I think the different cultures between the tribes is the right answer here. No reason why a whole planet of Tuskens would be even remotely similar culture-wise. Anakin/Vader and the farmers attacking the more aggressive tribes also makes plenty of sense
I mean considering how far behind even modern human technology the tusken Raiders are there's no reason why they would globally know who Vader is. Though I suppose it just depends
@@startledmilk6670 Not across the entire planet. We rarely had any communication with the Chinese, and never had any with the South Africans until the colonial times. Europe talked with Europe and the middle east as far as Iran, but not much past that, and even then, it was only a few trading nations like Venice that did so.
@@volatile100 you realize that China was purposely not talking to anyone right? And “South Africans” is not an appropriate term only for the whites that colonized the area. There was never an African that identified as “South African” African countries were literally drawn up randomly by European powers. And yes the colonial powers had CONSTANT communication with their home country due to many purposes of colonization to extract resources and send them back to their home country. Many African tribal groups were just chillin in Africa until Europeans came, there were African kingdoms that were aware and communicated with Europe though. If someone wanted to communicate with someone else thousands of miles away they could, if the messenger wasn’t killed.
@@startledmilk6670 Well sorry for not naming the hundreds of Bantu tribes that never had contact with Europe before colonization happened. Sure, the Mali and Ethiopians traded with Europe, but the Zulu never did. And China purposely didn't? No shit. They had no reason to, and that doesn't change my point that we had little to no contact with China.
It is possible that the reason why kryat dragons are killed as a rite of passage is because they become dangerous when they grow larger. The idea is to constantly kill the small ones before they get too big and start acid spitting all over the village.
@@winterleia9027 Yeah I also agree, because of the lack of resources Kryat dragons are usually pretty small and theyre mostly sleeping in hibernations until they get disturbed by something big that sounds like food. An explanation to why it could''ve got that big is because that Kryat was harrasing that town and the tuskens long enough to grow that big, I dont know if they ever specified how long it was around for or not but that could be a answer. Tho one thing I noticed with the The Mandolorian, like with the 3rd trilogy, they made it quite theatrical large scale sort of stylish events more than the actual story at times which I found a bit dissapointing but I still enjoyed it.
Yeah in the comic books a jedi who was assimilated into a tribe had a son and when he came to age he had to kill a krayt, they are like 2 or 3 banthas put together when it came to size but yeah maybe the one in the Mandolorian was just really really old, and even then though it kinda doesn't make sense cuz the comic krayt dragon has legs, the one we saw was just a big snake, overall i think they just made the krayt dragon in to something more exciting to go with the plot of the villagers an tuskens coming together to defeat a insanely powerful beast but still, could have had the krayt the way it was portrayed In the comics an it would have been a fantastic battle scene ya know an it just would have made way more sense when it came to the tuskens lore
@@winterleia9027 Well in Legends Obi-Wan fought a Krayt Dragon that was between 50 and 60 meters, which is between 164 feet and 197 feet, and it was considered to be a very large Krayt Dragon, guessing what we saw in the show was similar, most ones are probably between 10 and 20 meters when the Tusakans hunt them, still large but not impossible to kill with a rifle.
In Kotor you will encounter 2 different tribes of Tuskan raiders. One is very hostile while the other is willing to communicate with you for safe passage out of the area.
Actually I think they were both the same tribe. Sand people don’t like to talk to outsiders. So having a droid actually helps to survive your first if not last encounter with sand people.
Yeah but you only interact with the other tribe once, the first one attacks you on sight unless you wear a disguise and use HK, and even them do anything that annoys them slighty and they will immediatly try to murder you, and you can't convince them to 100% stop attacking the settlers.
@@jedipadwan20 if you talk to the Krayte dragon hunter he will tell you that there are two tribes. One is more open to negotiation than the other. Disguised or no.
According to the Yassa, the law of Genghis Khan, polluting the water will upset the sacred dragon that produced water for them. I don't know if the Tusken Raiders have the same set of oral laws similar to the Yassa or not. But if they do, it could be a good reason why they behaved the way they did. They are not actually xenophobic but simply despised the specific beliefs only.
In the book "Kenobe" there is a quite long history of the Sand People and their beginnings and customs. It even contains mentions of a Jedi who once came to live among them, how they adopted others into their ranks, how some would bind stones into their wrappings to punish themselves for failures, and even a legend of a demon that wiped out a whole tribe in a single night. They are not that primitive. And they merely have a lifestyle closer to our own Amish who are educated and advanced but who shun some technologies that take away from their basic lifestyle.
@@beph13 I would guess it was about Anakin's rampage in Attack of the Clones since pretty sure the book is set before the battle of Yavin since it's about Kenobi
Several times in the comics Obi-Wan is shown to beat up some sandmen. I think they know about space wizards, they just worship the violence and power to kill of Vader.
There was a skeleton of a Kryat dragon in A New Hope. When CP3O is wandering alone just before he is picked up by the Jawas, he walks past the skeleton. So we had some idea of their size even if we never saw a live one.
@@danielburke911 It May be different in the book but the Fremen are no way near the Tusken Raiders, the closest they have is that they both like and need water very much. However the Fremen are more technologically advance, they are confirmed human looking and are also very willing to work with other cultures. Tusken Raiders like the video said, are mostly Xenophobic, their most advance tech is their slug cycler, and you know...were not meant to be sympathized with when first made? “But they both like water! Clearly they are the same I mean just look at them! There aren’t similar looking things that people from Deserts might wear and might need to a very obsessive level on a planet with no water!”
Mandos and Tuskens are both bands of warriors who respect strength and combat, and yes in the case of the Children of the Watch they also don’t show their faces like the Tuskens.
