Born on Alderaan 1000 years before the rise of the Empire, the young Caine Orikan had a peaceful childhood - the Republic, though in decline due to constant harrowing attacks by the Sith. Caine's parents were merchants, not overly successful but not destitute, and provided well for Caine as he grew up on the peaceful world of Alderaan. Despite many arguments that his parents had in regards to his father's wishes to volunteer for the Republic's military, the battle of Korriban in 1006 was the breaking moment and he left with a tearful goodbye. The thirteen year old Caine came to understood his father's loyalty to the Republic and swore to himself that tearful day that he'd - one day when he was old enough - to follow the same admirable path. Caine excelled in the studies of math and science