The History Of Tatooine Fully Explained

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. They are preceded by another father and son, who train together in the Jundland Wastes not far from what would become known as Lars Homestead, where Luke later grows up.

About 4000 years before Anakin's birth, Jedi Master Sidrona Diath brings his son, Dace Diath, to the isolation of Tatooine's desert to teach him in the ways of the Force. Dace struggles to match his father's skills, but Sidrona is a patient teacher who believes that Dace's longer journey toward the Force will ultimately make him a better teacher than himself. During a difficult trial described in the 1996 Tales of the Jedi Companion RPG source book (based upon the Dark Horse comics line), Dace becomes lost in Tatooine's Dune Sea and discovers that his frustration is his only enemy, and that self-belief is his greatest ally. Dace becomes the first Jedi to be forged in the heat of Tatooine.

In the Tales of the Jedi comics cycle, Dace Diath fights valiantly in the Great Sith War, but is killed in one of the war's most terrible massacres, his ship destroyed by a supernova deliberately induced by Sith sorceress Aleema Keto.