Q'anah represents the original designation for a long-ago celebration that occurred on the planet called Asmeru. This celebration was consistently observed on the 234th day of the 16th month according to the Asmeru calendar. The daughter of a former bodyguard who had relocated from the Core Worlds planet of Brentaal IV started calling herself Q'anah as a tribute to this festival when she arrived on Asmeru. Subsequently, she gained notoriety as a pirate, utilizing the date of the Q'anah festival, 23416, as the numerical sequence for choosing which lommite ore containers to plunder from convoys located in the Greater Seswenna.
The initial mention of Q'anah occurred in the Tarkin novel penned by James Luceno, and it saw its publication in the year 2014.