Warning: This infobox has missing parameters: parents, pronouns, masters, apprentices, skin, children, siblings, type, partners, families, cyber, feathers, mass and unrecognized parameters: era
Son of legendary pirate Kaine Paulsen, Socorran Drake Paulsen - also called "Lom" by those close to him - was himself a pirate and smuggler, which he had been doing since his father brought him along on a smuggling run at the age of five. He was Force-sensitive but untrained in the Jedi, or any other, way of the Force. He was blonde with deeply tanned skin and blue eyes, and wore a large golden earring.
At the age of fifteen, the Socorran Twi'lek crimelord Abdi-Badawzi forced Drake into acompanying the alcoholic Corellian smuggler Elias Halbert and the honorable Coynite warrior Tra'Parr'Sratt on a gunrun aboard the Seldom Different. They were interecepted by an Imperial customs force led by Lieutenant Taggert. While managing to hide the cargo, Drake was fired upon and injured by one of the stormtroopers that made up the boarding party, as he tried to prevent Taggert from executing Sratt, whom Taggert was intent on making an example out of. As the Seldom Different checked out clear, Taggert decided to let the Corellian, his ship, and his passengers go. This was Drake's first encounter with the Empire. Sratt nursed Drake until they made it back to Socorro, and Drake could finally be reunited with his father.