Kyr Aden was born a Mandalorian on Concord Dawn. Because of lesser-known territories being marked as unthreatening, worlds such as Concord Dawn survived the Clone Wars nearly completely intact. Its low-profile history kept the world largely untouched, until Mandalore Cadden Blackthorne attacked the planet as a means of winning the planet's loyalty to the newly-formed Mandalorian Protectors. After the closing of the Xen'Chi War, Garen Starfall, Blackthorne's successor, initiated the Spectre Project, and Kyr was chosen as the leader of the elite of the elite: the Spectres.