Dredge

Darran "Dredge" Aldous was a Near-Human pirate lord from Caterran who led a minor band of pirates on the dunes of the planet's Western Sand Sea. The Aldous gang were known among other pirate groups in the area to be one of the few groups willing to raid Imperial targets. Because the major pirate groups of the Western Sand Sea had struck deals with the Empire, Aldous's attacks on Imperial targets in turn made him and his gang a target for larger pirate bands.

The Aldous gang was nothing if not slippery, however, and easily evaded rival gangs' large and comparatively slow sail barges with their sloop and their speeders.

Through his friendship with Bejiahm Checkner, Aldous was acquainted with the Youngest Son of the Priatt family sometime prior to 0BBY.

Beginning sometime in 1BBY, Aldous owed a large sum of money to the Harch gangster Enril, which he was unable to pay off. Enril in turn utilized Aldous and his gang as enforcers as an alternate payment. When it appeared as though Enril did not intend to ever consider the debt repaid, Aldous executed a plot to assassinate him in 1ABY. Though Enril survived the attack, his disappearance and apparent death caused a great enough disturbance in his crime syndicate to cause its collapse.

Personality and traits
Despite his ruthless reputation, Aldous was known for his dry wit and sense of humor among close acquaintances. Having been born on the day of the First Battle of Geonosis, Aldous had a certain fascination with the Clone Wars in his youth as well as into his adulthood. He was quite versed in the history of the conflict and collected Clone Wars memorabilia. In fact, when aboard his ship, he often wore a set of armor comprised partially from salvaged clone trooper armor from the wreckage of a Venator-class Star Destroyer.

Aldous was given his nickname, "Dredge," by the first men and women he recruited to his crew in 5BBY. Having recognized Aldous's tendency to recruit down-on-their-luck individuals, his crew joked that he was a "dredge for lowlives," likening him to the industrial implement utilized to retrieve objects from the bed of a river.

Behind the scenes
Though never stated (and possibly unknown) in-universe, the cause of Aldous's peculiar look and Near-Human biological status is a trace amount of Taung blood in his DNA, likely from an ancient ancestor, thousands of years in the past.