Wouldn't be surprised if the two cultures mutually respected each other with their similar customs however as pointed out in other comments, tusken raider tribes and clans have varying cultures and traditions from one another which might also play a huge roll
That's a good theory. Initially the Tusken Raiders were a plot device. With The Mandalorian, they have become fleshed and multi-demensional. I like the change.
They were fleshed out in the expanded universe. They were actually were a lot more friendlier in the past but after a tribe was betrayed and wiped out by a group off worlders the raiders began to despise outsiders.
Hell no, it's not until the Mando we see someone who tries to talk instead of immediately trying to kill them. Lets not forget they've let humans join their tribe before. Also generally tribes have multiple villages so most likely he didn't kill the whole tribe in either attack, and it's not like Jabba and othe rsttlers hadn't been destroying villages for decades...
There was a single tribe that once allowed a human speak with them out of sheer confusion and bewilderment at a machine barking their words back at them. If their oral history is as strict as they stated back then, it could have been the ground work for young tusken historians to dream of later down the line of predecessors, as they were told of the crimson machine and human wanderer who gave them water.
For the Tusken's raid in the phantom menace, the sw encyclopedia book said that the vallee the contesters are riding on is sacred for them: they didn't attack blindly, for Anakin's mother no clue: be aware that some TR tribes are more agressive than other (the Skywalkers have a problem with the Tuskens X) ironic knowing that Anakin saved one when he was a small kid)
Oh yeah one of the ways that the tusken Raiders are able to hunt krayt dragons is apparently the fact that krayt dragons have a weakness a soft spot above their nostrils on their snout and if you manage to get a successful shot off at the weak spot with your slug rifle it would drop the krayt dragon immediately, I know tuskens were known to have heavily modified slugthrowers to increase accuracy and take shots up to a mile away so this test was probably to determine their skill and accuracy with a slug-thrower
Since there are multiple tribes of Tusken Raiders, some are probably friendlier than others. I think Obi-Wan actually befriended one tribe in a Legends book, though I can't remember the name...
This. They cover an entire planet and are likely very diverse. Different tribes presumably have different cultures and levels of aggressiveness, just like in real life. Heck, even non-tribal groups have major regional and even local differences: For example, there’s a huge difference between, say, the culture of Philadelphia and the Amish just a short distance away, or even between the different neighborhoods of New York City.
As a long time student of Tusken culture, and having written a LOT of roleplay fanfiction on the Jedi vs Sith roleplaying forum over the course of 10+ years, I have a theory that perhaps the two Tuskens that Mando came across in season 1 were in neutral land, and that may be why they did not immediately attack (along with the tribe they belong to being somewhat non-hostile)
I thought that the tusken raid became more friendly when one of the tribe decide to trade with a moisture farm and gain great benefit and then other tribe followed after Jabba's death
This also got me interested more in jawas now too and their culture. Doing videos on various cultures would be an awesome set of videos but I assume your to do list is already full. Great content tho as always and look forward to more!
I like your theory! I also think i had read somewhere that Krayt dragons tend to keep growing throughout adulthood and that the "Greater krayt dragons" are really just very old ones but other sources say that they may just be a larger sub species but the average krayt dragon was a bit smaller so it may be a little more practical
@@Longshot441 it’s got a Shonies! 🤣 Rick c137 is gonna show up on there at one point. To be fair, it’s all the Will of the Force. The Force probably picked that planet as a focal point because of the sheer variety of life on that planet.
Are you going to do some Dune universe analysis? The movie has some great weapons and tactics that would suit a video. Also the Harkonnen invasion would be benefit from your tactical breakdowns, the Atreides deserved to be slaughtered.
To be fair, the Atriedes knew they were being sent to Arrakis to br slaughtered, and made a good accounting of themselves against the Sardaukar disguised as Harkonnen house troops, despite being set up to fail.
@@custink22 You didn't see the movie, the defensive strategy of the Atreides who know they are under dire threat is "let's put the strict minimum guard and defense and hope for the best".
@@arthurbriand2175 i read the book, but havent seen the movie yet. And honestly, if the movie makes Leto out to be a fool, id rather not watch it. Whole reason the Padisha Emperor wanted him gone was because he was a very real threat (although he was loyal, so wouldnt have threatened) and the Harkonnens wanted him gone because he was competition and past grievances in the expanded universe books.
@@realburglazofficial2613 in tales of the Jedi there were Tuskan raiders who if farmers give them water from moisture vaporators would actually leave you alone and even treat the farm as a protected part of their territory.
@@barrybend7189 but it wouldn’t have been the Tuskens to show up with a gift basket. Either the Farmers figured out where the tribe was camped and went with water a a peace offering, or the Tuskens were on the horizon ready to raze the farm to the ground and the Farmers offered water to avoid a gruesome death.
There are basically 2 different tribes of Tusken Raiders. The "get the f--- off our property" tribe that we see in the movies. AND The "if you don't mess with us, we won't mess with you" tribe in the Mandalorian and the Book of Boba Fett.
Oof 😅, still would want to know what types of real Earth 🌎🌍 made firearms would fit the Tusken Raiders. Which I think the different variants of Kalashnikov rifles from the 'ancient' AKMs to the 'modern' AK-100 series would be the obvious choice.
@@yarr_bro welp lol 🤣, though I think bolt action rifles before WW2 and automatic rifles like the AKs would sound like reasonable choices to the Tusken Raiders.
That is called "beaten into submission". Anakin and Vader scared the sh*t out of them, and wiped out most of the aggressive ones, giving way to the more peaceful and intelligent Tusken to rise.
In kotor you can negotiate with a tribe of tusken raders, and that episode of the mandalorian had many references to that game. Specially the mission to fight the Krayt dragon and the loot (the pearl)
What I really want to know is why that scene where the tuskens rode the banthas into the town in the mandalorian did not immediately go viral. Was literally one of the most awe inspiring moments in all of Star Wars. Yet is relatively unknown, a tragedy worse than that of Darth Plagueis.
