Waac Waantawn was born on a planet healed by Ithorian ecological restoration efforts. It was not long until the Empire seized his home planet to build factories of war and polluted his world undoing all the work of the Ithorians. Wacc Waantawn was quick to rise against the Empire but his father, Woke Waantawn kept his son's burning anger in check. Woke preached the power of peaceful protest and spent their lives protesting the Imperial occupation and their pollution of their homeworld. Wacc Waantawn's spirit was broken after years upon years of futile protesting, beatings from stormtroopers and poverty. Eventually, he submitted himself to the employment of one of the Empire's many factories much to his shame to feed his family and bring medicine to his aging father.

Woke Waantawn, despite his senility and worsening health made one last ditch effort to peacefully protest the pollution and destruction of their homeworld caused by Imperial occupation. In the end, he was murdered by stormtroopers. Without the steady hand of his father and his innate rage, Wacc Waantawn cried out for justice and rallied the rest of factory workers to sabotage the factory and killing stormtroopers and imperial officers alike.

Despite the destruction of the Imperial factories at the hands of Wacc and his fellow rioters, it would not be long until Wacc Waantawn was apprehended by imperial forces. But none shall forget the day Wacc Wantaantawn went on the warpath.