Mapo was a young refugee displaced by the Galactic Civil War. He and his parents lived on Golus Station above the Mid Rim planet of Golus during the Galactic Civil War. After the Galactic Empire bombed the planet, Mapo's parents were killed and the boy was badly burned and disfigured. Mapo survived the massacre and ended up as a refugee on the planet Naboo around the time of the Battle of Jakku. There, he encountered the Gungan street performer Jar Jar Binks. After Mapo befriended Binks, he asked the Gungan outcast to teach him how to become a clown like him.