I mean it makes sense for the more agressive tribes to initially be more prevelant as they would win conflicts with other Tuskan groups. Of course as the population of non natives grow over time that's going to put the aggressive tribes into trouble if they're always pillaging and raiding.
@@AndenMowe-hh5qk You beat me to it. One of the bits that stuck out to me reading the manga was the Marley military officers talking about how other nations are beginning to effectively counter the Titan tactics that have kept Marley a super power, and the battle you see has the shifters really struggling to even survive. Considering all you have to do to kill a Titan is sever its spinal column, there's an ample amount of modern technology that can do that without putting any soldiers at risk, such as ground support aircraft, howitzer batteries, tanks and IFVs, and I'd imagine something like anti-material rifles would be quite effective against most Titans.
I think that krayt dragon is a massive version of the normal ones. Lemme check... yeah, this huge thing was a Greater Krayt Dragon, I think the tuskens went after the other ones. But it is an impressive feat, because the smaller ones were used to assault rebel and Imperial bases during the galactic civil war. These bases weren't exactly minor ones, and were really important. (I am basing this off of Star Wars Commander, where you can use the smaller Krayt Dragons to attack bases, but at the point in the game, the bases are usually high tier bases, with a lot of turbolasers and other stuff)
Now seeing the Cycler Rifle as an unlock-able in Battlefront 2 makes more sense. If the Mandalorian was able to open a link to trade between certain Tusken Raider tribes and outsiders, it would explain how some Resistance soldiers could be seen equipped with some. I wouldn’t see the First Order holding them as much as the Resistance as they wanted to be the ‘better’ Empire.
I've been enjoying a book recently that points out another reason/possibility called Kenobi a John Jackson Miller book, where it does shed some light on maybe why. Anakins attack caused a massive decline in the population of tusken raiders in that particular area, leaving only a lot of younger tuskens left, and they just did not have the numbers and skills to be able to keep doing what they were doing and forced to find another way to do things, and it didnt help that they trained themselves was through battle itself, so that may have been why they became a bit more reasonable than usual
There are different species of Krayt Dragons. The most common being much smaller than the one in The Mandolorian. That being a Greater Krayt Dragon, although the one in the show being extremely abnormally large.
The Tuskens were nicer in The Mandalorian because the Mandalorian was there. Mandalorians had been coming to Tatooine for millennia and unlike other outsiders there is a lot of similarity between Mandalorians and Tuskens. They also may have had past friendly dealings with Boba Fett given his operating off of Tatooine for so long, you'll notice Fett carries a gaderffii at times.
how many kryat dragon pearls do you think there are in those tuskan villages? not as big as the one in the huge kryat dragon but smaller ones maybe? ones that can fit a lightsabers? what weapon can be made from a big one then?
The Tuskens who constructed the junk statue of Lord Vader obviously had latent Force ability inherited from their Kumunga ancestors which gave them clear visions of past events
Native American tribes spoke different languages and different dialects of the same language, and as a result came up with a sign language, based on the hand signs used by those who were born deaf in the tribe, that had universal meaning so that when they travelled and met a tribe whose language was unknown they could communicate. The same could be said of Tuskens. Their language maybe challenging to learn but if they can communicate with outsiders with hand signs it gives the tribe who regularly interacts with non-Tuskens an advantage of new tech and neighbors who they can trade with or exchange services for aid.
There were always more sociable Tuscans, in ;Clone Wars' a few were in the canteen when Ventress went there. los before a CGI lizard was added one could be seen bartering in the original film.
When it comes to the Krayt Dragon Coming of Age Ceremony, I always thought their most common targets for such hunts would be with the Lesser Canyon Krayt Dragons. Which size-wise were smaller, more common to encounter and probably easier to kill then Greater Krayt Dragons are. As the one seen in Season 2 was probably a Greater Krayt Dragon - which can grow as large as Earth's largest Dinosaurs could by comparison.
Make sense why one of the major crime family is on a planet with almost no water. There are there for the expensive and addictive drug, spice. I think it's Kray Dragon poop.
It's been shown Jawas are similar. Some tribes are simple wheeler dealers who are scared of their own shadows, stealing lone/abandoned droids, while some Jawas are aggressive theives, and even quite cunning. A "reasonable" Sand People tribe isn't something that absurd.
a Kray dragon spitting acid makes no sense on a planet where you have a lack of water. Pretty much everything in a desert from plants, to insects and animals adapt to saving water. There may be some exceptions but to lose that much water en masse would be nearly suicidal to an animal.
Why did you say that the tuskens Luke met hadn’t already had the genocide even though the genocide happened in the prequels before Luke met the tuskens
Lucas really ripped off Dune in making Star Wars. Tatooine is Arrakis, the Tuscan Raiders are the Fremen, Krayt Dragons are similar to Sand Worms, and The Force is like Spice precognition and other powers from Dune but with telekinesis added in.
As a person who loves Star Wars History and western genre I have seen Tatooine is the Wild West in Space. Since it takes from some things from the Wild West and the Western genre: Mos Eisley is lawless (similar to towns in the Wild West and towns in the western genres) The Tusken Raiders are like Native Americans since during the time of the Wild West. (Tribes like the Comanches and Apaches attacked settlers)
Throughout history many warlike cultures become pacifists when a bigger and stronger culture beats the shit out of them. Just as Vader did when they hurt his family.
