After growing up on the agriworld Chandrila, Tenda quickly grew tired of the boring farmer's life, so she joined the Army. A trooper in a heavy armor section during much of the Rebellion era, Tenda was completely at home in any sort of mechanized vehicle, the more powerful, the better. However, she was a victim of the Empire's non-HuMan policy; being a female, she was continually and maliciously passed over for promotion over and over. Just before the Fall of Coruscant she was assigned to the Outer Rim, and through the Imperial Remnant came to the attention of the Dark Jedi Brotherhood and was recruited.