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Morley

Biographical information

Homeworld

Lotho Minor^[1]

Died

20 BBY,^[2] Lotho Minor^[1]

Descriptive information

Species

Anacondan^[1]

Gender

Male^[1]

Height

4.7meters^[3]

Eye color

Yellow^[1]

Skin color

Rusty^[1]

Chronological & political information

Affiliation(s)

Darth Maul^[1]

Masters

Darth Maul^[1]

"I'm Morley. I could help you. We've got everything here. I can get you what you want. For the right amount of course."

―Morley toSavage Opress^[1]

Morley was amale Anacondan scavenger who lived onLotho Minor and was a servant toDarth Maul.

Biography[]

Early life[]

Morley was a maleAnacondan who lived^[3] during the last years of theGalactic Republic,^[4] eking out a life^[3] on the junkplanet ofLotho Minor^[1] in theOuter Rim Territories.^[5]

Morley became the benefactor of for over a decade. — Morley became the benefactor ofDarth Maul for over a decade.

Sometime after theBattle of Naboo^[6] in32 BBY^[7] Morley encountered the exSith apprentice Darth Maul,^[8] left without legs after his duel withObi-Wan Kenobi^[6] and dumped onLotho Minor.^[1] He was screaming and slithering away in fright from one of Lotho Minor's gigantic machines, theFire-breather, when Maul threw hislightsaber with theForce directly at the Fire-breather's head, piercing it through. The machine instantly fell to the ground, the fire from its mouth extinguished. As Maul blacked out, Morley wrapped theZabrak in his coils and brought him into the caves of the planet, which would eventually become his sanctuary.^[8]

Morley pledged loyalty to Maul to survive,^[3] promising to lure unwitting prey into Maul's hungry clutches,^[1] as he had used the Force to acquire a six-legged arachnid-likecybernetic apparatus to replace his lost lower body.^[8] Maul aided in obtaining shelter and sustenance only by Morley.^[9]

"Helping" Savage Opress[]

In20 BBY,^[10] afterSavage Opress arrived onLotho Minor in search of his brother, Morley presented himself and said that he would help him navigate his way to find him for a price, which changed to free when Savage choked Morley. After a short talk, Opress said that his brother looked like him, Morley mentioned an aggressive man with horns, but quickly clarified that he was only a myth. Later, they ran through a field ofFire-breathers and a brief battle withJunkers, even saving Opress from a Junker's shot. After this, they arrived at a hut, in an attempt to escape the acid rain that frequently occurred on Lotho Minor.^[1]

Death[]

In the hut, which Savage had thought would be where his brother had been living, he found only Junker corpses. Then, Morley betrayed him and threw him down the chute, and cackled as he bragged that he would get the leftovers of the presumably soon to be dead Savage Opress. Instead Savage Opress found his brother, now a cyborg in terrible-condition. When Morley came down the chute for his leftovers of supposed dead Opress, Savage blamed his brother's condition on him and choked him todeath. He then threw Morley's corpse into a fire out of anger.^[1]

Personality and traits[]

A peculiar^[11]Anacondan with a size of 4.7meters long, Morley believed in self-preservation. He needed cunning to survive on the junk planet ofLotho Minor, doing anything to survive,^[3] including cutting a deal with adevilish outcast.^[1]

Behind the scenes[]

Morley first appeared in "Brothers",^[1] the twenty-first episode ofseason four of theStar Wars: The Clone Wars television series, and first aired onMarch 9 2012.^[12] He was voiced byBen Diskin.^[1] In the original script Morley was killed by Maul and not by Opress. Morley's mouth and animation design was a throwback to a time when creature effects were made with hand puppets.^[11]

Morley was inspired by theserpent of Eden, a trickster who managed to temptEve to taste the forbidden fruit in thegarden of Eden. Morley claimed that Maul was just a local legend, but in fact he was leading Opress towards his master’s lair.^[13]

Conflicting death[]

InThe Wrath of Darth Maul, Morley's role and death are presented much differently than inThe Clone Wars television series. In this story, Morley does not double-cross Savage and leads him into the cave where Maul resides. Maul regards Morley as a scavenger and that he should have kept his distance from him, then leaps down on top of him from the ceiling of the cavern and crushes him to death with his mechanical apparatus.^[9] According to the trivia gallery forBrothers, this was actually originally scripted in the episode,^[11] but was changed to Opress killing him in revenge.^[1]