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Fort Tusken

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this was the second settlement founded on Tatooine during the modern era, nearly 100 years before the Battle of Yavin. Situated on the northern edge of the Jundland Wastes, just northwest of Mos Eisley, it survived until a group of Sandpeople attacked it some 95 years before the Battle of Yavin. It was abandoned afterwards, and the Sandpeople were given the nickname of Tusken Raiders because of the attack. They were also forever marked as bloodthirsty savages by the human settlers of Tatooine, even though a similar attack never occurred again. During the height of the Galactic Civil War, a group of moisture farmers and mercenaries was able to briefly retake Fort Tusken from the Sandpeople, but word of the fighting reached other clans. In swift measure, the Sandpeople recaptured the fort in a bloody battle.