Joram Kithe Joram Kithe was a resourceful , if cowardly , accountant for the Galactic Republic who received a temporary commission as a lieutenant in Republic Intelligence in order to study the performance of clone troopers on Pengalan IV . When that mission turned into a disaster , Kithe was put into the unusual position of leading the isolated survivors off the planet , destroying a missile factory on the way . Over the course of the mission , Kithe moved beyond his admitted cowardice and selfishness , bonding with the clones under his command and sharing in their danger . Kithe chose to continue as an intelligence agent after the mission , finding new purpose in fighting the Clone Wars . His success inspired the Republic to create a pilot program putting bureaucrats , with their analysis skills , into the field as intelligence agents . In a mission to Tarhassan , Kithe found the results of that program extremely lacking . He was barely able to keep the mission from being destroyed by overly officious bureaucrat - agents but managed to use his budding skills to complete it successfully . Biography . Childhood and early career . Joram Kithe was a Human male with black hair and fair skin . Orphaned by an airspeeder accident at age three , Kithe spent most of his formative years bouncing from relative to relative , never long enough in the care of any one to develop a sense of home . When he was old enough , Kithe convinced his Aunt Tagdel , who was rich and quite fond of him , to finance various educational endeavors . Kithe spent time in the Airspeeders for Bodyguards and Security Specialists course on the galactic capital planet of Coruscant , the Success Through Charismatic Influence course on the planet Commenor , the Xenoecoengineering Financial Principles course on the planet Muunilinst , and the Subaquatic Manufacturing Economies course on the planet Mon Calamari before Tagdel insisted that he find work . Having a position in the Galactic Republic ' s Ministry of Finance , Tagdel found her nephew a job in the Department of Cost Accounting . Though Kithe characterized himself as lazy and cowardly , he possessed the skills for the job and seemed content with it . Pengalan IV . As the Clone Wars erupted , Kithe was assigned to observe the new clone troopers in action on the planet Pengalan IV and to make a report on their efficiency . Unknown to him , the particular group of troopers with which he was embedded were Advanced Recon Commandos , whose elite performance Kithe was supposed to think was shared by all regular troopers . However , the assault was a trap . The factory that was supposed to be producing diamond boron missile s was a heavily defended decoy , and the Republic assault force was cut to pieces . Kithe ' s gunship was shot down . Due to his temporary commission as a Republic Intelligence lieutenant , he was put in command by the troopers who survived , despite having no actual military skill or experience . Kithe gave the troopers nicknames and attempted to encourage their development of independence and freedom from procedure . He delegated most of the command tasks to Tooth , a trooper who had won the drawing of straws for command before Kithe had awakened and revealed his commission . Kithe intervened only to prevent the troopers from adhering to procedure when he felt that it would be detrimental to the mission . Finally , Kithe and the troopers made their way to Tur Lorkin , the nearest village . Due to his accountant training , Kithe realized that something was wrong about the town — it had no visible economy . When attempting to steal a ship and escape , he and Tooth realized that the village was , in fact , the site of the diamond boron missile factory and that the other factory had not been a trap but a cover - up . Upon realizing this , the troopers became determined to carry out their original mission . Despite his overdeveloped self - preservation instincts pushing him to take one of the ships available at Tur Lorkin ' s spaceport and escape , Kithe ' s sense of duty led him to go in with his men and destroy the factory . Kithe found himself deeply touched by the deaths of several of the troopers , including Tooth , who had sacrificed himself by taking out one of the ships at Tur Lorkin as a decoy . Even after the troopers told Kithe that they were Advanced Recon Commandos , feeling that he was now one of them , he decided to maintain the high rating he had given the clone troopers , reasoning that there was a purpose behind the deception , and without knowing what that purpose was , it was too risky to expose it . Intelligence agent . His financial skills having proved crucial to unraveling the true nature of the planet , as well as having demonstrated unexpected skill in this new profession , Kithe continued with Republic Intelligence . He was assigned Mapper , one of the clone troopers who was recuperating from a leg injury that kept him from rejoining his fellows , as a bodyguard and partner . Kithe ' s success even inspired the recruitment of bureaucrats from other branches of the Republic into Intelligence . Much to his chagrin , Kithe was forced to work with one of these bureaucratic teams on the planet Tarhassan . Rank amateurs , his three fellow agents were bound by bureaucracy and procedure that Kithe found painfully inane and counterproductive . Assigned to rescue a captured Republic Intelligence agent , Edbit Teeks , Kithe , along with Mapper , found himself having to subtly finesse his inexperienced mission commander , Cherek Tuhm , and the other two agents in order to get the mission accomplished without having anyone on the team killed . Cast in the unexpected position of veteran agent , Kithe demonstrated significant talent , outwitting Tuhm in order to save a prisoner from an unnecessary execution , finding information on Teeks that the group never thought to look for , and saving their plan for infiltrating the prison from failure . Through it all , Kithe maintained his pledge to Tuhm to follow all his orders , something he was forced to do after he saved the group hours of work and effort by swiftly capturing a target — but going outside the bounds of the tightly planned mission agenda in doing so . During that phase of the operation , Kithe found Tinian Hanther to be surprisingly promising as an agent . After Teeks was rescued , Kithe proudly welcomed her into intelligence service . Personality and traits . Due to his transient childhood , Joram Kithe never developed strong ties to any one place . That led to an inability to settle on one career and constant exploration of different educational and career paths . In addition , Kithe considered himself lazy and cowardly and was largely undisturbed by that . However , he may have been more principled than he thought . Kithe could have turned down his mission to Pengalan but did not . Despite his protestations of selfishness , he did have a sense of duty , which Pengalan touched . Kithe did not have to continue in Republic Intelligence , either , but chose to do so . He seemed to enjoy the sense of purpose , and even duty , that came with the job , though he could backslide into selfish thinking occasionally . However , he was generally quite committed and professional , a great improvement from his performance early on Pengalan . Skills and abilities . Kithe had a large skill set from his many educational ventures that contributed to his skills as an operative . In addition to advanced economic skills and data analysis abilities , he was also a reasonably skilled pilot . He was able to persuade and even lie to others well and gained proficiency in the use of weapons and spy technology and tactics as his career went on . Behind the scenes . Joram Kithe was created by Aaron Allston for the " Star Wars Insider " 65 short story " " , published in 2003 . Allston later included the character in the " Star Wars Insider " 73 short story " League of Spies " , published in 2004 .