Elan Sel'Sabagno

"You wanna buy some death sticks?" "You don't want to sell me death sticks." "I don't wanna sell you death sticks." "You want to go home and rethink your life." "I wanna go home and rethink my life."

- Elan Sel'Sabagno and Obi-Wan Kenobi

Elan Sel'Sabagno (better known as Elan Sleazebaggano) was a Balosar medical student on Coruscant who fell in with a bad crowd. He eventually became a slythmonger, and dealt death sticks in the Outlander Club in the Uscru Entertainment District.

Biography


Elan stole the university's medical supplies and sold them to the gangster Hat Lo. He became a slythmonger, and specialized in death sticks, selling to anyone who would buy. He eventually became addicted to his own product, although his Balosar physiology protected him from the drug's harsher side effects.

In 22 BBY, he offered to sell death sticks to Jedi Knight Obi-Wan Kenobi. After being mind tricked by him in the Outlander Club, he went home and completely rethought his life. He managed to break his death stick addiction and swore off the slythmonger business, but soon enough slipped back into his old criminal ways, becoming involved in the trade of other, non-chemical illegalities, such as weapons and stolen goods. However, he still sold "the finest deathsticks in the galaxy, one hundred percent pure". Nearly three years after his encounter with Kenobi, Elan helped Boba Fett during an adventure on Coruscant, in which he ferried Boba around the city (all the while trying to sell Boba various illegal wares) and provided him with a saberdart, which Boba Fett used in his failed assassination attempt against Mace Windu.

Later on in his life, he became an anti-death stick spokesman after giving them up. However, he only helped addicted individuals if they could pay a hefty price. Elan was later captured by Boba Fett and given over to Imperial authorities for contraband.

Behind the scenes
Elan Sleazebaggano was portrayed by Matt Doran. Though in production photos, Sleazebaggano has ears, ILM ultimately removed them and replaced them with antennapalps for the film because they considered it redundant for a character to have both antennae and ears. However, these ears were retconned back into canon in Attack of the Clones: The Visual Dictionary.

The name "Sleazebaggano" is likely meant as a reference to the real-world English slang term "sleaze bag".

Appearances

 * Star Wars Episode II: Attack of the Clones novel
 * Star Wars Episode II: Attack of the Clones
 * Star Wars Episode II: Attack of the Clones comic
 * Boba Fett: Pursuit
 * Evasive Action: Recruitment

Notes and references
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