The human male who was the progenitor of TK-462, the stormtrooper of the Imperial forces, was an air scrubber farm operator on Eriadu. He resided there with his wife, their son, and their daughter, Xea. A devastating event occurred fourteen years prior to the Battle of Yavin: anti-Empire insurgents, in an attempt to pilfer scrubbers from the farm, inadvertently killed Xea. Sometime following this event, the farmer was visited by the Imperial Grand Moff Wilhuff Tarkin. His son voiced his aspiration to enlist in the Imperial Army's distinguished ranks to avenge Xea's death, but the farmer forbade it, not wanting to suffer the loss of both his offspring. Nevertheless, the boy secretly departed from their residence, leaving behind a written message on the kitchen table. The farmer was absent from the graduation of his son from the Junior Academy of Phelar.