Topic: The Jawas

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INFO: awas were typically short rodent-like natives of Tatooine. They were passionate scavengers, seeking out technology for sale or trade in the deep deserts in their huge sandcrawler transports. A band of Jawas was responsible for locating C-3PO and R2-D2 and selling them to Luke Skywalker's uncle Owen Lars. Another tribe of Jawas, led by Tteel Kkak, found Jabba the Hutt's rancor. They had a reputation for swindling, as they had a penchant for selling old equipment such as outdated faulty droids to moisture farmers, however they were extremely passive beings, and hardly put up any resistance to colonists of their planet unlike the other natives the Sand People, instead seeing foreigners as an excellent business opportunity.


RACE: Jawa
HEIGHT: 1 Meter Tall
SKIN: ?
DISTINCTION: Technical aptitude
LANGUAGE: Jawaese

HOMEWORLD:
Tatooine (pronounced tætu'in) was a desert world in a binary star system in the Arkanis sector of the Outer Rim Territories. It was inhabited by poor locals who mostly farmed moisture for a living. Other activities included used equipment retailing and scrap dealing. The planet was on the 5709-DC Shipping Lane, a spur of the Triellus Trade Route, which itself connected to the Sisar Run. The planet was not far from the Corellian Run. It had its own navigation system. However, it would still play a role in galactic events, serving as the home of Anakin Skywalker. It was here that Jedi Master Qui-Gon Jinn recognized Anakin's potential to become a Jedi and where he introduced him to Obi-Wan Kenobi, his future master and mentor. Tatooine was also the home of Anakin's son, Luke, where he lived until his early adulthood. The planet built up a very bad reputation, often being viewed as the cesspool of the galaxy due to the high-level of criminals who could be found onworld.



BIOLOGY AND APPEARANCE:
Jawas were easily identifiable by their brown hooded robes, glowing yellow eyes, small stature and high pitched, quickly spoken language called Jawaese.

Through the study of corpses and skeletal remains, Baobab xenobiologists discovered that Jawas appeared to be gaunt, rodent-like creatures, with shrunken faces and yellow eyes. Conflicting research suggests that Jawas and Tuskens, two native species of Tatooine originally evolved from the same extinct species, the Kumumgah, as both have common genetic markers. While other research suggests Jawas originated from humans. Due to their timid private nature, and a lack of interest, their exact origins are unknown.



At all times Jawa faces remain obscured by a shroud of cloth to retain moisture, hide their identity and to dissipate their body heat. Polished orange gemstones are embedded within the fabric to protect the Jawas’ sensitive vision from the bright sunlight.[4] Jawas were renowned for their incredibly potent and strong smell, which most species generally found close to unbearable. However for the Jawas, this odor contained incredible amounts of information such as other Jawa's identity, health, clan lineage, last meal, maturity, arousal and even their mood.[6] Their odor was compounded by a mysterious solution Jawas dipped their clothes in to retain moisture, and their view of bathing as being a waste of precious water, which attracted swarms of insects to gather in the recesses of their hoods.[2] Jawas evolved several important survival traits, such as exceptional night vision, and a strong immune system. A Jawa’s normal body temperature is 46ºC (116 F) which resulted in a high metabolism and an efficient digestive system that drew all the needed nutrients from the Jawa staple diet of hubba gourd.

CULTURE AND HISTORY:
Jawas were a communal, compulsive scavenger species who spent most of their life devoted to scavenging the deserts of Tatooine in search of any scrap metal, droid or mechanical part left behind from a millennia of star travel and technological advancement, where the dry climate of Tatooine preserved almost all debris. Most non-Jawas regarded the Jawas as scavengers and thieves, a description that most Jawas actually found pleasing.

The Jawa’s unofficial motto was not to look for uses in a salvaged item, but rather to imagine someone else who might find a use for it. And this was evidenced in their endless search for wares with which to trade with almost any being Jawas encountered. They had a kind of instinctive feel for machinery and electronics, notorious for knowing how to get a piece of equipment functioning just well enough to sell.



Jawas lived in separate clan families, each with distinct, separate territories for living and scavenging. Each Sandcrawler was lead by a Clan-Chief, who was male. However the overall operation of the Jawa clan was overseen by a female Shaman. A female Jawa became a shaman by either possessing some kind of Force ability with which to perform magic, overcoming an illness accompanied by a hallucinatory vision or was chosen and trained as the successor to the current Shaman. The shamans were believed to possess the ability to foretell the future, and performed spells, hexes and blessings to protect the clan and ensure the well being of all clan members. This title gave them a great deal of respect throughout the clan, which was strange in the largely patriarchal Jawa society, and this allowed the shaman to assume a position where they were to be consulted upon, and asked often for their wisdom. With the important position within the society, the shaman did not travel in the sandcrawler and instead remained within the safety of the clan's fortress. Other than shamans, females were shown little respect in Jawa society.

