During the time of the Galactic Republic's Expansionist Era, a group of explorers embarked on a mission called the Haik Expedition. These explorers were on a quest to locate more direct paths through the already charted regions of space. Their particular goal was to uncover a connecting route linking the Enarc Run with the Harrin Trade Corridor. In the course of their travels, they came across the Kira system, and subsequently named the Kira Run after this newly found system, using it as a point of reference.