The Hutt Clan also maintained a presence on Tatooine, with Jabba the Hutt owning a palace in the desert at least by the time of the Clone Wars until his death shortly before the Battle of Endor. Finding the ore to have unwanted metallurgic properties, mining firms left the planet en masse, leaving behind valuable equipment, most notably large sandcrawlers, which were later used by the Jawa population. Initially inhabited by native Jawa and Tusken Raider species, it saw a population explosion following the search for valuable mining deposits on the planet's silicate surface. The planet also had little surface vegetation. As a result, many residents of the planet instead drew water from the atmosphere via moisture farms. Part of a binary star system, the planet was oppressed by scorching suns, resulting in the world lacking the necessary surface water to sustain large populations. It was the homeworld of Anakin and Luke Skywalker, who would go on to shape galactic history.

Tatooine was a sparsely inhabited circumbinary desert planet located in the galaxy's Outer Rim Territories. ' Well, if there's a bright center to the universe, you're on the planet that it's farthest from.' ―Luke Skywalker, to C-3PO - Listen ( file info)