Almos Terthbak was a Human male from Anaxes, born to a family to middle-class laborers. In 20 BBY, at the age of eighteen, he enlisted in the Republic academy to escape what he viewed as drudgery in the business field, but did not complete his training until after the Clone Wars had ended and the Empire had been formed. Terthbak was swept up in a wave of zeal for the new government and had dreams of grandeur related to achieving high rank in the Imperial academy.