Here's some ideas:<br/><ul class="bbc_list" style="list-style-type: decimal;"><li>It could be that her former ship was raided and she was rescued (as the Confederation sees it anyway) and assigned as a normal crew member to the frigate (er... that now got destroyed ::) ) In this sense, she's kinda now like a crew member who has to band with the delegation.<br/><br/></li><li>Similar to the above, but specially assigned by Thrane himself to the delegation to do the hacking of the tech plans of the Sereta in case things don't pan out.<br/><br/></li><li>Her pirate ship ran afoul of this system and crash landed on this plant a long time ago and she's been in hibernation mode awaiting rescue, how awakened by the crash?</li></ul>