Hey everybody and welcome to Leia’s Lair.
Today’s video marks the continuation of a series we are trying out about the most
famous planets in canon.
The planet we will be going over today is Tatooine.
Tatooine was a sparsely inhabited circumbinary desert planet located in the galaxy's Outer
Rim Territories.
It had 2 suns, Tatoo I and Tatoo II, and 3 moons, Ghomrassen, Guermessa and Chenini.
It had a population of about 200,000.Tatooine had a hot and arid climate.
Part of a binary star system, the planet was oppressed by scorching suns, resulting in
the world lacking the necessary surface water to sustain large populations.
As a result, many residents of the planet instead drew water from the atmosphere via
moisture farms.
The whole planet was covered in harsh deserts, and only a small part of its northern hemisphere
could sustain intelligent life.The landscape was covered with sand dunes, mountains, and
canyons, which made traversing the planet very difficult.
Due to the planet's dangerously high daytime temperature and whipping sandstorms, most
residents of Tatooine kept their skin covered with practical materials that wick away sweat
and limit exposure to the harmful ultraviolet radiation of the twin suns.
Tatooine had only a few port cities, including Mos Espa and Mos Eisley.
These cities were separated from each other by large expanses of deserts and tended to
attract many criminals and low-lifes.
The standard of living in the cities was often poor.
Slavery, while banned through Republic laws, was readily and blatantly practiced on Tatooine.
An entire section of Mos Espa was purposed as a Slave Quarter.
On Tatooine, at least, the institution of slavery was seen as a socioeconomic symbol
of wealth and prestige, resulting in highly protective owners who reluctantly parted with
their possessions.
Used as capital in business transactions, nearly all slavery operations were overseen
by the Hutt Clan, who maintained a presence on Tatooine.
Jabba the Hutt owned a palace in the desert at least by the time of the Clone Wars until
his death shortly before the Battle of Endor.
Points of interest on Tatooine included Ben’s Mesa, a flat-topped mountain, Beggars Canyon,
a dry river bed that cut through Ben's Mesa, the Dune Sea, a vast stretch of desert, Ebe
crater valley, which was part of the Boonta eve classic podrace, the Great Chott salt
flat, a dry expanse of a hard-packed fusion of clay and sodium-rich sand, the Great Pit
of Carkoon, home to the sarlacc, and Chalum’s Spaceport Cantina, also known as the Mos Eisley
cantina, a drinking and dining establishment located in Mos Eisley.
Tatooine was home to a variety of different flora and fauna.
Flora included the black melon, the lamta, and the pallie to name a few.
Fauna included the carnivorous krayt dragons, which were the largest on the planet, the
common bantha, the eopie species, the sarlacc, along with dewbacks, rontos, womp rats, massiffs
and scurriers to name a few.
Tatooine was the homeworld to the Jawa and Tusken Raider species.
Jawas were a sentient species of meter-tall humanoids.
They were passionate scavengers, combing the deserts of Tatooine for droids or scraps which
they would capture and sell to the local residents, forming a codependent circle of trade.
Tusken raiders, also known as sand people, were a culture of nomadic, primitive sentients.
They were known to be extremely xenophobic and territorial of their native resources,
often attacking the outskirts of smaller settlements.
The most notable characters to hail from Tatooine were Anakin Skywalker and Luke Skywalker,
both who would go on to shape galactic history.
Others characters who called Tatooine their homeworld included Cobb Vanth, Shmi Skywalker,
Owen Lars, Beru Lars, Cliegg Lars, and Biggs Darklighter to name a few.
There were many other characters throughout the saga who spent time on Tatooine as well.
Interested in learning about which planet you would come from, check out one of my many
quizzes here.
And there you have it!
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