hey everyone i hope you're going to enjoy this video where we got 10
interesting facts about tuscan raiders number one mutant tuscans
all the way back from the second 1975 draft of star wars
the name tusken has existed they were mentioned as being part of the empire
soldiers by the third draft they had become the desert natives that rode on
giant panthers also known as sand people they were
designed by ralph mcquarrie who considered them to be mutated humanoids
which is why he gave them the goggles mouthpieces and
filters that they wore as a consequence of those mutations
from breaking mules did sound designer ben bert discover the tuscan raiders
distinctive whales which made the desert dwellers even more
frightening when they attacked luke number two they got much more respect
than the prequels though the original trilogy gave us a memorable introduction
to the tuscans they only made one appearance in any of
the first three films it was first in the prequels the
mysterious species was given a more significant contribution to play
we saw them shooting at the pod racers during the boon to eve classic on
tatooine in the phantom menace then of course there was the tuscan
raider tribe that anakin skywalker slaughtered
which was such a pivotal moment in the young jedi's turn to the dark side of
the force in attack of the clones though they
aren't physically present in revenge of the sith
palpatine does bring the tuscan raiders up to anakin after he decapitated count
dooku on general grievous's dreadnought the
invisible hand the dark lord wanted to remind the jedi
about his murder of the sand people and their tribe after what they did to
his mother number three they are a warrior culture one of the
tuscan tribes was led by a skilled marksman and hunter
who did not fear the technology of tatooine settlers
the great warrior's name was auror seriously u r o r r u r
apostrophe r apostrophe r even though he was their
chieftain he still led his clan directly in raids against moisture farmers for
their water and scouted the june land wastes for any
wayward travelers to dispense with his bentha had also a special name
r rr apostrophe you are apostrophe r try to say it for yourself he had been
the alpha male of his herd before it had been taken in by the tribe the banthas
were very precious to the tuscans and they were tended to by the ruer
who was also an authority on how to use the tuscan's traditional
gederfie stick he was the tuscan who attacked and almost
killed and startled luke skywalker then there was the tribe's wild card
a tuscan the other members considered to rash
he was a very aggressive warrior who tended to wander far off their tribal
territory all the way to moscesba just to raid
some moisture farmers then again he also liked talking to his
gaddafi stick so who knows regardless his behavior made
the tribe think he was too unreliable for leadership
number four why they actually hate pod racing the reason they shot at the pod
racers during the boon to eve classic was because the moss espa grand arena
had been engineered around one of their sacred rocks
tim toe pagalis probably saying that wrong sorry tuscans out there
but the vechnoid pod racer paid the price for his sacrilege
when the tuscan managed to shoot him down fun bonus fact here the name tuscan
raider is actually first mentioned in episode 1 the phantom menace back in
a new hope they were just called sand people
number five i come in peace the book the galactic phrase book and travel
guide teaches that the standard greeting for peace that tuscans give each other
is yaya however when you say that greeting
it's best if you lower your pitch as much as possible
so let's try it again yeah yeah okay i'm gonna sound like an idiot here
but if i didn't butcher it too badly it should mean i come in peace
is i surrender among the few beings in the galaxy that ever really tried to
communicate with the tuscan raiders was anthropologist maman hule a male
shido who was also a geneticist now he was trying to escape the guilt from a
past mistake and he managed to infiltrate a tuscan
clan and study their culture number six how they got
their names in legends their name comes from
fort tuscan an early old republic mining settlement situated on tatooine
the sand people overwhelmed the settles within fort
and either captured or killed everyone inside and from that moment on
people started to refer to them as tuscan raiders but what they called
themselves may actually be gorfas but it's still
unclear regardless the desert nomads might also
share common ancestry with the jawas it appears that both native tatooine
species evolved from the technology advanced kumumga
who were wiped out by the rakata long ago number seven
they had female leaders a female tuscan chieftain
named was the aunt of asharadhet the jedi tuscan raider turned sith lord
darth great she had just one eye but had replaced
the missing one with a red crystal several encounters with ben kenobi and
warned her tribe about the powerful shaman during his self-imposed exile
on tatooine she is so far the only female tribal leader that has been
depicted in lore both a warrior and leader in her
old age she ayak pondered about her people's
raiding and pillaging lifestyle number eight
anakin skywalker saves a tuscan now you might be
scratching your head but anakin actually when he was a slave on tatooine
back in episode one was ordered by his owner the toidarian
watto to trade with jawas out in the desert the young boy obeyed but
part way there he and c-3po came across a wounded tuscan anakin ignored the
horror stories he has heard about their kind
and instead helped the injured native keeping him company
anakin stayed at the sand person's side all the way through the night
only to wake up and be greeted by surrounding tuscan raiders
however instead of attacking they collected their hurt tribesmen and
simply left the bewildered anakin behind this whole incident showed anakin's
capacity for good and kindness even for a stranger even
for one he had heard horror stories about
now it's also an iconic foreshadowing of the slaughter that he would enact on one
of their villages years later maybe the wounded tuscan belonged to
that particular tribe the mercy they showed him would be their
downfall but then again they shouldn't have gone after his mother i mean
seriously number nine anakin skywalker kills
tuscans wow big surprise i know but hey i had to throw it in there
speaking of that tuscan village right before the battle of genosis a sand
people clan kidnapped a human moisture farmer shmee
skywalker when her son anakin found her the
tortured woman died in his arms overwhelmed with anger and grief
the jedi padawan gave into his hate and slaughtered the entire village of
tuscans now if you didn't know this in the book
it goes into extensive detail as to how anakin actually did this
he went absolutely insane using for speed
throwing boulders on all of them even the children
and just tapping into the dark side for the first time
years later as vader on a mission in tatooine
for the emperor encountered a camp of tuscans and again
slaughtered all of them with the exception of one tuscan escaping
leaving the village in flames and covered in bodies the sith lord
even decades later still hated the desert drifters number 10 some
tuscans worshipped darth vader that's right you
may have seen a comic that i've covered on this
the sole survivor of vader's wrath was discovered by another clan
of tuscan raiders a short while later distraught and devastated he recounted
to them the horrific events he had witnessed
then he took the other tuscans back to the remains of his village and people
the shaman of the other tribe fearful of angering whatever great demon
had massacred the survivor's entire clan reasoned that darth vader had
clearly wanted all of that village's tuscans to die not
wishing the same fate for his own clanmates
the shaman had the lone survivor tied to a giant
wooden statue made in the likeness of vader
using twigs and branches and set ablaze as a sacrifice for their new god
lord vader hope you enjoyed this top 10 for tuscans and the sand people if you
learned something new let me know in the comments below and if
there's something that i didn't mention that you thought was pretty cool
let me know as well and i'll cover it in another top 10
for the san people part 2. have an awesome rest of your day throw a like on
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