Elan Sel'Sabagno

Elan Sel'Sabagno

Elan Sel'Sabagno, also known asElan Sleazebaggano, was aBalosarmale medical student who came to theplanetCoruscant seeking out a medical degree. He fell in with bad crowd and stole medical supplies and equipment, which he gave to thespice lordHat Lo. Sel'Sabagno eventually stole drug supplies to give to him and became aspicedealer andslythmonger. A best-seller of his weredeath sticks, drugs that shortened the life of the user. He himself became addicted to death sticks, but his Balosar physiology gave him resistance to the drug. The death sticks sold at theOutlander Club located in theUscru Entertainment District of Coruscant.

While at the club in22 BBY, Sel'Sabagno tried to sellRancor nail blades tobounty hunterJango Fett, though he refused and pushed him aside. Shortly after in that sameyear, Sel'Sabagno tried to sell death sticks toJedi KnightObi-Wan Kenobi. Kenobi, however, used theForce tomind trick the slythmonger into going home and rethinking his life. He exited the club and changed his ways for a time.

In19 BBY, Sel'Sabagno drove the bounty hunterBoba Fett in anairspeeder from theJedi Temple to theSign of the Tri-Forked Tongue cantina. During the drive, the slythmonger tried to sell many products to Fett and endangered their lives by poorly driving his speeder. After Fett finished his business in the cantina, Sel'Sabagno drove the bounty hunter back to the Jedi Temple. On the way there, he gave Fett aKaminoansaberdart of unknown origin. After the rise of theGalactic Empire, Sel'Sabgano unsuccesfully tried to tell the Jedi fugitivesDrake Lo'gaan andZonder about the danger of death stick usage.

Biography[]

A once promising career[]

The youngBalosar Elan Sel'Sabagno, known to almost everyone as Elan Sleazebaggano,^[6] was a medical student^[7] who came to theCore Worldsplanet^[8]Coruscant^[4] seeking out a medical degree^[6] as one of the top students in hisyear. He studied on the planet,^[2] had a place in medical school, and a promising career ahead of him. However, the popular Coruscant view that Balosars were untrustworthy dragged him down. His ancestry attracted the wrong type of attention and the Balosar fell in with the wrong crowd.^[4]

Before Sel'Sabagno knew where he was, he was stealing medical equipment^[4] and supplies^[6] from his university's stores, which he passed off to the^[4] up-and-coming^[6]spice lordHat Lo.^[4] Thecredits he received helped with hard student life, and he soon went to stealing valuable drug supplies, which he also gave to Lo. These thefts accelerated his slippery path towards dark days.^[4] When one of Sel'Sabagno'sinstructors accused him of stealing, the Balosar assaulted the instructor and went into hiding in the labyrinth-likeundercities of Coruscant.^[6]

Sel'Sabagno had turned his medical career into the career of aslythmonger, a distributor of pharmaceutical supplies in the entertainment districts of Coruscant.^[2] He also became a small-time criminal,^[9] and a barfly who engaged in the seedier side of Coruscant nightlife.^[7] Sel'Sabagno frequented shadowy nightclubs in theUscru Entertainment District of Coruscant^[10] and dealt the drugSpice.^[11] The Balosar was able to put his rudimentary medical training to use behind the bar of a seedy nightclub. He found that after a few drinks, it was easy to over-charge patrons or talk them into buying the drugglitterstim or^[6] his best seller,^[2]death sticks, which he peddled to Hat Lo. The slythmonger had also turned into a death stick addict himself, sharing the drugs with his coterie of thrill-seeking club hoppers.^[6] The death sticks sold at theOutlander Club,^[4] anightclub andgambling hall in the Uscru Entertainment District,^[12] due to their quality. As such, the customers of the club tolerated him despite the fact he was a deadly blot on it.^[4] He loitered around the bar of the club looking for potential customers.^[13]

Outlander encounters[]

In22 BBY,^[15] Sel'Sabagno visited the Outlander Club at the same time as thebounty huntersJango Fett andZam Wesell. He attempted to sellRancor nail blades, weapons crafted from the nails ofRancors, to Fett, blocking Wesell's way. The bounty hunter refused, pushing Sel'Sabagno aside and making him stumble backwards into a table ofdroids.^[16]

