Nar'eth (NARR-eth) was born on Sanctuary, but left after only a couple of cycles, when her sires and her mother, all three agricultural scientists, were relocated to a colony in a distant system on the edge of Nebari space. This may have been a sanction from The Establishment, following memos which her mother, Jexana, circulated among influential Nebari botanical, agricultural, and horticultural institutions regarding possible dangers posed by experimentation with Orliandis. Nar'eth's sires, Ress'lan and Corsin, willingly followed Jexana into exile. Hence, Nar'eth spent much of her childhood on a backward world, Sezerin, carted from one farming settlement to another. She showed a brief interest in animal husbandry and zoology, interests which Corsin tried to cultivate in her. Despite the day-to-day difficulties encountered on this remote and culturally inhospitable world, the foursome led a peaceful life on Sezerin, until...

Shortly after the beginning of her seventh cycle, Nar'eth's mother and sires were dispatched to an even more distant planet, Tarndairai, nearer still to the border between Nebari and Peacekeeper space (patrolled by the Arachnid Regiment). Though Corsin wished Nar'eth to remain on Sezerin and to enroll in school, he was overruled by Jexana, who had grown far more attached to her daughter than is common for Nebari women. In route to Tarndairai, their star runner was intercepted by a covert PK patrol that had crossed into Nebari space. Ress'lan was killed, and Nar'eth, Jexanna, and Corsin were taken prisoner and delivered to a scientific base on the moon of an uncharted gas giant. Corsin's fate remains a mystery. Jexana was seperated from Nar'eth and used in hybridization experiments. Artificially-inseminated by PK medics, she eventually bore a Nebari/Sebacean daughter, whom she named Tai'lah (TAY-luh). This success was only possible because Jexana already carried an egg partly fertilized by Corsin (but not by Ress'lin). But Tai'lah's another story . . .

After almost a cycle, Nar'eth escaped her cell, killed three medics, and, after failing to free her mother and half-sister (actually, 2/3 sister), she fled into the instillations vast sewer system. Eventually, she managed to get offworld on a frieghter leaving on a return route to Sanctuary. Aboard the frieghter, she killed two techs and stole a PK shuttle. The details here are murky, but she somehow used the shuttle to navigate beyond the borders of Nebari space and into the Uncharted Territories, where she grew to adulthood. (An alternate version of the story holds that Nar'eth was imprisoned on a PK command carrier and that she escaped which the aid of a Sebacean scientist.) She vowed to return for her mother and Tai'lah, but soon discovered, by hacking PK computer networks, that Jexana had died following more breeding experiments. The fate of Tai'lah, however, remains unknown. Nar'eth continues to search for her.

Nar'eth sells anything anyone wants to buy. Anything, except sentient beings. She'll kill, but she refuses to be a slaver, for any price. She pilots a rattletrap ship salvaged and cobbled together from the remains of PK, Luxon, and Scarran vessels. She fears her own people, but occassionally returns to Sanctuary for "business" transactions. She's widely known for her abilities as an assassin, thief, weapon's dealer, and mechanic, and for her occassional double crosses. Both PK and Nebari officials have a high price on her head and she's often only a few steps ahead of bounty hunters, puttering along in a ship with a very unreliable hetch drive. Little could Jexana have guessed that her daughter was destined to become a legend among her people and much more than a mere thorn in the side of The Establishment...