The history of the Late Republic Era on Tatooine is poorly documented, like so many planets in the Outer Rim, although Dr. Moss Benetto of the University of Mos Espa (Anchorhead Campus) has been running field schools every winter season for the last five years in the Jundland Wastes, in collaboration with the F!ting Clan of De-yan (formerly referred to as "Tusken" peoples, although the De-yan never used the name for themselves, as De-yan means The People).
These field schools, which admit students from multiple off-planet universities as well as native (settler) and De-yan, have excavated multiple village and camp sites in the region, developing an ethnography of hunting practices and folkways that had been lost to the De-yan.
However the most recent discoveries have necessitated a striking change in protocol, and Dr. Benetto has requested assistance from the Tatooine Enforcement Bureau and the Outer Rim Forensics Institute. Dr. Benetto's team of undergraduate and graduate students, working long days in the winter sun, have discovered a mass grave, containing as many as thirty individuals, and early research indicates that at least several of the individuals may have been killed by a lightsaber.
Historical data, incomplete as it is, does not record any major military action on Tatooine during the Clone Wars or the Galactic Civil Wars which followed. Further archaeological research may reveal more about who these people were and how they died.
Press Release (Draft), for release, University of Mos Espa
These field schools, which admit students from multiple off-planet universities as well as native (settler) and De-yan, have excavated multiple village and camp sites in the region, developing an ethnography of hunting practices and folkways that had been lost to the De-yan.
However the most recent discoveries have necessitated a striking change in protocol, and Dr. Benetto has requested assistance from the Tatooine Enforcement Bureau and the Outer Rim Forensics Institute. Dr. Benetto's team of undergraduate and graduate students, working long days in the winter sun, have discovered a mass grave, containing as many as thirty individuals, and early research indicates that at least several of the individuals may have been killed by a lightsaber.
Historical data, incomplete as it is, does not record any major military action on Tatooine during the Clone Wars or the Galactic Civil Wars which followed. Further archaeological research may reveal more about who these people were and how they died.