Lars Homestead
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Level: 14
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 Recommended combat levels: 10 and higher |
[edit] Description
The Lars Homestead is a Tatooine POI which awards a badge for visiting it. It is the site of the Lars family massacre from A New Hope, and is the childhood home of Luke Skywalker. The POI plays a role in the Legacy Quest, detailed below.
Travel to the Lars Homestead (-2575 -5517) and talk to Zef Ando when you get there. Zef is having some trouble with his droids. They have gone haywire and are about to blow up the vaporators! To disarm the bombs before they blow, run over to Zef’s harvester (-2581 -5640) and click on the harvester to disarm the bomb. Be careful - there are malfunctioning Battle Droids (CL16) guarding the area. There is also time limit, so be quick. If you fail you must apologize to Zef. He will then give you a quest to kill 10 Greater Desert Womp Rats (CL20). Once you have dealt with the bomb, return to Zef to get a datapad placed in your inventory. Open your inventory and right click Zef’s Datrapad, and select Download data. This will complete the Quest.
Next: Jawa Tracks
[edit] Star Wars Lore
The Lars' Homestead was the home of the Lars family. It was a moisture farm, with 63 separate vaporators scattered on the property. The Lars Farm was located on the outskirts of the Jundland Wastes far removed from the closest city, Anchorhead. The homestead itself was mostly underground, to keep it cool, and always provided enough room for the Lars family. It had a garage where the family has kept its vehicles, from landspeeders to T-16 Skyhoppers. It was originally owned by Cliegg Lars, then his son, Owen and his wife, Beru. Shmi Skywalker was buried there in 22 BBY.
In 0 BBY, when Owen purchased two droids, C-3PO and R2-D2 from a Jawa sandcrawler, he did not know one of them held the secret plans for an Imperial superweapon and that the Empire was looking for them. The Lars' Homestead was burned to cinders when Imperial Stormtroopers found out the droids had been purchased by people who lived there. Sadly, Owen and Beru were killed, but the droids were safe — for a while — in the care of Obi-Wan Kenobi and Luke Skywalker. The farm was burned down and its occupants (Owen and Beru) were burned and most likely executed in 0 BBY by Stormtroopers looking for information or the location of R2-D2 and C-3PO.
Before the Clone Wars, two tombstones – one of Edern Lars and one of Shmi Skywalker – were to be seen outside the vicinity. However by the early Galactic Civil War, they were probably removed.
After filming the Attack of the Clones in 2000, the Lars homestead scenery was left there, and is still visited by the tourists in the Tunisian desert.
