Goontirk, a male Snivvian, was the proprietor of the Madman's Fortune, which was a museum exhibit starship that served as his mode of transportation for a traveling sideshow. Sometime in the history of the galaxy, Goontirk acquired the mummified body of Vardovin IV, known as the "Lost King of Duro," from a Ryn merchant. Despite his doubts about the mummy's genuineness, Goontirk thought the corpse, even if a fraud, would be a captivating oddity to display on the Madman's Fortune. Unbeknownst to Goontirk, the mummy held over twelve skekfish eggs; as the Madman's Fortune traversed the Engebo system, the mummy's plasteel coffin broke, and the skekfish eggs hatched. These creatures then set upon Goontirk, who, in a desperate attempt to get away from them, fled into one of the ship's escape pods. The skekfish pursued him inside and consumed Goontirk before he could activate the pod, resulting in the Snivvian's death.