Elan Sel'Sabagno/Legends

Elan Sel'Sabagno, also known as Elan Sleazebaggano, was a Balosar medical student on Coruscant who fell in with bad crowd. He stole medical supplies and equipment, which he gave to the spice lord Hat Lo, eventually stealing drug supplies to him. He became a slythmonger and dealt death sticks, drugs that shortened the life of the user, in the Outlander Club located in the Uscru Entertainment District of Coruscant. He himself became addicted to death sticks, but his Balosar physiology gave him resistance to the drug.
In the Outlander Club, he unsuccessfully tried to sell Rancor nail blades to bounty hunter Jango Fett and death sticks to Jedi Knight Obi-Wan Kenobi. Kenobi, however used the force to mind-trick the slythmonger into going home and rethinking his life. In 19 BBY, Sel'Sabagno drove around the bounty hunter Boba Fett in an airspeeder from the Jedi Temple to the cantina Sign of the Tri-Forked Tongue, trying to sell many products to Fett while doing so. He then drove Fett back to the Jedi Temple. On the way, he gave Fett a saberdart. After the rise of the Galactic Empire, Sel'Sabgano unsuccesfully tried to sell death sticks to the Jedi fugitives Drake Lo'gaan and Zondar.
==Biography ==
===A once promising career===
The young Balosar Elan Sel'Sabagno, known to almost everyone as Elan Sleazebaggano, was a medical student who came to the Core Worlds planet Coruscant seeking out a medical degree as one of the top students in his year. He studied on the planet, 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. 
Before Sel'Sabagno knew where he was, he was stealing medical equipment and supplies, which he passed off to the up-and-coming spice lord Hat Lo. The credits 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. When one of Sel'Sabagno's instructors accused him of stealing, the Balosar assaulted the instructor and went into hiding in the labyrinth-like undercities of Coruscant.
Sel'Sabagno had turned his medical career into the career of a slythmonger, a distributor of pharmaceutical supplies in the entertainment districts of Coruscant. He 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 talk patrons into buying the drugs glitterstim or his best seller, 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. The death sticks sold at the Outlander Club, an establishment in the Uscru Entertainment District of Coruscant, due to their quality. As such, the customers of the club tolerated him despite the fact he was a deadly blot on it. He loitered around the bar of the club looking for potential customers.
=== A Jedi encounter===
In 22 BBY,The New Essential Chronology dates the events of Star Wars: Episode II Attack of the Clones to 22 BBY. The scene from Jango Fett: Bounty Hunter in which Elan Sel'Sabagno offers Rancor nail blades to Jango Fett takes place shortly before the film's assassination attempt on Senator Padmé Amidala. Sel'Sabagno was inside the Outlander Club at the same time as the bounty hunters Jango Fett and Zam Wesell. He attempted to sell Rancor nail blades, weapons crafted from the nails of Rancors, to Fett, blocking Wesell's way. The bounty hunter refused, pushing Sel'Sabagno aside. This caused the slythmonger to stumble backwards into a table of droids.Jango Fett: Bounty Hunter
Shortly after,The New Essential Chronology dates the events of Star Wars: Episode II Attack of the Clones to 22 BBY. Sel'Sabagno was once again in the club, standing at the bar. He approached the Jedi Obi-Wan Kenobi, thinking he was a visiting patron. With a death stick in hand, he asked Kenobi he wanted to buy drugs off of the slythmonger. Sel'Sabagno then added on that "nobody's got better death sticks than Elan Sleazebaggno," with an evil smile.Star Wars: Episode II Attack of the Clones novelization 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. Kenobi, keeping his eyes forward, did a slight gesture with his hand and mind-tricked the slythmonger into not selling his death sticks to him.The Life and Legend of Obi-Wan Kenobi Sel'Sabagno then used a slight of hand to tuck the death stick into the sleeve of his overcoat.
