"Uncle" Vanya was a Twi'lek crime boss from the Corporate Sector. It was Vanya who gave the Outrider, a Corellian YT-2400, to a pilot in his employ named Dash Rendar. Through some creative accounting by Rendar's droid Leebo, Vanya inadvertently paid to upgrade the Outrider to become a smuggling ship. After Rendar saved his life during an Espo raid, Vanya gave up his grudge against him.