorian warrior named Makin Marec. While Marec and Vel's relationship did not last, Gev stayed close to both of her parents, spending two summers with her father as a youth on the planet Null, where Marec taught Gev everything he could related to combat and bounty hunting. Soon afterwards, Marec was killed when his ship suffered a hull breach, leaving Vel to raise Gev alone. Vel, however, was constantly hunting for the famous bounty hunter and leader of the Mandalorian clans Boba Fett, who had deserted Vel and her mother Sintas when Ailyn was still a child, fostering a desire for revenge in his daughter. This search made it difficult for her to raise Gev. As Gev got older, Vel passed her hatred of Fett on to Gev.

While Gev was still a child, her home planet Mandalore was devastated in the Yuuzhan Vong War, when an invading extragalactic species called the Yuuzhan Vong bombarded the planet's surface, killing one-third of the planet's population. When Gev grew up, she followed in the footsteps of her mother and grandfather, becoming a bounty hunter. At one point in the course of her career, Gev encountered former ARC clone trooper Jaing Skirata during an ill-fated mission, though Gev only knew him by his last name. Skirata and Gev were both after the same target, and eventually met. When they met, Skirata claimed that he had fought in the Clone Wars. At one point prior to 40 ABY, Gev was married, but that relationship ended. Gev also assisted her mother in her search for Boba Fett, hoping to aid Vel in her revenge. Ailyn Vel gave Gev a Heart of Fire pendant, a Kiffar jewel that had once belonged to Sintas. Vel told Gev to use the pendant to draw Fett's attention should she ever find him.

In 40 ABY, Gev finally found Fett on the Outer Rim world of Taris, where he was staying for a meeting with his second-in-command, Goran Beviin. Upon sighting Fett, she observed and followed him, carefully staying at a distance. When Fett finally noticed her, Gev approached him. She revealed her name, and told him she knew Vel, claiming Vel was her client. Gev showed Fett the Heart of Fire pendant that had once belonged to his wife, intriguing him, and convincing Fett to allow her to stay. Fett wished to see his daughter Ailyn and apologize for leaving her. First, though, Fett needed to find his one-time caretaker, the Kaminoan Taun We, since he was dying due to numerous tumors in his body, and believed that We had the solution to his ailments. The two left the planet Taris in Fett's starship, Slave I, in search of the elusive Kaminoan.

The pair first traveled to Roonadan in the Corporate Sector, where Gev was forced to remain in the cargo bay of the Slave I while Fett was out and about searching for Taun We. Fett returned to the starship empty-handed and changed course to Vohai, in the Outer Rim Parmel sector, where Fett believed they were. While journeying from Roonadan to Vohai, Gev told Fett of her encounter with Skirata. Fett thought he could be healed by obtaining scientific data gathered by Ko Sai, a dead Kaminoan cloner who had specialized in aging. Upon hearing Gev's story about Skirata, Fett realized that Skirata must have had the missing Ko Sai data. Once they reached Vohai, Gev was once again forced to remain aboard Slave I, despite her attempts at convincing Fett to allow her to accompany him. Once Fett returned to the ship, having found We, Gev directed them to Coruscant, where she believed that her mother was. However, when Gev attempted to contact her mother, she was unable to get through.

Before they were able to venture to Coruscant and Ailyn Vel, Fett and Gev were contacted by Corellian Head of State Thrackan Sal-Solo, who offered them a job defending repair teams working on Centerpoint Station, an ancient space station that had been previously damaged by Jedi Knights Jacen Solo and Ben Skywalker. Afterwards, Gev, and a group of Mandalorian commandos assembled by Goran Beviin met in the Zerria's Bar bar on Drall two days later. While the rest of the Mandalorians were hostile towards a stranger such as Gev, once Fett mentioned her Mandalorian heritage, they immediately thawed and welcomed her into the group. It was in the Zerria bar that Gev met her future husband, Mandalorian warrior Ghes Orade, for the first time. The two went to Corellia, where they were met at the spaceport by Dur Gejjen, a rising Corellian politician, who took them to Sal-Solo's office. During the meeting, Fett told the Mandalorians of Sal-Solo's offer. Gev, Fett, and the rest of the Mandalorians went to Corellia to speak with Sal-Solo, who outlined the offer. On the way out of their meeting with Sal-Solo, they were pulled aside by Gejjen, who made a counteroffer. Gejjen was scheming to eliminate Sal-Solo, and needed a contract killer. He offered Fett the job, and Fett accepted, bringing Gev along with him. Afterwards, Gev and Fett approached ex-smuggler and Sal-Solo's cousin, Han Solo, offering their help to assassinate Sal-Solo, as Han Solo was already plotting to kill him. However, due to the history that Solo had with Fett, he was mistrustful of the bounty hunter. Solo became convinced that Fett was trying to trap and kill him when he saw Gev and recognized her as Ailyn Vel's daughter, who had previously been after Solo and his family. He attacked Gev, but Fett hit him in the back of the head with his blaster. After the brief fight, Solo and the Mandalorians were able to reach a working agreement to kill Sal-Solo.

