Clioa'natine is a Twi'lek who came from a poor family on Ryloth, where she was verbally abused as a child by her father and ignored by her mother. She started a dancing career when she was a teenager just because it seemed the easiest way to make a quick credit in some sort of legal fashion. Unfortunately for her, the proprietor of the cantina where she danced at not only tried to take advantage of her but attempted to sell her to his customers as a slave girl. While she was dancing one evening, she met an off-world male human named Bleys Cole.