Terak Terak was a Sanyassan warlord from the storm - shrouded world of Sanyassa IV . Huge and fierce - looking even by Sanyassan standards , he was the chief of the Marauders , a band of criminals who engaged in spaceways piracy . A century before the Battle of Endor , Terak and his Marauders joined with Charal , a Forceful female who possessed a magic ring . Traveling through the Moddell sector in a stolen starship , they crashed on the lush Forest Moon of Endor . Resigned to their fate , the Marauders constructed a castle in the plains of Endor , where they were ruled by the self - appointed King Terak , and Charal his accomplice . In the months leading to his destruction , Terak murdered most of the Towani , a family of Humans who were themselves castaways on Endor . The king wished to obtain the crystal oscillator from their spacecraft , as he believed it to be " the Power " he was looking for . Having captured the crystal , Terak had no idea how to release its energy . He tried to compel the young Cindel Towani , last survivor of the Towani family , into revealing the secrets of the crystal . But the little girl was unable to answer the king ' s questions , and he im prisoned her . The day after her capture , Cindel was freed from the Marauder ' s dungeons by her peaceful Endorian friends . Terak ordered the witch Charal to transform into a raven to lead him to the Humans , so he could retrieve the crystal . The warlord kept the Nightsister ' s magic ring to guarantee she wouldn ' t betray him . This , however , led Terak to his ultimate demise ; during a pitched fight , the Ewok hero Wicket Warrick struck the ring with a stone , causing it to activate , and the evil Marauder was burnt to a crisp . Biography . Early life . Born on the gloomy planet Sanyassa IV more than a century before the Galactic Civil War , Terak was a male Sanyassan . On his homeworld , hierarchy was essentially determined by force and stature . As Terak grew to become unusually tall , even by reference to his species ' s standards , he ended up reaching the top of the social pyramid and became a warlord . Terak assumed the leadership of the Marauders , a band of Sanyassan criminals . The warlord imagined that he and his goons could become great space pirates and the scourge of their native Moddell sector . However , their reign of terror proved much shorter than the warlord had expected . The Marauders had been successful in stealing a spaceship , but none of them were able to pilot it properly . Hunted by law enforcement agencies , they kept moving through the sector , until they met a strange woman known as Charal — a Nightsister witch from Dathomir . She possessed a magic ring that allowed her to transform into a raven at will . Impressed by her strange powers , Terak agreed to take Charal aboard and established her as his personal mystic . When the Marauders ' ship reached the Endor system , the improvised navigator couldn ' t handle the unusal gravity patterns in the area , as the vessel was way too advanced for him to pilot . The Sanyassans pirates crash landed on the forest moon of Endor , a celestial body orbiting a planet known as Tana . Many Marauders survived the crash , including the navigator , but Terak blamed him for his failure and had him executed in a fit of rage . Gradually , the Marauders resigned to their fate , and a new life began for them in the plains of Endor . Terak established himself as King of the Marauders , with Charal as his cohort . A squarish stronghold , which would serve both as barracks and fortified residence of Terak . Under the lead of their king , the Sanyassans worked together to bring terror to the other sentients of Endor , the bear - like Ewoks and the singing Yuzzum . At some point , King Terka had also fathered a son , Zakul , who would grow up to match his father ' s brutality . Life on the Forest Moon . With his dreams of glory shattered , Terak came to hate the Forest Moon , which he called a " green carbuncle on the backside of the galaxy . " Around the year 26 BBY , the Marauders captured the stranded scout Salak Weet , who told them about his damaged starship hidden in the woods . Weet explained how the starcruiser traveled through space thanks to the " power " of a crystal oscillator . Terak knew nothing of spacefaring technology , and he thought a crystal oscillator was some kind of magic gem that could give him great powers and allow him to rule the galaxy . The Sanyassan then executed the scout and began their vain search for the " Power of the stars . " Unbeknownst to the Marauders , Veet had not come alone to Endor . His human partner Noa Briqualon awaited Veet ' s returned for a time . When Briqualon understood that Salak Veet was probably dead , he settled as a hermit in the forest and maintained a low profile for many years on . Enlisting the spacer . At some point between 0 ABY and 3 ABY , Terak sent out a patrol that was ambushed by Ewoks around the border of their territories . The only survivor , a pink - skinned Sanyassan named Indar , reported their defeat was due to a single Ewok holyman wielding a powerful magic wand . The warlord hoped this scepter contained the elusive " Power " that would help him leave Endor . King Terak seized the opportunity . He bartered with a passing - by spacer , sending the offworlder on a mission to kill the Ewok priest and return to the Marauders Stronghold with his magic metal staff . When the spacer returned with the staff , it proved to be a sham . Terak understood that Indar had lied to him in hopes of covering up his cowardice during the ambush with Ewok warriors . The warlord was incensed about this act of treachery , and he ordered the spacer to retrieve and kill Indar . A bit later , Terak ' s scouts reported a ship had crashed not far from the Stronghold . The king ordered the spacer to raid the shipwreck and take anything he could find , especially potential sources of power . When the spacer returned with a hyperdrive generator , Terak was overjoyed . The warlord immediately ordered the Sanyassan scholar Szingo to study it carefully . As a last assignement Terka also tasked the spacer with stopping two Ewok warriors who intended to raid the Stronghold . abundantly insisted that the matter should be resolved in the most violent and bloody manner . The Emperor ' s scouts . Several years before the Battle of Endor in 4 ABY , the Galactic Empire sent a scouting expedition to Endor , where Emperor Palpatine wished to build the shield generator for his new Death Star superweapon . Terak and his Marauders captured the scouting party , which included the sergeant Pfilbee Jhorn . While the Imperial team contemplated an alliance with the Marauders , Terak and his goons did not see it that way . The King ordered the Imperials brought to his dungeons , where a few of them were tortured to death . While his prisoners were still in jail , the Sanyassan warlord discovered that his mystic Charal had plotted behind his back . The Dathomiri had freed the Imperials for a promise to take her offworld with them . Outraged by that act of treason , Terak put Charal behind bars for a time . The Battle for Endor . Terak ' s obsession with obtaining what he called the " Power " increased over the years . In 3 . 