Lord Barthos Okeefe, a Human from Brentaalan, belonged to the well-known merchant family, House Okeefe. His professional life was marked by great achievement as a financial expert and as the person in charge of Brentaal's space-based HoloNet relay station. Approaching his seventh decade, he chose to retire to a vacation home near the north pole of the planetside. While Okeefe held unfavorable views of the Galactic Empire, he questioned whether the Rebels' could effectively govern if they replaced it.