The primary activity in a Jawa’s life was scavenging and trading within their sandcrawler vehicles. Upon reaching adulthood, Jawas were chosen to work on their sandcrawlers, and participate in the scavenger hunt, the search, trade and reselling of useful wares found within the deserts. All remaining Jawas lived within fortresses, nestled deep in the desert where their collected wares was stored, and Jawa children could be born and grow safely. The scavenging Jawas would return to their fortresses before Tatooine’s storm season commenced. These fortresses had high walls made from large chunks of old wrecked spacecraft for protection against Sandpeople, Krayt Dragons and Tatooine’s sand storms.



Once a year, just before the storm season on Tatooine, all the Jawa clans would gather in the great basin of the Dune Sea for the annual swap meet. Numerous sandcrawlers converged and the Jawas met to exchange their salvage. Other inter-clan business was also attended to such as the comparing of navigational data of the ever-changing desert and the arrangement of marriages to ensure cultural and genetic diversity. Adhering to their scavenger instincts, it was quite common for different family clans to trade their sons and daughters for marriage through an intense barter or trade agreement. A common Jawa term for this was the trading of 'marriage merchandise'.



LANGUAGE:
Jawa’s spoke Jawaese, a randomly variable language which was difficult to interpret due to its extremely high speech rate, and the Jawas' use of scent to add emphasis and tone to their words. To enable Jawas to more easily bargain and trade with other species, they relied on a simplified form of Jawaese, the Jawa Trade Language which removed the use of scent in the language and was quite easily learned by species that commonly dealt with Jawa traders.

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HISTORY:
The Jawas were originally descendants of the Kumumgah species which used to live on Tatooine long before the formation of the Galactic Republic and long before the planet was even a desert. During the Pre-Republic era, sometime before 25,200 BBY, the Rakata of the Infinite Empire punished the Kumumgah for defying their authority by unleashing an orbital bombardment that reduced the surface of the once lush world of Tatooine into little more than fused glass, which eventually crumbled and became desert sand. This extreme climatic change split the Kumumgah into two races: the tall Ghorfas (who evolved into the Sandpeople) and the short Jawas. It is worth noting, however, that during the Jedi Civil War the Jawas spoke of themselves in a manner that suggests they are unrelated to Sandpeople and are also non-native to Tatooine. Whether this is truth or else a ploy to distance themselves from their more violent cousins is unknown. Also, due to the fact that the Sand People knew their history from generations-old oral narratives, it is debatable if the Jawas even knew of the story.

Analysis of ancient stone carvings found on numerous worlds, including Corellia and even Coruscant, led scientists of the Imperial Archaeological Division in 1 ABY to propose the hypothesis that these carvings were of Jawa origin and that the race once traveled among the stars. It is not known whether further analysis proved their hypothesis to be true.

At approximately 3,959 BBY, following what was believed to be an important mining opportunity, the Czerka Corporation brought many sandcrawlers to Tatooine, though they abandoned the planet soon after they discovered the unstable nature of the local ores. Upon abandoning the planet, the sandcrawlers were quickly adopted by the Jawas, who would use them as mobile homes. The abandoned sandcrawlers radically changed Jawa civilization, serving as mobile fortresses for Jawa tribes searching the deserts for materials to scavenge. These vehicles served as a testament to the Jawa abilities of of discovering unusual and unorthodox methods of making things work, and required continual maintenance to keep in working order.

As colonists settled Tatooine, the Jawas were not as hostile towards them as the Sandpeople were. In their newly acquired sandcrawlers, Jawas would tour the desert, picking up old droids or equipment left by moisture farmers and other settlers, and would then either sell them to any willing customer or trade them for something else. Sometimes, Jawas would steal things that caught their eye, leading to settlers to regard them as untrustworthy. Presumably, they used the money made from their dealings to acquire supplies or other necessities from the settlers or other Jawas.

The Jawas also emigrated to other desert worlds, such as Ryloth and Florrum, and garbage planets, such as Raxus Prime, which was home to the Meeknu clan. One was even seen on the planet Genon, and several on the planet Coruscant. Sometime after the Battle of Endor, a group of 480 Jawas was transported to Endor as part of a privately funded expedition to salvage valuable hardware from wreckage left there after the battle. They reportedly mutinied, forming a roving bandit gang and preying upon any visitors to the moon.

At 4 ABY, Tteel Kkak, a Jawa sandcrawler captain, discovered a rancor during the salvage of Grizzid's crashed ship, which he turned over to Jabba Desilijic Tiure.

In 17 ABY, some Jawas were forcefully taken to Skip 5 on the Smuggler's Run to help repair damaged Imperial equipment.

