Novera was a Hapan woman born several years before the Yuuzhan Vong War to a family of nobility. When she was a little girl and presented before the Queen of Hapes, Teneniel Djo, the queen recognized Novera's Force-sensitivity and quietly told her parents about it. Like most Hapans, her parents had a distrust of the Jedi, but the idea of their daughter having special powers intrigued them. They agreed to have Novera attend a special school ostensibly for grooming potential handmaidens and attendants for the queen. In fact, it was a preparatory school for Jedi training.