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    Tusken Raiders

    Tusken Raiders, or Sand People as they are sometimes known, wear abundant clothing to protect themselves from Tatooine’s twin suns. The strong beings pursue a nomadic existence in some of Tatooine’s most desolate regions. They fear little, and make sudden raids on local settlers.

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Appearances
  • Star Wars: The Phantom Menace (Episode I)
  • Star Wars: A New Hope (Episode IV)
  • Star Wars: Attack of the Clones (Episode II)
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  • Star Wars: The Mandalorian
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  • Tusken tribe
Locations
  • Tatooine
Creature
  • Beetle Larva
Weapons
  • Gaderffii Stick
  • Tusken Ballista
Resource
  • Black melon

History

A Tusken Raider camp on Tatooine

Tatooine’s settlers knew to be wary of Tusken Raiders, who hated outlanders and raided settlements, kidnapping or killing their inhabitants. Shmi Skywalker Lars was one of their victims, stolen away from the Lars farm and ritually tortured.

A Tusken Raider aggressively raising it's rifle

A generation after Shmi’s death, her grandson Luke almost lost his life to a party of Tuskens in the Jundland Wastes, escaping when Obi-Wan Kenobi frightened the raiders off by imitating the call of a krayt dragon. 

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    Tusken Raider Attack

    While traveling through the Jundland Wastes of Tatooine on a hunt for R2-D2, Luke Skywalker and C-3PO are attacked by a violent group of Tusken Raiders.

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