Rufaan Tigellinus is a human Grand Admiral and later Grand Moff, a Star Wars Legends character first appearing in the West End Games Star Wars Adventure Journal 8 (November 1995). He commanded the Star Destroyer Avatar, belonged to the exclusive Order of the Canted Circle, and was promoted to Grand Admiral by Palpatine personally in 2 BBY. A committed humanocentric, he cultivated the alien Thrawn and then engineered his expulsion from the Empire.
With the backing of Vilim Disra he secured the Grand Moff post for the Imperial Center Oversector. When the Central Committee of Grand Moffs formed in 5 ABY, his rival Bertroff Hissa made him an offer calculated to be refused; Disra advised refusal; the Committee executed him for disloyalty; and Disra took his assets and his position. It is one of the more elegantly circular pieces of treachery in the Expanded Universe.
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