During anight^[14] shortly after,^[17] Sel'Sabagno was once again in the club, sitting at the bar and interacting with^[14] chiefbartenderBufon Taire^[18] when theJediObi-Wan Kenobi andAnakin Skywalker entered the club searching for Wesell after herassassination attempt onSenatorPadmé Amidala. With a death stick in hand, he approached the Kenobi at the bar,^[14] thinking he was a visiting patron,^[10] and attempted to sell him death sticks.^[14] To any respectable person, the Balosar would have been an annoyance, but to Kenobi, he was just an unwelcome distraction. The Jedi didn't want Sel'Sabagno to be put in danger or peddle his wares elsewhere, so Kenobi, keeping his eyes forward, did a slight gesture^[19] of influence^[20] with his hand andmind-tricked the slythmonger into not selling his death sticks to him.^[19] Sel'Sabagno then used a slight of hand^[21] to tuck the death stick into the sleeve of hisovercoat.^[14]

Sel'Sabagno was unaware that the Jedi was manipulating his mind. He looked slightly confused, then thoughtful as he^[19] obediently^[22] responded that he didn't want to sell death sticks to Kenobi. The Jedi then again mind-tricked him into going home and rethinking his life. The Balosar left his drink behind and walked away from the bar.^[19] He exited the club, walking alongVos Gesal Street back to his home to rethink his life.^[23] Kenobi's trick of the force led him to better things, though he never knew where the inspiration to change came from. All Sel'Sabagno knew was that he attempted to sell death sticks to a punter and left the club, never returning.^[4] He saw the error of his criminal ways^[11] and led an honest life,^[9] though only briefly.^[11] The interaction became famous^[11] and rumors about Sel'Sabagno going home and changing his ways circulated.^[10] Unfortunately for the Outlander Club, more slythmongers were there to take Sel'Sabagno's place.^[4]

Driving Boba Fett[]

The pickup[]

In19 BBY,^[24] Lo sent Sel'Sabagno in anairspeeder to pick upBoba Fett, the bounty hunter child of Jango Fett, from theJedi Temple on Coruscant, and bring him to hiscantina,Sign of the Tri-Forked Tongue in the Coruscant underworld. Fett and Lo were to conduct business there, the former seeking weapons for his planned confrontation withJedi MasterMace Windu. Sel'Sabagno waited for Fett inside his airspeeder near Fett's ship, theSlave I, on the landing dock of the temple. Fett immediately recognized the Balosar as being Sel'Sabagno, to his dismay.^[5]

As Fett jumped into the airspeeder, Sel'Sabagno introduced himself, hisantennapalps wiggling with pride. He told Fett that "flying was his game" and asked Fett if he could interest him in somePolordian smootdust. Sel'Sabagno took out the smootdust, and waved it enticingly around Fett's face. Fett then grabbed Sel'Sabagno's shoulder and told him that he wasn't interested in his cheap contraband. He then instructed the Balosar to take him the Sign of the Tri-Forked Tongue fast. Sel'Sabagno nodded eagerly and the smootdust disappeared. Sel'Sabagno punched the control panels of the airspeeder and it left the docking platform.^[5]

The Balosar commented that Fett looked like a discerning bounty hunter, and almost without taking a breath, offered to sell himtortapo-shell shades. He went on about the features of the shades before Fett ordered him to be silent and tightened his grip on his shoulder. Sel'Sabagno agreed, with his antennapalps twitching nervously. Even after Fett's order, Sel'Sabagno continued to go on. Fett groaned and thought to himself that the Balosar was relentless and wondered where his blaster was when he needed it. The bounty hunter menacingly stated that the trip better be short and Sel'Sabagno obliged. The airspeeder then raced away from the temple.^[5]

The drop-off[]

