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After Queen Amidala’s starship was damaged escaping the Naboo blockade, Obi-Wan Kenobi searched for a planet where the ship could land without running afoul of the Trade Federation. He and Qui-Gon Jinn chose Tatooine, a lawless world controlled by the Hutts. The ship landed in the desert near Mos Espa, and Qui-Gon, Queen Amidala (disguised as handmaiden Padmé Naberrie), R2-D2 and Jar Jar Binks set off in search of parts to repair the damaged hyperdrive.

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    • After Queen Amidala’s starship was damaged escaping the Naboo blockade, Obi-Wan Kenobi searched for a planet where the ship could land without running afoul of the Trade Federation. He and Qui-Gon Jinn chose Tatooine, a lawless world controlled by the Hutts. The ship landed in the desert near Mos Espa, and Qui-Gon, Queen Amidala (disguised as handmaiden Padmé Naberrie), R2-D2 and Jar Jar Binks set off in search of parts to repair the damaged hyperdrive.
    • Qui-Gon found the parts he needed in a junk shop run by a Toydarian named Watto, whose assistant was Anakin Skywalker, a young slave. But Watto refused to accept Republic credits, and resisted Qui-Gon’s attempt to change his mind by using the Force. Stymied, the Jedi Master departed with his companions.
    • With a dangerous sandstorm approaching, Anakin led Qui-Gon’s party to the house he shared with his mother, Shmi Skywalker. Anakin revealed that he’d secretly built a Podracer from salvaged components, and suggested a way to get the hyperdrive parts from Watto: Qui-Gon could enter Anakin in the next day’s Podrace. If Anakin won, the prize money would be more than enough to pay for the parts.
    • With a dangerous sandstorm approaching, Anakin led Qui-Gon’s party to the house he shared with his mother, Shmi Skywalker. Anakin revealed that he’d secretly built a Podracer from salvaged components, and suggested a way to get the hyperdrive parts from Watto: Qui-Gon could enter Anakin in the next day’s Podrace. If Anakin won, the prize money would be more than enough to pay for the parts.
    • It was a risky plan, but Qui-Gon was convinced that the Force was at work: He’d been meant to meet Anakin, and the boy was meant to help him by winning the race. In the evening, Qui-Gon tested Anakin’s blood and discovered he was strong in the Force. Determined to train Anakin as a Jedi, Qui-Gon made a side bet with Watto: If Anakin won the Podrace, Watto would free him from slavery in exchange for the Podracer.
    • Padmé was horrified to learn that Anakin had never even finished a Podrace, let alone won one. But Qui-Gon trusted the Force. His faith was justified when Anakin bested the Dug Podracer Sebulba, finishing first.
    • Anakin was free, but Watto refused to part with Shmi. Wanting a better life for her son, Shmi urged Anakin to go with Qui-Gon and not to look back. Anakin obeyed, but the pain of being parted from his mother would haunt him as he grew up in the Jedi Order.
    • Qui-Gon and Anakin left Mos Espa for the journey to the queen’s ship. But they were intercepted by the Sith apprentice Darth Maul, who’d tracked Amidala to Tatooine. As Anakin raced to get help, Qui-Gon and Maul crossed lightsabers in a furious duel.
    • A decade after leaving Tatooine, Anakin began to have nightmares that his mother was in peril. He returned to the desert planet with Padmé and visited Watto’s shop. The Toydarian junk dealer said he no longer owned Shmi – a moisture farmer named Cliegg Lars had bought her and married her.
    • Anakin and Padmé traveled to the Lars farm, where Anakin met Cliegg Lars, his son Owen and Owen’s girlfriend Beru Whitesun. Cliegg said Shmi had been kidnapped by Tusken Raiders a month earlier, and urged Anakin to accept that his mother was dead.
    • Anakin, however, knew Shmi was still alive – he could sense her in the Force. He borrowed a swoop from Owen and set off across the desert plains to search for her.
    • Anakin found his mother in a Tusken camp, near death from ritual torture. When she died in his arms, Anakin succumbed to his rage and pain. He ignited his lightsaber and slaughtered the Tuskens.
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