Wynn Dorvan

"Underneath that perfectly groomed and boring exterior beats the heart of a good man."

- Han Solo

Wynn Dorvan was a Human male who served as a member of the second Galactic Alliance Triumvirate and later, as the Chief of State of the Galactic Alliance. Dorvan began his career as a mid-level bureaucrat in the early years of the New Republic, where his honest nature earnt him the trust and respect of New Republic Chief of State Leia Organa Solo. In the aftermath of the Second Galactic Civil War, Dorvan came to the attention of the newly elected Chief, Natasi Daala, and accepted a position in her administration. Impressed with his efficiency, Chief Daala eventually promoted Dorvan to be her Chief of Staff.

However, in 44 ABY, amid Daala's handling of a very public stand off with the New Jedi Order and her brutal methods in dealing with galaxywide slave uprisings, Dorvan began to reconsider his position in her administration. As Dorvan drafted his resignation, however, the acting Grand Mastership of the Jedi Order passed from the easily controlled Kenth Hamner to the more martial Barabel Jedi Master Saba Sebatyne, who quickly acted to neautralize the threat Daala posed to the galaxy by staging a coup against her.

In place of the Office of the Chief of State, the Jedi Order created a ruling Triumvirate to govern the Alliance, representing the Order, the military and the Senate respectfully. Grand Master Sebatyne refused Dorvan's resignation and he initially stayed on to act as her political advisor, before being promoted to act as a member of the Triumvirate along with Sebatyne and Senator Haydnat Treen, in lieu of General Merratt Jaxton.

When the Order withdrew from the Triumvirate, it was widely expected that Dorvan would be elected Chief of State, however, Klatooinian Senator Padnel Ovin was voted in due to an assumption that he lacked political savvy and would be easily manipulated. Dorvan returned to his previous position of chief of staff so as to help advise Ovin, however, the Klatooinian very quickly died in office due to the Force manipulations of the dark side entiity Abeloth. Following Chief Ovin's death, Abeloth, in the guise of Rokari Kem, used her powers to manipulate the Senate into ushering her in as Chief of State.

Early career
The Human male Wynn Dorvan served in the New Republic as the underdeputy of tenolodium reserves. During this time, he had discovered a lucrative skimming operation run by his supervisor. Instead of using the knowledge to secure himself a cut of the products, Dorvan risked his life to inform the current New Republic Chief of State Leia Organa Solo. This led to a great deal of trust and respect developing between Organa and Dorvan. From that moment on, he had risen rapidely through the ranks of both the New Republic and it's successor, the Galactic Federation of Free Alliances. Eventually, he became first the personal aide and later Chief of Staff to Chief of State Natasi Daala.

Jedi psychosis
When Jedi Knight Jysella Horn succumbed to an enigmatic illness, it was Dorvan who first saw the news on the HoloNet and informed Daala. Afterward, Daala congratulated Dorvan on his work and presented the idea of a promotion. Dorvan declined, stating jokingly that if he was in a higher position he would have people under him, which was not to his liking. Regardless of Dorvan's wishes, Daala appointed him as her Chief of Staff and assigned a personal assistant in the form of Twi'lek Desha Lor.

When he learned of Daala's plans to use Mandalorian commandos to ensure the Jedi's cooperation, Dorvan secretly contacted Han and Leia Solo and told them of the development. He had originally intended to use Jagged Fel to contact them indirectly, and this drove a wedge between Jag and his future in-laws when he kept the secret to himself and Jaina.

Later, Dorvan alerted Daala to the suicide of Cha Niathal, and witnessed firsthand the psychosis plaguing Jedi Knights when the Jedi Sothais Saar became paranoid and delusional in Dorvan's presence. Only Dorvan's quick thinking enabled him to survive.