5 ABY , a family of Humans , the Towani , were stranded on the Forest Moon . One day , Terak and the sorceress Charal led a raid on Bright Tree Village , where the Towani were sheltered . Terak confronted the father , Jeremitt Towani , who was trying to repair his ship , and demanded the " Power . " The king seized the power cell from the starcruiser and killed the unarmed Human . Jeremitt ' s daughter , the young Cindel Towani , was able to escape while Ewoks were gathered up to be taken back to Terak ' s castle . The girl ' s escape , however , was short - lived — she was captured by Charal and placed in a prison carriage with her Ewok friend Wicket Warrick . When he looked at his young Human prisoner , Terak thought Cindel was " a pretty prize . " With the other Ewoks ' help , Towani and Warrick escaped from the carriage , but Terak only sent a few Marauders after them . At the Marauders ' keep , King Terak wanted Charal to get the oscillator crystal to work by chanting over it , to no avail . According to the witch , her spies had located Cindel Towani in the woods , near the hut of the old scout Noa Briqualon . She suggested the young girl might know the secret of the magic crystal and could be forced to share it with Terak . The Sanyassan king agreed , and he ordered the witch to bring the child back . When Towani was taken before him , Terak and ordered her to release the " Power , " but she answered the crystal was not magic and was only a machine part . But Terak did not believe her , and he had both the girl and Charal taken to the dungeon with the Ewoks captives . The king threatened to execute all the prisoners if Towani hadn ' t shown the secret of the crystal before dawn . That night , the Marauders held a banquet in castle hall . Terak remained seated on his throne with a pint of alcohol , hoping the little girl would eventually change her mind . Suddenly , an alarm bell started ringing from the dungeons , meaning the prisoners had escaped . Terak headed for the cellblocks , even as the prisoners were blasting a hole in the wall to escape through . The king learned that Cindel and the Ewoks had been freed by their friends , Noa Briqualon , Wicket Warrick and a creature known as Teek . The enraged warlord then freed Charal to help him trace the fugitives back . The sorceress used her ring and turned into a raven , but Terak grabbed the bird by the leg and seized the ring so Charal would not run away and betray him . The Marauders army eventually found the fugitives , but the Ewoks put up a valiant defense while Noa Briqualon was trying to get his starship running using the energy cell from the Towani spacecraft . During the skirmish , Cindel Towani was captured by Terak , even as the other Marauders retreated . A climactic duel ensued between the towering Sanyassan and Briqualon . The old hermit was able to strike many good blows , but Terak ended up chopping Briqualon ' s staff in two with his machete . When it seemed that the warlord had won the fight , Wicket Warrick used his slingshot and damaged Charal ' s ring , which Terak wore in a pendant round his neck . The talisman shattered , releasing a great amount of energy , and the Marauder king was burned from the inside - out . Legacy . Terak ' s death created a power vacuum in the Marauders ' society . While his General Yavid did attempt to succeed him as king , but he failed to bring the rabble - rousers into line . Ultimately , Terak ' s son Zakul managed to impose his authority over the Marauders , bringing the intestine war to an end and acquiring the throne . Nevertheless , when the New Republic later sent agents to scout the Endorian forest , they found no trace of the Sanyassan Marauders . Personality and traits . At 2 . 3 meters , Terak was taller and more powerful than many of his peers . He was a vicious and bloodthirsty warlord who was obsessed with obtaining what he called the " Power , " which he was convinced would allow him to leave Endor and conquer the galaxy . Fortunately for the rest of the galaxy , Terak ' s strength was not equaled by his intelligence . His way of thinking was more in the superstitious form than the scientific form . Otherwise he could have simply taken the Towanis ' ship . Instead , Terak believed beyond a shadow of a doubt that the oscillator by itself was the key to letting him and the other Marauders leave Endor . Terak also had a dark sense of humor , which he shared with his subjects . Behind the scenes . The Marauder King Terak was created by George Lucas for Jim and Ken Wheat ' s 1985 made - for - television film " " . In the movie , 2 . 13 - meter - tall actor Carel Struycken portrayed Terak . In early designs by the American director and artist Joe Johnston , Terak was one - eyed and bald , with a thinner frame , yellowish skin and three - fingered hands . The 2003 article " Who ' s Who in Star Wars Galaxies , " published in " Star Wars Insider 65 " , claimed that Terak ' s quest for the " Power " caused him to forge his alliance with Charal . However , both Charal ' s Databank entry on StarWars . com and " The Complete Star Wars Encyclopedia " , published in 2008 , stated that the witch joined the Marauders shortly before their crash on Endor , which happened decades before Terak first heard of the " Power " from Salak Weet . This article follows the facts featured in the " Complete Encyclopedia " , as it is the newer source . The sources also give conflicting accounts of Terak ' s demise . While the King ' s defunct Databank entry on StarWars . com stated that he was burned by the power of the ring , the young readers ' book " " stated that he was turned to stone instead . This article follows the Databank ' s version of the facts , as it was once the most official " Star Wars " database .