In the universe ofStar Wars, all roads seem to lead to the next. Tatooine. Serving as the home planet of both at the same time the Chosen One, Anakin Skywalker, and beyond. his son Luke, this planet seems to hide an importance as obvious as it is paradoxically still secret. What if the explanation was to be found? look for the side legends of the saga? /webp”>
Indeed, the non-canonical universe, and so-called Legends, of Star Wars evokes a secret history which links Sith Lords to Sith Lords. Tatooine. Looking into these stories could even help explain some mysteries concerning the origins of this desert planetand its importance for the galaxy.
Tatooine: a planet full of mysteries
What is happening on Tatooine?How can such a desert planet generate so much activity? and attractiveness à through the centuries and the lives of the different protagonists of the saga? Each of the three film trilogies appears there at least once. The series The Mandalorian, The Book of Boba Fett, Obi-Wan, or even the future video game Star Wars Outlawall seem inevitably forced to pass through the dunes of Tatooine.
And yet, the places are not necessarily the most welcoming.The local population is made up of mafiosi, smugglers, particularly aggressive tribes and many monsters of all kinds living both on the surface and under the surface.Living there for too long apparently makes you age significantly accelerated.All you have to do is see the aging that the characters of Obi-Wan, Aunt Beru and Uncle Owen take betweenRevenge of the SithandA New Hope to convince yourself of this.
Although Star Warshas introduced us to places as incredible as Endor or Coruscant, Jedi, Sith, republicans, imperials or inquisitors all end up at home. at one point or another by landing on Tatooine, without us really knowing why yet. However,Star Wars Legends offers the beginnings of an explanation and suggests a dark secret buried on the planet that could help solve the problem. explain a lot of things (at least if this story were to be made canonical again).
The secret link between Darth Plagueis and Anakin Skywalker
Some only months before Disney's takeover of Lucasfilm, was publishedthe novel “Dark Plagueis” by James Luceno. Past a little unnoticed face to face current affairs of the franchise and the reboot of the extended universe, the novel nevertheless taught us more about the secrets of Tatooine. We thus discovered that Palpatine's Sith master himself was directly responsible Podracer races of the Boonta Festivalthat we discover in The Phantom Menace.
Indeed, years before the first prequel film and before that Plagueis took Palpatine as an apprentice, the Sith Lord agreed to secretly finance the creation of the Mos Espa podracing track. In reality, the Lord had a surprising secret partnership with Gardulla the Hutt and thus fueled discord and rivalry between the two. The battle for control of Tatooine continues between Gardulla and the famous Jabba the Hutt. A little to the image of what his student Palpatine/Darth Sidious would do a few decades later, Plagueis acted by displaying his identity. public, Hego Damask,leader of Damask Holdings, which was part of the InterGalactic Banking Clan.
Although this origin « secret » of the Boonta races has not yet been announced. confirmed as official canon,The idea that Darth Plagueis the Wise was born secretly responsible for the creation of what is certainly one of the most dangerous circuits in the galaxy is a rather nice detail. Likewise, the fact that podracing on Tatooine plays a key role in this. in the discovery of the Force's Chosen One (Anakin) makes this little-known connection even more interesting. However, revelations about the Sith Lords and their connections to Tatooine go even further.
Tatooine and the secret history of the ancient Sith
During the negotiations between Plagueis and Gardulla, the mafia promises great returns on investment. his interlocutor via gambling and other more diverse sources of income. As an official member of the InterGalactic Banking Clan, the Sith takes this kind of talk seriously. However, we also discover that Plagueis is keenly aware that Tatooine was once an ancient Sith outpost and that some secrets of the old order must still be buried beneath the sand.
On the other hand and canonically,Tatooine was once full of water and life before an ecological disaster transformed it into a desert planet in the modern era of Star Wars. /em> Perhaps this could be the work of the Sith Lords. It is interesting to note that the novelization of The Rise of Skywalkerconfirms that the Sith were “devastators of worlds, having ravaged once fertile habitats such as Korriban, Ziost, Exegol, Asog and others.” À By this end, Tatooine could very well be a ruined world. by the ancient Sith.
This would also mean that< strong>'Anakin Skywalker himself grew up on a planet containing a confluence on the Earth side. dark
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