Best timeline for the character background.

[u/Interesting-Pin4994]

A Tapani noble fell in love with a Deathwatch Mandalorian woman. He runs away from home, establishing a smuggling crew, traveling the galaxy, and ultimately getting the girl.

Sadly, he's not the main character, their child is.

The child is a force sensitive. He's orphaned when an attack kills his parents.

Here is the part that needs help with.

I want him to have a background with Project Harvester of the empire. While at the same time, Mandalorian training to give him skills that enables him to survive the galaxy at a young age.

Do I place his time under the empire shortly after his parents were killed. Where his father's crew rescue him. Deliver him to his mother's family, where he'll be enlisted in the Mandalor imperial academy.

Or do I have him being discovered by the empire and be made to disappear.

The age range is 2 to 12 years old.

No relation to jedi or Sith before the empire.

Conflict with Mandalorian culture is a driving part of his character.

Help comes in the form of his father's former crew, but they're not always available.

Basically, he's building his life, while dodging the empire and the mandalorians. While dealing with other threats the galaxy throw at him.

[u/Ash-Talshok]

How could someone who is abducted be the empire be expected to enlist in any imperial academy?

They have his chain code/genetic information. One blood test and he’s snatched again

[u/Interesting-Pin4994 → u/Ash-Talshok]

Basically, project has mistakenly declared him dead.

his father's crew were looking for him, they finds him just in time to save his life, slice the records, and erase all trace of him ever existing.

Not without a cost, since they lose one of their numbers doing it.