Dono (Squib)

"Secret agent Dono to Momship. Hope you enjoying plenty big treasure dump. Plenty good stuff left on big-ship, you bet. Have place-numbers for next big-ship stop. Will transmit in super-secret Squib code. Starting now."

- Dono

Dono was a Squib who lived on the Imperial armored transport Elusive. While the crew of the vessel considered Dono a slave, the Squib acted as a spy by transmitting the vessel's coordinates to the Squib Momship so that the galactic scavengers could collect the Imperial ship's garbage dumps. Dono kept these transmissions secret by sending them in Old High Squibbian. Sometime shortly after the Battle of Yavin, Dono was likely killed when a group of Rebel Alliance operatives destroyed the Elusive to prevent it from accessing data sensitive to the Alliance.

Behind the scenes
Dono is mentioned in the adventure Scavenger Hunt, written by Brad Freeman and published by West End Games in 1989 as part of Star Wars: The Roleplaying Game. Although Dono does not appear directly in the story, the Squib secret agent is mentioned in conjunction with the message the Squib sends to the spy's compatriots on the Thrifty. The adventure fails to note whether Dono is the Squib's given name or is a code name used solely for such communiqués. Although Dono's death is not mentioned explicitly in the adventure, the story does establish that the Elusive, where Dono is stationed, is in hyperspace from the moment it leaves the Dankayo system to the monent the Rebel characters wrench it into realspace using their stolen gravity-well projector; this course of events thus leaves no chance for Dono to abandon ship, so the Squib must be aboard the Imperial transport when it is destroyed.