Kalback was a Mon Calamari Admiral of the New Republic and a distal pod-cousin of Admiral Gial Ackbar. He was in his sixties at the time of his final command. In 5 ABY, Admiral Ackbar temporarily placed the New Republic Third Fleet in the hands of Admirals Kalback and Willham Burke, who jointly worked to sever the forces of Imperial warlord Treuten Teradoc from the Core Worlds. Leading the fleet from the Mon Calamari Star Cruisers Justice and Remember Alderaan, the pair bested the warlord's task force at Togoria and fought their way to the planet Lantillies on the Perlemian Trade Route, where they connected with the forces fielded by the planet Contruum. Having established a hold on the Perlemian, the two admirals headed in different directions; while Burke pressed Coreward to Chazwa, Kalb