Sollag Den

Sollag (also spelled Zolag) was an alien from the planet known as Tammuz-an. He was a loyal servant to the prince, Mon Julpa, and played an integral part in helping Julpa maintain control of the throne.

Biography
Several years prior to the Battle of Yavin, Sollag discovered that the evil Zatec-Cha, the royal vizier of Tammuz-an, had used his magic to turn Prince Mon Julpa into an addle-brained amnesiac. He banished him from the planet and took measures to claim the Tammuz-an Royal Scepter for himself.

Sollag looked everywhere for his lost prince. His search eventually led him to a mining world known as Tyne's Horky, where he learned that a bounty had been placed on Mon Julpa’s head. An assassin droid known as, IG-88, had accepted the bounty and was en route to Tyne's Horky to kill Mon Julpa. Sollag entered a dining establishment known as Doodnik's Café where he found a bounty hunter/criminal named Kleb Zellock. Caring little for Zellock's unscrupulous nature, he offered him 40,000 keshels to find Mon Julpa before IG-88. Kleb, willing to do just about anything for such an exorbitant fee, quickly accepted the offer.

Kleb later turned on Sollag, deciding that a royal prince of Tammuz-an could likely fetch a much larger price than a mere 40,000 keshels. Sollag was devastated at the betrayal. He soon learned that Kleb had indeed captured Mon Julpa and put him to work, laboring in his keschel mines. Sollag snuck into Zellock's mines and helped to rescue Mon Julpa, as well as several other slaves named Jann Tosh, C-3P0 and R2-D2. Upon finding his prince, he presented him with the Tammuza-an Royal Scepter. Contact with the scepter cured Julpa of Zatec-Cha's magic and he regained control of his faculties. After escaping from Kleb Zellock's mining camp, they returned to Tammuz-an, where they helped to overthrow Zatec-Cha and reinstate Mon Julpa as the rightful ruler of the planet.

Physical appearance
Sollag’s size and build were typical of that of a native of Tammuz-an. He had a purple complexion with a large mane of red hair. While traveling the Outer Rim, Sollag dressed in simple attire, but while he was on Tammuz-an, he wore the traditional, high-collared robes befitting one of his station.

Personality
To all accounts, Sollag came across as a sniveling and weak-willed person, but he was fiercely loyal to Prince Mon Julpa, and would go to great extremes to secure the prince’s safety. Sollag was a kind-hearted individual and showed immense gratitude towards Jann Tosh, C-3P0 and R2-D2 for aiding him in rescuing the prince.

Behind the scenes
The English subtitles on the Star Wars: Droids DVD and the episode entry at TV.com both spell Sollag’s name as Zolag. The Jann Tosh entry at the Databank however, spells his name as Sollag. Considering that both versions come from canonical Lucasfilm sources, it can be safely assumed that Zolag is just an in-universe variant spelling of Sollag.

Appearances

 * Star Wars: Droids
 * &mdash;The Lost Prince
 * &mdash;The New King