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"I don't know why I do this to myself. I just have this soft place in my head for you strong, quiet, self-contained types."

- Sheeka Tull

Sheeka Tull was a Human woman who was born in 59 BBY and grew up on Atrivis 7. Her parents were killed in a range war on that world, leaving her orphaned. At the age of eighteen, she met and fell in love with the bounty hunter Jango Fett, and the two had a brief romantic relationship. She eventually moved to Ord Cestus and worked as a pilot, operating her own ship, Spindragon. She fell in love again, this time with a miner named Yander. The two married, but he died four years later, leaving her with three children, Tarl, Tonoté, and Mithail, to raise. After saving her younger sister on Devon Four by smuggling in medicine over a Republic trade embargo during a plague that affected her sister's religious group, Tull was arrested, convicted, and sentenced to ten years of labor. However, Tull found a way to clear her name during the Clone Wars when the Republic launched a Jedi-led mission to Ord Cestus. In exchange for aiding the Jedi and their small contingent of clone troopers, her criminal record would be expunged.

Tull did as she was told, helping Jedi Master Kit Fisto assemble and supply a force of insurgents to strike against the Ord Cestian government. During the mission, she fell in love with an ARC trooper named A-98. He reminded her of Jango Fett, and she grew close to him even as she tried to open his eyes to what it meant to be Human and not just another soldier in the Grand Army of the Republic. Disturbed by the use of numeric designations for the clones, she gave him the name Jangotat. After the insurgents, clones, and Jedi were ambushed by droids sent by the Ord Cestian government, she saved Jangotat's life, taking him to her village to heal. They spent time together, but after he recovered, he departed and assisted in the final Republic attempt to prevent Ord Cestus from falling into the hands of the Confederacy. She was later heartbroken to learn that Jangotat had died in action, though the Republic was victorious. Her record cleared, Tull then resolved to do her best to raise the child of Jangotat's she was carrying.