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Whither Tattooine?
41 EXT SKIFF
Han leans panting against the rail as Chewie helps Lando onto the deck. Luke and Leia land on the skiff with flair.
LUKE
Let's go! And don't forget the droids.
LANDO
We're on our way.
The Sail Barge is exploding in stages in the distance. Half of the huge craft is on fire.
Word flashes across the windy wastes of Tatooine: Rebel agents have assassinated Jabba the Hutt! Not only that, dozens of other luminaries of Tattooine have died in the holocaust, including the legendary Boba Fett. In a quiet corner, the news causes a cautious smile to creep across a scarred face... antennae stand at attention... hair bristles across the bridge of a nose.
It is time. It is time, now, to make a grab for the prize.
Mos Eisley Spaceport
EXT. TATOOINE - WASTELAND
The Landspeeder with Luke, Artoo, Threepio, and Ben in it zooms across the desert. The speeder stops on a bluff overlooking the spaceport at Mos Eisley. It is a haphazard array of low, gray, concrete structures and semi-domes. A harsh gale blows across the stark canyon floor. Luke adjusts his goggles and walks to the edge of the craggy bluff where Ben is standing.
BEN
Mos Eisley Spaceport. You will never find a more wretched hive of scum and villainy. We must be cautious. Ben looks over at Luke, who gives the old Jedi a determined smile.
Mos Eisley Spaceport is the key, the single point of failure. Whoever controls it, controls the spice trade on Tattooine. The PC's are one group of people who want to do just that.
They could be:
- A small Imperial force, a remnant of Darth Vader's occupation force from A New Hope.
- A small group of rebels, seeking a source of revenue and allies for the rebellion
- Agents of another Hutt
- A group of bold smugglers, hoping to carve out a new criminal enterprise to rival the Hutts
- Sandpeople, seeking to cleanse their planet of the marauding aliens
No force-users, though... that's important. All of them, Luke and Darth and any others there may be lurking around... they have more important things to do.
Taking control of Mos Eisley is a fairly simple affair. There are three installations in Mos Eisley that form its primary infrastructure; once you have those, the rest of the city is pretty much yours.
- Starport control
- Water tanks
- Spice warehouses
Starport Control
A docking bay on Tatooine isn't really much more than a landing pad with a wall around it. Mos Eisley doesn't keep its docking bays all in one place, rather, they're distributed throughout the city, some near the major thoroughfares, and some in back alleys. This facilitates the kind of easy comings-and-goings that Mos Eisley is known for. Starport Control is the place where incoming pilots stake their claims to one or another of the docking bays. By controlling Starport Control, you can't really prevent people from landing or collect fees or anything, but you do get a much better idea of who they are.
Water Tanks
Mos Eisley doesn't make much of its own water. It has many little recycling plants for recovering it from wastewater, but there's always some leakage. That's why the moisture farms, out in the hinterlands, are important. They truck their water in to the distribution centers, like Anchorhead, which pipe it to the cities like Mos Eisley. Mos Eisley has a large cluster of water tanks, connected to the city's distribution system. Control these, and you can keep the population in line.
Spice warehouses
Processing spice isn't done in Mos Eisley. That mostly happens at other cities on Tattooine. It is transported from those other places to Mos Eisley for transport offplanet.
