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<blockquote data-quote="Water Bob" data-source="post: 6887869" data-attributes="member: 92305"><p>According to the official map, Tatooine is on a major trade route.</p><p></p><p>My guess is this: Tatooine was settle as a mining colony. That's where the Jawas get the sandcrawlers. They're old mobile ore carrier/processing machines left behind by the mining companies. Moisture farmers thrived, selling water to the municipalities and mining companies on the arid world.</p><p></p><p>This is mostly likely when the backward, Rim world, established a major trade route to the core.</p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p>When the mines played, out, the mining companies left, and the world became depressed and forgotten. This is when it grew as a "hive of scum and villainy." The water market dropped, and many moisture farmers ended up making more from their underground agricultural crops--something that used to be a side-line business and self-supporting activity--than they did the water. The population shrank, and there were too many moisture farmers.</p><p></p><p>Over time, the trade route traffic to the world dropped. Over more time, Tatooine was forgotten--a desolate, played-out planet one a trade route that nobody had need to use.</p><p></p><p>That's how it got to be in the state it was at the beginning of A New Hope.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Water Bob, post: 6887869, member: 92305"] According to the official map, Tatooine is on a major trade route. My guess is this: Tatooine was settle as a mining colony. That's where the Jawas get the sandcrawlers. They're old mobile ore carrier/processing machines left behind by the mining companies. Moisture farmers thrived, selling water to the municipalities and mining companies on the arid world. This is mostly likely when the backward, Rim world, established a major trade route to the core. When the mines played, out, the mining companies left, and the world became depressed and forgotten. This is when it grew as a "hive of scum and villainy." The water market dropped, and many moisture farmers ended up making more from their underground agricultural crops--something that used to be a side-line business and self-supporting activity--than they did the water. The population shrank, and there were too many moisture farmers. Over time, the trade route traffic to the world dropped. Over more time, Tatooine was forgotten--a desolate, played-out planet one a trade route that nobody had need to use. That's how it got to be in the state it was at the beginning of A New Hope. [/QUOTE]
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