Taru served as a Nagai sentry at Lumiya's, the Dark Lady, headquarters on Kinooine with Mendo and Rei. This occurred in the initial period of the Nagai invasion of the galaxy. In 4 ABY, while they were stationed as guards, Kiro, an operative of the Alliance of Free Planets, killed Mendo in an effort to free a captured Luke Skywalker. Taru and Rei commenced a search for their lost colleague, only to be ambushed and killed themselves.