I kinda agree with you in away because with the Tuskens we see in the Mandalorian we see them as Somewhat civilized only because I think Din Respected there Customs and there ways and I think its more about Respect in the long run. because Din showed Respect to the Tuskens they were able to be Friendly and cooperative. If the Setallers show Respect to Tuskens I am sure there be peace between the two people
I see several reasons why they weren't as hostile in the Mandalorian. Mandolorians are warriors, Boba Fett and other Mandalorians have probably had frequent run ins with them so they recognize, mutual respect from one warrior culture to another. Cultural similarities, Mando wears his helmet all the time, doesn't expose his face/body unlike all the other heathen outworlders, he also shows territorial respect, stops at the first sign of sandpeople border patrol of their turf and waits there for them to approach him, then he asks permission for safe passage their lands, something probably no settler or outworlder has even done, and even offers barter/trade to do so. Heck you can almost see it in their body language in the barter scene with Mando, they're surprised, almost incredulous, that Mando comes at them from a position of showing respect to their culture and territory.
Or it could be that a primitive tribe like the Tusken Raiders saw Vader as an evil god returning all the tribe’s previous vengeful ways back on to them as some sort of punishment, thereby changing the way that all of the tribes operate moving forward out of fear? This is something that could easily be spread verbally. It may take some time but it could go global and perhaps Din happened to be in areas that the story had already reached because they weren’t too far from the epicenter.
Just like in the real world, it’s not hard to imagine the Sand People having many cultural evolutions and devolutions over a period of time. That instance in Mando S2 could be a time of cultural evolution for the species, leading to why they negotiated with and even fought alongside outsiders. I think it would be an interesting story to see that small town and that specific Tusken Tribe slowly merge into one society by the time of the Sequels.
But much like the Sarlac. Crayt dragons live for hundreds if not thousands of years. And so a right of passage to kill one might be of younger dragons, maybe when they are the size of Banthas or something more man sized. Instead of letting them get to this huge size.
I think the different cultures between the tribes is the right answer here. No reason why a whole planet of Tuskens would be even remotely similar culture-wise. Anakin/Vader and the farmers attacking the more aggressive tribes also makes plenty of sense
I mean considering how far behind even modern human technology the tusken Raiders are there's no reason why they would globally know who Vader is. Though I suppose it just depends
@@borttorbbq2556 world news can travel my guy, just look at our own history we communicated globally before modern technology. People communicate.
@@startledmilk6670 Not across the entire planet. We rarely had any communication with the Chinese, and never had any with the South Africans until the colonial times. Europe talked with Europe and the middle east as far as Iran, but not much past that, and even then, it was only a few trading nations like Venice that did so.
@@volatile100 you realize that China was purposely not talking to anyone right? And “South Africans” is not an appropriate term only for the whites that colonized the area. There was never an African that identified as “South African” African countries were literally drawn up randomly by European powers. And yes the colonial powers had CONSTANT communication with their home country due to many purposes of colonization to extract resources and send them back to their home country. Many African tribal groups were just chillin in Africa until Europeans came, there were African kingdoms that were aware and communicated with Europe though. If someone wanted to communicate with someone else thousands of miles away they could, if the messenger wasn’t killed.
@@startledmilk6670 Well sorry for not naming the hundreds of Bantu tribes that never had contact with Europe before colonization happened. Sure, the Mali and Ethiopians traded with Europe, but the Zulu never did. And China purposely didn't? No shit. They had no reason to, and that doesn't change my point that we had little to no contact with China.
It is possible that the reason why kryat dragons are killed as a rite of passage is because they become dangerous when they grow larger. The idea is to constantly kill the small ones before they get too big and start acid spitting all over the village.
Our people help us deal with this shit, you are now seen as one of our people, not only a little one
Plus who says only individual tuskens need to kill the kryat? It could be like a Holliday for them.
@@winterleia9027 Yeah I also agree, because of the lack of resources Kryat dragons are usually pretty small and theyre mostly sleeping in hibernations until they get disturbed by something big that sounds like food. An explanation to why it could''ve got that big is because that Kryat was harrasing that town and the tuskens long enough to grow that big, I dont know if they ever specified how long it was around for or not but that could be a answer.
Tho one thing I noticed with the The Mandolorian, like with the 3rd trilogy, they made it quite theatrical large scale sort of stylish events more than the actual story at times which I found a bit dissapointing but I still enjoyed it.
Yeah in the comic books a jedi who was assimilated into a tribe had a son and when he came to age he had to kill a krayt, they are like 2 or 3 banthas put together when it came to size but yeah maybe the one in the Mandolorian was just really really old, and even then though it kinda doesn't make sense cuz the comic krayt dragon has legs, the one we saw was just a big snake, overall i think they just made the krayt dragon in to something more exciting to go with the plot of the villagers an tuskens coming together to defeat a insanely powerful beast but still, could have had the krayt the way it was portrayed In the comics an it would have been a fantastic battle scene ya know an it just would have made way more sense when it came to the tuskens lore
@@winterleia9027 Well in Legends Obi-Wan fought a Krayt Dragon that was between 50 and 60 meters, which is between 164 feet and 197 feet, and it was considered to be a very large Krayt Dragon, guessing what we saw in the show was similar, most ones are probably between 10 and 20 meters when the Tusakans hunt them, still large but not impossible to kill with a rifle.
In Kotor you will encounter 2 different tribes of Tuskan raiders. One is very hostile while the other is willing to communicate with you for safe passage out of the area.
Actually I think they were both the same tribe. Sand people don’t like to talk to outsiders. So having a droid actually helps to survive your first if not last encounter with sand people.
@@jedipadwan20 no there are two tribes.
Yeah but you only interact with the other tribe once, the first one attacks you on sight unless you wear a disguise and use HK, and even them do anything that annoys them slighty and they will immediatly try to murder you, and you can't convince them to 100% stop attacking the settlers.
@@barrybend7189 how is there two I always thought the attacking you an your crew was the same tribe
@@jedipadwan20 if you talk to the Krayte dragon hunter he will tell you that there are two tribes. One is more open to negotiation than the other. Disguised or no.