EQUIPMENT AND TECHNOLOGY:
Jawas often wore traditional hand made brown robes.



Jawas did not carry weapons due to their passive nature. However they did rely on ion blasters that shot beams of energy to disable droids, and restraining bolts for keeping them under control. Most Jawas also carried around various tools for repairing droids. They were also adept at creating custom droids, cobbled together from spare parts of other droids. These monster droids, as they were called, could be specially designed for the specific needs of a customer.

APPEARANCES:
Star Wars: Knights of the Old Republic
Darth Bane: Rule of Two (Mentioned only)
"Survivors" - Star Wars Tales 13
"Urchins" - Star Wars Tales 14
Podracing Tales
Episode I: Anakin Skywalker
Star Wars Episode I: The Phantom Menace / comic / game
Episode I: Queen Amidala
Episode I: The Phantom Menace ½
Star Wars: Episode I Jedi Power Battles
Star Wars Republic: Outlander
Star Wars: Bounty Hunter
Nomad
"Bad Business" - Star Wars Tales 8
Star Wars Republic: Infinity's End
Starfighter: Crossbones (Appears in hologram)
Star Wars Episode II: Attack of the Clones / novel / comic
Boba Fett: Crossfire (Mentioned only)
Boba Fett: Maze of Deception
Boba Fett: Hunted
"Paarty On!"
"Spy Girls" - Clone Wars Adventures: Volume 7
"The Package" - Clone Wars Adventures: Volume 3
"It Takes a Thief" - Clone Wars Adventures: Volume 6
"No Way Out" - Clone Wars Adventures: Volume 9
Star Wars Republic 59: Enemy Lines (Mentioned only)
Star Wars Republic: Show of Force
Star Wars: General Grievous
Star Wars: Clone Wars – "Chapter 21"
Star Wars: The Clone Wars film / novel
Star Wars The Clone Wars Volume 2: Crash Course
Star Wars: The Clone Wars – "Dooku Captured"
Star Wars: The Clone Wars: Republic Heroes (Mentioned only)
The Clone Wars: Invitation Only
Boba Fett: A New Threat
"The Order of Outcasts" - Clone Wars Adventures: Volume 5
Star Wars Republic 78: Loyalties
"Mist Encounter" - Star Wars Adventure Journal 7 (Mentioned only)
Star Wars Dark Times: The Path to Nowhere
Dark Lord: The Rise of Darth Vader (Mentioned only)
Echoes of the Jedi on Wizards.com (article) (Appears in hologram)
Coruscant Nights I: Jedi Twilight (Mentioned only)
Coruscant Nights II: Street of Shadows (Mentioned only)
The Last One Standing (Mentioned only)
The Last of the Jedi: The Desperate Mission (Mentioned only)
Adventure in Beggar's Canyon
Star Wars: Galactic Battlegrounds
Star Wars: Empire at War
Star Wars: Empire at War: Forces of Corruption
Star Wars: Droids - "The Pirates of Tarnoonga" (Mentioned only)
Star Wars: Droidworks
"Out of the Cradle" - Star Wars Adventure Journal 2
"When the Domino Falls" - Star Wars Adventure Journal 3 (Mentioned only)
Jabba the Hutt: Betrayal
"Number Two in the Galaxy" - Star Wars Tales 18
"Nerf Herder" - Star Wars Tales 7 (Mentioned only)
"Outbid But Never Outgunned" - Star Wars Tales 7 (Mentioned only)
"Wanderer of Worlds" - Star Wars Galaxy 9 (Mentioned only)
"The Last Hand" - Star Wars Adventure Journal 13 (Mentioned only)
"The Hovel on Terk Street" - Star Wars Tales 6
Underworld: The Yavin Vassilika
Luke's Fate
A Hunter's Fate: Greedo's Tale webstrip
The Force Unleashed novel / The Force Unleashed video game
Star Wars Empire: Darklighter
X-wing Rogue Squadron ½
Star Wars Journal: The Fight for Justice
Death Star (Mentioned only)
Star Wars Episode IV: A New Hope novel (First appearance)
Star Wars Episode IV: A New Hope
Star Wars 1
R2-D2's Mission: A Little Hero's Journey
Star Wars 2: Six Against the Galaxy
Play It Again, Figrin D'an: The Tale of Muftak and Kabe
Swap Meet: The Jawa's Tale
Trade Wins: The Ranat's Tale
Drawing the Maps of Peace: The Moisture Farmer's Tale
Oh!! Jawajawa
Jedi's Honor
Rebel Force: Renegade
Star Wars 17: Crucible (Appears in flashback(s))
Star Wars 25: Siege at Yavin (Mentioned only)
Star Wars Missions 5: The Hunt for Han Solo
Star Wars Missions 6: The Search for Grubba the Hutt
Star Wars Missions 8: Togorian Trap (Appears in hologram)
Star Wars Missions 10: Showdown in Mos Eisley
Star Wars Missions 19: Bounty on Bonadan (Mentioned only)
The Mystery of the Rebellious Robot
"Spare Parts" - Star Wars Adventure Journal 11
"No Disintegrations, Please" - Star Wars Adventure Journal 14 (Mentioned only)
Droid Trouble
The Return of Ben Kenobi (Mentioned only)
"Sand Blasted" - Star Wars Tales 4
Star Wars: Battlefront
Star Wars: Battlefront II
Star Wars 3-D
Galaxy of Fear: Ghost of the Jedi
Galaxy of Fear: The Brain Spiders (Mentioned only)
Tatooine Sojourn
"Stop That Jawa!" - Star Wars Tales 2
"Lady Luck" - Star Wars Tales 3
Star Wars 32: The Jawa Express
Star Wars Galaxies – An Empire Divided
Planet of Kadril (Mentioned only)
Camie's Story (Mentioned only)
A New Beginning
Shadows of the Empire comic
Star Wars 71: Return to Stenos
Star Wars 81: Jawas of Doom
Star Wars: Demolition
"Fortune, Fate, and the Natural History of the Sarlacc" - Star Wars Tales 6
A Boy and His Monster: The Rancor Keeper's Tale
The One That Got Away
Star Wars Episode VI: Return of the Jedi
Star Wars: Return of the Jedi 1: In the Hands of Jabba the Hutt
Star Wars: Return of the Jedi 2: The Emperor Commands
The Ordeal of Boba Fett
The Jabba Tape
"Three Against the Galaxy" - Star Wars Tales 3
Star Wars 90: The Choice
Mara Jade: By the Emperor's Hand (Mentioned only)
X-wing Rogue Squadron: The Phantom Affair
The Glove of Darth Vader (Mentioned only)
Zorba the Hutt's Revenge
Prophets of the Dark Side (Mentioned only)
Tatooine Ghost
Dark Force Rising (Mentioned only)
The Last Command / comic
X-wing: Isard's Revenge (Mentioned only)
Crimson Empire II: Council of Blood
Children of the Jedi
Star Wars: Jedi Knight: Jedi Academy
The New Rebellion
Star Wars: Union
Junior Jedi Knights: Promises
Junior Jedi Knights: Kenobi's Blade (Mentioned only)
Dark Tide II: Ruin
Edge of Victory II: Rebirth (as a statue)
Millennium Falcon (Mentioned only)
Star Wars Legacy: Ghosts (Mentioned only)
Star Wars Legacy 38: Tatooine, Part 2
Star Wars Legacy 39: Tatooine, Part 3 (Mentioned only)
Star Wars Legacy 40: Tatooine, Part 4 (Mentioned only)

