Noa Briqualon Noa Briqualon was a Human male trader and mid - level scout who , after crashing his star cruiser on Endor , spent decades living as a hermit on the surface of the forested moon . The shipwreck occurred around the year 26 BBY , when Briqualon and his friend Salak Weet set out to chart the Moddell sector . When Weet left their crash site in search of a replacement for the ship ' s broken crystal oscillator , he was killed by a band of stranded Sanyassan Marauders ; left to his own devices , Briqualon made a home for himself inside of a hollowed - out tree . With a furry Teek named Teek as his only companion , he spent years repairing the crashed cruiser , which remained grounded without a functioning oscillator . In 3 ABY , Teek found the orphaned Human girl Cindel Towani and her Ewok friend Wicket Wystri Warrick , and welcomed them into Briqualon ' s home . The scout gruffly sent them away , but as the two children had no place to go , Briqualon reluctantly allowed them to sleep on his floor . He initially claimed that the invitation was for a single night , but on their third day with him , they followed him to the site of his star cruiser and prompted him to share his entire story . Briqualon grew protective of Towani and bonded with her in an almost grandfatherly way , and when she was kidnapped by the Sanyassan Marauders and taken to their castle stronghold the next morning , he immediately set out to rescue her . Briqualon , Warrick , and Teek infiltrated the castle and rescued both Towani and a group of her Ewok friends . They also retrieved the crystal oscillator from Towani ' s own star cruiser , which the Marauders had stolen after killing the girl ' s family . Returning to the site of his crashed ship , Briqualon used the oscillator to power up the cruiser while the Ewoks held off the pursuing Marauders . He was forced to duel the sword - wielding Marauder King Terak with only a walking stick , but the fight ended when Terak was burned to death by the power of a magic ring he wore around his neck . With the star cruiser finally operational , Briqualon and Towani left Endor , and the old scout eventually retired in the galaxy ' s Mid Rim . Biography . Crash landing . Noa Briqualon was a young Human male who worked as a mid - level scout during the final decades of the Galactic Republic . He spent years in the profession and additionally worked as a trader at some point . Shortly before 26 BBY , Briqualon teamed up with his friend Salak Weet and set out to chart the Moddell sector . On their maiden voyage , the two explorers reached the sector ' s Monsua Nebula and broadcast a responder signal , but their star cruiser soon afterward crashed on the moon Endor . The cruiser was just one of many ships that had been claimed by the moon throughout the millennia due to interference caused by nearby stellar debris and gravity shadows . With a damaged crystal oscillator , the star cruiser was inoperable , and the two explorers hid their vessel beneath a layer of the forested moon ' s foliage before enacting repairs . Eventually , Weet left on a hunt for a replacement oscillator , but Briqualon remained with the ship . Briqualon never saw his friend alive again , as Weet was captured by a band of Sanyassan Marauders who were themselves stranded on the moon . When Weet told them of his star cruiser ' s ability to travel through space , he was killed by the Marauders ' King Terak , who desired the " power of the stars " for himself . Although Briqualon came to realize that Weet would never return , he refused to admit it to himself . He carved a hut from a hollowed - out tree and turned it into a home . At some point , he befriended a furry Teek known only as " Teek , " who came to live with him as his sole companion . Briqualon frequently traveled to the site of the crashed star cruiser to continue his repairs , but the ship was unable to fly without a functioning oscillator . He protected the area with booby traps and did not allow even Teek to follow him there . Meanwhile , Weet ' s father organized a massive search - and - rescue effort for the two lost explorers , but he was forced to file for bankruptcy and abandon the project in 22 BBY after four fruitless years . New friends , new threats . Briqualon and Teek spent decades living in their home , and the scout eventually lost track of how long he had been stranded on Endor . One day in the latter half of 3 ABY , he returned home from his star cruiser and found two visitors in his hut — Teek had brought home the young Human girl Cindel Towani and her Ewok friend , Wicket Wystri Warrick . Briqualon reacted angrily and kicked the new arrivals out ; with no place to go , they parked themselves on a log outside the hut . A grumbling Briqualon finished cooking the dinner they had begun to make , and he instructed Teek to not give any food to Towani and Warrick . However , when Teek used his lightning - fast speed to rush outside and hand the children some muffin s , Briqualon observed through a window and held his tongue when Teek returned . Towani and Warrick soon built a fire , and Briqualon brought them inside , asserting that the fire was unsafe . Both children went to sleep on the floor , but when Towani woke up screaming from a nightmare , Briqualon gave up his own bed . Briqualon left for his star cruiser in the morning after instructing Warrick to go on his way . The scout nevertheless put together two child - sized sleeping mats while he was out , and was disappointed to arrive home and find that his guests were gone . However , the children soon returned from a flower - picking jaunt , and Briqualon