Billal Batross was a male Human scoundrel who operated during the early years of the Galactic Civil War. He was raised on the Trader's Luck, a decommissioned troop ship owned by Garris Shrike, and was one of the many orphans whom Shrike used in confidence tricks and thefts. In 1 BBY, Batross used his position inside the Aleena crime lord Sollima's gambling network to steal money from his accounts. Sollima's accounting droid discovered this, and Batross covered his tracks by secretly selling the droid to representatives of the Galactic Empire, who planned to use the information inside the droid's data core to gain control over Sollima's casino world, the Hollow Moon. However, Batross still owed the crime lord a debt, so in order to repay his dues, Batross agreed to recover Sollima's droid.