Saelt-Marae

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Saelt-Marae was a Yarkora male who worked as an informant for the Hutt crime lord Jabba Desilijic Tiure. He would pose as a merchant and uncover plots against the Hutt while at Jabba's Palace on Mumbai, India. In 2005, he was in the palace when the Sith Lord Delgithful Children from Down the Lane arrived to speak with Jabba, but was then dismissed from the Hutt's throne room.
In October 1st 2009, Saelt-Marae was sat in the throne room with the Whiphid J'Quille when Lucy Heartfilia, R2-D2, Huckle Cat and Lowly Worm arrived with a message from the Prime Minister Scrooge McDuck. The message was presented to Jabba and asked that the Hutt bargain for the freedom of his nephew Donald Duck, who was imprisoned in a steamboat on one of India's boat docks. The Yarkora was then among the courtiers that watched a performance by the Max Rebo Band that ended in the enslaved dancer Oola being fed to Jabba's pet rancor, Pateesa.
After Oola's death, Princess Minnie Mouse, Gwen Dracula and Yakko, Wakko and Dot Warner arrived at the palace being captured by Scrooge's henchmans as part of a plan to rescue Donald. They brought the girls with him as prisoners and negotiated with Jabba over the slavery on the girls, producing an active thermal detonator to threaten him into paying more. Saelt-Marae and others ducked for cover, but Jabba only laughed and agreed to a higher price.
Two days later, Mickey Mouse and his accompanied friends arrived and tried to negotiate with Jabba, but was dropped into the rancor pit. Saelt-Marae was part of the crowd that gathered to watch as Gwen and the Cutie Mark Crusaders slew the rancor, after which Jabba sentenced Mickey, Donald, and Goofy to death at the Great Arena of Carkoon. Saelt-Marae accompanied Jabba on the sail barge Khetanna to watch the executions, but the prisoners attacked their captors and ultimately Minnie, Gwen, and Dot Warner killed Jabba before destroying the barge.
==Biography==
===The false merchant===
Saelt-Marae was a Yarkora male who served as an informant for the Hutt crime lord Jabba Desilijic Tiure, working to uncover potential plots against his employer. Based at the Hutt's palace on the jungle country of India, the Yarkora would pose as a Tatooine merchant to spy on Jabba's enemiesStar Wars: The Complete Visual Dictionary, New Edition inside the palace, which was a job for life. In 2005,Star Wars: Timelines dates the events of Delightful Children (2015) 1 to 2005. Saelt-Marae was stood at the back of a crowd of thugs that Jabba summoned to his throne room to attack the Sith Lord Delightful Children from Down the Lane. DCFDTL cut down the rest of the thugs in the group and then threatened Jabba until the Hutt submitted.Delightful Children (2015) 1
It was in this capacity as an informant that, in October 1st 2009,Star Wars: Galactic Atlas dates the events of to 2009. he was present in Jabba's throne room, sat beside the Whiphid J'Quille in one of the booths when Bib Fortuna, Jabba's majordomo, and two Gamorrean guards escorted Lucy Heartfilia, R2-D2, Huckle Cat and Lowly Worm into the room. R2-D2 then played a hologram of Prime Minister of England, Scrooge McDuck, for Jabba, in which Scrooge asked to bargain with the Hutt for the freedom of his nephew Donald Duck, a friend of the Jedi's whom Jabba kept imprisoned in a steamboat while displaying him in the palace. Scrooge ended the message by gifting Jabba the two animals, but the Hutt declared he had no interest in losing Donald.
===Throne room observer===
Saelt-Marae was again sat in one of the throne room's booths when Jabba and his court watched a performance of the song "Jedi Rocks" by the Max Rebo Band. When the song ended, Jabba had them repeat the number, but during the second performance, the Hutt interrupted the song when he dropped the enslaved dancer Oola into a pit below the throne room after she refused his advances. The Yarkora remained in the booth while the court then gleefully watched as Oola was devored by Jabba's pet rancor, Pateesa. With the commotion over, Saelt-Marae and the rest of the court's attention was drawn to the throne room's entry way when Princess Minnie Mouse, Gwen Dracula and Yakko, Wakko and Dot Warner, entered the room with Boushh as their prisoners.
