Vel Carann was a scantech of the second tier who served on a monitoring station located within the Hetzal system; her field was scantech. Carann, outranking her fellow worker Merven Getter, believed that as long as Getter fulfilled his duties, she was absolved of hers, and she often indulged in Jedi romances on her datapad. This behavior stirred up some ill will between the two, with Getter frequently wishing for her to contribute more.
While working on the space station, Carann and Getter found themselves facing a crisis when numerous anomalies emerged from hyperspace, posing a threat to the populated planets of the star system. Because of her indifferent approach to her work, Carann was unprepared for the situation; however, Getter stepped in to perform the analysis of the anomalies, while Carann was only tracking them. A system-wide warning was issued by Carann and Getter not long before one of the objects struck the monitoring station, destroying it and everyone on board.
In one case, The High Republic: Light of the Jedi mistakenly calls Vel Carann "Vel Borta," even though Borta is a completely different character in the novel.