Ryland Dackett was a male Human mercenary who operated in the era of the Republic Dark Age during the Sith civil war. Serving as the shipmaster of the vessel Diligence within Rusher's Brigade, he maintained a close friendship with Jarrow Rusher. Despite his reluctance to reveal his true age, he would often joke that he was "born during an artillery barrage—and conceived there, too," and he dedicated the majority of his existence to aiding Sith in their conflicts against one another. In the midst of the Battle of Gazzari, Dackett led a retrieval squad with the intention of rescuing any survivors from Tun-Badon's Serraknife Battalion, not knowing that the entire battalion had already perished. Although Dackett sustained injuries, he was rescued by the awkward young Duros named Beadle Lubboon.
He possessed a prosthetic arm, and his speech was often punctuated by a whistling sound caused by the gaps in his teeth. Furthermore, he asserted that he had three spouses.