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Re: Legitimate Tusken Raider fear
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Date: 
Thu, 17 Oct 2002 20:07:54 GMT
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In lugnet.starwars, John Radtke writes:
> In lugnet.starwars, Scott Costello writes:
> > 
> > Kind of puts a different spin on things huh?
> 
> I don't remember where I read it, probably the novelization, but it was
> suggested that Obi-Wan was immitating the scream of a Kryat (sp?) dragon
> which would be something the Sand People normally run from.  Obviously
> looking at him he wasn't a Dragon, hence "they're easily startled but will
> return in greater numbers."
> 
> Now that I think of it, if Anakin wiped out the whole village, then who
> would have been left to know it was a Jedi who did so and start a legend
> about it?  I wouldn't guess that Sand People are worldly enough to identify
> lightsaber wounds and make the Jedi connection.

An (un)fortunate side effect of the lightsaber is that victims who are merely
wounded seem unlikely to die of a grisly infection, what with the cauterization
and all.  It's a real shame, too, as a full-blown bodyrot can really get your
point across.

Just a good old-fashioned George R.R. Martin-esque editorial ;)

The Tusken peddler who next visited the village must have been pleasantly
surprised, though:

"Now lookee here, whoever massacred this here village sure did do a nice job in
closing up all of them there wounds.  It sure do make the clean-up a whole lot
easier, though, don't it?"

-s



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(...) I don't remember where I read it, probably the novelization, but it was suggested that Obi-Wan was immitating the scream of a Kryat (sp?) dragon which would be something the Sand People normally run from. Obviously looking at him he wasn't a (...) (24 years ago, 17-Oct-02, to lugnet.starwars)

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