Jawas
Intelligent but
smelly scavengers of the desert, these rodent-like creatures are
natives of Tatooine. About a meter tall and constantly jabbering
in their own language, Jawas live in clans.
To protect themselves from the
fierce double suns of their planet, they wear coarse, homespun
cloaks with hoods; only their glowing eyes are visible.
Jawas travel and live in bands,
using giant, treaded sandcrawlers for mobility and shelter. The
crawlers can hold many dozens of Jawas as well as the droids and
other machinery that they scavenge, repair and resell to Tatooine
moisture farmers and others; as they did with C3P0 and R2D2. Once each year before the
storm season, Jawas make a trek to the great basin of the Dune
Sea for a huge, secret rendezvous that becomes a great swap meet
where they exchange news and salvaged items.