Vuffi Raa was a specially designed and constructed droid thought to be an agent of the extra-galactic droid species known as the Silentium, who created him to explore the galaxy and learn about other civilizations for his "parental" droids. In one of Vuffi Raa's early encounters, he was reprogrammed by the shape-shifting Croke sorcerer Rokur Gepta. Gepta gave him to an agent, Osuno Whett, who used him in the field. He served Whett until asked to perform an operation that had him labeled as a "butcher" and sought refuge on a desolate planet. It was there that he encountered Lando Calrissian, who had won him in a game of sabacc, and after serving out a program to betray Lando, began his new life as a vagrant wanderer and partner to Calrissian.