Dorvan later developed a friendship with redeemed Jedi Raynar Thul who had lunch with him every day on the steps of the Jedi Temple. When the Temple came under siege and Kani Asari's murder at the hands of the Mandalorians, Dorvan saved Thul's life when he went to have lunch on the steps. This convinced Dorvan to remove Asari's body from the steps, overruling the Mandalorians' decree that she would stay there as a reminder to the Jedi of the Mandalorian terms.

He also owned a chitlik called Pocket. During the Tendrando Arms Celebrity Sabacc Charity Challenge, Dorvan was onboard the Errant Venture and was one of the many hostages taken to insure the secure launch of their StealthXs to reinforce Luke Skywalker on Pydyr. Dorvan emerged as the tornament's winner and was said by many to be planning his retirement. He was evacuated, along with the others, on Borleias where he was immediately returned to Coruscant to be debriefed by Daala.

When the leader of the Klatooinian resistance movement against slavery, the Sapience Defense Front, Grunel Ovin, committed suicide by exploding the ship Fireborn while on his way to his trial, Daala decided to use Mandalorians against the Klatooinians. Dorvan obeyed and gave the mobilization order but, fed up with Daala's growing paranoia and bloodlust against those who defied, started to draft his letter of resignation. When Daala's decision to send the Mandalorians to Klatooine was leaked to the press, Daala proved how paranoid she had become and she had even lost trust in Dorvan himself, suspecting him to be the leak.

Political coup
At the same time, a coup was launched by the Jedi Order to remove Daala from office. Unbeknowst to either party, another group of conspirators had also planned to stage a coup against Daala. The latter incapacitated Daala with a stun bolt, having managed to take over her security detail by order of Admiral Sallinor Parova, one of the conspirators. The former made a deal with Senator Haydnat Treen, the leader of the conspiracy, to build a joint transition government: a Triumvirate composing of Saba Sebatyne, the acting Grand Master of the Jedi Order, Senator Treen and General Merratt Jaxton, Chief of Starfighter Command. The Senate approved of this. Dorvan was kept under unofficial house arrest in his office for the duration of the coup. He was later brought to Master Sebatyne who informed him of the changes of government. Dorvan resigned as Chief of Staff, claiming that he didn't want to be part of a government who wanted to destroy Natasi Daala for whom he still held some respect. He is later convinced to stay by Sebatyne and takes back his resignation with his first task as the Triumvirate's Chief of Staff to be to find ten worlds who would give Daala a fair trial. He also convinced Sebatyne not to drop the charges against former Jedi Tahiri Veila since she was being tried for a valid reason and not because of Daala's personal prejudices. Dorvan also believed that this would curtail the Jedi Order's critics to about half.

Galactic Alliance Triumvir
Sometime afterwards, Dorvan was appointed to replace General Jaxton as Triumvir although the reason for this change is not elaborated upon. Thus, he was charged with overseeing the admission or rejection of the new star systems that had been free by slave uprisings into the Alliance. When Luke Skywalker returned to Coruscant and announced that the Jedi were pulling out of the capital and becoming an independant entity no longer aligned with the Alliance, plans were made for the Senate to elect Dorvan as sole interim Chief of State until a formal election could be held. However, Senator Treen's conspiracy had taken this as a means to ensure that their plans to reform the Empire would occur. The Senate eventually elected new Senator and former terrorist leader Padnel Ovin as the interim Chief of State. However, Ovin realized that this was a plot to use him as a puppet and, knowing that Dorvan was better at politics than him, asked him to remain as Chief of Staff.

During a Senate session, Wynn was captured by three Sith from the Lost Tribe until he was approached by Kem, who was actually Abeloth in disguise. She shed her disguise to reveal her true form, much too Wynn's horror. Abeloth decided to have Wynn as her aide in order to plan her rule on the planet until the Jedi began striking at the Lost Tribe across the planet. During the Liberation of Coruscant, The Sith retreated into the Jedi Temple under advice from Wynn.

Appearances

 * Millennium Falcon
 * Omen
 * Abyss
 * Backlash
 * Allies
 * Vortex
 * Conviction
 * Ascension
 * Apocalypse