When Sinya Vida was young, a Jedi knight performed a great service for her father, Ilar Vida. In gratitude her father allowed the Jedi to test his two children. When Ilar found out that his first born son scored higher than his daughter, he had the results switched. The misinformed Jedi took her with him to the Jedi temple on Coruscant for training by Yoda. As the years passed, she was repeatedly passed over by Jedi seeking apprentices.

When she reached the age of twelve, the Jedi sent her back to Ryloth in order to join the medic corps. On route, her shuttle was attacked and boarded by pirates. The ship was taken with little resistance. Their captors decided to sell their new prisoners to the Hutts on the nearby planet of Tatooine. As the pirates departed with their captives they destroyed the transport vessel, making it appear to be caused by a faulty power regulator. The ship's debris was soon discovered by local security forces and all hands were declared dead.

The news that Sinya died in a shuttle accident soon reached her father's ears. He felt a profound sense of loss. He has lost both his wife and daughter and now all he has left is his son. He appointed a mentor named Jart Kairn to the boy in order to help train him to become the future leader of clan Vida. Jart saw this as an opportunity. With Darap Vida under his control as a puppet ruler, he could control house Vida with out fear of being sent into the bright lands.

Back on Tatooine, they took her and several others to be presented to Bogotá the Hutt as slaves for sale. She was stripped of her clothing and thoroughly inspected by the Hutt. After he had determined that she was a virgin, he purchased her as a leasure slave. The Hutt ordered that she be offered to an arriving special guest Jango Fettso he could have the honor of breaking her in. After Jango departed, she and several girls were assigned to entertain the guards. The following night, she had a dream that a Jedi would come and she would go with him. This gave her the mental resolve to endure this existence without any major emotional scarring. To her, she was just biding her time until his arrival.

The only time she had the opportunity to wear clothing was when she was being offered to guests. This quickly became her favorite activity in her new life. On these occasions, they would make her as attractive as possible and dress her in very enticing clothes in order to enhance her guest's experience. The rest of the time, she was either too busy working or being ogled at to wear anything.

Her dream became manifest three years later when a Jedi knight named Tosh came to negotiate the release of certain prisoners. The negotiation quickly degenerated into violence.

The Gamorrean guards that were currently enjoying her services heard the commotion and quickly finished with her so that could reinforce their comrades. Left naked and unguarded, she decided that this was her time to leave. On her way out, she noticed the Jedi battling in the main audience chamber. A bounty hunter was poised to attack him from behind with a vibro sword. Thinking that he was the one in her vision, she charged the bounty hunter knocking him over, his weapon sliding across the floor. The unclad girl quickly retrieved the sword and defended the Jedi's back swinging wildly.

Eventually the Jedi won the battle and liberated both her and the prisoners. However, the trip back to Coruscant was far from uneventful.

She was eager to assist him in defending the ship. By the time they reached Coruscant, he was so impressed by her that he decided to take her on as his Padawan learner despite the council's reservations.

Over the next two years, their distinctly different personalities caused them to drift apart. He is more impulsive and ready for a fight while she is more intellectual and more inclined to gather information and analyze a situation before acting.

This combined with the council's hesitance to grant Tosh permission to train her as a padawan caused her to feel like she needed to prove herself to them. In order to do so, she set out to construct a lightsaber that would impress her master and make him proud of her. As for the council, she would chronicle several cautionary tales of various people's fall to the dark side. This is intended to demonstrate to others what weaknesses lead to the dark path. Of course, she would have to interview these people herself in order to get the true story. She intends to keep these projects to herself in order for them to be a "surprise present" for them. Then, maybe, she might prove to herself that they were wrong in their disapproval of her becoming a Jedi.

Whenever master Tosh was sent on particularly dangerous missions that required his particular skills as a lightsaber weapon master, he was forced to leave her on her own. While he still gave her occasional guidance either in person or through the holonet, she essentially learned on her own.