Maximus was born on Corellia, to a strange circumstance. His mother, Sanji, had met another woman, a Witch by the name of Santeria, and Sanji had fallen in love. The two had done the dirty, and through Santeria's dark magics she had impregnated Sanji with a child. However, due to the nature of the dark magic, and the unholiness of it, Sanji's life was forfeit to bring Santeria's newest spawn into the world, and the Corellian woman gladly gave away her life for the woman she loved. Dying at birth, only able to name her son Maximus before her life ceased as his began.