it's terribly mean of me but the opportunity is too good to pass up. especially since obviously ren will find her and she'll be alright. cause yeah, good lord, that could have gone really terribly really fast.
i'm torn between two ideas. the first is that she was a photographer (or a holographer, i gotta check with the mods on that) and she was meant to be documenting the colonization of a new planet. then she got really sick with some new disease on said planet, so they put her in cryo until they could make a cure, only they ended up abandoning that colony and forgetting about her. the other option would be that she was either the sister of or the pa for some hotshot politician in the early days of the republic, and was traveling around to some of the more recently colonized planets as a result on her sibling's behalf. and then same thing pretty much, she gets hurt or sick, they put her in cryo, and then forget about her.
she had a fairly nice life though, either way. cushier than most for sure. not to mention in a time when the republic was seen wholly as this wonderful, hopeful, positive thing and it was clearly working, and all those huge cities were just colonies still.