Tiras Or'un had the supreme misfortune to grow up on Jakku. Born to a family of moisture farmers who made a meager living supplying local communities with water, all Tiras had to look forward to was one day inheriting a collection of battered vaporators and one hundred acres of desert.
Then, the Empire came. Tiras was only eleven years old when the Empire assembled its fleet over Jakku's sands for the final showdown against the New Republic. As the ground shook and the skies darkened under the smoke of crashing ships, Tiras abandoned the vaporator he was repairing and rushed home. When he arrived, he found his house, and his family, were gone, wiped out by a crashing Star Destroyer.
Suddenly an orphan, Tiras barely survived the journey to a nearby nomad camp. In the years that followed, he turned junk scavenging as the only means of survival, bringing his hauls from scrapped starships to the newly founded Niima Outpost. Years of work did nothing to dull his hatred for the Empire, whose ambition and lust for power brought war to his world and killed his family.
Eventually, Tiras fell in with the vicious criminals of the Strus Clan, working for them as a desert guide and sometimes-enforcer. In his desperation for vengence, he thought such violent brutes would give him the skills he would need to fight back against the Empire. In time, however, Trias felt his need for vengeance wane and he accepted that the Empire was truly dead and gone. Realizing that hatred had poisoned his heart, he found he couldn't ignore the vicious nature of the criminals he worked for, and so he left.
The Strus Clan had hunted for him among the sand seas of Jakku, but Trias's survival skills have kept him one step ahead. Recently, he joined up with a group of nomads hard at work salvaging a crashed New Republic corvette. When the nomads found evidence of some secret treasure buried inside the ship, Trias was one of the first to realize the danger such a treasure posed. When the Strus Clan contacted the nomads and demanded the treasure, his fears were realized. He convinced Misha Vontoba, the nomad's leader, to contact an old soldier she knew and help her deal with hte Strus Clan's enforcers. Although he's terrified about facing the Strus Clan again, he knows he has to finally stand up to them.