Morley

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"I'm Morley. I could help you. We've got everything here. I can get you what you want. For the right amount of course."

―Morley to Savage Opress^[1]

Morley was a male Anacondan scavenger who lived on Lotho Minor and was a servant to Darth Maul.

Biography

Early life

Morley was a male Anacondan who lived^[3] during the last years of the Galactic Republic,^[4] eking out a life^[3] on the junk planet of Lotho Minor^[1] in the Outer Rim Territories.^[5]

Morley became the benefactor of for over a decade. — Morley became the benefactor of Darth Maul for over a decade.

Sometime after the Battle of Naboo^[6] in 32 BBY^[7] Morley encountered the ex Sith apprentice Darth Maul,^[8] left without legs after his duel with Obi-Wan Kenobi^[6] and dumped on Lotho Minor.^[1] He was screaming and slithering away in fright from one of Lotho Minor's gigantic machines, the Fire-breather, when Maul threw his lightsaber with the Force directly at the Fire-breather's head, piercing it through. The machine instantly fell to the ground, the fire from its mouth extinguished. As Maul blacked out, Morley wrapped the Zabrak in his coils and brought him into the caves of the planet, which would eventually become his sanctuary.^[8]

Morley pledged loyalty to Maul to survive,^[3] promising to lure unwitting prey into Maul's hungry clutches,^[1] as he had used the Force to acquire a six-legged arachnid-like cybernetic apparatus to replace his lost lower body.^[8] Maul aided in obtaining shelter and sustenance only by Morley.^[9]

"Helping" Savage Opress

In 20 BBY,^[10] after Savage Opress arrived on Lotho Minor in search of his brother, Morley presented himself and said that he would help him navigate his way to find him for a price, which changed to free when Savage choked Morley. After a short talk, Opress said that his brother looked like him, Morley mentioned an aggressive man with horns, but quickly clarified that he was only a myth. Later, they ran through a field of Fire-breathers and a brief battle with Junkers, even saving Opress from a Junker's shot. After this, they arrived at a hut, in an attempt to escape the acid rain that frequently occurred on Lotho Minor.^[1]

Death

In the hut, which Savage had thought would be where his brother had been living, he found only Junker corpses. Then, Morley betrayed him and threw him down the chute, and cackled as he bragged that he would get the leftovers of the presumably soon to be dead Savage Opress. Instead Savage Opress found his brother, now a cyborg in terrible-condition. When Morley came down the chute for his leftovers of supposed dead Opress, Savage blamed his brother's condition on him and choked him to death. He then threw Morley's corpse into a fire out of anger.^[1]

Personality and traits

A peculiar^[11] Anacondan with a size of 4.7 meters long, Morley believed in self-preservation. He needed cunning to survive on the junk planet of Lotho Minor, doing anything to survive,^[3] including cutting a deal with a devilish outcast.^[1]

Behind the scenes

Morley first appeared in "Brothers",^[1] the twenty-first episode of season four of the Star Wars: The Clone Wars television series, and first aired on March 9 2012.^[12] He was voiced by Ben Diskin.^[1] In the original script Morley was killed by Maul and not by Opress. Morley's mouth and animation design was a throwback to a time when creature effects were made with hand puppets.^[11]

Morley was inspired by the serpent of Eden, a trickster who managed to tempt Eve to taste the forbidden fruit in the garden of Eden. Morley claimed that Maul was just a local legend, but in fact he was leading Opress towards his master’s lair.^[13]

Conflicting death

In The Wrath of Darth Maul, Morley's role and death are presented much differently than in The Clone Wars television series. In this story, Morley does not double-cross Savage and leads him into the cave where Maul resides. Maul regards Morley as a scavenger and that he should have kept his distance from him, then leaps down on top of him from the ceiling of the cavern and crushes him to death with his mechanical apparatus.^[9] According to the trivia gallery for Brothers, this was actually originally scripted in the episode,^[11] but was changed to Opress killing him in revenge.^[1]