According to the Yassa, the law of Genghis Khan, polluting the water will upset the sacred dragon that produced water for them. I don't know if the Tusken Raiders have the same set of oral laws similar to the Yassa or not. But if they do, it could be a good reason why they behaved the way they did. They are not actually xenophobic but simply despised the specific beliefs only.
Because it’s different species not countries wouldn’t it be specieist?
@@11bluekitkats It could still be xenophobia, as they’re still fearing what’s different.
@@capncake8837 oh ok thanks for correcting me
In the book "Kenobe" there is a quite long history of the Sand People and their beginnings and customs. It even contains mentions of a Jedi who once came to live among them, how they adopted others into their ranks, how some would bind stones into their wrappings to punish themselves for failures, and even a legend of a demon that wiped out a whole tribe in a single night. They are not that primitive. And they merely have a lifestyle closer to our own Amish who are educated and advanced but who shun some technologies that take away from their basic lifestyle.
You think that legend of a "demon" was Vader? Or does that not fit chronologically ?
@@beph13 definitely Vader
@@beph13 I would guess it was about Anakin's rampage in Attack of the Clones since pretty sure the book is set before the battle of Yavin since it's about Kenobi
Great Book
ah yes, Darth Krayt, the Tusken Jedi who became a sith
Several times in the comics Obi-Wan is shown to beat up some sandmen. I think they know about space wizards, they just worship the violence and power to kill of Vader.
There was a skeleton of a Kryat dragon in A New Hope. When CP3O is wandering alone just before he is picked up by the Jawas, he walks past the skeleton. So we had some idea of their size even if we never saw a live one.
But we saw a live one in kotor and season 2 of the mandolarian
@@GoldLove21 We also saw a live one in the Bounty Hunter game. Gardulla the Hutt had one for a pet.
I'm re-reading Dune and I think that the Tusken Raiders were based off of one of the clans that also cherishes water
They’re a blatant rip-off of the fremen
The guy who wrote Dune tried (or just wanted too?) Sue Lucas for copyright. I'd look it up
Dune's pretty boring to me. Star Wars all the way!
@@BlazerK1914 And here they’ve made a new Dune. lol
@@danielburke911 It May be different in the book but the Fremen are no way near the Tusken Raiders, the closest they have is that they both like and need water very much. However the Fremen are more technologically advance, they are confirmed human looking and are also very willing to work with other cultures.
Tusken Raiders like the video said, are mostly Xenophobic, their most advance tech is their slug cycler, and you know...were not meant to be sympathized with when first made?
“But they both like water! Clearly they are the same I mean just look at them! There aren’t similar looking things that people from Deserts might wear and might need to a very obsessive level on a planet with no water!”
I bet Din Djarin was able to get unusually diplomatic with the Tuskens because he never showed his flesh to the suns.
Mandos and Tuskens are both bands of warriors who respect strength and combat, and yes in the case of the Children of the Watch they also don’t show their faces like the Tuskens.
Interesting thought. One that I'm inclined to agree with
Exactly! Mando understood the tuskens in ways the settlers on Tatooine couldn’t.
Wouldn't be surprised if the two cultures mutually respected each other with their similar customs however as pointed out in other comments, tusken raider tribes and clans have varying cultures and traditions from one another which might also play a huge roll
They prob just thought he was some weird tusken
That's a good theory. Initially the Tusken Raiders were a plot device. With The Mandalorian, they have become fleshed and multi-demensional. I like the change.
Reminds me of the N African tribes. Some are more friendly and became traders. While less tolerant tribes became isolates and nomads.
They were fleshed out in the expanded universe. They were actually were a lot more friendlier in the past but after a tribe was betrayed and wiped out by a group off worlders the raiders began to despise outsiders.
Hell no, it's not until the Mando we see someone who tries to talk instead of immediately trying to kill them. Lets not forget they've let humans join their tribe before. Also generally tribes have multiple villages so most likely he didn't kill the whole tribe in either attack, and it's not like Jabba and othe rsttlers hadn't been destroying villages for decades...
Remember you can talk to solve problems in KOTOR.
No, there’s two tribes in KotOR, one attacks on sight, but the other can be communicated with.
the only tribe I recall that let humans join their tribe was the one with Darth Krayt
There was a single tribe that once allowed a human speak with them out of sheer confusion and bewilderment at a machine barking their words back at them. If their oral history is as strict as they stated back then, it could have been the ground work for young tusken historians to dream of later down the line of predecessors, as they were told of the crimson machine and human wanderer who gave them water.
For the Tusken's raid in the phantom menace, the sw encyclopedia book said that the vallee the contesters are riding on is sacred for them: they didn't attack blindly, for Anakin's mother no clue: be aware that some TR tribes are more agressive than other (the Skywalkers have a problem with the Tuskens X) ironic knowing that Anakin saved one when he was a small kid)
Oh yeah one of the ways that the tusken Raiders are able to hunt krayt dragons is apparently the fact that krayt dragons have a weakness a soft spot above their nostrils on their snout and if you manage to get a successful shot off at the weak spot with your slug rifle it would drop the krayt dragon immediately, I know tuskens were known to have heavily modified slugthrowers to increase accuracy and take shots up to a mile away so this test was probably to determine their skill and accuracy with a slug-thrower
In the shows it's named a Cycler Rifle, apparently a pretty accurate and lethal weapon.
Since there are multiple tribes of Tusken Raiders, some are probably friendlier than others. I think Obi-Wan actually befriended one tribe in a Legends book, though I can't remember the name...
This. They cover an entire planet and are likely very diverse. Different tribes presumably have different cultures and levels of aggressiveness, just like in real life. Heck, even non-tribal groups have major regional and even local differences: For example, there’s a huge difference between, say, the culture of Philadelphia and the Amish just a short distance away, or even between the different neighborhoods of New York City.
