Why SANDCRAWLERS Have a Much More Exciting History than Casual Fans Would Expect

I could see this being a fun video game. Jawa: Sandcrawler. It could be an X-Com style game, where you upgrade the crawler, it's facilities, it's crew, and then of course, your Jawa warriors or explorers or something could go out and fight enemies (like sand people), and gather resources. I can already feel the sweet sweet dopamine hits as I upgrade the Sandcrawler's reactor, or droid repair facility and find undiscovered treasure from the desert...

Little did that one tribe of Jawas knew that they changed the course of the galaxy when selling both R2 and 3-PO to the Lars

Tattoine's first contact wasn't in 5,000 BBY. The planet was a lush jungle planet, teeming with life and cities before it was glassed by the Infinite Empire for participating in the slave races uprising. This is why tattooine is a sandy desert world.

Fun fact: Vader, despite not being a fan of the Death Star, wanted to see that superweapon destroy Tatooine, since he completely despised the desert planet because of how much it made him suffer in his youth. In fact, this dark thought even made him smile under his helmet

My favorite Sandcrawler is the one used by the Czerka Corporation during the Old Sith Wars. The one we see in KOTOR when we visit Tatooine was just IMMENSE

Sandcrawlers are as inconic as the very planet they're commonly featured on as they lumber smongst its many sand dunes. Memorable design

I really love the Sandcrawlers, their designs and functionality were amazing and I enjoyed seeing them in films, TV shows, and games. Czerka Sandcrawlers were definitely the best designed with how huge they were and how awesome they looked.

It's my headcanon that whatever weapons the Rakata used to glass the planet also damaged the metal of that desolate place. With how much they integrated Dark Side force power into everything it might even be some sort of alchemical plague, ancient nanobots that just break down the metal of the planet once they get at it because they were targeted to destroy only it specifically.

love that we have fleshed out so many tiny events that make the 1977 version perfect ..

As kid when I watched SW for the first time I've always wanted to get a ride on one of those bad boys.

Luke: "Uncle Owen and Aunt Beru...they're dead. Just like those Jawas." Obi-Wan: "Oh, the Jawas weren't dead. They were just stunned." C-3PO burning the Jawas: 😳 Obi-Wan: There's nothing you could have done, Luke. Had you been there, you would have been killed, too, and the droids would now be in the hands of the Empire. But look on the bright side." Luke: "The bright Side?" Obi-Wan: "Yes, I'd say this makes you the proud owner of one kick-ass Sandcrawler!" Luke: "Holy crap! Yeah!" Star Wars theme begins to play

Came for the sandcrawlers, stayed around for the UTINI!

I always love the sandcrawlers. When I was a little kid, shortly after the movie came out, someone gave me a cardboard sandcrawler to assemble. It was very flimsy, but for a little kid, it was great.

So Tatooine is Borderlands' Pandora, and Czerksa is the Dahl Corporation. Fascinating.

Can a desert be "torn up"? As soon as there's a breeze-BAM-it's a desert again. Are you implying there was something especially angry and violent about the resource extraction? Were they punching the dirt and saying mean things about it while DIGGING A HOLE?

Tatooine in the past: A beautiful planet full of life and resources Infinite Empire: GAS GAS GAS

i find it interesting that the structure of the sand crawlers is so similar to the biology of the sandworms in Frank Herbert's Dune. both with the fiery inferno at the back, both scoop up raw dessert and process it, and they are both technically a community of individuals with the sandworms being colony organisms. interesting that the sand people and the freemen also have many parallels. nothing new under the sun, but ideas mutate and appear over and over.

Palpatine after he heard of the Sandcrawler: I wanted a giant mobile fortress with the ability to jump to lightspeed of my own to rule this galaxy!

My favorite Sandcrawler-fact will always be how Gaddafi almost attacked a Sandcrawler. You see: In the 1970s, Tunisia and Libya were on the brink of war. At the same time though, George Lucas was shooting "a new hope" in Tunisia. And well … Here's an excerpt of an article from back in the days: "… matters reached high intensity when Libyan made a demand that Tunisia immediately cease its provocative deployment of a massive military vehicle near the border. Gaddafi warned that conflict was inevitable if Tunisia did not comply with his demands at once. The offensive military vehicle in question was a Jawa Sandcrawler. If the demands had come after Star Wars was released, Lucas might have been in a better bargaining position. Since the release of the first installment in the series, Star Wars films have generated more than $10 billion (adjusted for inflation) worldwide. At the time, however, Lucas was more interested in getting the first movie done than he was in taking the battle of good and evil directly to Gaddafi. He quickly agreed to move the Sandcrawler to a less-provocative location."

These anthropological videos on Star Wars lore are awesome!