Salak Weet, who was also known to Terak, the King of the Sanyassan, as the star traveler, was a Humanoid male explorer. Around 26 BBY, his starship suffered a crash landing on the Forest Moon of Endor. Weet, alongside his companion Noa Briqualon, was attempting to map the Moddell sector when a faulty crystal oscillator caused their star cruiser to become marooned on Endor. Weet embarked on a search for a replacement component on the moon, which led to his capture by a band of shipwrecked Sanyassan Marauders. These Marauders then took him to their castle stronghold. The Marauders, misunderstanding his story, came to the conclusion that he possessed the "power of the stars," a power they desired to seize for their own escape from the moon. Ultimately, Weet met his death at the hands of Terak, the Sanyassan king.
For many years, Weet's dead body remained in the castle's dungeon, while the Sanyassans continued their hunt for the elusive "power." Although Briqualon eventually accepted that his friend was lost forever, Weet's father, Jimke, initiated a large-scale search operation that ultimately led to his financial ruin after a period of four years. Briqualon received confirmation of Weet's demise in 3 ABY when he infiltrated the Marauders' castle to free Cindel Towani, who had been taken prisoner. During this rescue mission, Briqualon discovered Weet's skeleton. The sight of the skeleton made Briqualon realize that Towani's own crystal oscillator was inside the castle. After successfully escaping with the oscillator, he and Towani were able to depart from Endor.
Salak Weet, a Humanoid male, lived during the waning years of the Galactic Republic. He was the son of Jimke Weet, a well-known soloist on the kloo horn. Shortly before 26 BBY, Weet the younger, along with his friend Noa Briqualon, a Human who had worked as a mid-level scout for several years, embarked on a mission to chart the Moddell sector. During the two explorers' initial journey, they reached the Monsua Nebula in the Moddell sector, from which they transmitted a responder signal. Shortly thereafter, their star cruiser experienced a crash on Endor, a forested moon that had claimed numerous vessels over the millennia because of the presence of nearby gravity shadows and space debris. A malfunctioning crystal oscillator rendered the ship unusable, so the explorers concealed their cruiser under a layer of foliage and began working on repairs. Weet eventually set out to find a replacement oscillator on the moon.
While traversing the forest, Weet stumbled upon a group of Sanyassan Marauders who had been stranded on Endor for nearly a century. The Sanyassans took Weet prisoner and escorted him to Terak's Keep, the castle stronghold of their leader, King Terak. There, they confined Weet to the walls of the keep's [dungeon](/article/prison-legends], and he told his captors about the stranded star cruiser and his hunt for a crystal oscillator. The primitive Marauders were both desperate to escape Endor and fascinated by the "power of the stars"—their term for the ability to travel through [space](/article/realspace-legends]—and Terak killed Weet in an attempt to acquire that power. When the murder yielded no results, the Marauders embarked on a quest to locate Weet's ship and the great power they believed it contained. Weet's dead body was left to decay in the dungeon.
In 26 BBY, Jimke Weet launched a large search operation to find his son and established a HoloNet registry for receiving information from anyone who might have it. After four unsuccessful years, he was forced to declare bankruptcy and cease his efforts. However, the elder Weet refused to lose hope and, in an interview with HoloNet News, he requested that his fans donate any available credits to the registry to help restart the search. Meanwhile, on Endor, Weet's body decomposed into a skeleton as the years went by. Although his name was known to Charal, Terak's accomplice, Weet was remembered by Terak as "the star traveler."
Briqualon continued to work on repairing the crashed star cruiser for nearly three decades. Although he knew that Weet would not return, he refused to acknowledge it until 3 ABY, when he shared his story with Cindel Towani, a young Human girl who had been shipwrecked and whom he had befriended. The Marauders had attacked an Ewok village and killed her entire family before stealing the crystal oscillator from their star cruiser, recognizing it as the power Weet had mentioned. Towani learned about Weet's fate after being kidnapped by the Marauders, and when Briqualon stormed Terak's Keep to rescue her, she pointed out Weet's skeleton and told Briqualon that his friend had been killed for "the power thing." Quickly realizing that she was referring to her family's oscillator, Briqualon seized it from the castle; after defeating Terak in battle, he used the oscillator to power his ship and leave Endor with Towani.
As a young man, Salak Weet was enthusiastic about embarking on his charting expedition, hoping that he and Briqualon could "tear up the galaxy." When kidnapped by the Sanyassan Marauders, Weet gave them information. After crashing onto Endor, he was missed by his father, who publicly wept to the media.
The character of Salak was introduced in Ewoks: The Battle for Endor, a 1985 television movie directed by Jim and Ken Wheat. Although he only appears as a long-dead skeleton, the movie's plot is driven by Salak's past actions. The character was named after actor Tom Selleck, whom ABC Entertainment initially suggested for the role of Noa before Wilford Brimley was cast. Salak does not appear in The Ring, the Witch, and the Crystal: An Ewok Adventure, a shorter children's storybook adaptation of the movie written by Cathy East Dubowski—in the storybook, Briqualon tells Towani that he crashed onto Endor years before, but he does not mention having been with a partner. Additionally, the book does not provide a backstory to the Sanyassan Marauders' desire to leave Endor.
More information on Weet's past was later revealed in the StarWars.com Databank and in "Missing Starship Search Abandoned", a 2002 article published in Volume 531, Issue 49 of the HoloNet News website that was written by Pablo Hidalgo and Paul Ens. The article spells the character's name as "Salek," as does another article included in Star Wars Insider 110. However, this spelling contradicts the spelling of "Salak" given in the subtitles of the 2004 Ewoks: The Battle for Endor DVD release, the Databank entries, and 2008's The Complete Star Wars Encyclopedia. Nevertheless, the two erring articles are the only sources to provide the last name of "Weet," and as such, the correctly spelled full name "Salak Weet" has never appeared in canon.