As a long time student of Tusken culture, and having written a LOT of roleplay fanfiction on the Jedi vs Sith roleplaying forum over the course of 10+ years, I have a theory that perhaps the two Tuskens that Mando came across in season 1 were in neutral land, and that may be why they did not immediately attack (along with the tribe they belong to being somewhat non-hostile)
I thought that the tusken raid became more friendly when one of the tribe decide to trade with a moisture farm and gain great benefit and then other tribe followed after Jabba's death
It’s crazy to me how the Rakatans glassed Tattooine completely.
This also got me interested more in jawas now too and their culture. Doing videos on various cultures would be an awesome set of videos but I assume your to do list is already full. Great content tho as always and look forward to more!
I like your theoretic hypothesis, the logic behind it is quite easy to follow and sound.
I like your theory! I also think i had read somewhere that Krayt dragons tend to keep growing throughout adulthood and that the "Greater krayt dragons" are really just very old ones but other sources say that they may just be a larger sub species but the average krayt dragon was a bit smaller so it may be a little more practical
Why everyone important has been on tatooine, is like it's the most important planet
we will know one day when they have to retcon why so many things happened on the same planet
It's cause it has a exellent star bucks and a waffle house.
@@Longshot441 it’s got a Shonies! 🤣
Rick c137 is gonna show up on there at one point.
To be fair, it’s all the Will of the Force. The Force probably picked that planet as a focal point because of the sheer variety of life on that planet.
The place is a remote backwater which would make it a great place to hide, but unfortunately everyone had the same idea.
@@realburglazofficial2613 Nah a bad sense of humor. "New hero, hope they like sand!"
Are you going to do some Dune universe analysis? The movie has some great weapons and tactics that would suit a video. Also the Harkonnen invasion would be benefit from your tactical breakdowns, the Atreides deserved to be slaughtered.
If I do it will be on generation films... i am very excited about the movie tho
@@GenerationTech Great, I saw the movie a month ago and it's great. It is a truly unique cinematic experience. Who is the Dune nerd in the group?
To be fair, the Atriedes knew they were being sent to Arrakis to br slaughtered, and made a good accounting of themselves against the Sardaukar disguised as Harkonnen house troops, despite being set up to fail.
@@custink22 You didn't see the movie, the defensive strategy of the Atreides who know they are under dire threat is "let's put the strict minimum guard and defense and hope for the best".
@@arthurbriand2175 i read the book, but havent seen the movie yet. And honestly, if the movie makes Leto out to be a fool, id rather not watch it. Whole reason the Padisha Emperor wanted him gone was because he was a very real threat (although he was loyal, so wouldnt have threatened) and the Harkonnens wanted him gone because he was competition and past grievances in the expanded universe books.
I think they had no choice and had to adapt and survive and some tribes were somewhat friendly
None of the tribes were friendly to outsiders, some were just tolerant.
There was a Tusken Jedi once, thats the extent of their friendliness.
@@realburglazofficial2613 in tales of the Jedi there were Tuskan raiders who if farmers give them water from moisture vaporators would actually leave you alone and even treat the farm as a protected part of their territory.
@@barrybend7189 but it wouldn’t have been the Tuskens to show up with a gift basket. Either the Farmers figured out where the tribe was camped and went with water a a peace offering, or the Tuskens were on the horizon ready to raze the farm to the ground and the Farmers offered water to avoid a gruesome death.
They may have respect for the Mandalorian since he never takes off his mask.
Such a great video Allen! I really enjoyed your analysis of the behavior of Tuskin Raiders in the different Star Wars stories.
If you've been to a foreign nation and spoke their language directly, you'd know the power that comes from commonality.
There are basically 2 different tribes of Tusken Raiders.
The "get the f--- off our property" tribe that we see in the movies.
AND
The "if you don't mess with us, we won't mess with you" tribe in the Mandalorian and the Book of Boba Fett.
Oof 😅, still would want to know what types of real Earth 🌎🌍 made firearms would fit the Tusken Raiders. Which I think the different variants of Kalashnikov rifles from the 'ancient' AKMs to the 'modern' AK-100 series would be the obvious choice.
Literally any WW2 gun with some plumbing parts thrown on would work too, good luck casually finding a Bren lmg tho
@@yarr_bro welp lol 🤣, though I think bolt action rifles before WW2 and automatic rifles like the AKs would sound like reasonable choices to the Tusken Raiders.
I believe the tusken raider's slug throwers are based on the Jezail its a homemade musket used by bedouin and pashtun ttribes
Mosin Nagant
Generation Tech nailed it on the head. Jezails are exactly what inspired Tusken Cyclers.
Darth Vader the space Uyghur-Slayer
chad vader
You have no idea about Turkic culture,do you?
That is called "beaten into submission". Anakin and Vader scared the sh*t out of them, and wiped out most of the aggressive ones, giving way to the more peaceful and intelligent Tusken to rise.
I think the fact that mando doesn’t show any of his skin could also play a part as to why they would be more open to him
In kotor you can negotiate with a tribe of tusken raders, and that episode of the mandalorian had many references to that game. Specially the mission to fight the Krayt dragon and the loot (the pearl)
What I really want to know is why that scene where the tuskens rode the banthas into the town in the mandalorian did not immediately go viral.
Was literally one of the most awe inspiring moments in all of Star Wars.
Yet is relatively unknown, a tragedy worse than that of Darth Plagueis.
Hello friends welcome back to another episode of Generation Tech my name is Allen
I mean it makes sense for the more agressive tribes to initially be more prevelant as they would win conflicts with other Tuskan groups. Of course as the population of non natives grow over time that's going to put the aggressive tribes into trouble if they're always pillaging and raiding.
After watching Dune, I can safely say that there are a lot of similarities between the Tusken raiders and the Fremen
Tuskens, and tatoonine, and starwars all very much inspired by dune
Dune was written in the 60s
Maybe the idea with the Krayt dragon is your supposed to hunt a younger one, which also would help keep the Dragons in check.