Gev, with Fett and Solo, returned to Sal-Solo, pretending to negotiate with him about the offer to defend Centerpoint Station. Solo came along dressed in Mandalorian armor, so his cousin would not recognize him. When Sal-Solo revealed that he had given Vel up to the authorities on Coruscant in order to distract attention from other bounty hunters whom he had hired to kill Solo, Gev realized that the politician had sold her mother out. Solo leapt at Sal-Solo and began to throttle him, and Gev shot Sal-Solo in the head, killing him. Gev, Solo and Fett escaped the scene of the crime soon afterwards, and returned to Gejjen, who rewarded them with one million credits. After the assassination, Gev asked Solo for any information on Ailyn Vel's location. Han Solo contacted his wife Leia Organa Solo for more information on Vel, who informed them that Vel had been killed under interrogation by Leia's son Colonel Jacen Solo of the Galactic Alliance Guard, robbing Gev of her mother. Stricken, Gev pulled her blaster out, aiming it at Fett. However, Organa Solo used the Force to pull the blaster away from Gev before she could fire a shot. Upon losing her blaster, Gev revealed her true intentions for traveling with Fett; she wanted to return him to Vel, so that she could kill him once and for all. Since Vel was dead, Gev wanted to kill Fett to complete her mother's mission. Gev broke down in tears upon divulging her motives, and had to be calmed down by the Solos. Afterwards, Vel's body was returned to Fett and Gev, and Gev decided to bring her mother's corpse back to Mandalore. Before they could return to Mandalore, however, the pair traveled to Geonosis to retrieve the body of Fett's father, Jango Fett, so that the two bodies could be laid to rest on Mandalore.

With a heavy heart, Mirta Gev and Boba Fett returned to Mandalore with Jango Fett's body in tow. The two buried Jango next to Ailyn Vel, his granddaughter. Gev and Fett stayed on Mandalore for some time, with Gev staying in the home of a Mandalorian warrior named Novoc Vevut, one of the Mandalorians who had attended the meeting on Drall. While staying with Vevut, she grew enamored with Vevut's adopted son, Ghes Orade. Afterwards, Gev and Fett attended a meeting of the Mandalorian clans, held in a hall donated to the people of Mandalore by MandalMotors, the prevalent arms company in the Mandalore sector. The Mandalorians were anxious to fight in the ever-escalating conflict between the dominant galactic government, the Galactic Alliance, and a breakaway group of systems known as the Confederation. Under Mandalore Boba Fett's reign, the economy had been thrown into dire straits, with a flow of credits needed to import food. The meeting ended with Fett deciding not to back either side in the war, and calling two million Mandalorians to return to Mandalore to strengthen their homeworld after the devastation of the Yuuzhan Vong War. After the meeting adjourned, Gev departed with Fett to search for their missing clone, Skirata.

Since Skirata was working as a bounty hunter, Fett came up with a plan to locate him. Gev would pose as a client looking to hire a bounty hunter, and would enlist the services of Skirata. The grandfather and granddaughter pair traveled in the Slave I to Bador, in the Core Worlds Kuat system. Once they landed on Bador, the two entered a local establishment known as the Paradise Cantina. The barkeeper and employees of the cantina, however, were hostile to the two, as the last Mandalorian to enter the cantina, Skirata, had killed a local crime boss named Cherit. The hostility from the bartender led to an all out brawl, with the Mandalorians winning. After the fight, the bartender told Gev and Fett that Cherit's successor, Fraig, might know of Skirata's whereabouts, and that Fraig could be found at the Tekshar Falls Casino.

