28 Years before the war, Ali Baboon was born in the city of al-Sariq on Awal Kabab. Coming from a very poor background, as a child, he banded together 40 followers and began building an empire of crime. He hid out in a facility he bought with stolen money in Awal Kabab's hidden Black Market, a hub of illegal trading. He made deals with Pirates from Atlantea among others. Once the king of al-Sariq went into exile, his thieves became one of the gangs that went rampant through the city. Eventually, Tate arrived on the planet and made a deal with him: if Ali Baboon helped him steal a TURDIS from Ishgabangaloodoo, Tate would reward him with all the drugs that Lord Etbo and Sir Will of Cole owned. Ali went through with the deal, and snuck into a lab on Ishgabangaloodoo with his 40 thieves. He stole a TURDIS and took it back to his warehouse in al-Sariq. However, he drew Weasel and his friends to Awal Kabab in the process, which resulted in his eventual discovery and defeat at the hands of Weasel. Once he was defeated, Ali only managed to escape by faking his own death. He was eventually apprehended by Awal Kabab's authorities and was incarcerated in the maximum-security Prison World, a planet whose entire surface and interior is one huge prison. However, Tate later ordered Inquisitor Rhys to sneak onto Prison World and bust Ali Baboon out, as well as his other ally The Hacktivist. Once word got out that Ali Baboon was at large again, the Ishga police soon found him and locked him up at the maximum-security Newgate Prison, where he remains to this day, while 91 years old.