Shard was born Zyi Ux. He was 1 of 2 children of Qur and Ixyl. He was 3 when the Empire landed on Omwat. Shortly afterwards he was enrolled along with other young Omwati students in an accelerated training and education program design to turn out expert engineers and scientists.

Within a few months the first failing students showed the program's true nature. Punishment gradually increased for such failures, and pressure was ramped up. Training and torture merged and periodic orbital bombardments of Omwat became the chief motivator.

After 4 years in the program he finally snapped under the stress. He was escorted back to his home. The general area was subjected to bombardment from one of the Star Destroyers in orbit.

Two enterprising young officers who were fielding a small party surveying the destruction found in a collapsed apartment comb, Zyi mangled and barely alive. They had a side business with a Hutt Kajidic where they smuggled out salvageable Omwati to be sold into slavery as living computers and indentured mechanics.

He spent the rest of his childhood on Nar Shaddaa. However he escaped for a number of years before being found and sold to another Hutt operating in the Corporate Sector.

He was broken out and recruited to a team called Sparrowhawk Grey. They were a a freelance team of no-good do-gooders with a Rebellion liaison attached. Specializing in information gathering, ship acquiring and prisoner extraction.

He has since relocated back to Nar Shaddaa and spent sometime hanging around and working for The Spacebarn.

After accidently finding an Imperial forced labor camp, while making a delivery. He disabled the security and locking mechanisms on the prisoner cages, and enabled the lockdown of the armory and barracks leaving the wookie free range on their captors. He ended up teaming up with one of the Wookies, R'Rowlka.

Zyi has a hatred of Imperial, Buerocracies in general, Corporate Sector Authority, The Hutt Kajidics, bounty hunters, slavers... he doesn't really like a lot of people.

He is sarcastic, scheming and seriously loyal to those that earn his trust. He is both prematurely an old man, and immature, often preoccupied, and a know it all. However he really hates pretentious people who hoard or hold over people's heads their knowledge.

He is obsessive with technology, it's a refuge, logical, understandable.

10-bounty there is still a bounty on his head from escaping Hutt enslavement, and the resulting monetary damage from the escape.

10- score to settle, hates the empire and now that he has freedom and skills he plans to use them for revenge.

10- criminal, many post operations have given him a record in corporate sector space and other systems.

10-debt to Shug nix