-EARLY YEARS-

Tuyen-Ong was born on Iqobal, in a small village on the gas giant's relatively small habitable zone. The eldest twin in the Haomai family of botanists, she took to gardening and a strong reliance on local flora at a young age--diligently reading the works of her family members before her learn everything she could about flowers. Originally fond of them for culinary purposes, Tuyen-Ong later became fascinated by medicinal plants thanks to her grandmother's work studying the Yenlong Barley--a strain of barley local to Iqobal which acted as an accelerant in bacta production.

Thanks to her brother's musical skill and her personable attitude, the two marketed the healing properties of Yenlong Barley across the Polith system, gaining a sizeable fortune for their small settlement as well as notoriety for their work. After receiving a scholarship from Athakam Medtech for her work in medicine, Tuyen enrolled in the First Republic Medical Academy of Coruscant and graduated with a doctorate in plant medicine. She returned to work for Athkam Medtech for a few years, assisting with the development of the SmartMed 1000 Integrated System, which reduced injury, lessened the effects of wounds, and assisted in recovery. She grew tired of being cooped up in one place for too long, and later moved on to acting as an independent medical researcher for institutions she saw as a good cause.

-REPUBLIC MEDICAL SERVICE-

By the time of the Clone Wars, Iqobal had fallen to Separatist rule, and Dr. Ong could not return. Deeply upset by her inability to help her family and her people, she poured herself into her work as a healer, gaining a position as a field researcher for the Grand Republic Medical Facility on Coruscant. From there, she was tasked with doing very much the same as before, working for the Republic Science Corps by travelling far and wide across the galaxy to search for new breakthroughs, techniques, and tools that would better help heal those affected by the war. Joined by Coruscant Guard member Lt. Salve, the duo would revolutionize battkefield medicine with their discoveries. This would last until the 19BBY, when the Great Jedi Purge saw Lt. Salve reassigned to a new project and Dr. Ong taken into custody to formulate a new fast-acting Bacta for use in tanks necessary for a classified Imperial facility on Mustafar.

-THE EMPIRE-

During the transitional period between the Republic and the Empire, Dr. Ong attempted to go AWOL from the Republic Science Corps as it transitioned into an Imperial facility. Captured by bounty hunters and returned to military custody, she was given an ultimatum: continue your work on painkillers and Bacta cultivation, or her family and her people would suffer the consequences, as she was technically guilty of treason. She accepted, feeling as though she had little choice otherwise, and was removed of her usual pink garb and homebrewed medical gadgetry. Fitted with a drab uniform and given a tiny, windowless room in Imperial barracks, Tuyen found herself becoming strangled by the cold, dreary and terrifying new life under the Empire. Her only reprieve came in the form of her thousands and thousands of vials of biofloral essences--their luminous colorful hues being the only source of vibrancy in her otherwise monochromatic existence. To cope with her new projects, experiments, and lack of autonomy, she began taking doses of the Zeltronian Sun-Poppy, allowing her to feel euphoria at the cost of a slowly growing dependency. She began to wear dark goggles to hide her ever-pinkening eyes, a side effect of Sun-Poppy use.

In late 19 BBY, Dr. Ong would be transferred to a new, top-secret project on Mount Tantiss, becoming the facility's anesthesiologist and bacta specialist, though she found herself doing little in the way of soothing pain and more often than not was responsible for finding new ways to exploit pain receptors instead. She continued her work in a poppy-fueled haze, hoping to be reassigned as quickly as possible.