Sel'Sabagno was unaware that the Jedi was manipulating his mind. He looked slightly confused, then thoughtful as he 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. He exited the club, walking along Vos Gesal Street back to his home to rethink his life.Star Wars: Complete Locations Kenobi's trick of the force led him to better things, though he never knew where the inspiration to change came from. All he knew was that he attempted to sell death sticks to a punter and left the club, never returning. Unfortunately for the Outlander Club, more slythmongers were there to take Sel'Sabagno's place. Rumors about Sel'Sabagno going home and changing his ways circulated.
===Driving Boba===
 
In 19 BBY,The Essential Reader's Companion dates the events of Boba Fett: Pursuit to 19 BBY. Lo sent Sel'Sabagno in a bright red airspeeder to pick up Boba Fett, Jango Fett's son, from the Jedi Temple on Coruscant, and bring him to his cantina, Sign of the Tri-Forked Tongue in the Coruscant underworld. Sel'Sabagno waited for Fett inside his airspeeder near Fett's ship, the Slave 1, on the landing dock of the temple. With a pang, Fett immediately recognized the Balosar as being Sel'Sabagno, to his dismay.Boba Fett: Pursuit
As Fett jumped into the airspeeder, Sel'Sabagno introduced himself, his antennapalps wiggling with pride. He told Fett that "flying was his game" and asked Fett if he could interest him in some Polordian smootdust. Sel'Sabagno took out the smootdust, and waved it enticingly around Fett's face. Fett then grabbed Sel'Sabagno's shoulder, remarking 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 swooped off from the docking platform.
The Balosar commented that Fett looked like a discerning bounty hunter, and almost without taking a breath, offered to sell him tortapo-shell shades. He went on about the features of the shades before Fett ordered him to be silent, tightening 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, he 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 raced away from the temple.
As the two approached the the Galactic Senate building, Fett's eyes widened slightly, and he got closer to the airspeeder's side to view the building. Sel'Sabagno explained that the building is where the galaxy's most important business takes place, but before he could explain where they were going, the airspeeder gave a sudden lurch. Without warning, the airspeeder dived straight down between kilometer-high buildings, as if it was plunging into a shining abyss. 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 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.
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 garishly lit 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. The rest of the ride passed silently, with Sel'Sabagno sighing noisily occasionally. His antennapalps didn't stop wriggling as though he was trying to sell Fett some highly illegal Nkllonian Lava Extract, one hundred percent pure. 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 didn't know why the bounty hunter bothered with the place, telling Fett that no one goes there 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 said that that was unlikely, but he still took the card. The airspeeder then roared off, wildly moving between alarmed passersby.
===The drive back===
After Boba Fett had finished his business with Hat Lo within 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 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-rise canyons of Coruscant with a squeal. The Balosar told Fett he wouldn't dream of selling him something, especially not something highly illegal and fatality toxic like a saberdart.
Holding tightly to his seat as the airspeeder narrowly avoids 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, willowy Dathomir 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 Hutt crime lord Jabba Desilijic Tiure, if he felt inclined. Fett took the saberdart, looking at it suspiciously. It seemed to be genuine to the bounty hunter. 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 Fett should trust him.
As they approched the Jedi Temple, the airspeeder began to slow. Fett quickly shoved the saberdart into his utility 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 as Fett watched it go. Fett then turned and went towards the Temple entrance. He was going to use the saberdart Sel'Sabagno had given him to avenge his father and kill Jedi Mace Windu.
===Another unsuccesful offer===
Shortly after and the rise of the Galactic Empire, Sel'Sabagno attempted to sell death sticks to the Jedi fugitives Drake Lo'gaan and Zonder on Vos Gesal Street after they ran out of the Outlander Club from Stormtroopers. The pair didn't acknowledge the slythmonger and pushed him out the way, hurting him. The unsuccessful Balosar then remarked that he needed to rethink his life.
