Arlan Hale was born on Corellia in 27 BBY. Unbeknownst to him, he was a clone of the pirate Whit Solomon, delivered to a Corellian fertility clinic, where the complete embryo was given to the woman who would become his mother. In his youth, he quickly made a foray into gunrunning against the Republic. He was quite skilled at the entire ordeal, making a good pilot and excellent combatant until the fall of the Republic and the rise of the Empire. At that time, he decided he was better off with the government than against it, so he signed up to become a Stormtrooper.