When the two reached the prestigious Tekshar Falls Casino, Gev introduced Fett to the receptionist as the "President of Mandalore", gaining them entry. Once in the casino, Gev intimidated Fraig's Hamadryas bodyguard into letting Fett and her see him, by threatening to cut his carotid artery. When the two gained admission to Fraig's private suite and attempted to question him, Fraig was resistant. Gev and Fett were forced to intimidate the location of Skirata out of Fraig by attaching him to a fibercord and throwing him off a balcony. Faced with death, Fraig divulged that Skirata had a grudge against a Twi'lek clan named , giving Gev and Fett information on Skirata's whereabouts and activities. Gev and Fett were forced to fight their way out of the building, against an onrush of bodyguards after Fraig's interrogation, but were victorious and escaped the casino. While en route to the Slave I, chased by patrol vehicles, Gev was attacked by a large Strill named Mird. After the Strill had been neutralized, Skirata, its owner, appeared to them, ending their long search.

Fett asked Skirata for Ko Sai's data, but Skirata said that the research had been destroyed after it was used on him and his brothers, and he no longer had a copy. Skirata feared that if he gave Fett a blood sample, Fett might sell it to the Kaminoans. However, he relented and agreed that if Fett gave him a sample of his blood, he might be able to return with a cure. Skirata's only condition was that Fett go back to Mandalore and follow a man named Kad'ikas advice. Fett agreed, and Gev took a sample of his blood for Skirata.

With the search for Skirata at an end, Gev and Fett returned to Mandalore, where Gev continued to stay with Vevut and her new love, Ghes Orade. By this time, Gev had begun to consider marrying Orade. Gev would often go for walks on Mandalore with Orade, whose adoptive father, Vevut, encouraged the relationship, promising Gev a blaster that "could take the head off a dozen Trandoshans with one shot" should she marry Orade. Meanwhile, Fett finally used the Ko Sai data provided to him by Skirata to overcome his illness. Gev attended his medical procedure with Orade, and was introduced to Venku Skirata, also known as Kad'ika. In a meeting with Venku Skirata and his friend Gotab in a Keldabe tapcafe, Fett asked Gotab if he could psychometrically read the Heart of Fire pendant. Gotab read the pendant, and discovered the location of Sintas Vel. According to Gotab's readings, Vel had been on the planet Phaeda, after an unsuccessful fight with a crime lord named Rezodar. Fett, in an attempt to finally get closure with his ex-wife after more than fifty years, commissioned Gev to bring him more information on Vel's situation.

After some research, Gev discovered that Rezodar had died in 2 ABY, and had left a vast estate. Since the Phaedan government could not claim his possessions, they had been in storage for thirty-eight years, and the Phaedan state lawyer was more than happy than to give away some of Rezodar's possessions. However, by investigating further, Gev found out that Vel's body, frozen within a carbonite slab, was among these objects. Gev and Fett traveled to Phaeda together in the Slave I, intending to bring Vel back to Mandalore and thaw her from her carbonite slumber, before helping her rehabilitate. On route to Phaeda, Gev was excited that she would be able to meet her grandmother for the first time, while Fett dreaded seeing the woman he had abandoned years before. Once on Phaeda, they went to the planet's Registry of Testaments and Legacies, where Vel had been stored, and retrieved her body. The pair returned to Mandalore, where Vel was unfrozen. Over the next few months, Gev helped care for her grandmother as she dealt with memory loss and dementia caused by her years in carbonite. While Vel was under her granddaughter's care, Gev also gave her the Heart of Fire. Eventually, with the help of Gotab, Vel was able to fully recover both physically and mentally, and forgave Fett for leaving her and Ailyn. Around this time, a Jedi Knight named Jaina Solo came to Mandalore to be trained by Fett for an eventual duel with her brother, Jacen, who had risen to power as the Sith Lord Darth Caedus and the Chief of State of the Galactic Alliance. Despite her animosity towards Jedi, Gev and Solo would become good friends.

