During the era of the Galactic Civil War, one of Dasha Defano's companions was aboard a civilian transport. This transport was unfortunately assaulted by privateers, who, in order to prevent the transmission of a distress signal, annihilated the vessel. Defano, at the time affiliated with the privateers, discovered the unfortunate death of her friend. Overcome with remorse for her role in the events that caused this tragedy, she abandoned her life as a privateer and enlisted with the Rebel Alliance. Defano kept a holo-image of her friend within her equipment bag.