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    Mos Eisley Cantina

    The Mos Eisley cantina is a dimly-lit tavern known for its strong drinks, hot tunes, and occasional outbreaks of shocking violence. Most star pilots visiting Tatooine spend their downtime in the cantina, making it an ideal spot to hire a starship's crew.

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Appearances
  • Star Wars: A New Hope (Episode IV)
  • Star Wars: The Mandalorian
  • Star Wars: The Clone Wars
Affiliations
  • Figrin D'an and the Modal Nodes

History

 Patrons of Mos Eisley Cantina, including Asajj Ventress

In the last years of the Republic, the Mos Eisley cantina was already infamous as a hangout for Hutt hirelings, bounty hunters, freighter bums and down-on-their-luck spacers of all descriptions. In its dim confines a traveler could avoid both Tatooine’s heat and unwelcome questions about the past. But the cantina’s patrons knew to watch their backs – many an encounter in the shadowy bar ended with a spasm of violence and a body on the floor.

Luke Skywalker at Mos Eisley Cantina

The cantina’s bad reputation had grown worse by the time of the Empire, with thugs of all species calling the dusty watering hole their home away from home. But the cantina was also a favorite stopping place for star pilots looking to run cargo or arrange a charter – which is why Obi-Wan Kenobi visited the bar with Luke Skywalker. Obi-Wan hoped to find a star pilot who’d bring him, the boy and Princess Leia’s droids to Alderaan, without asking a lot of questions. Within the crowd of aliens, Obi-Wan and Luke would cross paths with Han Solo and Chewbacca, down-on-their-luck smugglers destined to become rebel heroes.

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      Creature Cantina

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      Captain of the Millennium Falcon

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      Cantina Rescue

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Mos Eisley Cantina History Gallery

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    • During the Clone Wars, Pantora’s Chairman Papanoida and his son Ion followed the trail of the cha...
    • Forced into exile after the destruction of her Nightsister clan, Asajj Ventress traveled to Tatoo...
    • Looking for passage to Alderaan, Obi-Wan Kenobi traveled to Mos Eisley with Luke Skywalker and hi...
    • If the idea was to avoid attention, it didn’t go well. First the bartender ordered Luke to have h...
    • Obi-Wan and Luke met with Han Solo and Chewbacca, who agreed to take them to Alderaan aboard the ...
    • Han sent Chewbacca off to get the Falcon ready for space travel, but was intercepted by the lowli...
  • During the Clone Wars, Pantora’s Chairman Papanoida and his son Ion followed the trail of the chairman’s kidnapped daughter Che Amanwe to Tatooine, where she’d been taken by Greedo, a thug working for the Neimoidians. Their hunt led them to the cantina, where the Papanoidas found themselves in a wild firefight with Greedo’s associates.

  • Forced into exile after the destruction of her Nightsister clan, Asajj Ventress traveled to Tatooine to drown her sorrows at the Mos Eisley cantina. She killed a clumsy suitor and attracted the attention of the Trandoshan bounty hunter Bossk, who brought her to meet his boss, the young Boba Fett.

  • Looking for passage to Alderaan, Obi-Wan Kenobi traveled to Mos Eisley with Luke Skywalker and his droids. Obi-Wan knew the cantina was a watering hole favored by expert star pilots who didn’t waste time worrying about whether the jobs they took were entirely legal. Obi-Wan entered the cantina with the confidence of a veteran warrior, but Luke gawked at the variety of alien species in the bar’s dim confines.

  • If the idea was to avoid attention, it didn’t go well. First the bartender ordered Luke to have his droids wait outside, barking that their kind wasn’t served there. Then two alien thugs tried to bully Luke, seeing the farmboy as an easy mark. Obi-Wan tried to calm tensions, but the aliens shoved Luke aside and went for their guns. Given no other choice, Obi-Wan drew his saber and cut them down.

  • Obi-Wan and Luke met with Han Solo and Chewbacca, who agreed to take them to Alderaan aboard the Millennium Falcon. But a departing patron had tipped off Mos Eisley’s stormtroopers to the violence at the cantina. The Imperial troops shouldered their way through the crowd, and the bartender indicated where Obi-Wan and Luke were sitting. The old Jedi and his young protégé found another exit before they could be apprehended.

  • Han sent Chewbacca off to get the Falcon ready for space travel, but was intercepted by the lowlife bounty hunter Greedo, who sought to collect the debt Han owed to the crimelord Jabba the Hutt. Greedo was eager to prove himself by killing Han, but he failed to keep an eye on the smuggler’s hands. Han fired at Greedo from under the table, killing the luckless thug.

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