In 41 ABY, the planet Fondor seceded from the Galactic Alliance, triggering the Second Battle of Fondor, a Galactic Alliance effort to retake Fondor's valuable orbital shipyards. The Mandalorians joined the battle once they received word that long time Imperial Remnant leader Gilad Pellaeon had been murdered by Darth Caedus' apprentice Tahiri Veila, and his flagship, the Bloodfin, had been taken. Consequently, the Mandalorians were ordered to board and gain control of the ship. Once Vel was well enough to be left on her own, Gev served on the crew of a Tra'kad with several other Mandalorians and Jaina Solo during the battle. Fighting alongside Admiral Natasi Daala and her Maw Irregular Fleet, Gev and the Mandalorians boarded the Bloodfin.

Following the death of Pellaeon, the crew of the Bloodfin had mutinied, leaving Veila trapped on the ship. While Gev, Solo and the Mandalorians were engaged in boarding the Bloodfin, they encountered Veila. Gev sneaked up on and attacked Veila, injuring her, before Darth Caedus, who had returned to rescue his apprentice, broke up the fight by Force-choking Gev. Fortunately for Gev, Jaina Solo was able to break Caedus' telekinetic hold on the bounty hunter's throat. Gev lay injured on the deck of the ship until Boba Fett, who had accompanied the assault team, rescued her and brought her to safety. Gev would recover from her injuries, and the Mandalorians succeeded in taking the Bloodfin. Once Gev returned to Mandalore, she and Ghes Orade were married.

After the Second Battle of Fondor the war continued to rage on, drawing the Imperial Remnant in to support Caedus and his followers. Gev fought along with Fett and Solo in the First Battle of Roche, once again serving in a Tra'kad. The battle was fought to protect the Verpine from the Imperial Remnant, who sought to gain control of the species' advanced technology. As business partners with the insectoid species, the Mandalorians could not afford to lose access to the Verpine technology, and rushed to the species' aid. During the battle, Gev's husband Ghes Orade was shot down and injured. Orade survived, and Gev later led an assault team, intending to kill important Imperial personnel.

Gev, along with Jaina Solo and a strike team of Mandalorian warriors, infiltrated the Imperial base on the Roche asteroid of Nickel One, with the objective of eliminating the ruling Moff Council in one swift stroke. Solo eventually split with them to chase after Darth Caedus, who was inside the Nickel One base. Gev and the Mandalorians managed to reach the meeting room of the Council, but were surprised by a large amount of Imperial Elite Guardsmen. The assault quickly turned disastrous for the Mandalorians, with almost all of the warriors killed in the fighting. Soon, Darth Caedus appeared, killing several more of the Mandalorians. When Gev tried to attack Caedus, the Sith Lord slammed her on her head, rupturing her spinal cord and paralyzing her temporarily. Caedus was later confronted by Jaina Solo, who cut off Caedus' arm, although a Force illusion made Caedus believe that Jedi Grand Master Luke Skywalker struck the blow. Caedus took Gev as a prisoner following the battle. After the skirmish, Boba Fett, who thought that his granddaughter had been killed, became enraged at Jaina Solo and Luke Skywalker. Fett, dropping his guise of aloofness and revealing that he did care for his granddaughter, lambasted them for her apparent death.

Gev was taken to Caedus' flagship, the Anakin Solo. Gev was interrogated at the hands of Caedus and his apprentice Tahiri Veila; she was still paralyzed, and Caedus promised treatment if Gev divulged how many Jedi had accompanied the Mandalorian strike team, along with their names. Specifically, Caedus wanted to ascertain who had cut off his arm in the battle. Gev refused to talk, but became frightened when Caedus convinced her that Fett had abandoned her, assigning her a suicide mission and landing her in her current situation. When Gev finally revealed that Jaina Solo, Caedus' sister, was the lone Jedi, Caedus thought that she was lying, as he believed that he had fought both Solo and Luke Skywalker. Dissatisfied, he threatened to disfigure Gev and release a nanovirus that would kill both her and her grandfather Boba Fett. To protect her family, Gev lied and said that Skywalker had been with the team. However, Caedus was able to sense that she was lying about something, and took a sample of her blood, which he used to construct the nanovirus. Despite this, Caedus kept his promise to heal Gev. The nanovirus was then produced by Imperial scientists, and air-dispersed over Mandalore, making it impossible for Gev or Fett to ever set foot there again.

