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Stylised original portrait plate for Sate Pestage

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Sate Pestage

One of the robed men behind the throne — and in Legends, the man who briefly inherited it.

Species
Human
Homeworld
Not established
Affiliation
Galactic Republic, then the Galactic Empire
Rank
Senior Advisor; Imperial Ruling Council (canon) / Grand Vizier (Legends)
First appearance
Star Wars: Episode VI Return of the Jedi (1983)

Sate Pestage is a human Imperial adviser, identifiable in Return of the Jedi (1983) as one of the robed figures attending the Emperor, and named retroactively. He is distinguished by a shaved head, a pointed beard and sharp eyebrows, and he exists in both continuities with a materially different career in each.

The canon version

Current canon names him in James Luceno's Tarkin (2014) as a Senior Advisor to Supreme Chancellor Palpatine during the Clone Wars, who continued into the Empire as a member of the Imperial Ruling Council. He is present at the 14 BBY meeting that debates Tarkin's conduct at Sentinel Base, and he dies aboard the second Death Star at Endor in 4 ABY. He is scenery with a service record.

The Legends version

Legends made him far more important. There he was Grand Vizier, and after the Emperor's death at Endor he briefly held the Empire together as its head — until Ysanne Isard manoeuvred him out and had him eliminated. His debut in that continuity was the Dark Horse X-Wing: Rogue Squadron comic series rather than the film.

How to hold both

This is a useful illustration of what the 2014 reset actually did. The character was not deleted; the position he occupied was. Canon has no interregnum between Palpatine and the warlords worth naming a Grand Vizier for, because it gave that ground to Mas Amedda and Gallius Rax instead.

On the record

Appearances

Where this figure actually appears, with the medium and the year. Nothing inferred.

Appearances of Sate Pestage
WorkYearMediumNote
Star Wars: Episode VI Return of the Jedi1983FilmFirst appearance, unnamed.
Tarkin2014NovelJames Luceno, Del Rey. Named in current canon.

From the library

Appears in

Books in this log where the character is central rather than incidental.