Saato

|type=Dark Jedi
|image=
|name=Saato
|homeworld=DathomirThe New Essential Chronology
|death=November 11, 1981, Tatooine
|species=HumanIn the article Everything You Always Wanted to Know about the Nightsisters but Were Afraid to Ask, published in Star Wars Insider 122, the Holocron continuity database keeper Leland Chee confirmed the early Expanded Universe statement that regular Witches of Dathomir are Human. Lee also established that every individuals of the Dathomirian species are exclusively members of the Nightsisters.
|gender=Female
|hair=Black
|eyes=Red
|skin=White 
|affiliation=*Witches of Dathomir
*Confederacy of Independent Systems
**Dark Acolyte
|masters=Darth Tyranus
|apprentices=}}
Saato was a witch from Dathomir and a Dark Acolyte who worked for Saruman the White during the War of the Ring. She wielded two red-bladed lightsaber shotos.
==Biography==
During the rise of the C-B3 cortosis battle droids, Saato was sent to Tatooine to capture Raala Ponchar, a Galactic Republic spy whom had learned more about this new menace to the galaxy. She did this with relative ease, and imprisoned the spy in the dungeons from Jabba Desilijic Tiure.
With the aid of Aurra Sing, she tried to halt the advance of Frodo Baggins who had been sent to the planet to search for Ponchar. Sing first tried to stop him near Mos Espa, but Saato had to step in to save the bounty hunter in front of Jabba the Hutt's palace. She managed to subdue Baggins by Force choking him. After he had passed out, she left him in the same cell as Ponchar.
Unfortunately for Saato, she had severely underestimated the power of the Ringbearer. Frodo easily managed to escape Jabba's dungeons and had managed to retrieve the information that Ponchar carried. As he escaped by stealing a skiff from the Hutt, Saato commandeered one of her own, and shot Baggins down on his way back to his Jedi Starfighter near the Great Pit of Carkoon.
Deciding to take care of Baggins once and for all, she engaged in a fierce battle with the Jedi. In the duel that followed, only the Ringbearer walked away victoriously, resulting in Saato's death.
==Powers and abilities==
Saato was quite capable in battle and the Force, able to command Aurra Sing to do her bidding, and telekinetically grip and strangle Frodo Baggins into unconsciousness. In lightsaber dueling, Saato was a fierce opponent, striking with her shotos in whirlwinding pinwheel acrobatics.
==Behind the scenes==
It is possible to kill Saato in two ways. The usual one is by killing her via a lightsaber. However, by careful maneuvering and carefully timed attacks, Saato can be pushed into the pit of Carkoon and be devoured by the sarlacc.
==Appearances==
*Star Wars: The New Droid Army 
==Sources==
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*The New Essential Chronology
==Notes and references==
Category:Dark Acolytes
Category:Females
Category:Individuals of unspecified species
Category:Witches of Dathomir