Gev was eventually freed when the Anakin Solo was infiltrated by Jaina Solo, who planned to engage Caedus in a second duel and kill him. Solo visited Gev in the room in which the bounty hunter was being held captive. Having come to believe Caedus' insinuations about Fett, Gev had become depressed, and told Solo that she would simply prefer to put herself out of her misery. Gev also told Solo that if she survived her impending confrontation with Caedus, she had to warn Fett about the nanovirus. Solo promised to do so, but was disturbed when Gev asked her to tell Fett that he deserved it, since Gev believed that Fett had sent her on a suicide mission and abandoned her. Solo was disconcerted by Gev's attitude, and was confused as to what Caedus had done to her mind. Before departing, Solo gave Gev a blaster. Solo would go on to defeat Darth Caedus in a lightsaber duel, ending both the threat of the Sith Lord and the Second Galactic Civil War. After defeating her brother, Solo told her friend Jagged Fel to rescue Gev from imprisonment and take her off the Anakin Solo.

By 45 ABY, Gev was no longer in custody. Reuniting with the Mandalorians, Gev had become the commander of the Mandalorian security force. However, Gev was still unable to return to Mandalore due to the nanovirus, and she became determined to remove the nanovirus from Mandalore's atmosphere. In this effort, she signed a contract with the Columi brothers, Craitheus and Marvid Qreph, who agreed to remove the nanovirus from her world. Taking a force of Mandalorian mercenaries, Gev worked for the Qrephs by driving asteroid miners out of the Chiloon Rift, a nebula in the Outer Rim Territories. Gev's Mandalorian forces were supplemented by Nargons, a biotic species created by the Qrephs. The Qrephs were attempting to arrest control of the Rift, and Gev and her forces worked to remove any competition. However, the Qrephs were more ruthless than Gev anticipated, and their dirty tactics brought them into a conflict with businessman, Lando Calrissian. Gev was present on the planet, Sarnus during a business deal between Calrissian and the Qrephs, but when Calrissian refused to sell his holdings in the Chiloon Rift, the Qrephs decided that he had to be eliminated. On board the Qreph's Marcadian luxury cruiser, Aurel Moon, Gev met with her employers to plan their next move. The Qrephs, determined to remove Calrissian, assigned Gev's Mandalorian forces to kill Calrissian and his allies, Han and Leia Organa Solo. Gev initially objected to the assignment, but the Qreph's assassin, Savara Raine convinced the Mandalorian leader that she would be doing the dirty work.

Although Raine's efforts destroyed Calrissian's refinery on Sarnus, she failed to kill either the Solos or Calrissian. However, the Qrephs redoubled their efforts, and placed a one million credit bounty on Han Solo. Using information from the Qreph's spy, Dena Yus, Gev tracked Solo to the Blue Star casino on the planet Valnoos. After engaging Solo in a game of riftwalker, she announced that Solo was coming with her so that she could collect the bounty. Although she was backed by a dozen Mandalorian commandos, Solo's ally, Omad Kaeg, refused to let Solo be taken, and he attacked Gev's men. In the firefight that ensued, Solo slammed Gev against a sabacc table, breaking her nose, but the release of several arachnokillers by Dena Yus kept Solo from taking control of the situation. As the arachnokillers destroyed the casino, Gev captured Solo. and escaped from the Blue Star in a Tra'kad starship. Her departure was aided by Savara Raine, who was able to distract Solo's Jedi allies, Luke Skywalker and Leia Organa Solo, preventing a rescue of Solo.

Gev brought Solo to the Qreph's mobile base of operations, the asteroid crusher, Ormni, but was not able to claim the bounty, as Savara Raine claimed that she was owed part of the reward for helping capture Solo. As Gev argued with the Qreph brothers about splitting the bounty, Raine showed the group evidence that the Jedi had placed a homing beacon on Gev's ship. Knowing that the Jedi now knew their location, the Qrephs and Gev boarded the Columi's personal ship, Aurel Moon, and prepared to depart with Solo, while Gev's forces, flying Bes'uliik fighters provided escort. Skywalker and Organa Solo, piloting a ScragHull commando boat, arrived before Gev and the Qrephs could make their escape, but the timely intervention of Raine's starship, the Sith Meditation Sphere, Ship allowed the group to make their escape. After the group flew through the Chiloon Rift to the Qreph's secret base, the Columi ordered Gev to help them interrogate Solo. They hooked Solo up to sensors that accessed his brain, hoping to obtain answers. The Qreph brothers engaged Solo in a game of sabacc, betting information instead of credits. Gev acted as the dealer for the game, wearing a plastoid splint for her broken nose. The Qrephs asked pointed and personal questions to Solo, hoping to get a rise out of him and help them to map his mind, but Solo kept his cool and won the hand.