Video idea: how would modern militaries handle titans from attack on Titan.
Easy
Welp I seem quite a lot of fanfics that modern military forces would KO the titans with better results plus less causalities than AOT ones.
AOT sucks, I'm sure more StarWars fans are into Mobile Suit Gundam as it has lightsabers and even reuses Star wars sound effects
A-10 goes *BBRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRR*
@@AndenMowe-hh5qk You beat me to it. One of the bits that stuck out to me reading the manga was the Marley military officers talking about how other nations are beginning to effectively counter the Titan tactics that have kept Marley a super power, and the battle you see has the shifters really struggling to even survive. Considering all you have to do to kill a Titan is sever its spinal column, there's an ample amount of modern technology that can do that without putting any soldiers at risk, such as ground support aircraft, howitzer batteries, tanks and IFVs, and I'd imagine something like anti-material rifles would be quite effective against most Titans.
I think that krayt dragon is a massive version of the normal ones. Lemme check... yeah, this huge thing was a Greater Krayt Dragon, I think the tuskens went after the other ones. But it is an impressive feat, because the smaller ones were used to assault rebel and Imperial bases during the galactic civil war. These bases weren't exactly minor ones, and were really important. (I am basing this off of Star Wars Commander, where you can use the smaller Krayt Dragons to attack bases, but at the point in the game, the bases are usually high tier bases, with a lot of turbolasers and other stuff)
Now seeing the Cycler Rifle as an unlock-able in Battlefront 2 makes more sense. If the Mandalorian was able to open a link to trade between certain Tusken Raider tribes and outsiders, it would explain how some Resistance soldiers could be seen equipped with some. I wouldn’t see the First Order holding them as much as the Resistance as they wanted to be the ‘better’ Empire.
I've been enjoying a book recently that points out another reason/possibility called Kenobi a John Jackson Miller book, where it does shed some light on maybe why.
Anakins attack caused a massive decline in the population of tusken raiders in that particular area, leaving only a lot of younger tuskens left, and they just did not have the numbers and skills to be able to keep doing what they were doing and forced to find another way to do things, and it didnt help that they trained themselves was through battle itself, so that may have been why they became a bit more reasonable than usual
If the tuskens applied technology, then we could probably see what they look like underneath all that
Re-watch the video. one of the Tuskin had no mask. He resembles some type of reptile.
The book “Kanobi” gives great insight to these guys and more about their history and culture
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There are different species of Krayt Dragons. The most common being much smaller than the one in The Mandolorian. That being a Greater Krayt Dragon, although the one in the show being extremely abnormally large.
The Tuskens were nicer in The Mandalorian because the Mandalorian was there. Mandalorians had been coming to Tatooine for millennia and unlike other outsiders there is a lot of similarity between Mandalorians and Tuskens. They also may have had past friendly dealings with Boba Fett given his operating off of Tatooine for so long, you'll notice Fett carries a gaderffii at times.
The krate in the show was a full grown one that became a huge problem. The normal ones they kill for rites of passage are young and like a dinosaur
Would have loved if there was some type of legend mural of both Anakin and Vader that we would get to see
how many kryat dragon pearls do you think there are in those tuskan villages? not as big as the one in the huge kryat dragon but smaller ones maybe? ones that can fit a lightsabers? what weapon can be made from a big one then?
The Tuskens who constructed the junk statue of Lord Vader obviously had latent Force ability inherited from their Kumunga ancestors which gave them clear visions of past events
Native American tribes spoke different languages and different dialects of the same language, and as a result came up with a sign language, based on the hand signs used by those who were born deaf in the tribe, that had universal meaning so that when they travelled and met a tribe whose language was unknown they could communicate. The same could be said of Tuskens. Their language maybe challenging to learn but if they can communicate with outsiders with hand signs it gives the tribe who regularly interacts with non-Tuskens an advantage of new tech and neighbors who they can trade with or exchange services for aid.
There were always more sociable Tuscans, in ;Clone Wars' a few were in the canteen when Ventress went there. los before a CGI lizard was added one could be seen bartering in the original film.
(7:54) If Anakin did not turn to the Dark Side, he could have conquered Tatooine with a Tusken army.
When it comes to the Krayt Dragon Coming of Age Ceremony, I always thought their most common targets for such hunts would be with the Lesser Canyon Krayt Dragons. Which size-wise were smaller, more common to encounter and probably easier to kill then Greater Krayt Dragons are. As the one seen in Season 2 was probably a Greater Krayt Dragon - which can grow as large as Earth's largest Dinosaurs could by comparison.
Make sense why one of the major crime family is on a planet with almost no water. There are there for the expensive and addictive drug, spice. I think it's Kray Dragon poop.
@@slewone4905 The Spice must flow
That is the best thumbnail I have ever seen
Tusken raiders are discount mutant alien Fremen.
Maybe they would be a lot happier and friendlier if they had
stillsuits.
The farmed moisture must flow
Google translate at its finest...
Yup. Still suits? Check
Primitive Badassery? Check
Sandwyrms/dragoons? Check.
Everything about water? Check.
Yeah kinda but the Fremen would routinely intermarried with Arakines there really isn’t that with the Tuskens
It's been shown Jawas are similar. Some tribes are simple wheeler dealers who are scared of their own shadows, stealing lone/abandoned droids, while some Jawas are aggressive theives, and even quite cunning. A "reasonable" Sand People tribe isn't something that absurd.
My tribe just visits Mos Eisley and trades things for credits.
If I recall correctly, C-3PO walked past the skeleton of a Krayt Dragon when he split up from R2-D2 in A New Hope.
Indeed he did.
I WISH i could say he put "the fear of humanity" in them, but then again he wore a full body suit, so i can't make this claim.
