He was the son of warlord-chieftain Lord Malameu Toda, brother to Gerin, and owned a small white pet named Ingey. Jann Tosh once escorted the boy to a space port on Chuzalla, as Coby had been accepted into the Imperial Academy, but a group of brigands known as the Starhunters abducted Ingey and brought him to Dandelo. Coby and Jann (along with C-3PO and R2-D2) followed the Starhunters and rescued Ingey. There he met an elderly Near-Human named Greej and decided to join him rather than continue to the Academy.