SOURCES:
Star Wars toy line
Star Wars: The Power of the Force (1995)
The Star Wars Sourcebook
Star Wars: The Roleplaying Game, Second Edition
The Movie Trilogy Sourcebook
Galaxy Guide 7: Mos Eisley
Star Wars Technical Journal (Volume One)
Star Wars: The Roleplaying Game, Second Edition, Revised and Expanded
Star Wars Gamemaster Screen, Revised
Star Wars: Behind the Magic
The Essential Guide to Alien Species
Star Wars: The Action Figure Archive
The New Essential Guide to Alien Species
Shadows of the Empire Planets Guide
The Far Orbit Project (Picture only)
Star Wars Episode I: The Phantom Menace Scrapbook
Episode I: Jedi Power Battles: Prima's Official Strategy Guide
Star Wars Miniatures: Rebel Storm
Inside the Worlds of Star Wars Trilogy
The Official Star Wars Fact File 23 (JAW1-4, Jawas)
The Official Star Wars Fact File 63 (JAW5-8, Jawas)
The Official Star Wars Fact File 79 (JAW9-12, Jawas)
The Force Unleashed Campaign Guide
Star Wars Customizable Card Game – Premiere Limited (Card: Jawa)
Star Wars Customizable Card Game – Premiere Limited (Card: Jawa)
"University of Sanbra Guide to Intelligent Life: The Jawas" - Star Wars Gamer 3
A Night at Tosche Station on Wizards.com (article)
Jawa Trader and Lando Calrissian, Dashing Scoundrel on Wizards.com (article)
Star Wars Galaxies Trading Card Game – Champions of the Force (Card: Jawa Shaman)
Star Wars Galaxies Trading Card Game – Champions of the Force (Card: Jawa Thief)
Star Wars Galaxies Trading Card Game – Champions of the Force (Card: Uprising) (Picture only)
Star Wars Galaxies Trading Card Game – Champions of the Force (Card: Turf Wars) (Picture only)
Star Wars Galaxies Trading Card Game – Champions of the Force (Card: Jawa Vendor)
Star Wars Galaxies Trading Card Game – Squadrons Over Corellia (Card: Jawa Greeter)
Star Wars Galaxies Trading Card Game – Galactic Hunters (Card: Jawa Healer)
Star Wars Galaxies Trading Card Game – Galactic Hunters (Card: Jawa Leader)
Star Wars Galaxies Trading Card Game – Galactic Hunters (Card: Jawa Beads)
Star Wars Galaxies Trading Card Game – Agents of Deception (Card: Jawa Engineer)
Star Wars Galaxies Trading Card Game – Agents of Deception (Card: Jawa Smuggler)
Star Wars Galaxies Trading Card Game – Agents of Deception (Card: Jawa Tracks)
Star Wars Galaxies Trading Card Game – The Shadow Syndicate (Card: Jawa Ion Pistol)
Star Wars Galaxies Trading Card Game – The Shadow Syndicate (Card: Jawa Technician)
Star Wars Galaxies Trading Card Game – The Shadow Syndicate (Card: Jawa Sandcrawler)
Scum and Villainy
Secrets of Tatooine
The Complete Star Wars Encyclopedia
The Return of the Galactic Moon Festival
3B6-RA7 in the Databank
Aguilae in the Databank
Akkik in the Databank
Anduvil of Ogem in the Databank
C-3PO in the Databank
Dex's Diner in the Databank
FLO (WA-7) in the Databank
Herat in the Databank
Jawa in the Databank
Jawa camp in the Databank
Jawa blaster in the Databank
Kitik Keed'kak in the Databank
Lars moisture farm in the Databank
Aved Luun in the Databank
R5-D4 in the Databank
RA-7 in the Databank
Raxus Prime in the Databank
Sandcrawler in the Databank
Tusken raider in the Databank
Ugnaught in the Databank
WED Treadwell droid in the Databank

