By 9 ABY she had become a maitrakh and was presented with Leia Organa Solo when her thirdson, Khabarakh, came back from his failed commando mission with Imperial Noghri Commando Team 22. Although she was at first hesitant to listen to the New Republic Councilor, the maitrakh did extend her thirdson's promise of protection to her, and eventually became an ally of the former Princess when she helped disillusion the Noghri people about their enslavement to the Grand Admiral Thrawn and the Empire. The Maitrakh had lost her son, grandson and almost her great-grandson to the Imperial cause which helped pursuade her to help Leia.
The maitrakh of clan Kihm'bar first appeared in the 1992 novel Dark Force Rising, the second volume in The Thrawn Trilogy by Timothy Zahn.