Sand dwellers

The sand dwellers (also called raiders or Tusken Raiders, in English: Tusken Raiders or Sand People) are a fictional race from the Star Wars film series created by George Lucas.

Description

Tusk Raiders are portrayed as xenophobic and are known to be highly aggressive in their interactions with other species, though they are capable of engaging and cooperating with outsiders. They are dressed in tunics of thick cloth and have covered their heads with strips of cloth to hold a respiratory mask and eye protection.

Violent nomads of Tatooine, Tusken Raiders or Sand Raiders roam areas like the Dune Sea or the Jundland deserts hidden among the landscape.

These beings are covered from head to toe in bandages and masks that protect them from the two harsh suns of their home planet Tatooine. According to their religious beliefs, it is forbidden to show skin even among members of their own clan. This is why they are covered in tunics and other clothing. women wear a cloak on their heads and children a unisex tunic that makes it impossible to distinguish their sex. They are nomadic and very aggressive.

Their savage and violent behavior has turned them against settlers and moisture farmers, forcing them to live in remote and lonely lands.

They attack anyone who ventures into the dunes of Tatooine. They rarely come near spaceports like Mos Eisley or Mos Espa, but they are always on the outskirts waiting to rob and kill any beings that cross their path. The ferocious Tusken Raiders have been known to attack the camps of others of their race, clearly denoting their hostile, not organized planetary society.

They tend to stay away from populated areas, but in the heat of the seasons, when the twin suns set, they emerge from the deserts to scavenge or rob the borders of colonies.

During the night it is better to close the doors and windows well. Although they almost never enter houses, what they do do is kill those opponents who are alone outside.

The males of their species are in charge of hunting food and attacking, that is, all the arts of war and killing. The women remain in the camps where they care for the uli-ah (young men).

They have learned to train the native Tatooine banthas as mounts, and a marauding group of Tuskens will ride them in single file to hide their numbers. It is known that they develop a very intimate sentimental bond and the loss of one can affect the life of another. The bantha after losing its rider becomes uncontrollable and suicidal; and the inhabitant, after losing his mount, becomes depressed and loses meaning in life.

Appearances

They always appear making their aggressive characteristics highly visible: they attack racepod racers in Episode I, they kidnap and kill Shmi Skywalker, Anakin Skywalker's mother, in Episode II, and in Episode IV they attack Luke Skywalker and try to rob him until they are driven off by the intervention of Obi-Wan Kenobi. In Star Wars Rebels (S3-E20), a group of Tuskens attack Ezra Bridger and Chopper as they land on Tatooine. to search for Kenobi, successfully destroying his ship. However, Ezra and Chopper escape and the inhabitants are killed by Darth Maul.

They appear in The Mandalorian. In the Season 1 episode 'Chapter 5: The Gunslinger', Din Djarin encounters a small group of Tusken Raiders while traveling through his land, seeking a bounty. They are initially hostile until he communicates with them through sign language. He successfully trades a pair of binoculars in exchange for safe passage. In the season 2 episode 'Chapter 9: The Marshal', a clan of denizens join forces with the villagers of Mos Pelgo to slay a krayt dragon.

A tribe of Tusken Raiders appears in several flashbacks in the first three episodes of The Book of Boba Fett, where they find Boba Fett after the latter escaped from the Sarlacc, had his Mandalorian armor and was left for dead. He is initially forced to work as a slave digging black melons in the desert, until he earns his respect and admiration after killing a large sand creature, saving the life of a Tusken boy in the process. Following this, the Tusken Raiders welcome Fett as one of their own, teaching him their combat style and his wilderness survival skills, eventually inducting him into his tribe after he passes a test. In turn, Fett helps the Tuskens raid a Pyke Syndicate spice train that had been raiding his territory, teaching them to ride speeder bikes in the process, and demands that the pykes pay a toll to the tribe before returning to the Tuskens. enter their territory in the future. However, after returning from collecting the toll, Fett discovers that the tribe has been massacred, apparently by the Nikto gang from whom he had stolen the speeder bikes, and arranges an impromptu funeral. In the seventh episode, it is revealed that it was the Pykes who killed the tribe and framed the Nikto gang.