Ras has no memories further back than two years, when he awoke from a ruptured cryogenic tank upon an unregistered freighter crashing on the planet Raxus Prime.
Crawling from the wreckage, he managed to salvage enough equipment to make it to the nearest starport, where he stole identification from a Dressellian, and enlisted on a tramp freighter leaving the system.
He has made his way ever since as a gun and pilot for hire. He has an identification tattoo on his wrist he habitually hides with bracers. He has since identified this as of imperial origin but on no known database he has ever managed to access.
His name he picked from an advertising poster for a local holovid hero.