Pon Edestus was born a slave, and from a young age his strength was valued by his owner above all other attributes. He was trained in combat and taught to fight for his faster, but Pon had different ideas. He rebelled, and quite accidentally found himself at the center of a slave revolt that liberated hudreds of sentients. Unfortunarely for Pon, he lost an arm in the battle and was nearly killed.
When Pon finally recovered from his wounds, he discovered that his arm had been replaced with a cybernetic and his freedom purchased by a scholar named Hethan Romund. Intrigued by his ability to survive wounds that should have killed anyone else, Romund had taken a special interest in Pon.
She asked the young Nautolan to serve as her bodyguard on a patricularly dangerous world as she explored the supposed final resting place of a Jedi Knight. The mission, despite (or perhapse becasue of) Pon's relentless refusal to take anything seriously, was a success. As payment for his services, Romund gave Pon the dead Jedi's lightsaber, explaining to him that the Jedi have been champions of the oppressed and weak - just as Pon himself was.
Since then, Pon has been enjoying his freedom in the galaxy, selling his sword-arm and fighting on his own terms, not for any master. Although he seldom backs down from any fight or challenge, he prefers to fight on behalf of the weak and oppressed. When he received a distress call from his old friend Romund, he was hapy to leap to her aid....