helped them use the flowers to bake a pie . After dinner , he tucked them into their new beds and let them stay another night . In the morning , he told them to make themselves useful by cleaning the hut ; instead , the curious children followed him to the star cruiser . Briqualon was alerted to their presence when an alarm sounded inside the ship , and he helped an upside - down Warrick out of a snare trap before reluctantly bringing both children aboard the cruiser . With all of his barriers broken down , the scout told the children his story and finally admitted to himself that Weet was not coming back . Towani ' s family had similarly been murdered by the Marauders , and Briqualon invited her and Warrick to permanently stay with him . Back at the hut , he entertained his new companions with a song played on a flute . Towani happily danced along , but she soon grew dejected over the loss of her family , and Briqualon comforted her . The next morning , Warrick awoke Briqualon and announced that Towani was missing . When the scout went searching for her , he and Warrick came across Towani being carried away on the stallion of the Human woman Charal , an associate of King Terak ' s . Briqualon immediately returned to his hut to retrieve a blaster pistol , an ascension gun , and some thermal detonators . Along with Warrick and Teek , he set out after Towani . The battle for Endor . The trio followed Charal ' s trail to Terak ' s Keep , the Sanyassan Marauders ' castle stronghold in the Dragon ' s Pelt savanna . Rather than swim through the black waters of the moat , Briqualon fired his ascension gun ' s grappling hook at the top of a curtain wall . He was the last to climb the rope , and his ascent was sped up when Warrick tied the rope ' s other end around the ankle of a Sanyassan guard and pushed him into the moat . Sneaking through the castle , the three came to King Terak ' s throne room , which was filled with dining Marauders . After Teek darted in to retrieve some robes , Briqualon donned the apparel and placed Warrick on his shoulders . Teek hung close behind the scout ' s legs , and the disguised trio shuffled past the unassuming Marauders . Their next stop was the dungeon , where two guards sat engrossed in a card game . Briqualon tasked Teek with retrieving the keys from one guard , and the stealthy Teek also succeeded in slipping a card up the guard ' s sleeve . When the other Marauder spotted it , an argument ensued that ended with both men shooting each other in the chest . Briqualon used the keys to free the imprisoned Towani and a group of her Ewok friends , all of whom had been captured when the Marauders had raided their village and killed Towani ' s family . Warrick and his father , Deej , grabbed the downed guards ' blasters as the group attempted to escape , but an encounter with a guard in the corridor forced them back into the dungeon . As Wicket and Deej Warrick covered him , Briqualon set a thermal detonator and blew a hole in the dungeon wall . He then tossed his grappling hook at a monolith that stood outside the castle , and as the Ewoks swung to safety , Towani directed Briqualon ' s attention to the skeleton of Weet , which hung on the dungeon wall . When she revealed that Weet had been killed for the " power thing , " Briqualon spotted the crystal oscillator from the Towanis ' star cruiser . It had been taken in the Ewok village raid , and a naive Charal had kidnapped Towani with the hope that the young girl could use it to magic ally grant the Marauders spaceflight . Briqualon snatched it up , and after everyone had escaped , he led them in a rush back to his ship . Guided by Charal , who had used a magical ring to metamorphose into a raven , the Marauders followed closely behind . At the site of his star cruiser , Briqualon put Warrick in charge of using his traps to hold off the Marauders . He then brought Towani and four other Ewoks aboard to help him install the oscillator , which he hoped would allow the cruiser to fly . After several failed attempts , Briqualon got the ship powered up , while Teek and the Ewoks did battle with the Marauders using Briqualon ' s traps and their own crude weapons . With power restored , the scout manned one of the star cruiser ' s quad laser cannons and began to fire at his enemies . Overwhelmed by the defense , all of the Marauders fled save Terak , who grabbed Towani after she rushed outside to free Warrick from a trap . Terak sent Wicket and Deej Warrick into the cruiser to demand a trade : " the power " in exchange for Towani ' s safety . Briqualon brought the oscillator out to Terak with an alternative proposal — if he let Towani go , Briqualon would fight him for the oscillator . The King obliged , and the scout attacked his foe with his walking stick . Terak wielded a sword and quickly gained the upper hand in the duel ; however , when he knocked Briqualon to the ground , Teek intervened by jumping onto Terak ' s head . When the King shook him loose and continued to attack a defenseless Briqualon , Warrick desperately used a sling to fire a stone at Terak . It struck Charal ' s ring , hanging on a cord around the King ' s neck , and the broken ring unleashed its energy and burned Terak to death where he stood . In the battle ' s aftermath , Briqualon offered to bring Towani with him when he left Endor on his now - functional star cruiser , and she agreed . It took several days to finish preparing the ship . As the two prepared to lift off , Teek and the Ewoks gathered outside . Briqualon said emotional goodbyes to both Warrick and Teek , and after Towani said her own farewell to Warrick , the