To those who knew him, R’hask Sei’lar was the model of a gallant spacer captain, an outmoded type in an era of pragmatism and profiteering among his occupation. Sei’lar was born on Bothawui to a reasonably well-off merchant family, the Sei’lar clan. He had at least one brother. Growing up, his parents wished him to enter politics, but he decided not to. Something of a rebel, he invested a portion of his inheritance into a light freighter, the Hawk-bat, after spending six months on a freighter. Those six months ignited his wanderlust and he decided that he would rather roam the galaxy in a starship than endure the daily life on Bothawui.