From that age on, she was a member of a mercenary group called the "Knights of Darkness." She'd been in many battles with people such as the Cardassians, the Breen, and the Romulans. She also fought, in a round about way, in the Dominion war with her group.

It was after the war, after she'd stolen a runabout, after her last job that she was sentenced to a penal colony. She hadn't been there more than a year when she was approached by someone from Starfleet Academy. It was a scant few weeks later and she was registered at the Academy.

The reason she was asked to join Starfleet was so she could use the skills she learned while with the mercenary group were, such as fighting skills comprised of hand-to-hand combat, and martial arts forms: Tae Kwon Do, Karate, kickboxing, and Jujitsu. She is also an expert sniper, and has vast knowledge of explosives. She is also trained in weapons such as hand weapons and phaser rifles, as well as blades such as kitanas. She'd learned all this as a mercenary and put them to work for the Federation...and she said 'yes.' And the rest is, as they say, history.