Haydel Goravvus

"It's ironic. I wanted a title&mdash;now it's all I've got left. 'Goravvus, Senator of a few blocks of the Lower City.'"

- Goravvus

Haydel Goravvus represented Taris Sector in the Galactic Senate. He was the first senator from Taris, and was placed into office in 3,966 BBY by the efforts of Lhosan Industries chairman Jervo Thalien, as a means of ensuring protection of Taris' resource worlds.

By 3,964 BBY, he faced a losing battle in trying to convince business interests such as Lhosan Industries to remain on Taris despite widespread crime in the Lower City which threatened to spread upward. He was involved in negotiating tax breaks with Jervo, but expressed hope that the Jedi and Constable Sowrs would take major steps toward eliminating the crimewave.

Goravvus went missing during the massive rioting that befell Taris in the weeks following Zayne Carrick's second escape from the Jedi Tower.

He had, in fact, gone to meet with Thalien in hopes of convincing him to return to Taris. When Thalien refused, Goravvus threatened to reveal the shady dealings his company had had with the senator.

Before he could follow through on this, the Mandalorians attacked Taris. The senator returned to Taris and met up with the Taris Resistance. It was here that he was tracked down by Zayne and Marn Hierogryph, who had been hired by Thalien to find him. Unknown to them, Thalien had placed a bounty on his old friend, and had Gryph unwittingly smuggle a powerful bomb into the the Resistance base, in hopes of silencing the senator before he could make his accusations. The bomb proved to be a dud, however, and Goravvus made Thalien an offer: use his company's resources to provide aid and supplies to the front lines.

Later, after discovering that Cassus Fett had set up a base in the city's Jedi Tower, Goravvus helped plan an attack that would blow the tower and hopefully take Fett with it. Fett's departure made the mission pointless, though, and the Resistance headquarters was ambushed by the Mandalorians. Goravvus' fate following the attack was unknown.

Behind the scenes
Goravvus was only named in the trade paperback version of Commencement; in the original single issue, he was nameless. In The Taris Holofeed: Siege Edition, his name was spelled "Gorravus"; John Jackson Miller has said in his production notes that the final name has not been decided yet. However, in The Taris Holofeed: Invasion Edition, the senator is named as  Gorravus.

In The Taris Holofeed: Prime Edition, included with Crossroads, Goravvus was originally intended to be identified there along with more information about the companies on Taris moving out instead of in the Commencement trade paperback but was cut from the final edition.

Appearances

 * Star Wars Knights of the Old Republic 1: Commencement, Part 1
 * Star Wars Knights of the Old Republic 6: Commencement, Part 6
 * The Taris Holofeed: Siege Edition
 * The Taris Holofeed: Invasion Edition
 * Star Wars Knights of the Old Republic 22: Knights of Suffering, Part 1
 * Star Wars Knights of the Old Republic 23: Knights of Suffering, Part 2