==Personality and traits==
Being a slimy lowlife,Star Wars Character Encyclopedia Sel'Sabagno didn't care that other species couldn't shrug off the effects of death sticks, and he did nothing to dispel the stereotypes that Balosars were scoundrels and shifty cheats. 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.Star Wars: Attack of the Clones Scrapbook In actuality, the clubbers viewed him as an awkward, oily, embarrassing parasite. While driving around Boba Fett, Sel'Sabagno annoyed and angered the bounty hunter with the barrage of offers.
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. Despite his physiology, years or hard living in the undercity of Coruscant had weakened his health. A male of the species, he had flexible antennapalpsStar Wars: Attack of the Clones: The Visual Dictionary that twirled up from his head like curly horns. He could conceal the antennapalps with his thick brown hair, worn in a stylishly filthy petrified hairstyle. He also had brown eyes, and light skin. He stood at 1.78 meters and weighed 70 kilograms. The Balosar spoke with a guttural voice, and could speak and write Balosur, the language of his species.Ultimate Alien Anthology He could also speak in Basic, Huttese, and Twi'leki.
==Skills and abilities==
Sel'Sabagno was one of the top medical students within his year. The slythmonger was knowledgeable on many subjects, including alien species, biology, organized crime. His rudimentary knowledge of alien psychology was used to hustle contraband. He had some skill with diplomacy, gathering information, and computer use. During his time with a troupe of trickster players, he learned how to do slights of hand, becoming an adept. With little combat experience, his fighting style was deliberately clumsy and unpredictable, though he did have proficiency with blaster pistols and simple weapons. According to Sel'Sabagno, "flying was his game" but while using an airspeeder, he put himself and Boba Fett in danger many times.
==Equipment==
Sel'Sabagno wore a long dark overcoat that concealed his illegal chemicals, a casual beige shirt, baggy white pants, a black belt with a holster, a fashionable choker, and shoes that contained secret storage compartments for contraband. Sel'Sabagno also possessed a blaster pistol, a sharp vibroblade, multiple Rancor nail blades,Jango Fett: Bounty Hunter and a stash of illigal substances that included ryll spice, glitterstim, and death sticks. 
By 19 BBY, 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!"
==Behind the scenes==
Elan Sel'Sabagno first appeared in the novelization of the prequel trilogy film Star Wars: Episode II Attack of the Clones. The novelization was written by R.A. Salvatore and released on April 23, 2002. He then appeared in the movie, which was released on May 16, 2002,Star Wars Year By Year: A Visual History, New Edition where the character was portrayed by actor Matt Doran. The Outlander Club scenes including Doran were shot at Fox Studios, Sydney on July 17, 2000.Mythmaking: Behind the Scenes of Attack of the Clones While on set, Doran talked with fellow actors Leeanna Walsman and Anthony Daniels, who portrayed Zam Wesell and Dannl Faytonni, respectively.Mythmaking: Behind the Scenes of Attack of the Clones The character was named by Star Wars creator George Lucas. Although Sel'Sabagno has ears in production photos, ILM ultimately removed them and replaced them with antennapalps, carefully matched to Doran's head movements, for the film after George Lucas saw what computer-graphic antennae looked like.
Before the film released, the character was pictured in Star Wars: Attack of the Clones: The Visual Dictionary, authored by David West Reynolds, and in the reference book Star Wars: Attack of the Clones Scrapbook, authored by Ryder Windham, both simultaneously releasing on April 23, 2002. The Visual Dictionary reveals that Sel'Sabagno could conceal his antennapalps under his hair, explaining away photos of the character without the computer-generated effects. His real last name of Sel'Sabagno was not revealed in the tenth issue of the Star Wars Gamer magazine. A figure of Sel'Sabagno was produced by the toy company Hasbro in 2003 for their Saga toyline. The figure originally included ears, but a resculpted version without the ears was later produced.
==Appearances==
*Jango Fett: Bounty Hunter
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*Star Wars: Episode II Attack of the Clones novelization 
*Star Wars: Episode II — Attack of the Clones 1
*Boba Fett: Pursuit
*Evasive Action: Recruitment
*The Life and Legend of Obi-Wan Kenobi
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