Salacious Cracken was a Trandoshan bounty hunter. He was trained by the crime lord Ozzel Brinx. Ozzel found him on a trip to Trandosha, where the teenage Salacious made the mistake of mugging him. Ozzel soon had the boy on the ground and begging for mercy. But the crime lord took a liking to him, and took him under his wing. Ozzel trained him in everything he knew.