What about the skeleton 3PO walks past in ANH
a Kray dragon spitting acid makes no sense on a planet where you have a lack of water. Pretty much everything in a desert from plants, to insects and animals adapt to saving water. There may be some exceptions but to lose that much water en masse would be nearly suicidal to an animal.
I would say the main reasons for Tusken Raider's hostility towards outsiders is thanks to Rakata and the Czerka Corporation.
Why did you say that the tuskens Luke met hadn’t already had the genocide even though the genocide happened in the prequels before Luke met the tuskens
I hear a lot of crazy shit online brother but this Hass to be one of the most sane and logical and direct theories to fantasy
From a certain point of view has a chapter on the Tuscans that attacked Luke
Would a pair of binocs be blasphemous to people who use scopes on their rifles? That seems odd
1:13 he's speaking?! It sounds like he's choking to death and asking for help
The main inspiration for the sand people is obviously the Fremen; Dune even references the Fremen as “sand people.”
Dune has been around for a while at least in book form.
I don’t think they were ever mean. Just territorial
This here is true
I think what they did to the jawas and luke's family was mean
@@GenerationTech yep
@@GenerationTech but wasn’t that Imperial troops? Luke thought it was Jawas but Obi-Wan corrected him.
@@GenerationTech love the channel, by the way!
Lucas really ripped off Dune in making Star Wars. Tatooine is Arrakis, the Tuscan Raiders are the Fremen, Krayt Dragons are similar to Sand Worms, and The Force is like Spice precognition and other powers from Dune but with telekinesis added in.
I liked your video a lot, do you have one about the Jawa's?
As a person who loves Star Wars History and western genre I have seen Tatooine is the Wild West in Space. Since it takes from some things from the Wild West and the Western genre:
Mos Eisley is lawless (similar to towns in the Wild West and towns in the western genres)
The Tusken Raiders are like Native Americans since during the time of the Wild West. (Tribes like the Comanches and Apaches attacked settlers)
Your favorite ship should be ISV Cerberus. A firefly class freighter.
@@slewone4905 Why?
The krayt dragon in the mandalorian is a great krayt dragon. A normal krayt dragon is much smaller
Throughout history many warlike cultures become pacifists when a bigger and stronger culture beats the shit out of them. Just as Vader did when they hurt his family.
That Crait dragon scene reminded me of dune ngl
If any of you have seen dune, I think you’ll know what I mean
Remember that time a tribe created a statue of Vader?
imagine if you kidnap a whole tribe of tuskens and sent them to mon cala they are gonna think theyre dead and in heaven
Awesome video
I kinda agree with you in away because with the Tuskens we see in the Mandalorian we see them as Somewhat civilized only because I think Din Respected there Customs and there ways and I think its more about Respect in the long run. because Din showed Respect to the Tuskens they were able to be Friendly and cooperative. If the Setallers show Respect to Tuskens I am sure there be peace between the two people
Wow, Alan here doing a better job than Disney with the Sequels
I see several reasons why they weren't as hostile in the Mandalorian. Mandolorians are warriors, Boba Fett and other Mandalorians have probably had frequent run ins with them so they recognize, mutual respect from one warrior culture to another. Cultural similarities, Mando wears his helmet all the time, doesn't expose his face/body unlike all the other heathen outworlders, he also shows territorial respect, stops at the first sign of sandpeople border patrol of their turf and waits there for them to approach him, then he asks permission for safe passage their lands, something probably no settler or outworlder has even done, and even offers barter/trade to do so. Heck you can almost see it in their body language in the barter scene with Mando, they're surprised, almost incredulous, that Mando comes at them from a position of showing respect to their culture and territory.
Or it could be that a primitive tribe like the Tusken Raiders saw Vader as an evil god returning all the tribe’s previous vengeful ways back on to them as some sort of punishment, thereby changing the way that all of the tribes operate moving forward out of fear? This is something that could easily be spread verbally. It may take some time but it could go global and perhaps Din happened to be in areas that the story had already reached because they weren’t too far from the epicenter.
They really do have it hard considering their assumed backstories. Always been a fan of the sand people.
so they are the star wars equivalent of Fremen.
So they're basically dollar store fremen from dune?
I will love to see the tusken Raiders send a teacher to the school to teach them their language and culture to better understand and work together
in Tusken "How do I reach these kids?"
I liked the Tusken in Kotor
You could see their tribe and a bit how they lived.
also they could be nice and kinda had a point to be hostile
cannot wait for the PS5 for old knight's of the old republic
They would mostly do that coming of age hunt was the smaller Canyon Krate dragon
The Tusken Raiders, are remember me at the Afghan Tribes.
Not really, but that whole episode did become a legend passed around the various tribes
I don’t think Anakin had anything to do with it. I think the Tuscan Raiders are nice to anyone who is not a moisture farmer.
It is routine in real world history and archaeology that technological advancements rarely can occur if there is not an abundance of resources.
There are several species of Krayt dragon.
From wich movie is the explosion in 4:40 ?
Please make a video where the galactic republic with the jedi attack earth
are you doing music in there?
Crazy idear hear me out. What if you export Water from Moncala or other Waterplanet and refine it for drinking. Then give it to the Tusken.
Just like in the real world, it’s not hard to imagine the Sand People having many cultural evolutions and devolutions over a period of time. That instance in Mando S2 could be a time of cultural evolution for the species, leading to why they negotiated with and even fought alongside outsiders. I think it would be an interesting story to see that small town and that specific Tusken Tribe slowly merge into one society by the time of the Sequels.
I agree, I think it'll be very interesting
How many cults about Vader are there
Star Wars : YES
But much like the Sarlac. Crayt dragons live for hundreds if not thousands of years. And so a right of passage to kill one might be of younger dragons, maybe when they are the size of Banthas or something more man sized. Instead of letting them get to this huge size.