As the two approached theGalactic Senate Building, Sel'Sabagno explained to Fett that the building is wherethe galaxy's most important business takes place, but before he could explain where they were going, the airspeeder gave a sudden lurch and, without warning, dived straight down betweenkilometer-high buildings. The bounty hunter shouted at the Balosar as another speeder came towards them. At the last moment, Fett got the airspeeder to veer sharply to one side. Fett caught a glimpse of the angry pilot's face of the other speeder, glaring at Sel'Sabagno's bright red one. The Balosar then calmly removed Fett's hand from the airspeeder's controls.^[5]

Sel'Sabagno then continued his speech, stating that the Coruscant underground is where the galaxy's most important unofficial business takes place. Fett then corrected him, stating that he was talking about the gangland underground. The airspeeder sped down into the lower levels of Coruscant's Galactic City, which Fett called Hat Lo's territory. Sel'Sabagno then retorted that it was also his territory, and that he sold the finest, reasonably priced death sticks in the galaxy. Before he could finish, Fett shouted at him to stop and to get him to the cantina.^[5]

The rest of the ride passed silently, with Sel'Sabagno occasionally sighing noisily. His antennapalps didn't stop wriggling as though he was trying to sell Fett some highly illegal one hundred percent pureNkllonian Lava Extract. At last, the airspeeder began to slow, and in front of them was the Sign of the Tri-Forked Tongue. A bored sounding Sel'Sabagno announced the name of the establishment to Fett. Sel'Sabagno told the bounty hunter he didn't know why the bounty hunter bothered with the place, adding that no one visited anymore. Fett snapped that he did and exited the airspeeder. The Balosar handed him his business card, asking Fett to call him when Lo is unable to provide him with what the bounty hunter needed. Boba added that contacting him was unlikely, but he still took the card. The airspeeder then roared off, wildly moving between alarmed passersby.^[5]

The drive back[]

After Boba Fett had acquired his weapons from Hat Lo in the cantina, Sel'Sabagno and his airspeeder hovered near the buildings entrance. He gestured for Fett to hop in beside him. The dismayed bounty hunter looked around, seeing no other means of transportation. Sel'Sabagno urged Fett to get in, telling him that he'll get him there faster than anyone else could. The resigned Fett climbed into the airspeeder, glowering at the Balosar. Fett threatened Sel'Sabagno with death if he tried to sell something to him. Sel'Sabagno yanked the controls and airspeeder shot up through the high-rises of Coruscant. The Balosar told Fett he wouldn't dream of selling him something, especially not something highly illegal and fatality toxic like asaberdart,^[5] a fork-shaped toxic dart from the planetKamino.^[25]

Holding tightly to his seat as the airspeeder narrowly avoided hitting a building, Fett inquired about the saberdart. Sel'Sabagno stated he never said anything about a saberdart, before waving at a speeder going past them full of young, willowyDathomir witches. The witches stared back at him with ill-disguised disgust. The speeder shot upwards as Sel'Sabagno replied that possessing a saberdart is a criminal offense, and that he, of course, is a respected member of Corsucant's business community. The Balosar took one hand from the controls and materialized a saberdart from what seemed like thin air. The airspeeder wobbled dangerously while doing so. He gave the saberdart to Fett as a token of his great admiration for his great bounty hunting skills, and added on that Fett should put in a good word for the Balosar to the^[5]Huttcrime lord^[26]Jabba Desilijic Tiure, if he felt inclined. Fett took the saberdart, looking at it suspiciously. Fett tried to inquire about where he got the saberdart, but was cut off. Sel'Sabagno stated if he did tell Fett where he got it, the bounty hunter would kill him, adding that it was real, and that Fett should trust him.^[5]

As they approached the Jedi Temple, the airspeeder began to slow. Fett quickly shoved the saberdart into hisutility belt and the airspeeder came to a stop on the landing platform. Fett exited the airspeeder and grudgingly thanked the Balosar. Sel'Sabagno looked up at Fett and wriggled his antennapalps. He told Fett to remember to tell his friends, and his enemies, that he stands behind his products, one-hundred-percent pure, satisfaction guaranteed. With a farewell wave of his antennapalps, Sel'Sabagno powered up his airspeeder, shooting in reverse. It rocketed off into the haze of Coruscant as Fett watched it go.^[5]

The dangers of death sticks[]

