Salak Weet Salak Weet , also known to the Sanyassan King Terak as the star traveler , was a Humanoid male explorer whose starship crashed onto the Forest Moon of Endor around the year 26 BBY . Weet had been attempting to chart the Moddell sector with his friend Noa Briqualon , but a damaged crystal oscillator in their star cruiser left them stranded on Endor . After setting out to search the moon for a replacement part , Weet was taken captive by a group of shipwrecked Sanyassan Marauders and brought to their castle stronghold . Misunderstanding the tale he told them , the primitive Marauders believed that he had the " power of the stars , " a power they could take from him and use to leave the moon . Weet was in turn killed by Terak , their king . Weet ' s corpse hung in the castle ' s dungeon over the years as the Sanyassans continued to hunt for the " power . " Although Briqualon accepted that his friend would not return , Weet ' s father Jimke organized a massive search effort that finally bankrupted him after four years . Weet ' s fate was confirmed to Briqualon in 3 ABY , when Briqualon infiltrated the Marauders ' castle to rescue his captive friend Cindel Towani and came across Weet ' s skeleton . The skeleton ' s presence helped Briqualon realize that Towani ' s own crystal oscillator was in the castle , and , after escaping with it , he and Towani were able to leave Endor . Biography . Stranded . The Humanoid male Salak Weet lived during the final years of the Galactic Republic . He was the son of Jimke Weet , a renowned kloo horn soloist . Shortly before 26 BBY , the younger Weet set out to chart the Moddell sector alongside his friend Noa Briqualon , a Human who had spent years as a mid - level scout . On the two explorers ' maiden voyage , they reached the Moddell sector ' s Monsua Nebula , from where they broadcast a responder signal . Shortly afterward , their star cruiser crashed onto Endor , a forested moon that had claimed hundreds of ships throughout the millennia due to the presence of nearby gravity shadows and stellar debris . A damaged crystal oscillator rendered the ship inoperable , and the explorers hid their cruiser beneath a layer of foliage , from where they began to enact repairs . Weet eventually left to search the moon for a replacement oscillator . While wandering through the forest , Weet encountered a group of Sanyassan Marauders who had themselves been stranded on Endor for nearly a century . The Sanyassan s captured Weet and brought him to Terak ' s Keep , the castle stronghold of their leader , King Terak . There , they chained Weet to the walls of the keep ' s dungeon , and he told his captors of the stranded star cruiser and his hunt for a crystal oscillator . The primitive Marauders were both desperate to leave Endor and fascinated by the " power of the stars " — their term for the ability to travel through space — and Terak killed Weet in an attempt to gain that power . When the murder accomplished nothing , the Marauders embarked on a quest to locate Weet ' s ship and the great power they presumed was contained therein . Weet ' s corpse was left in the dungeon to rot . Legacy . In 26 BBY , Jimke Weet organized a massive search - and - rescue effort for his son and set up a corresponding HoloNet registry for the receipt of information from anyone who had it . After four fruitless years , he was forced to file for bankruptcy and abandon his efforts . However , the elder Weet refused to give up hope , and in an interview with HoloNet News , he asked his fans to donate any available credits to the registry in order to help revive the search . Meanwhile , on Endor , Weet ' s body decomposed into a skeleton as the years passed . Although his name was known to Terak ' s accomplice Charal , Weet was remembered by Terak as " the star traveler . " Briqualon continued repair work on the crashed star cruiser for nearly three decades . Although he realized that Weet would not return , he refused to admit it to himself until 3 ABY when he shared his story with Cindel Towani , a young shipwrecked Human girl whom he had befriended . The Marauders had attacked an Ewok village and killed her entire family before stealing the crystal oscillator from their star cruiser , recognizing it as the power of which Weet had spoken . Towani learned of Weet ' s fate after later being kidnapped by the Marauders , and when Briqualon stormed Terak ' s Keep to rescue her , she pointed out Weet ' s skeleton and told Briqualon that his friend had been killed for " the power thing . " Quickly realizing that she meant her family ' s oscillator , Briqualon snatched it from the castle ; after defeating Terak in battle , he used the oscillator to power his ship and leave Endor with Towani . Personality and traits . As a young man , Salak Weet was eager to set out on his charting expedition , hoping that he and Briqualon could " tear up the galaxy . " When kidnapped by the Sanyassan Marauders , Weet revealed information to them . After crashing onto Endor , he was missed by his father , who openly wept to the media . Behind the scenes . The character of Salak was introduced in " " , a 1985 television movie directed by Jim and Ken Wheat . Although he appears only as a long - dead skeleton , the movie ' s plot is driven by Salak ' s past actions . The character was named after actor , whom originally suggested to play the role of Noa . Salak is not included in " " , a truncated children ' s storybook adaptation of the movie written by Cathy East Dubowski — in the storybook , Briqualon tells Towani that he crashed onto Endor years before , but he makes no mention of having been with a partner . Additionally , the book does not provide a backstory to the Sanyassan Marauders ' desire to leave Endor . Further information on Weet ' s past was later revealed in the StarWars . com Databank and in Missing Starship Search Abandoned , a 2002 article published in Volume 531 , Issue 49 of the HoloNet News website that was written by Pablo Hidalgo and Paul Ens . The article spells the character ' s name as " Salek , " as does another article included in " Star Wars Insider 110 " . However , this spelling is contrary to the spelling of " Salak " given in the subtitles of the 2004 " Ewoks : The Battle for Endor " , the Databank entries , and 2008 ' s " The Complete Star Wars Encyclopedia " . Nevertheless , the two erring articles are the only sources to provide the last name of " Weet , " and as such , the correctly - spelled full name " Salak Weet " has never appeared in canon .