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Lars
In A New Hope, Luke Skywalker lives at the homestead of his uncle, Owen Lars.
 • Timothy Lawrence
Desert Planet, "No Moon," Forest Moon
In A New Hope, the Rebel base is hidden on the fourth moon of Yavin.
 • Robert Brown
Forest Warfare
Across the nine films of the Skywalker Saga, the heroes almost always win their battles when they fight for or launch an attack from a green…
 • Robert Brown and Timothy Lawrence
The Dune Sea
In A New Hope, Luke Skywalker tells C-3PO that Ben Kenobi lives “out beyond the dune sea.” The reference to Tatooine’s desert as a “dune sea” could be a…
 • Timothy Lawrence
Lightsabers in the Sand
At the end of “Part I” of Obi-Wan Kenobi, the exiled Ben Kenobi goes into the desert of Tatooine with a shovel to dig up a wooden chest in which he hid…
 • Robert Brown
Boba of Tatooine
In "The Tribes of Tatooine" (The Book of Boba Fett 1.2), Boba Fett leads a party of Tusken Raiders in a daring attack on a train traveling through the…
 • Timothy Lawrence
Train Raiders
David Lean's 1962 epic Lawrence of Arabia, a key influence on Star Wars, features one of the most iconic train attack scenes in film history.
 • Timothy Lawrence
So Uncivilized!
In the third film of each Skywalker Saga trilogy, a hero travels to a desert planet to pursue an enemy with animal associations: a villain made inhuman…
 • Robert Brown
Pieces of Junk
In the first film of each Skywalker Saga trilogy, the heroes escape from a desert planet thanks to “a piece of junk.”
 • Robert Brown
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