In order to uphold his promise to safeguard the young Luke Skywalker from harm, Kenobi conceals his identity and goes by the alias “Ben” while his fellow soldiers are being relentlessly pursued across the galaxy by Darth Vader and his Inquisitors. Jedi Knight Obi-Wan Kenobi stays hidden in the Dune Sea of Tatooine for the first 19 years following the destruction of the Jedi Order. When the Empire is decimated in the Battle of Endor a short while later, the people of Mos Eisley throng to the streets to celebrate their newfound freedom, thus they don’t seem very distraught at the death of their de facto mayor. (The Dowager Queen appears in every version of A New Hope, but the Legends video game Star Wars Galaxies elaborates on its past.)Īs Mos Eisley develops, it turns into a seedy spaceport community known as a “wretched hive of filth and villainy.” Even though Darth Vader must show some homage to crime lord Jabba Desilijic Tiure, also known as Jabba the Hutt, until Jabba’s passing in the year 4 ABY, the Galactic Empire actually governs over all of Tatooine after the fall of the Republic. The Dowager Queen continues to be embedded at an angle in the sand, where it is turned into a hotel and becomes one of the most famous sights in the city.
The survivors establish Eisley, which they later rename Mos Eisley in observance of the customs of older Tatooine cities like Mos Espa. The Kumumgah are thought to have evolved into two distinct species - the Jawas and the Tusken Raiders - in the intervening period between the siege of Tatooine and the events of The Phantom Menace in order to adapt to their new desert environment.Ī colony ship by the name of Dowager Queen crashes lands on Tatooine amid a sandstorm about a century before the Battle of Yavin. Tatooine was bombarded until it turned to glass, which crumbled into sand over decades. The Infinite Empire made an example of the Kumumgah when they resisted being invaded and reduced to servitude.
The vast, technologically sophisticated Infinite Empire became interested in the Kumumgah after they perfected interstellar travel and began colonising adjacent space.
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Tatooine’s transformation into the arid rock that it is now is not explicitly explained in the current, Disney-maintained history of the Star Wars universe, therefore this particular aspect of the tale is still the stuff of legends.Īn ancient race known as the Kumumgah lived on the lush and vibrant Tatooine 25 millennia before the rise of the Galactic Empire, according to information found in the codex of the video game Knights of the Old Republic and the comic book series Dawn of the Jedi: Force Storm (both of which are now apocryphal).
Tatooine originally had forests and oceans, according to the canon reference book Ultimate Star Wars, but some unidentified catastrophe permanently altered the planet’s climate. Tatooine has not always been the hostile desert land that we now know it to be. Tatooine finally discovered its purpose as a shady trading port once it became a centre for the black market. For millennia, the Hutts have used Tatooine as a base for smuggling, gaming, and trafficking in sentient beings. Tatooine’s status as a distant, hostile world with little to offer the Republic or legal commerce is seen favourably by them. By 3641 BBY (the time period in which the MMORPG The Old Republic is set), the backwater world serves as the Hutt Cartel’s operational headquarters. On Tatooine, only one industry appears to have ever prospered: crime. Large enterprises like mining and weapon testing attempt to establish themselves on Tatooine, but these endeavours are never successful. At least four times, the Republic would invade Tatooine before abandoning it.
Tatooine has alternated for millennia between being a sovereign world and a protectorate of the Senate, according to the Knights of the Old Republic narrative. The next attempt by non-Tatooinians to establish the planet was made in 4200 BBY (before to the Battle of Yavin in A New Hope), according to the Wizards of the Coast RPG sourcebook Secrets of Tatooine, but the colony struggled and ultimately failed. The majority of the recorded history of Tatooine before The Phantom Menace is now relegated to Legends canon. Before the timeline was reset, there were several Star Wars stories set in the distant past that focused on efforts to make something of the desiccated planet.
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