I would like to thank Wookieepedia for this info.

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Tatooine was once a lush world that had large oceans and a world-spanning jungle inhabited by the native and technologically advanced Kumumgah. Sometime in its history, the Rakatan Infinite Empire invaded the planet and conquered and enslaved its native inhabitants. The Kumumgah eventually rebelled and managed to drive the Rakata off the planet. In response they subjected the planet to an Orbital Bombardment that "glassed" (that is, fused the silica in the soil into glass, which then broke up over time into sand) the planet and boiled its oceans away. This drastic climatic change split the indigenous Kumumgah into two races: the Ghorfas—also known as Tusken Raiders or Sandpeople—and the Jawas. It is a planet where natives (specifically middle-aged and older Humans) are often mistaken to be a decade or more older than they actually are due to the twin suns and harsh climate.



THE EARLY YEARS:
Tatooine was first discovered by the Republic in 5,000 BBY, and in 4,200 BBY the first colony named Anchorhead was established. Unfortunately, these first Human settlers disrupted the native Ghorfa culture, provoking their evolution into the Sand people, later known as Tusken Raiders. Over many years, the settlement was abandoned and recolonized over and over.

The planet was represented in the Galactic Senate by Sidrona Diath. During the Great Hunt, the planet was cleansed of terentatek by the Jedi.

Although Tatooine was deemed not worth conquering by the Mandalorians during the Mandalorian Wars, a group of Mandalorian exiles settled on Tatooine after the war, although their fate was never known.

At the time of the Jedi Civil War, the planet was practically controlled by the Czerka Corporation. They were attempting to mine ores from Tatooine, although they soon discovered the ores had strange magnetic properties which made the metal corrode very fast and thus useless for production. Later, Revan came to Tatooine during his quest to locate the Star Forge. He discovered that Czerka Corporation was attempting to eradicate a nearby tribe of Sand People due to attacks on Czerka's sandcrawlers. With the help of the recently purchased droid HK-47, Revan was able to communicate with the tribe and negotiate a truce after infiltrating their settlement. It was revealed to Revan that the Sand people considered the Czerka to be invaders on their land, which was the reason for the frequent attacks.

LOST ERA:
Czerka’s mining involvement in the Anchorhead settlement proved fruitless, and the company began Czerka’s Secret Weapons division on the planet, due to no restrictions from the Republic. Sometime between Revan’s visit and 3,623 BBY, Czerka completely pulled out of Anchorhead, abandoning the Secret Weapons complex. This left the planet populated by dissidents and criminals, though the Republic still used the planet for a supply stop. The Sith Empire also set up a small outpost near Anchorhead in an effort to discover the secrets of the Czerka Secret Weapons division. Some time after their involvement on Tatooine, the planet was forgotten until the Republic rediscovered it in 1,100 BBY.

The B'omarr Order built a monastery on the planet in 700 BBY which the bandit Alkhara used as a hideout in 550 BBY.

