Tarand Crowe, a smuggler and pirate of the male persuasion, operated in the era of the New Republic. During that time, he found himself among a group of outlaws assembled on Kijimi by Zeva Bliss, the head of the Spice Runners of Kijimi, supposedly for a summit. However, Bliss's true intention was to murder both her allies and rivals in the criminal underworld. Poe Dameron, formerly a Spice Runner himself, intervened and stopped the planned executions, allowing Crowe to flee. Subsequently, Crowe guided the badly wounded Dameron to Von Tante, an associate of his located in another part of Kijimi City.