In The Empire Strikes Back, Luke Skywalker meets Yoda on the swampy planet of Dagobah, but he’s in exile there, it’s not believed to be his home world. The Mandalorian found The Child, aka Baby Yoda, on a desert planet called Arvala-7 that looked a lot like Luke’s childhood home of Tatooine.

Luke Skywalker was a Tatooine farmboy who rose from humble beginnings to become one of the greatest Jedi the galaxy has ever known. Along with his friends Princess Leia and Han Solo, Luke battled the evil Empire, discovered the truth of his parentage, and ended the tyranny of the Sith.

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But the Star Wars films’ Tatooine—best known as Luke Skywalker’s home planet—has firm roots here on Earth. It was in Tunisia that director George Lucas and his crew filmed many iconic scenes from Luke and Darth Vader’s childhoods, and the film sets remain an important part of Tunisian heritage today.

Due to Anakin’s fall to the dark side of the Force and transformation to Darth Vader, Luke was raised on Tatooine by his uncle and aunt, Owen and Beru Lars (Anakin’s step-brother and step-sister-in-law), while Leia was raised by Bail and Breha Organa on Alderaan.

To protect the children from the Empire and Anakin, the now-Sith Lord Darth Vader, Obi-Wan Kenobi personally sent the infant Luke to live with Anakin’s stepbrother Owen Lars and his wife Beru on the planet Tatooine, while Senator Bail Organa agreed to adopt Leia together with his wife, the queen of Alderaan.

Luke Skywalker in Legends is the strongest Jedi in galactic history, second only to the literal Gods. His power has long surpassed both the Jedi and Sith combined, and he remains unrivaled.

Tatooine (/ˌtætuˈiːn/) is a fictional desert planet that appears in the Star Wars space-opera franchise….

Uncle and surrogate parent of Luke Skywalker in A New Hope, Owen and his wife, Beru, are killed by stormtroopers at their home on Tatooine. In the prequel films, Owen is the son of Cliegg Lars and stepbrother of Anakin Skywalker. He and his wife Beru take custody of Luke at the end of Revenge of the Sith.

Peli Motto was a human female who ran Hangar 3-5 in Mos Eisley spaceport on the planet Tatooine during the reign of the New Republic.

When the planet Tatooine was introduced in the first Star Wars film, Luke Skywalker insisted it was one of the most remote worlds in the galaxy. ” Well, if there’s a bright center to the universe, ” he declared, ” You’re on the planet that it’s farthest from.

―Luke Skywalker, to C-3PO — Listen (file info) Tatooine was a sparsely inhabited circumbinary desert planet located in the galaxy’s Outer Rim Territories. It was the homeworld to the influential Anakin and Luke Skywalker, who would go on to shape galactic history.

Tatooine is most famous as the homeworld of Anakin Skywalker and his son Luke, who would each become Jedi Knights and shape the history of the galaxy in different ways. But while they are the planet’s most famous practitioners of the Force, according to Legends canon, they are not the first.

Tatooine is the safest place for him because he knows that the Guild no longer has a presence there.