Tuskens har tydligen haft en lång historia av motgång mot externa bosättare på Tatooine.
Enligt Wookiepedia Tuskens förstördes först av en grupp bosättare runt 5000 BBY. Dessa initiala fientligheter fortsatte i århundradena, vilket avspeglar fortsatta insatser för att kolonisera och utveckla planeten.
After Tatooine was rediscovered by the Galactic Republic in around 5,000 BBY, early Human settlers were believed to have disrupted the water-supply of a settled cave-dwelling society known as Ghorfa culture, precipitating the transformation of the natives into the nomadic Sand People. To survive, they were forced to steal and adapt the technology of the colonists, forging the distinctive desert survival gear by which they would subsequently become so well-known. By around 4,000 BBY, they were also engaged in endemic low-level warfare with the settlers, raids which were among the factors that forced Czerka Corporation to abandon their attempts to operate Tatooine as a mining world...
Snabba fram ett par millenia till cirka 550 BBY. Även om utomstående fortsätter att försöka utveckla planeten, ökar en outsider Tuskens förtroende och slaktar de lokala kolonisterna. Därefter dödar han Tuskens. Denna liknelse fällde ut en helt ny nivå av hat i Tuskens.
Alkhara ... [was] studying the Sand People, and seemingly gaining their trust. Eventually, however, he turned against the colonists and occupied the desert fortress that was used in earlier centuries...afterwards [he] turned on his Sand Person confederates, and destroyed their camp. This, it is claimed, was the source of a subsequent blood feud between the natives and the outlanders.
Ett par århundraden senare i en ny koloniserings-push håller Tuskens fortfarande sitt mod. De startar en serie attacker mot ett lokalt fort och tjänar sitt kända namn, Tusken Raiders.
Så medan du kanske har ment att vara facetisk när du frågar om du skulle skjuta på de lokala racarna var en rolig sport för lata söndagar, kan du faktiskt ha varit närmare sanningen. Det var att de levde upp till deras namn på att vara Raiders och var upprörande bosättare....the new colonists seem to have been unaware of the Sand People, but a series of attacks between 98 and 95 BBY forced the abandonment of Fort Tusken, and from that point on, the Human settlers of Tatooine referred to the natives as "Tusken Raiders".