However, the Qrephs were undeterred and continued to play sabacc against Solo. To counter Solo's gambling acumen, they employed a DSD-1 torture droid to shock Solo, wearing him down and weakening his resolve. They also brought a Jedi they had captured, Ohali Soroc, a clone of Soroc, Ohali Two, and one of Gev's Mandalorians, Barduun, into the game. These tactics succeeded in hurting Solo's concentration, but he continued to play the Qrephs' game. Gev continued to deal, reluctantly allowing the torture droid to inflict punishment when the Qrephs' prisoners lost a game. As the torture increased, Solo was able to determine why Gev was working for the Qrephs, and he introduced doubt that the Columi could actually deliver what they had offered. However, Gev angrily continued the game, shocking Solo whenever he tried to manipulate the other players. When the Qrephs were called away from the game due to another matter, Gev was left to continue the game on her own, guarded by the Qrephs' Nargon soldiers. The game was interrupted by Barduun. Driven insane by the Qrephs and tired of the game, he attacked his commander and freed Solo from the sensors attached to his brain. Ohali Soroc and her clone incapacitated the Nargon guards, and Solo was able to pull a vibroknife from Gev, using it to slash the Mandalorian's leg and take her MandalTech W202 holdout blaster. In the melee that resulted, Solo, Barduun and Ohali Soroc escaped while Soroc's clone was killed alongside a Nargon guard.

With the game over, Gev used a 2-1B surgical droid to repair her leg and was present when the Qrephs returned to the sabacc game to see that their prisoners had escaped. However, the Qrephs had greater problems, as the Jedi had found Base Prime and begun an assault on their compound. The two Columi put Savara Raine in charge of their forces, and Gev agreed to take her orders—on the condition that she be allowed to see the Qrephs' lab where they were working to counteract the nanovirus. Under Raine's orders, Gev organized her Mandalorian commandos and the Nargons throughout the base to draw the infiltrating Jedi into a trap at the Qreph's space–time-warping gate. However, several of the Jedi's YVH-series battle droids tore into the base at rapid speed, forcing Gev and Raine to evacuate the Qrephs through their residence. In their escape, Craitheus was badly wounded when Raine used his body to shield the group from blasterfire. Marvid, enraged by the betrayal, attacked Raine and left her for dead. Gev was surprised by the turn of events, but she still held hope that the remaining Qrephs would help deal with the nanovirus. However, Raine was able to convince the Mandalorian that the Qrephs had been lying to her, a fact that Gev had refused to acknowledge. With the reward of a nanovirus cure no longer on the table, Gev decided to turn against her Columi employers.

Although Gev was interested in killing the Qrephs for their duplicity, she listened to Raine, who persuaded her to live to fight another day. With Base Prime falling to the Jedi attack, Gev ordered her Mandalorian forces to abandon the base to the Jedi and retreat. She then carried the injured Savara Raine to her ship, the Sith Meditation Sphere, Ship, and the two escaped from the base. Upon demolishing Base Prime, the Jedi discovered no sign of Gev or her companion, believing the two to have escaped, with Gev still determined to find a cure to the nanovirus.

