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Lars, Cliegg

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originally native to the planet Tatooine, Cliegg left his homeworld for the Core World planet of Ator at a young age, hoping to escape the drudgery of a moisture farmer's life. However, after meeting his wife, Akia, and planning to have a family, Cliegg realized that Ator's cramped cities were no place to raise a family. The birth of his first son, Owen, made Cliegg stop and take inventory of his life. Unfortunately, Akia was killed shortly after Owen's birth, and Cliegg decided to travel back to Tatooine and raise his son on the family farms. Years later, Cliegg fell in love with a slave named Shmi Skywalker. He purchased her freedom, then asked her to marry him. He was elated when she agreed, and they lived for five years in relative bliss. When a group of Tusken Raiders began attacking the outlying moisture farms, Cliegg and Owen did everything they could to protect their homestead. Cliegg purposely underestimated the threat in order to calm Shmi and Owen's girlfriend, Beru Whitesun, but this led to Shmi's leaving the house one morning to pick mushrooms from the moisture vaporators. She was captured by the Tuskens and brutally tortured. Cliegg and Owen, along with nearly thirty neighbors, launched an assault on the Tusken camp. Cliegg was the first to fall in the struggle, his leg severed by a thin wire strung across the dunes. Owen rescued his father and returned, but with only four others from the original raiding party. Clieg healed, but was confined to a hoverchair. Unable to help Shmi, Cliegg was despondent for many weeks, until Anakin Skywalker arrived on Tatooine to search for his mother. Cliegg described the events that led up to Shmi's capture, then allowed Owen to loan a swoop to Anakin. Unfortunately, Anakin returned with Shmi's lifeless body. She had died shortly after being set free, and Anakin executed the entire Tusken clan. Cliegg had Shmi buried in the family plot, beside his parents. When Cliegg himself died years later, Owen buried him next to Shmi, but removed the headstones to ensure that no one would come looking for Shmi's body.