Kyja Cho was an art thief and noble who lived through the Galactic Civil War, a massive conflict across the galaxy between the Alliance to Restore the Republic and the Galactic Empire. Cho possessed a unique krayt dragon pearl, and she organized an auction for it aboard her sail barge, named the Azure Sunset. Present at the auction were crime lords from the Hutt species, along with other wealthy individuals and leading figures from the Corporate Sector Authority. An Inquisitor, secretly dispatched by the Galactic Empire, infiltrated the event by posing as an executive of the CSA.