Mirta Gev was a strong woman whose Mandalorian training showed in her powerful physique. She was a powerful and compact warrior who was talented in close combat. She had light brown eyes and dark brown hair which she kept cut short enough to keep under her helmet. In her attempt to capture Han Solo, her nose was broken, and although she had it put in a plastoid splint, it healed awkwardly, causing her nose to appear crooked. Gev possessed a great loyalty to her late mother, who inspired her to go on her hunt for Boba Fett. However, once Gev finally met Fett, she was initially hostile, but eventually became closer to her grandfather, bonding over the care of Sintas Vel. Gev did not want to hate her grandfather, who was cold and forbidding, and tried to find ways to love him, even though she found it difficult to do so. She was curious about the grandmother whom she had never met, and undertook research to try and ascertain Sintas Vel's location. Once Gev found her grandmother, she was caring enough to tend to Vel. Gev was also a capable warrior and a good cook, possessing the two qualities most prevalent in Mandalorian women. She was, as a bounty hunter, good at tracking people down, as demonstrated when she caught up with Boba Fett and located Sintas Vel. Gev had a passion for weapons, and was also good at healing, caring for Boba Fett after his surgery, and later Sintas Vel.

Gev, like many Mandalorians, was suspicious of and disliked Jedi. However, she managed to form a friendship with Jedi Knight Jaina Solo, who gained Gev's respect while Solo underwent training from Boba Fett to kill Darth Caedus. She later sent Solo her thanks after she rescued her from Caedus's clutches. Gev, too, wanted to slay Caedus, but for her own personal reasons—retaliation for his killing of her mother, Ailyn Vel. Gev even went after the Sith Lord's apprentice, Tahiri Veila, attacking her viciously during the battle over Fondor even though Veila was never involved in Vel's death. However, Gev's torture at the hands of Darth Caedus eventually resulted in her friendship with Jaina falling apart, and by 45 ABY, they no longer kept in contact. When Gev was in the custody of Darth Caedus and under interrogation, she refused to surrender information to him even when he promised her medical treatment for the injuries she sustained at his hands during the second battle of Roche. However, she eventually gave up when her grandfather was threatened, and was genuinely terrified at the thought of a nanovirus attack on Mandalore, which Caedus later ordered despite Gev's desperate pleas to spare her homeworld and family. When the bounty hunter was later incarcerated on the prison deck of the Anakin Solo, she indicated to Jaina Solo that she would rather be put out of her misery than undergo further interrogation.

Mirta Gev was created by author Karen Traviss for her novel Legacy of the Force: Bloodlines, the second book of the Star Wars: Legacy of the Force series. Before appearing in Bloodlines, a picture of Gev was included in the Star Wars Insider 86 article, The Mandalorians: People and Culture, which showed an illustration of a Mandalorian wedding by Tom Hodges. Although the article did not identify the Mandalorians in the picture, the illustration was later included in The Complete Star Wars Encyclopedia as a representation of Gev and her husband getting married. During the creation of the character, Gev was originally named Vessin Ghif, but this was changed to Mirta Gev before publication. After her first appearance, Gev appeared in Traviss' next two novels, Legacy of the Force: Sacrifice and Legacy of the Force: Revelation. Gev also was featured in the final novel of Legacy of the Force, Legacy of the Force: Invincible, written by Troy Denning. She was later included as an antagonist in Denning's follow-up novel to the Fate of the Jedi series, Crucible.

After her first depiction in Star Wars Insider, several sketches of Mirta Gev were included in Topps' 2011 Topps Star Wars Galaxy Series 6. Several sketch cards of Mirta Gev by Shea Standefer showed her with the braids in her hair that were shown in the original Tom Hodges image. However, this hairstyle was not included when Gev was illustrated for inclusion in The Essential Reader's Companion. An image of Gev by Brian Rood depicted her with the dark hair that previous illustrations had shown, but did not include the braids. An additional image from the book by Joe Corroney which depicted her first appearance in Bloodlines also failed to include the braids that previous drawings had established. In Gev's first depiction in Star Wars Insider 86, she is shown with armor painted orange and yellow and shaped for her feminine figure, but in Bloodlines, Gev's armor is described as "practical" with "no concessions to feminine fashion whatsoever." In the sketches by Shea Standefer, she included the yellow color to Gev's armor. However, this was not included in the illustrations in The Essential Reader's Companion, as they showed her with simple gray armor that matched her description in Legacy of the Force. In Crucible, Denning mentions that Gev is outfitted in orange and gray armor.

• "The Mandalorians: People and Culture" — Star Wars Insider 86
• The Complete Star Wars Encyclopedia
• The Essential Reader's Companion
• "A Certain Point of View: The Man in the Dented Mask" — Star Wars Insider 146