Massiff
native to the deserts of Tatooine, this massiff was a smaller variety of the form found on the planet Geonosis. It was believed that these massiffs were brought to Tatooine by a trading ship from Geonosis, which crashed in a sandstorm some 200 years before the Battle of Geonosis. The surviving massiffs were taken in by the Sandpeople of Tatooine, who raised them as guard dogs and companions. The Tatooine massiff was of little use as a sentry, since it's sensory systems could not adapt to the planet's whirling sands. Many Sandpeople clans which kept massiffs were considered renegades, since the keeping of off-world animals was a major change to time-honored traditions.