Kinman Doriana

"This [Doriana] sounds about as slippery as a greased Dug, and twice as unfriendly."

- Dubrak Qennto

Kinman Doriana was one of Palpatine's most trusted aides during both the Republic and Imperial eras. He held a similar status to that of Sate Pestage, although it is unknown what his official title was within the Empire.

Biography
Doriana was born on Naboo, where he presumably was involved with politics from a young age (as with other Naboo politicians). Doriana accompanied Palpatine to Coruscant when he was elected senator in 52 BBY, as one of the senator's aides. At the same time, he began secretly serving Darth Sidious. Unlike Pestage, Doriana did not know Palpatine's true identity, and in fact feared for what might happen were Palpatine to discover Doriana's "duplicity". Oddly, Doriana seemed to fear the seemingly fair-minded Chancellor just as much as the openly capricious Sith Lord. On Coruscant, he lived in an apartment on the 238th floor of the Third Ring Apartment Towers.

In the years preceding the Clone Wars, Doriana, using the alias "Commander Stratis", was dispatched by Sidious as the head of a task force intended to intercept and destroy Outbound Flight. But his fifteen-ship armada itself was intercepted and destroyed by a Chiss Expansionary Defense Fleet flotilla under the command of Thrawn. The silver-tongued Doriana convinced Thrawn of the threat the Jedi and colonists posed to the Chiss. Unbeknownst to Thrawn, however, when he destroyed Outbound Flight's weapon clusters, he killed off most of the Jedi that C'baoth had ordered there. Caught in anger, C'baoth fell to the dark side and held Thrawn in a force choke when Doriana saved Thrawn's life, but killed all but fifty-seven residents of Outbound Flight, by redirecting droid starfighters from attacking a hostile Vaagari force toward Outbound Flight. Thrawn allowed Doriana to escape, and the advisor brought word of the Chiss' tactical brilliance to his master.

Doriana was still in Palpatine's staff at the time the Clone Wars started; he dismissed Brookish Boon's claim that the Loyalist Committee was a "Shadow Government" as absurd, adding, "It's not much of a shadow government if someone as myopic as Mr. Boon can find it."

Doriana's ultimate fate is unknown.

Appearances

 * Cloak of Deception
 * Outbound Flight


 * Hero of Cartao
 * Vision of the Future