The Nihil's engineer, Alfkenda, a member of the Nihil, lived in living spaces on the Gaze Electric, which served as the flagship for Marchion Ro of the Eye of the Nihil. In the year 230 BBY, Alfkenda received new orders that transferred them to a different Nihil ship. Following this reassignment, Thaya Ferr, who worked as an assistant to Ro, declared that the engineer's prior living area would be prepared for Ghirra Starros upon her arrival at the Gaze Electric. Starros was a senator from the Galactic Republic who secretly acted as a Nihil spy.