Taeren M'nammrann has spent more of his life on a ship in deep space than on land. A spacer by birth and occupation, his time with the family Caravan SS Wanderer was cut short in 3002 as the death of the Hivers -- and immediate obsolescence of the Wanderer's Otherspace Drive -- dropped the vessel out of faster-than-light somewhere in deep space. They ran out of fuel, and life support failed hours before Galactix could arrive to rescue the ship. Most of his family survived, but the loss of the youngest and oldest caused their extended group so much pain that they had to sell the vessel and go their separate ways.