Tatooine is a place of lawlessness. When Obi-Wan Kenobi cut off Ponda Baba's arm in the crowded Mos Eisley cantina, there was barely a thirty-second pause before people went back to their drinks.

The sand people of Tatooine shared a spiritual bond with their banthas. Every Tusken child, known as an "Uli-ah," received a young bantha that would be their constant companion. When that young ...