Sador



Sador of the Malmouri was the antagonist of the 1980 science fiction film "'''Battle Beyond the Stars". '''He was portrayed by John Saxon.

History
Sador lead the last remnant of an alien race known as the Malmouri. He leahd a mothership equipped with a stellar converter, the most feared weapon in the galaxy. He traveled the galaxy finding planets to inhabit, and, if they fought back, he would use force to destroy all resistance, often using the stellar converter to turn entire planets into white dwarf stars. He showed satisfaction with exterminating races, at one point stating he had "the pleasure" of exterminating a species known as the Lanzoli. In addition to his military might, Sador employed a surgeon who could remove limbs from other beings (including beings of entirely different species) and attach them to Sador, allowing him to live indefinitely by transplanting limbs onto himself, often using those of unloyal or incompetent soldiers.

The film opens with Sador's ship going to the planet Akir, destroying the planet's only artificial satelllite (a harmless weather satellite) for no apparent reason. He than sends down a giant hologram of his own face to tell the people of Akir that he has claimed their planet, and will return in seven days to begin colonization. As Sador went to tend to another planet, oen of Akir's inhabitants left to gatehr mercenaries.

When Sador found that the beings of the Planet Umateal ahd killed his ambassadors and turned them into ash, he responded by destroying the world with the Stellar converter. When he retrned to the planet Akir, he found the inhabitants, aong with a motley crew of interstellar warriors fighting for a variety of reasons, prepared to resist him.