NEW HUMAN COLONIES:
In 100 BBY, the Dowager Queen crashed on the planet at the site where Mos Eisley was later built. The crash survivors were Humans from Bestine IV, who established the Bestine Settlement, the capital of Tatooine, and made first contact with the Jawas. Shortly thereafter, colonists founded Fort Tusken, which was wiped out by Sand people in a year after its establishment. From that point on the Humans referred to the Sand people as "Tusken Raiders." Anchorhead was then reinhabited in 93 BBY. Mos Eisley was settled by Humans and Rodians in 85 BBY and Mos Espa was settled 80 BBY.

Corellian Mining brought many digger crawlers to the planet, but abandoned it, as did the Republic for all intents and purposes, in 70 BBY, when the orbital station Tatoo III crashed, revealing the unstable nature of the local ores from which it had been constructed. The abandoned crawlers radically changed Jawa civilization, serving as mobile fortresses for Jawa tribes searching the deserts for materials to scavenge.

Although the planet was thereafter considered technically part of the Republic's Arkanis Sector, the Hutts became its de facto rulers when they arrived in 65 BBY.

In 60 BBY, Merl Tosche established Tosche Station on the outskirts of Anchorhead. Rival Hutt kajidics vied for control of the planet, notably Besadii (represented by Gardulla the Elder) and Desilijic (represented by Jabba the Hutt). The notorious Jabba chased Alkhara out of his citadel of operations and claimed the B'omarr Monastery for his personal palace.

RISE OF THE EMPIRE:
In 32 BBY, Anakin Skywalker became a local legend in Mos Espa by being the first Human ever to win a podrace, in this case the famous Boonta Eve Classic itself. After winning the race, he left Tatooine to join the Jedi Order.

In late 32 BBY, Jango Fett came to Tatooine and, on behalf of Jabba, disposed of Gardulla, giving Jabba a virtual monopoly on the rule of Tatooine's criminal underworld. However, Jabba's monopoly was eventually challenged by Whiphid crime queen, Lady Valarian.

In 22 BBY, Anakin Skywalker returned to Tatooine, sensing his mother, Shmi Skywalker, was in terrible pain. Shmi had been captured and tortured by Tusken Raiders and later died in Anakin's arms. Enraged, Anakin killed every Tusken in the village.

Early in the Clone Wars, the Republic tried to re-establish a presence on the world by constructing a Republic spaceport, but Confederacy General Sev'rance Tann, allied with the minor Hutt crime lord Boorka, wiped it out and established her own fortress. Jabba protested Boorka's direct involvement in the Clone Wars, and betrayed the fortress's location to Echuu Shen-Jon, who wiped it out. In truth, helping Echuu was simply Jabba's way of eliminating Boorka, since Jabba himself got directly involved in the Clone Wars: he shipped cortosis ore through Tatooine to Metalorn for the Techno Union to build cortosis droids. This operation was ended by Anakin Skywalker. Sometime before or during 19 BBY, X1 and X2 formed a garrison here with Master Ferroda. However the CIS came shortly after they arrived but the Republic garrison held them off successfully.

Following Order 66 and the Great Jedi Purge, Obi-Wan Kenobi went into hiding on Tatooine, keeping a close eye on young Luke Skywalker, whom Kenobi entrusted to Shmi's stepson, Owen Lars, and his wife Beru.

GALACTIC EMPIRE:
At the time of the early Galactic Empire, the planet's population was estimated at 200,000.[8] In 18 BBY the Empire stationed several battalions of stormtroopers on the world to be picked up by the Eye of Palpatine, which never arrived. It also had a small garrison in Mos Eisley, although the troops stationed there paid little heed to the crime infesting the spaceport.

Shortly before the destruction of Alderaan, the Star Destroyer Devastator captured Princess Leia Organa aboard the Tantive IV above Tatooine. This began the First Extermination of the First Battle of Tatooine (Galactic Civil War). Leia had been trying to contact Kenobi, to ask him to help the Rebel Alliance resolve the crisis of the Death Star, as she had been instructed by her foster father Bail Prestor Organa, a former compatriot of Kenobi. Leia did not realize the secret Bail and Obi-Wan shared: she was Anakin Skywalker's daughter. As stormtroopers boarded the corvette, she gave the recently received plans for the Death Star to R2-D2, who escaped to the surface of Tatooine with counterpart C-3PO. Moments later, Darth Vader had Leia captured alive, not knowing she was his daughter.

