The Hunt for the Droids (11)Full unit name: The Hunt for the Droids
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First appearance: A New Hope
A New Hope
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Relations: Tatooine
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Summary
Darth Vader ordered Commander Praji to lead personally the search the Death Star plans on Tatooine's surface. He assigned Captain Kosh's local garrison to the task, while Commander Jir's 501st was readied. These events coincided with the arrival of the Star Destroyer Inquisitor in the system. Under command of General Malcor Brashin, the Inquisitor was carrying Captain Terrik and his Desert Sands for training exercises and eventually to relieve the 37th Detachment stationed on the planet. Primarily, the Star Destroyer accompanied the Desert Sands to test the experimental Battlefield Holographic Control Interface during the exercises of Captain Terrik's troopers. Alerted to the situation, the Desert Sands quickly landed on the planet to undertake the search for the Rebel corvette's escape pod.
Split into Alvien, Drax and Zeta Squadrons, the sandtroopers explored the deserts of Tatooine for hours. Terrik personally commanded Zeta Squadron which was assisted by dewbacks, one HAVr A9 floating fortress and two Arunskin 32 cargo skiffs from the local garrison. The crashed escape pod was eventually found in the Dune Sea by Davin Felth of Zeta Squadron. The sandtroopers discovered evidence that the pod's occupants were droids, in the form of one of C-3PO's rings. They followed a trail leading away from the escape pod and discovered that the droids had been intercepted by a Jawa sandcrawler.
They eventually intercepted the crawler, where they learned from the Jawas that the droids had been already sold to moisture farmers. Captain Terrik then ordered his men to attack the sandcrawler, leaving no survivors among the Jawas. To cover up the Imperial attack on the Jawas, they left gaffi sticks nearby in order to implicate a Tusken Raider raid as being responsible for the attack. The Imperials then largely destroyed the Sandcrawler with a Reconnaissance Troop Transporter. The Imperials then proceeded to pay a visit to the moisture farm that had purchased the droids. Its inhabitants, Owen and Beru Lars, not only refused to hand the droids over, but their patriarch, Owen Lars, also spat at Terrik. The soldiers, under Vader's personal orders via hologram, noticed that a landspeeder was missing from their garage. The Sith Lord ordered the establishing of checkpoints to detain any droids entering Mos Espa or Mos Eisley spaceports. Vader eventually watched the troopers carry out his orders on their helpless victims. They executed Lars and Beru and cremated their remains.
After this new failure, Captain Terrik ordered the troopers to regroup in the city of Mos Eisley, the only way to leave the planet for any fugitive.

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Desert SandsStructureCreaturesDewbackDewbacksWeapons and EquipmentWeapons, equipment and toolsDLT-19 Heavy Blaster RifleE-11 Blaster Rifle Tatooine DwellersStructureCharactersOwen Lars, Moisture FarmerBeru LarsRolesFarmerOwen Lars (Moisture Farmer)
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Full unit name: The Hunt for the Droids Last updated: 10.03.2025 18:17:26

Tatooine
Desert Sands
Enjikket
Nebit
Nkik, Jek
Datcha
Lars, Owen
Lars, Beru Whitesun
Darth Vader
Praji, Nahdonnis
DS-1 Orbital Battle Station
501st Legion
Tantive IV (CR90 Corellian Corvette)
Class-6 Escape Pod
Dewback (Creature)
C-3PO
Jawa
Sandcrawler
Tusken
Tatooine Dwellers
BlasTech DLT-19
E-11 Blaster Rifle
Farmer
Ukchet
Yeelhoy
R1-G4
Imperial Sandtrooper
T-21 Light Repeating Blaster
RT-97C Heavy Blaster Rifle
Sergeant
SoroSuub X-34 Landspeeder
Skywalker, Luke
Escape from Mos Eisley
Droid Messengers
Runaway Droid
Mark IV Sentry Droid
Sentinel-class Landing Craft