Shortly after the rise of theGalactic Empire^[28] in19 BBY,^[29] Sel'Sabagno attempted to tell the Jedi fugitivesDrake Lo'gaan andZonder about the dangers of death sticks^[27] on Vos Gesal Street^[23] after they ran out of the Outlander Club fromStormtroopers. The pair didn't acknowledge Sel'Sabagno and pushed him out the way, hurting him. The unsuccessful Balosar then remarked that he needed to rethink his life.^[27]

Personality and traits[]

Being a sordid^[3] and slimy lowlife,^[1] Sel'Sabagno didn't care that other species couldn't shrug off the effects of death sticks,^[6] though by the time of the Galactic Empire he tried to spread awareness of the drug's harmful nature to Lo'gaan and Zondar.^[27] Sel'Sabagno did nothing to dispel the stereotypes that Balosars were scoundrels and shifty cheats.^[2] Though he thought that his oily style, embarrassing dance moves, and occasional sleights of hand, which he learned during his time with a troupe of trickster players, brought him popularity, only the quality of his Death sticks made him popular in the seedy Coruscant scene.^[30] In actuality, the clubbers viewed him as an awkward, oily, embarrassing parasite.^[2] When introducing himself to Boba Fett, the slymonger's antennapalps wiggled in pride.^[5]

Sel'Sabagno was addicted to death sticks, drugs that shorted the user's lifespan. However, his Balosar physiology gave him a heightened resistance to the more damaging side effects of the drug.^[2] Despite his physiology, years of hard living in the undercity of Coruscant had weakened his health.^[3] A sweaty, hollow-eyed^[31]male of the Balosarspecies,^[2] he had flexible antennapalps^[20] that twirled up from his head like curly horns.^[22] He could conceal the antennapalps with^[20] his thickbrown hair,^[4] worn in a stylishly filthy^[19] petrified hairstyle.^[20] He also had browneyes, and light skin. He stood at 1.78meters^[4] (5feet, 10 inches)^[1] and weighed 70kilograms.^[3] The Balosar spoke with a guttural voice.^[22]

Skills and abilities[]

Sel'Sabagno was one of the top medical students within his year.^[4] The slythmonger was knowledgeable on many subjects, includingalien species, biology, and organized crime.^[6] His rudimentary knowledge of alien psychology was used to hustle contraband.^[30] He had some skill with gathering information andcomputer use.^[6] Sel'Sabagno had slightly above average intelligence, speed, and diplomacy skills, below-average strength, and low fighting ability.^[11] With little combat experience, his fighting style was deliberately clumsy and unpredictable,^[3] though he did have proficiency withblaster pistols and simple weapons.^[6]

Sel'Sabagno could speak and writeBalosur,^[6] the language of his species.^[32] He could also speak inBasic,Huttese, andTwi'leki.^[6] During his time with a troupe of trickster players, he learned how to do slights of hand,^[30] becoming an adept.^[21] According to Sel'Sabagno, "flying was his game" but while using an airspeeder, he put himself and Boba Fett in danger many times.^[5] He was notForce-sensitive.^[11]

Equipment[]

On multiple occasions^[16][14][27] starting from 22 BBY,^[15] Sel'Sabagno wore a long dark overcoat that concealed his illegal chemicals, a casual beige shirt, baggy white pants,^[1] a black belt with aholster,^[33] a fashionable choker, and shoes that contained secret storage compartments for contraband.^[1] Sel'Sabagno also possessed a blaster pistol,^[33] a sharpvibroblade,^[3] multiple Rancor nail blades,^[16] flashy clothes, and a stash of illegal substances that includedryll spice, glitterstim, and death sticks.^[6]

By 19 BBY,^[24] Sel'Sabagno had come into possession of a saberdart, which he could not reveal the origin of, for fear of being killed by Boba Fett. Other material he had at this time included tortapo-shell shades and the shimmering green Polordian smootdust, which he called "one hundred percent pure" before being cut off by Fett. He utilized a bright red airspeeder when driving around Fett. After exiting the airspeeder, Sel'Sabagno gave Fett a business card. On the card read "ELAN SLEAZEBAGGNO: WHEN ONLY THE BEST AND SLIMIEST WILL DO!"^[5]

