Litki was born, as many Jawas are, in a sandcrawler on Tatooine. Intelligent, quick-witted, and curious, she proved unusually talented with technology even by Jawa standards, becoming one of her generation’s most promising scrappers. Her social skills were not as impressive, but that rarely matters with family, and a Jawa tribe is a tight-knit family indeed. She also showed considerable potential with computer tech, and became a de facto go-to when they found intact computers and datapads; pulling whatever data could be turned for profit, and wiping and reprogramming them afterward.
Combing through data from all over the galaxy opened up a new world for Litki. These glimpses into worlds, peoples, and societies were unlike anything she’d experienced, or would experience, trawling the deserts of Tatooine, refurbishing scrap for whatever meager credits the local moisture farmers could spare. As she entered adulthood, she realized she couldn’t face the dull, predictable future that Tatooine provided her, but she knew her tribe would not understand. She left alone, in the night, with enough food, tech, and credits to get a job on the next ship out of Tatooine. She left her family, and her family name, behind.
Litki has spent the years since then on one ship or another, usually interstellar scrappers for whom her technical skills are in high demand. She rarely does more than one or two jobs with the same ship, as captains often find that her interpersonal challenges - language barriers, everpresent smells, and an unwillingness to learn how to compensate for either - are not worth her skills, however impressive. She rarely knows what, how, or if she’ll be eating in a month’s time, and her few possessions are so worn-out and makeshift that only her own talents can keep them functional. Sometimes she wonders if it was worth it to leave her family. Then she sees another planet, another station, another world she’s never seen before, and wonders why she waited so long to do so.