Geconoia Ticogeer (or as her friends called her, Noia) was a Mandalorian-trained bounty hunter who was born on Tatooine, but grew up on the planet of Hoth. She was the sole survivor of a shuttle crash to Coruscant, she was nine years old. She lived alone, and soon learned through trial and error how to live successfully on Hoth. She fixed up an abandoned ship and flew to Tatooine, where she learned from an unknown wise man the ways of the bounty hunter. She flew to Coruscant and took on a few assassination missions for wealthy senators who wanted their new laws in place. When she returned to Hoth, by then her base of operations, she discovered a new wreckage near her cave, It was an escape pod, and inside it was Vel Deligal, whom she decided to train as her apprentice.