Haninum Tyk Rhinann

Haninum Tyk Rhinann was an Elomin, who was saved from traditional enslavement by Darth Vader to become his aide-de-camp. While serving as Vader's aide, he lived in fear of the Sith Lord.

Biography
Haninum Tyk Rhinann, a male Elomin, resided on Elom up until Emperor Palpatine's Imperialization of the galaxy. Most Elomin had been put into slavery and placed in work camps, but Rhinann had managed to avoid that fate by being appointed as an aide by Darth Vader, Dark Lord of the Sith. Following his appointment, he resided in the Imperial Palace on Imperial Center, and was given a considerable salary.

Several months after the Declaration of a New Order, Rhinann was summoned to Vader's antechamber for a report. Jedi Master and former councilman Even Piell had recently been hunted down and killed by stormtroopers, but as Rhinann attempted to report that fact he learned that Vader had already detected Piell's death through the Force. Vader went on to inform the Elomin that he was particularly interested in the whereabouts of Jedi Knight Jax Pavan, who was hiding in Imperial Center's Yaam Sector. Vader himself would not be able to locate Pavan through the Force, since doing so would alert the fugitive Jedi to the Dark Lord's interest. Rhinann was then tasked with locating Pavan, but the Elomin protested, claiming that the Yaam Sector was too broad a location to search. Vader did not want excuses, however, and mildly threatened Rhinann. No further protest came from the Elomin, and he set himself about the task.

To begin with, Rhinann assigned netdroids to scour the HoloNet for any possible information pertaining to Pavan. He then assigned slicers to search Imperial Center's security grid for any information on the fugitive that might have come from the Jedi Temple records. To narrow his search, Rhinann stipulated a set of parameters, such as a lack of previous employment and credit records. Moving on, he dispatched agents both covert and overt, as well as miniature search droids to scour the Yaam Sector for Pavan. Despite those measures, Rhinann was aware that he would not locate the Jedi quickly enough withe just agents and droids.

He began making datasphere queries, and discovered that a great many humans on Imperial Center, both male and female, possessed the name "Jax Pavan." Rhinann surmised that unless his quarry had undergone transgenderative surgery, he could eliminate the female Jax Pavans from his search. Even this did not help, as there were over half a billion human males named "Jax Pavan" on Imperial Center at that time. In the Yaam Sector alone there were over eight thousand men by that name. The Elomin began to suppose that Pavan could have hired a slicer for himself to remove all connections he had to the Jedi Order.

Beginning to panic, tried to use the Jedi Temple's genome records to pinpoint his quarry's exact identity, but was unable to do so. In a moment of desperation, he narrowed down his results to any "Jax Pavan" that had been even remotely linked with the Jedi, and came across a recent holorecording. The recording showed a group of stormtroopers being fought and killed by wanted murderer Nick Rostu, and another man who was wielding a lightsaber. The fight was taking outside the resiblock named the "Coruscant Arms," prompting Rhinann to research a resident list of the building. Amongst his findings was a listing for "Jax Pavan." Satisfied that he had found his quarry, the Elomin took note that Pavan had already moved out of the Coruscant Arms, but Rhinann was not deterred.

Vader was able to positively identify the man in the holo as Jax Pavan, prompting Rhinann to pursue his existing line of investigation. Hovercams detected Rostu's presence in Tangor Square, and so the Elomin, acting quickly, hired Interstellar Trading League member Captain Drach Coven of the Far Ranger to bring the Korunnai in. Vader personally wished to speak with Rostu, and so Rhinann had Coven bring his new captive to Docking Bay 1453CG in the Palace. Bringing his Givin underling along, Rhinann first took custody of Rostu, paid Coven, and then had stormtroopers arrest him and his Weequay colleague, Mok. Coven himself was wanted for crimes against the Mercantile Guild, and so Rhinann had both he and Mok liquidated, while the Far Ranger was impounded.

Rhinann then took Rostu to Vader's chambers. The Korunnai protested at first, before the Elomin explained that Vader wanted Rostu to locate Pavan. The Dark Lord spoke with Rostu in private, but by the time the Korunnai departed Vader's chambers, he was in a near vegetative state, and required physical guidance. Rostu had apparently agreed to help find Pavan, and so he was given the Far Ranger to use in his mission. To prevent the Korunnai from fleeing Imperial Center, Rhinann had implanted a subcutaneous tracer in him, and had made sure that Rostu was aware of it. When Rostu had left, Rhinann wondered just what Vader had done to the Korunnai that had turned a hardened criminal and soldier into a stumbling wreck of a man. The Elomin then began to speculate on just how useful he was to Vader, and whether or not he would soon be replaced. Rhinann was in such a state of fear by this point that he began breaking out in a rash of pruritic papules.

Vader summoned him once more, but Rhinann was unable to confirm whether or not Rostu had contacted Pavan yet. Believing that his job was killing him through fear, Rhinann began considering ways in which he could depart Imperial Center.

Old biography
Rhinann was saved from a life of slavery by the Empire by Darth Vader, who used him as a secretary. Rhinann however was terrified of Vader, and he felt that the fear of his master was killing him. A typical Elomin, he enjoyed neatness, and also had a fascination for the Force. Vader entrusted him with the duty to bring Jax Pavan before him with the lure of the droid Bug-Eyes, which Jax's Master, Even Piell, felt was important. When Rhinann decided that he had had enough of living in fear, he stole a Sith holocron from the Palace, coincidentally the same holocron that Zippa the Toydarian had tried to sell to Lorn Pavan years before, and plotted his escape. However, Vader, who had grown impatient of waiting for Jax Pavan to be brought before him, asked Rhinann and a group of troopers to accompany him in the chase. When they arrived at the Factory District, they attempted to apprehend Pavan and his cohorts, but I-Five had started a plot that would destroy the area in a nuclear explosion. Fearing for his life, Rhinann abandoned Vader's Lambda class shuttle, and fled to the Far Ranger with Pavan and his allies, and then accompanied them. When on board, he informed Pavan that the Bug-Eyes droid was a lure used to draw out Pavan, whom Vader wanted dead for unknown reasons. His fate after these events is unknown.

Personality and traits
Rhinann was a punctual being, particularly so when in the service of Darth Vader. In addition to practicing punctuality whenever he could, he understood its value. Rhinann was, like most of his species, obsessed with cleanliness and presentation, which in his view made him ideal for his post as an aide. Rhinann despised Humans, finding them to be anarchic and destructive. On the other hand, he, like most Elomin, thought his race to be superior to all, in terms of being civilized. In order to make stock of a particular culture, race, or species, Rhinann studied the architecture of any given location, and thought Imperial Center's haphazard collection of architectural styles to be typical of Humans.

Rhinann was fascinated by the Force, and his interest was one of his key reasons for accepting the job of Vader's aide, even though the alternative was slavery. Vader's presence struck great fear into the heart of Rhinann, even though the Dark Lord had effectively saved the Elomin from slavery. If a meeting with Vader went particularly poorly, Rhinann would do his utmost to purge the experiences from his memory.

Appearances

 * Coruscant Nights I: Jedi Twilight