Behind the scenes[]

Creation[]

Elan Sel'Sabagno was created for theprequel trilogy filmStar Wars: Episode IIAttack of the Clones,^[14] with concept art of the character being drawn.^[2] Sel'Sabagno was portrayed by actorMatt Doran^[14] and the film released onMay 16, 2002.^[35] The Outlander Club scenes including Doran were shot atFox Studios, Sydney onJuly 17,2000.^[36] The character was named byStar Wars creatorGeorge Lucas.^[37] Although Sel'Sabagno has ears in production photos,^[20]ILM ultimately removed them and replaced them with antennapalps,^[34] carefully matched to Doran's head movements,^[2] for the film after George Lucas saw what computer-graphic antennae looked like.^[38] Prior to the film's release, Doran's casting as an "unsavory troublemaker"^[39] was revealed inJanuary2001^[40] with the release of thefifty-first issue ofStar Wars Insider, in the article "Meet the New Stars of Episode II".^[39]

Continuity and appearances[]

Sel'Sabagno first appeared in thefirst issue of theStar Wars: Episode II — Attack of the Clones comic series, penciled byJan Duursema and published byDark Horse Comics^[41] and released onApril 17, 2002.^[42] The character was first identified as both Elan Sel'Sabagno and Elan Sleazebaggano in theGalactic Power Brokers section of thetenth issue of theStar Wars Gamer magazine, written byJ.D. Wiker^[6] and released to subscribers onApril 19, 2002.^[43] The film's novelization, written byR.A. Salvatore^[22] and released onApril 23, 2002,^[44] adds an extra line of dialogue for Sel'Sabagno not present in the film, where after he asks Kenobi if he wants to buy drugs off of him, he smiles evilly and claims that no one has better death sticks than him.^[22] This article assumes the film's version of events is the correct one.

TheStar Wars: Attack of the Clones: The Visual Dictionary byDavid West Reynolds^[20] and also released on April 23 of that year,^[45] reveals that Sel'Sabagno could conceal his antennapalps under his hair,^[20] explaining away photos of the character without the computer-generated effects.^[2] A figure of Sel'Sabagno was produced by the toy companyHasbro in2003 for theirSaga toyline.^[46] The figure originally included ears, but a resculpted version without the ears was later produced.^[47]

In a comical illustration in the "Comlink" department of theeighty-sixth issue ofStar Wars Insider,^[48] released onJune 13,2006,^[49] Darth Vader goes through a phonebook with Sel'Sabagno's name and residence on Coruscant in it.^[48] In the2011 young readers bookStar Wars: Head-to-Head Tag Teams, written byPablo Hidalgo, a scenario is presented in which Sel'Sabagno is partnered with the identical twin sistersBrea andSenni Tonnika inside an alley in the Uscru Entertainment District against thecon artistsDannl Faytonni andAchk Med-Beq, and theBesaliskDexter Jettster. The Experts' Picks section of the book reveals Sel'Sabagno's team loses as he is overpowered and the sisters flee after the odds turn.^[3] OnJanuary 21,2014,^[50]John Jackson Miller, the author of the novelKenobi, revealed that the scene with Sel'Sabagno and Kenobi was one of his favorite scenes inside theone hundred fourty-seventh issue ofStar Wars Insider. Miller described the scene as a funny off hand moment but added that the watchers are led to wonder how many other people Kenobi and other Jedi have nudged to the right path.^[51]

Appearances[]

• Jango Fett: Bounty Hunter
• Star Wars: Episode IIAttack of the Clones
• Star Wars: Episode IIAttack of the Clones novelization(andunabridged audiobook)
• Star Wars: Episode IIAttack of the Clones junior novelization(andaudiobook)(Picture only)
• Star Wars: Episode II — Attack of the Clones 1(First appearance)
• Boba Fett: Pursuit
• Evasive Action: Recruitment
• The Life and Legend of Obi-Wan Kenobi

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Notes and references[]

External links[]

• Outlander Patron Roster onSompeetalay's Source Blog — Tim Veekhoven's StarWars.comBlog(original site is defunct)