Jaasamin had a challenging transition from her home life to Starfleet. A child of another universe and niece to the Kuumaarke of the so-called Mirror Universe, Jaasamin has endured hardship, fear, and having to adjust to a Federation culture from expectations set by the Terran Empire.

She has done admirably, and her insights into the training and tactics of Terran tactical officers has proven invaluable.

The Lukari from the universe that residents referred to as the "Prime Universe," Jaasamin later learned, had been exiled from their homeworld by the Kentari and found Lukar Prime after a long journey across the stars searching for a home. In the universe of her birth, however, the Lukari had succeeded in conquering the Kentari aggressors, rendering the homeworld uninhabitable using protomatter weapons. The remnants of the defeated Kentari fled into space while the Lukari abandoned their devastated world in favor of finding a new one to conquer..

Odd, she thought, how two different universes would have such different sets of circumstances that yet achieved the same result: the Kentari inhabiting New Kentar in the Gon'cra Nebula, and the Lukari settling on Lukar Prime, an M-class moon in the Maxia Zeta system near Ferenginar. No more odd, she supposed, than the fact that there were multiple universes..

In the so-called Mirror Universe, Jaasamin had been born the daughter of a prominent bureaucrat and sister to Adjutant Kuumaarke, right hand to General Suumaarnu, the supreme commander of the military and de facto ruler of Lukar Prime since the death of the High Administrator decades before. As daughter of a high-ranking government official and niece to a military leader, Jaasamin enjoyed a privileged childhood..

In the Prime Universe, the Lukari encountered the Khitomer Alliance - a trinity of galactic powers consisting of the United Federation of Planets, the Klingon Empire, and the fledgling Romulan Republic - when Tholian forces triggered a destabilization of the system's star. The Federation and a traveler from the future saved the star and ushered in a new age of space exploration for the previously seclusionist Lukari people. In Jaasamin's own universe, it was the Terrans who discovered their world - not to save them, but to annex them into the Terran Empire or conquer them if they resisted..

Aunt Kuumaarke immediately agreed to aid the Terrans and bring Lukar Prime into the Empire. Suumaarnu objected, so she murdered him and handed control of the military and the homeworld to the Terrans. Kuumaarke then immediately joined the Terran Navy and abandoned her people..

Jaasamin's world, and her life, changed seemingly overnight. The old government was wiped away in favor of a Terran magistracy, and the whole world was turned into a base of military industry churning out ships and weapons for the glory of the Empire. Her planet had already been militarily-focused, and Jaasamin had been trained accordingly. But her new near-slave status was...unsatisfactory. Her salvation came in the form of a Tholian invasion..

Much like events in the Prime Universe, the Tholians did eventually come to the Maxia Zeta system looking to destroy the star there. Unfortunately for them, the Lukari had already begun churning out warships for the Terrans, and the Tholians were met with merciless force. Jaasamin had been an officer on one of the responding ships, having joined the Lukari Defense Armada as the lesser of all other available evils. During the combat, the Tholians attempted to use some device to destabilize their star but were destroyed at the moment of its activation. This formed a spacial anomaly into which Jaasamin's ship was pulled - depositing them in the alternate universe..

Their captain's first encounter with a federation ship went badly. His first impulse was to attack the much larger vessel and the little science escort was disabled and its crew captured. Though there was some initial trepidation from the crew that they'd all end up being questioned in agonizer booths, to their surprise this Starfleet didn't employ such tactics. In fact, Jaasamin very quickly came to like this version of humanity and soon after the questioning and vetting by Starfleet Intelligence, was allowed to enroll in Starfleet Academy.