Vader, the former Anakin Skywalker, had Commander Nahdonnis Praji's stormtroopers, placed under the command of Brenn Tantor and Grand General Malcor Brashin, scour the planet for the droids, ignoring the protests of local Governor Tour Aryon. The droids were captured by Jawas and purchased by Owen Lars, but R2-D2 ran away seeking Obi-Wan Kenobi. Luke Skywalker and C-3PO gave chase. They were attacked by Tuskens, but rescued by Kenobi, who emulated the sound of Tatooine's vicious monsters, the Krayt Dragons. The Tuskens were scared off but would soon return in greater numbers. Obi Wan began to teach Luke about the Jedi, although hiding the truth about his father, making him think that Anakin Skywalker had been murdered by Darth Vader. He gave Luke a lightsaber that had belonged to Anakin.

Meanwhile, the Imperial search party, following the droids' trail, had slaughtered the Tuskens who had attacked Luke and used their banthas to disguise their tracks as those of a Tusken raiding party. They attacked the sandcrawler which had rescued R2-D2 and C-3PO, interrogating and killing the Jawas. They proceeded to Lars' Homestead, where they interrogated and murdered Owen and Beru. The Imperials also ran into a local Rebel cell in the Dune Sea, beginning a brutal skirmish, with the Empire triumphing. The Imperials blockaded Tatooine to prevent the droids from escaping, and began a thorough search of Mos Eisley. This led into a second skirmish with some of the inhabitants.

In Mos Eisley, however, Kenobi and Luke hired Han Solo and Chewbacca to take them to Alderaan with the droids. Solo's Millennium Falcon fled Mos Eisley and broke the Imperial blockade. The Empire had had enough, and they began a brutal pacification campaign, murdering anyone who showed their face. Hidden Rebel troops coupled with Mos Eisley citizens tried to resist but were soon overrun.

Either in conjunction with the above events or shortly afterward two Rebel X-wings piloted by Rookie One and Ru Murleen took out a portion of the AT-ST garrison stationed in Mos Eisley. Turning their sights skyward, the pair then led an only partially successful attack on the Star Destroyer Devastator still in orbit around the planet. Though the Devastator was heavily damaged, both Rebel pilots abandoned their target in order to pull back to the Rebel base on Yavin 4 in time for the Battle of Yavin.

Following this disaster, the Empire increased its presence on Tatooine. The Empire introduced Bledsoe's Disease to Tatooine. However, Luke Skywalker, now a Jedi in training and member of the Rebel Alliance, returned to the planet and destroyed the Imperial garrison after kidnapping Dr. Bledsoe himself, from whom Luke acquired the antidote to the disease.

Some time between 0 ABY and 4 ABY, C-3PO and R2-D2 returned to Tatooine with a Rebel agent and Holocam E to destroy a hidden Assassin Droid factory of the Empire by infiltrating a Jawa Sandcrawler. They succeeded in turning all the Imperial IG-model Assassin Droids into harmless dancing droids.

In 4 ABY, Boba Fett brought Han Solo, frozen in carbonite, to Jabba's Palace, and collected his bounty. Luke returned to Tatooine to rescue Han. Before undertaking the endeavor, he built a new lightsaber, the one Kenobi gave him having been lost on Bespin. Luke, Leia, Lando Calrissian and the droids infiltrated Jabba's Palace and freed Han Solo from the carbonite, but the Skywalker siblings and Han were captured. Jabba tried to feed Luke and Han to the Sarlacc at the Great Pit of Carkoon, but they turned the tables on him. Han accidentally sent Boba Fett into the Pit and Leia strangled Jabba to death with a chain, as Luke battled the Hutt's many guards with his new lightsaber. After having successfully destroyed Jabba's barge, Luke and his friends left for their rendezvous with the Rebel Alliance.

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NEW REPUBLIC:
After the Battle of Endor, Emperor Sate Pestage built a redoubt on Tatooine called Eidolon Base, although he never used it. Eidolon Base was later discovered by the New Republic's Rogue Squadron. Commander Wedge Antilles gave Elscol Loro many of the weapons stored in Eidolon Base. Elscol left Rogue Squadron and used the weapons to create an independent guerilla movement which liberated worlds from the Imperial Remnant. Rogue Squadron also returned to Tatooine to purchase weapons from Gavin Darklighter's uncle (Huff Darklighter) during the Bacta War, when Rogue Squadron was working independent of the New Republic.

As the homeworld of Luke Skywalker, Tatooine became something of a tourist trap as a member of the New Republic.

In 8 ABY, following her marriage to Han Solo, Leia Organa Solo traveled to Tatooine to retrieve the Alderaanian moss-painting Killik Twilight and the Shadowcast key hidden within it. There, she discovered her grandmother Shmi's diary and, with the help of her father's childhood friends Kitster and Wald, discovered her father wasn't the evil monster she thought he was and learned to forgive him.

In 12 ABY, the Eye of Palpatine stopped at the planet and, failing to find the stormtroopers it was looking for, took onboard a number of Tusken Raiders and Jawas whom it tried (with no success) to brainwash into being Imperials. That same year, Luke Skywalker and Han Solo searched Jabba's palace, and discovered that the Hutts were planning to build a superweapon.

