Irin Tholl was born and raised during his early years on Coruscant, the heart of The Galactic Empire. The son of a distinguished Imperial Commander and heir to the Vel Aadren family empire, Irin and his younger sister Kistra where educated by the best private on-planet tutors, his future lying in a career within the Imperial Navy. With the death of his father at the Battle of Endor and the subsequent crumbling of The Empire, Irin and his family fled Coruscant during the uprising. Almost a year after settling on a backwater planet in the outer rim territories, political unrest and a pirate takeover ended with the death of his grandparents, mother and both carers. Barely suriviving the onslaught, the young Irin Tholl and his sister managed to reach a traders outpost where they bartered safe