Venga Liss was an Aqualish male that worked for the Gillanium Syndicate, being the son of the syndicate's leader, "The Underlord." At some point during the reign of the Galactic Empire, Venga attempted to steal an Imperial Lambda-class shuttle while on a jungle planet, prompting an Imperial officer to hire the droid bounty hunter IG-88 to apprehend Venga. However, in the ensuring skirmish, IG-88 calculated that the Aqualish was an irritating find, and decided to kill the thief instead, leaving a thermal detonator within the shuttle, destroying it with Venga inside.