Clayton is a "Prince" of House Greystoke of New Alderaan. He was born on Alderaan and raised there for about three years, then he went traveling with his mother to distant exotic worlds in true Greystoke ways. News of Alderaan being destroyed didn't reach them till half a year after it happened. Even then they didn't know the magnitude of the destruction. While they feared for the lives of friends and family, they believed the planet had simply been attacked and occupied by the Empire.