THE TUSKEN RAIDER

THE TUSKEN RAIDER OF TATOOINE

Fierce nomads of Tatooine, the Sand People or Tusken Raiders prowl areas like the Dune Sea and the Jundland Wastes, blending invisibly into the landscape.  Masters of the desert, they survive where no one else can, protected from the suns by heavy clothing.  There savage and violent ways pit them against the moisture farmers and settlers in lonely, remote lands.  They usually stay away from towns and cities, but in the dead of the hot season, Raiders emerge from the wastes after the twin suns set to scavenge or steal from the edges of settlement zones.  It is best to lock up tight at night - Sand People almost never come into a house but they will slay a lone resister outside

Even before the first settlers landed on Tatooine, Tusken Raiders, or Sand People, found themselves surrounded by conflict.  Native womp rats, krayt dragons, jawas, even other