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| - Just a few years after his birth, Mainerd’s parents abandoned him because of a price on their heads. They were wanted on Coruscant for cooperatively holding up a store to get money to support themselves and their son, murdering two people in the act. Shortly after giving up their son to protect him, they were captured, tried, and executed for their crimes. Mainerd knew little of this and was cared for by some distant relatives of his parents. When he was nine years old, he discovered that he could move things without touching them. This was discovered when he was looking at a painting that his caretakers had that he hated, and it fell over. Walking over to it, he saw that it was completely secure and would not’ve fallen over simply by himself. He began to experiment with this power and moved other things, gaining a better understanding of how it worked, though his power was weak. Mainerd was reading about galactic history when he came across the wars between the Jedi and the Sith, realizing that he possessed the same powers as those ancient warriors had. He began experimenting with other things such as telepathy and acrobatics, finding that if he used the power called the Force, he could jump higher than normal and could move faster than he could run on his own. For several years, he continued this practice, becoming better and better, being able to lift heavier things with his mind, jump and run much faster than normal, and even have some minor control over weaker minded people, such as his guardians. When he was fourteen, he decided that his life was not suitable for someone like him. He left his guardians and gave more time to his practices. He began to pick-pocket for money and steal things like food and other necessities. While he never knew anything about what his parents did, he genetically inherited some of their skills at stealing things.
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