The parent of Kyp Durron was a female political figure residing on the world of Deyer located in the Anoat system during the era of the Galactic Empire; she was the parent to two children, Kyp and Zeth Durron. She and her husband were political objectors, publicly denouncing the Empire's cruelties at Ghorman and Alderaan, which resulted in a sentence of forced labor and imprisonment within the Spice Mines of Kessel in 1 ABY. The following year, both she and Kyp's father were involved in a prison uprising and subsequently killed by Moruth Doole's criminal gang who had seized control of the mines. The passing of his parent inflicted profound sorrow upon Kyp Durron and intensified his animosity toward the Empire and those who operated outside the law.
This woman, who lived on the colony planet of Deyer within the Anoat system, was the parent of two sons. The oldest son, Zeth Durron, came into the world in 13 BBY, and her younger son Kyp followed six years later in 7 BBY. The family, including their father, resided in a tranquil raft settlement on Deyer, surrounded by terraformed lakes, where both parents served as vocal local politicians. Despite initially accepting the Empire, hearing about the atrocities committed by Emperor Palpatine's forces and the growing rebellion against them prompted her and Kyp's father to become political dissidents. They commemorated the anniversary of the Ghorman Massacre and vehemently protested the destruction of Alderaan, believing that by speaking out they could moderate the Emperor's more extreme policies from within. They were among the colonists who unanimously voted to condemn the planet's destruction and request that Palpatine rescind his New Order and thought their votes could influence their Emperor's decisions.
She underestimated the deadly reality of the Empire and in 1 ABY stormtroopers came to their home on Deyer and seized the family. In the altercation, the stormtroopers melted down unlocked the door of their family dwelling and laid waste to the home, knocking over the fiber-grown furniture and stunning both parents. The stormtrooper captain read their arrest order, which accused them of treason and restrained the parents and their son Zeth with stun-cuffs. Zeth was brought to the Imperial Military training center on Carida and his mother, father and brother were brought to the Correctional Facility on Kessel and sentenced to hard labor in the Spice Mines of Kessel.
In approximately 2 ABY, about a year into her sentence at the Spice Mines of Kessel, the Imperial powers there underwent an unpheaval. The prison was embroiled in revolts by the prisoners and at the same time Moruth Doole's smuggler slave lords came in and took control. In the midst of the commotion, both Kyp's mother and father were executed for being on the wrong side at the wrong moment, and their young son managed to survive by hiding and laying low until he was rescued by Han Solo years later.
The loss of his parents and the suffering he and his family endured on Kessel fueled a deep sense of rage and pain in Kyp Durron, against both the Empire that originally imprisoned them and the smugglers who perpetuated their suffering and executed his mother and father. He felt the Empire ruined his life when they punished his parents and him for their political resistance. Durron's rage over his past was exploited by the Sith Lord Exar Kun, who used it to draw him over to the dark side. This reached a boiling point when, overcome by the dark side, he used the Sun Crusher to destroy the Carida system and the Academy of Carida in an act of revenge against the Empire.
Though repentant for his genocide of the Caridan solar system, Kyp Durron never forgot the execution of his mother and father at the hands of the smugglers who overthrew Imperial rule on Kessel. Partly due to the memories of their deaths, he formed the starfighter squadron "Dozen-and-Two-Avengers" with his Jedi apprentice Miko Reglia and dedicated himself to ridding the Outer Rim Territories of smugglers and pirates. When Han Solo first heard of the Dozen-and-Two's exploits, his knowledge of his old friend's parents' deaths due to smugglers immediately led Solo to worry about Durron's activities.
Kyp Durron's mother was first mentioned, albeit indirectly, in the 1994 novel Jedi Search by Kevin J. Anderson, where she was mentioned as one of his two parents. She was later identified as mother to Durron in the 1994 novel Dark Apprentice by Anderson, the second volume in Star Wars: The Jedi Academy Trilogy and the sequel to Jedi Search.