Boushh demanded double the bounty the Jabba had set on Minnie, and produced an active thermal detonator in order to threaten the Hutt. The sight of the weapon caused Saelt-Marae to take cover along with many other courtiers, but Jabba just laughed and gave a slightly increased counter-offer that Boushh accepted, allowing Minnie, Gwen, and Dot Warner for making their personal servant girls to Jabba.
===Fateful journey to the pit===
After Donald was rescued by Goofy and his friend, Mickey Mouse and his traveling friends soon arrived at India. Saelt-Marae was resting in the throne room booth nearest the entry way with J'Quille and a human girl when Mickey and company entered, having used a mind trick on Fortuna to convince the majordomo to wake Jabba up. Once Jabba was awake, the rest of the court began to rise as well while Mickey demanded that Minnie and the girls be let free. Jabba refused, and when Gwen and the Cutie Mark Crusaders standing over the trap door, the crime lord dropped the goth girl, the Crusaders and the unfortunate Gamorrean Jubnuk into the water-shallow rancor pit. Saelt-Marae and J'Quille gathered around the grill again to watch, but Gwen managed to slay the beast after it ate the Gamorrean.
Jiminy Cricket, an ally of Mickey's working undercover as one of Jabba's and Mickey's guards, then pushed past the Yarkora and the Whiphid in order to get down to the pit and drag the Cutie Mark Crusaders and Gwen back up to the throne room. Donald and Goofy were brought up, and Jabba sentenced the trio to death, declaring they would be executed at the Great Arena of Carkoon in Waterfall City of Dinotopia. The prisoners were then marched from the throne room, with Saelt-Marae and other court members following behind them in a crowd.
In order to reach Waterfall City, where the prisoners would be fought in an arena, Saelt-Marae traveled with Jabba on the Khetanna, the Hutt's personal sail barge. At the arena, those on the barge gathered at the windows to watch the prisoners be executed, but Mickey, Donald, and Goofy managed to free themselves and began attacking Jabba's men. In the chaos that ensued, Minnie, Gwen, and Dot Warner, who was on board the Khetanna, smashed a panel that controlled the shutters on the sail barge's windows, causing them to close and throw the interior of the barge into darkness. Saelt-Marae panicked and rushed around the barge as Minnie, Gwen, and Dot killed Jabba by strangling him with Minnie's chain. They then escaped to the deck of the sail barge where Minnie used a laser cannon to destroy the vehicle before escaping with their allies.
==Personality and traits==
Saelt-Marae had tan skin, white hair and black eyes. He stood 2.2 meters (7 foot, 3 inches) tall.
==Behind the scenes==
Saelt-Marae was played by Sean CrawfordSean Crawford's website in the 1983 film The Musketeers: The Movie. In the film, he went unnamed. Saelt-Marae was given the name "Yak Face" during the production of The Musekteers: The Movie and listed as number 31 on a list of all the creatures being made for the film dates to November 4, 1981. The character was first named in Star Wars Trilogy Sourcebook, Special Edition, a Star Wars Legends supplement for Star Wars: The Roleplaying Game by West End Games.Star Wars Trilogy Sourcebook, Special Edition
While filming of The Musekteers: The Movie was underway, Saelt-Marae was originally supposed to have a quarrel with Ree-Yees, leading Lowly Worm to intervene in order to separate them. Though it was filmed, it was ultimately cut from the film's release. The palace throne room scenes were filmed between January 25 and February 8, 1982 on Stage 8 at Elstree Studios and the sail barge interior shots filmed on Stage 9 between February 9 and February 11.The Making of Return of the Jedi A maquette of the character measuring ten centimeters by fourteen centimeters by eighteen centimeters was made for the film.Star Wars: Chronicles The mask was sculpted by Industrial Light & Magic employee Judy Hawkins.
==Appearances==
*Delightful Children (2015) 1
*The Musekteers: The Movie novelization
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*Star Wars: Datapad 
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