In 14 ABY, Jaden Korr of the New Jedi Order visited the planet twice while investigating a mysterious Sith Cult known as the Disciples of Ragnos. The first time Jaden visited Tatooine was when a moisture farmer overheard a group of smugglers talking about a Sith cult in a bar and had his R5 droid record the conversation. Unfortunately, he became afraid and sold the droid to some Jawas before leaving Tatooine. Jaden went to Tatooine and got a hold of that droid before the Jawas wiped its memory and returned to the Academy.

The second time it was to investigate some mercenary activity. Arriving in Mos Eisley, the Raven's Claw and the Millennium Falcon were trapped by tractor beams under the control of the cultists. Jaden released the ships with the help of Chewbacca.

In 22 ABY, Jedi trainees Anakin Solo and Tahiri Veila traveled to the planet after Tahiri's foster Tusken Raider father Sliven demanded that she return. All her life, she had been raised by a Tusken tribe without knowing her true parents. That day had come but first she had to prove that she was worthy of knowing.

She and Anakin would use the Force as they never had which included fighting a deadly krayt dragon and surviving the harsh Dune Sea. In the end, both Jedi prevailed and Tahiri learned that her parents were Tryst and Cassa Veila and that they had accidentally been killed during a Tusken raid on their moisture farm. Following that, the duo returned to Yavin IV and freed the trapped Massassi souls within the Golden Globe.

During the time of the New Republic, Tatooine experienced a cycle of harsh sandstorms that damaged and destroyed several Human settlements.

GALACTIC ALLIANCE:
After the Yuuzhan Vong destroyed all life on Nal Hutta and Nar Shaddaa in 26 ABY, the Hutts and the resistance movement adopted Tatooine as their new homeworld in 28 ABY. During the war, Tatooine became a center of commerce due to the Yuuzhan Vong leaving it alone. By 29 ABY the Hutts returned to Nal Hutta and reclaimed the planet and the resistance movement returned its operations of its original world during the early anarchist era of Hutt Space.

SECOND GALACTIC EMPIRE:
Darth Krayt's Galactic Empire kept only a small presence on Tatooine. Small garrisons were kept in Anchorhead, Mos Eisley and Mos Espa.[12] The former palace of Gardulla the Hutt served as Imperial Station Bravo, Moff Nieve Gromia's headquarters. Sometime after his victory over Darth Krayt, Cade Skywalker landed on the planet as a fugitive.

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GEOLOGY, GEOGRAPHY, FLORA AND FAUNA:
Tatooine is thought to have been one of the oldest planets in known space and was composed of a molten core with a rocky mantle and silicate rock crust. Fossil records suggest Tatooine was once covered in large oceans, which dried up, leaving behind many geological formations including Beggar's Canyon, formed around 2,000,000 BBY. Other notable geological features included the Dune Sea, an enormous desert, Mushroom Mesa, a vast formation of giant standing stones, and the Jundland Wastes, a rocky region.

Because Tatooine orbited two suns, Tatoo I and Tatoo II, the planet was covered in deserts and rock formations, while the days were extremely arid and bright, especially during double noon. In fact, it was so brightly lit by the suns from space it could appear to be a star itself. This was the case for the people who discovered Tatooine as they first thought Tatooine was in fact a star until they approached and discovered that it was a desert planet. Due to the extreme conditions, only a relatively mild region of its northern hemisphere was habitable, and less than 1% of the planet was covered in surface water. The average humidity level was 5.4%.

POPULATION:
The inhabitants of Tatooine included many different species from many parts of the universe, as can be seen in the multiple bars and cantinas in the cities. Most creatures on the planet loved to gamble on nearly everything, especially podracing, though the sport declined after the rise of the Empire. This may attest to the fact that the planet has long been controlled by the Hutts. Human natives of the planet often had unusual sounding last names, such as Fardreamer, Sandskimmer, Darklighter, and Skywalker.

Fauna
Despite the planet's extreme aridity, many forms of life thrived on Tatooine; flora included the razor moss, funnel flowers, deb-debs, and Hubba gourds. Non-sentient life indigenous to Tatooine included:
   
Anooba, Bantha, Bonegnawer, Cu-Pas, Desert Wampa, Dewback, Eopie, Galoomp, Ibian, Jerba, Krayt Dragon, Kreetle, Massif, Mynock (possible non-canon), Rill, Rock Wart, Ronto, Sandbat, Sandjigger, Sandswimmer, Sandworm, Sarlacc, Scalt, Scurrier, Scyk, Sevorrt, Sketto, Squill, Urusai, Womp rat, Woodoo, Worrt, Wraid.