Nax Strag

"Stick it where the suns don't shine!"

- being interrogated

 was a human male bounty hunter and mercenary for hire, becoming active as such in 3 BBY. Born on Tatooine in 23 BBY, his mother died shortly after giving birth to Nax and his younger brother, Trax. As a result, Nax's father, a moisture farmer, had to raise the two of them on his own. For the next twenty years, the two brothers would live a hard, but relatively average life on the family homestead with their father and protocol droid, Z-3PO.

In 3 BBY, Nax had a desire to leave Tatooine, but felt obligated to stay to help provide for his father and brother. As such, he began to set aside funds to purchase his own starfighter while simultaneously contributing most of what he earned towards the family's needs.

Not long after Nax started to save for a starfighter, both Trax and his father were killed in a bandit attack, leaving Nax to fend for himself, alone. As a result, his plans to leave Tatooine were accelerated, and he became a bounty hunter.

Childhood
Nax's childhood was not a special one. His mother had died in childbirth, but his early life was scarcely any different from that of any other child growing up as a moisture farmer on Tatooine. During this time, Nax befriended Thel Novar, and became his best friend.

Teenage Years
Nax's teenage years were when he was set on the path of becoming a bounty hunter. As Nax and Trax grew older, they had to do more and more odd jobs to make ends meet in place of their ailing father, and as such, they picked up many skills during this period, and eventually attached themselves to shooting the most.

In 4 BBY, Thel's family homestead was threatened by a raiding party of sandpeople. The Strag brothers went to assist them, and successfully fended the party off with assistance from the Novar family. Thel, now a practicing gunsmith, gave the two a single favor to use in the future. Nax used his on having a DL-44 Custom made as a gift for Trax, while Trax never used his.

Tragedy
"I’m not all boo-hoo about it. I was going to leave eventually, now I just have more reason to. There’s nothing left for me here." In 3 BBY, Nax had acquired a feeling of wanderlust. Faced with the idea of being a moisture farmer for the rest of his life, an idea he abhorred, he decided that he would leave Tatooine, having heard rumors of a trader in Mos Espa selling a starfighter for sixty thousand credits. Not wanting to abandon his family, he chose to slowly save up whatever funds he could find, while spending the rest on supporting Trax and his father, but it was not to be. Several weeks later, a group of men came by, trying to buy a water vaporator. Their father refused to sell, but they kept returning week after week, before stopping.

One night, as the brothers were waiting for their father and Z-3PO to come down from an incoming sandstorm, they heard muffled yelling, and then shots being fired. They got their weapons, ran up, and started shooting to chase the attackers away. Z-3PO was blasted apart, with only his head remaining, their father was dead as soon as they got there, and Trax bled out in his brother's arms.

With nothing left to hold him down on Tatooine, Nax would become a bounty hunter, putting everything he earned that didn't go into providing for himself into buying the starfighter and getting off-world.