She had two brothers, one named Kamma and another, three years her junior, who became a skiff guard for Jabba the Hutt.
Shaara was chased from her workplace by Imperial stormtroopers who had been allowed back stage by the owner, and across the Dune Sea, where she and the stormtroopers fell into the Great Pit of Carkoon. The Imperials all succumbed to the hunger of the Sarlacc. The tentacled creature, however, mysteriously threw the girl back out to safety.