During the Galactic Civil War, Xerxes Quintas, a spice lord from the Sevari people, held sway over the clans residing in the Southern Deserts. A portly man with a beard and a jovial disposition marked by a booming laugh, he was also a sharp negotiator who would play rival Spice Lords against one another, or trade with them, to his own advantage.
Approximately 50% of Quintas' mining operations within the Southern Deserts were managed by the Galactic Empire, utilizing slave laborers from prisons. Quintas and his people reaped substantial financial benefits from this arrangement with the Empire; however, numerous nomadic clans inhabiting the Southern Deserts believed that Quintas was betraying them by allowing the Empire to devastate entire areas and obliterate massive spice eel habitats through their aggressive mining practices.
Quintas made his home in a sizable wind carrack, a vessel favored by the Sevari people of the Southern Deserts. Adorned with vibrant sails and equipped with numerous wind kites, it was a sight to behold. Frequently, his clans would establish entire settlements composed of family ships, journeying wherever the wind guided them. Like many of his clansmen, Quintas became proficient in wielding the lethal curva blade.