star cruiser blasted off and departed Endor . Briqualon and Towani traveled the stars for some time , and the scout eventually retired in the galaxy ' s Mid Rim . Meanwhile , Towani moved to the galactic capital world of Coruscant and started a new life as a journalist . Personality and traits . As young men , Noa Briqualon and Salak Weet set out on their journey with the intention of " tearing up the galaxy . " When Weet disappeared on Endor , Briqualon lived as a hermit for decades , with Teek as his only companion . The scout came to love Teek and was sad to leave him behind when he finally departed from Endor . Despite Teek ' s companionship , Briqualon grew lonesome over the long years and lost track of time as it passed . Nevertheless , he reacted with hostility when Cindel Towani and Wicket Wystri Warrick showed up at his hut and sent them out into the night , indifferent toward the fact that they had nowhere else to go . Although he was reluctant to make new friends after so many years on his own , he quickly softened up and brought them inside under the pretense that the fire they had built was unsafe . Despite being a gruff old man , Briqualon had a kind heart , which began to shine through when he comforted Towani after she had a nightmare . When he brought home sleeping mats for Towani and Warrick , he was disappointed to find them gone , but he maintained his gruff and unwelcoming facade by telling Teek that he was relieved . Partly due to Teek ' s urgings , Briqualon eventually allowed the children to permanently stay with him . He grew protective of Towani after bonding with her in an almost grandfatherly way , and his comfort helped her deal with the recent deaths of her family . Towani in turn helped Briqualon finally come to terms with Weet ' s death . Warrick , however , the scout merely tolerated , but by the time he left Endor , Briqualon considered the Ewok a fine warrior whom he was proud to know . When Towani was captured by Charal , Briqualon immediately stormed Terak ' s Keep to rescue her . When she was later captured by Terak , the old scout attacked the sword - wielding Marauder King while armed with only a walking stick . Prior to Terak ' s attack , Briqualon assumed command of his Ewok troops and directed them to their various defensive positions . He additionally had some skill in starship repair . In 3 ABY , Briqualon had brown hair shot through with gray , and although his head was balding , he sported a long beard . He also had light skin and brown , piercing eyes behind a pair of spectacles . His belly was ample and he dressed in simple robes . Behind the scenes . The character of Noa was created by George Lucas for the 1985 television movie " " . Lucas conceived of the movie ' s plot after watching the film " " with his daughter and deciding that Cindel Towani — who had earlier appeared in 1984 ' s " " — should become an orphan and end up living in the woods with a grumpy old hermit . Lucas explained his vision to Jim and Ken Wheat , who took over directing duties for the movie . Although suggested to the Wheats that perform the role , Noa was played by Wilford Brimley , a veteran actor of several films who later went on to appear in television commercials for products such as . Brimley frequently clashed with the Wheat brothers and eventually refused to work with them ; as such , all of his scenes were shot by Joe Johnston , the second unit director . A rumor circulated that Noa swears under his breath while trying to power up his star cruiser during the movie ' s climax . However , it was debunked in the eighty - ninth issue of the " Star Wars Insider " magazine , which cites the subtitles of 2004 ' s " Ewoks : The Battle for Endor " as proving that the line is in fact " Aw , come on . " An article that was published on StarWars . com in 2000 suggests that the language spoken by Noa and the other characters in the movie is not in fact Basic , the " Star Wars " equivalent of , but rather a different language translated for the viewers ' benefit . The assertion is drawn from the fact that Wicket Warrick is able to speak and understand Basic in the movie but is unable to do so in , set a short time later in the " Star Wars " timeline . A soundtrack covering both " Caravan of Courage " and " The Battle for Endor " , by composer Peter Bernstein , includes two tracks about Noa : " Noa & Terak " and " Noa ' s Ark . " Further information on Noa has been provided over the years in various reference books and in the StarWars . com Databank , and details surrounding his crash onto Endor were given in a 2002 issue of the HoloNet News website written by Pablo Hidalgo and Paul Ens . Noa ' s last name , Briqualon , first appeared in a published source in the ninth issue of the " Star Wars Gamer " magazine , also released in 2002 . It was mentioned in his Databank entry as early as 2004 . A light - hearted article by Bonnie Burton that first appeared on StarWars . com in 2007 and that was later published in " Star Wars Insider " 100 in 2008 lists both Briqualon and Teek as unlikely candidates for the Hasbro company ' s " Star Wars Unleashed " toy line . The article includes a sketch of the two in " unleashed " poses drawn by Pablo Hidalgo . In 2010 , Briqualon was ranked at # 95 on the American entertainment website list of the top 100 " Star Wars " characters , due to the fact that he was played by " legendary actor and oatmeal pitchman " Wilford Brimley ; that he helped introduce spectacles to the Galaxy Far , Far Away ; that he protected an orphaned little girl ; and that he attacked a sword - wielding King Terak armed only with a walking stick .