Vines Garru

"I've been told you're good. A genius, some have said."

- Zarin Ordo

Vines Garru was a female from. Born during the years of the, she attended a university on Coruscant and earned a doctorate in genetics, performing research into the science of the modificaton, removal and addition of genes. After the revelation of the, a force of millions of genetically identical clones, Garru selected a few to participate in her research, which she ensured remained humane, caring for the clone volunteers herself. Towards the end of the she discovered a method of removing the genetic alterations that the  had implanted in the clone soldiers, allowing them to live lives of a normal span rather than suffer advanced aging.

Soon after the of the Republic in to the, which Garru privately opposed, she was contacted by Alpha-78, one of the  of the Grand Army. He had read many of her papers and journals and wanted her to rid him of the advanced again genes that he had been implanted with on. She agreed and performed the necessary operation on Alpha-78. Soon after, her laboratory was raided by, who had come searching for 78. Angered by the Empire's destruction of her life's work, Garru fled from Coruscant to.