How were Owen and Beru killed?

Was it by blasterfire from a stormtroopers, the burning as in Daley's books, an imperial vehicle like the flying fortress as in Tales from the Mos Eisley Cantina or were flamethrowers used?

Were they burned alive or end up this way postmortem after the fire at the homestead?

 

So the tale goes.

 

Given that disruptors are supposed to disintegrate people in the EU and the newcanon, drawn from Vader's "I want them alive. No disintegrations" line to Boba - maybe the troopers used disruptors on them - resulting in their flesh (but not bones) disappearing entirely.

 

LOL Star Wars - Medical Detective Series coming

 

Could also have been a surgical strike from Tie Fighters or the Stardestroyer in orbit.

 

Really? I thought it was something like this:

 

Clear signs of an Imperial False Flag if you ask me. Lars Truther 4 Life!

 

Owen and Beru had a personal Ark that they mistakenly opened.

 

I find the fascination with Owen and Beru's death on this message board pretty fascinating and only slightly worrisome. Thus, once more, I post this picture on the JC board.


I'm guessing it went something along the lines of "execute them" with blaster shots, and then being told to burn the homestead down to the ground to destroy evidence/ insure anyone hiding was also killed and simply to send a message to the entire planet (farmers talk) that you don't mess with the Imperials, yo.

 

It's the mystery. No other death in the OT was this graphic and we never heard much about what exactly happened.

It was so totally different to all the other dead we saw and it seemed to be strange and unusual cruel for the stormtroopers to kill an elderly couple this way!

 

Vader probably gave orders to his stormtrooper squad to leave no witnesses. That's why they killed the Jawas too.

 

I almost wish they could have had this scene filmed. That way the tragic irony would've been felt in 2002 when we saw Anakin Skywalker meeting a younger Owen and Beru for the first time.

 

What about the theory that Boba Fett worked in cooperation with the Stormtroopers or came in after the Stormtroopers to see to it that the deed was done, and that's why Owen and Beru ended up as charred corpses? Otherwise, why would Vader turn to Fett and specifically say to him "No disintegration this time" when he gave the bounty hunters the assignment to find Luke? We know Fett was on Tatooine at the time this all went down and he obviously knows his way around the planet and it's locales. I personally subscribe to this theory. Is there anyone that fully disagrees with this theory, not just open to it being true? I mean it does seem like Vader has more of a professional relationship with Fett than the other bounty hunters, one example being his involvement with the betrayal of Han and Leia at Cloud City.

 

I always thought the "No Disintegrations" Line meant that Boba shouldn't use Thermal Detonators. TD's are capable of vaporizing humanoids, according to the Essential Guides.

 

Nah, Boba Fett was hanging around Jabba and Mos Eisley the whole time he was on Tatooine. He was never near the stormtrooper squad.

 

I was always under the impression that the Stormtroopers shot them, and then burned the place down after they could not find anything useful. Alternatively, they could have trapped the Lars inside while they burned down the homestead. Any way you slice it, it is pretty gruesome.

 

Yes the place was set on fire.

So they were shot then somehow they got burned whereas many of the Jawas bodies were not.

Now the burning of bodies might be something that Tusken Raiders do and they were trying to make it look like a Tusken attack in both cases but Tuskens have guns not blasters so a cover-up of some kind was needed either way.

 

The strange thing about the skeletons is that they are outside of the homestead and not inside, where the fire must have raged. And i doubt that the stormtroopers cared about doing a funeral for them...

Same thing with the Tusken, whose attack pattern they supposedly were about to simulate, as seen with the sandcrawler.

 

In the Tales of the Mos Eisley Cantina book, Owen and Beru came outside the homestead to talk with the stormtroopers. When Owen became belligerent, the stormtrooper commander ordered their execution. Their nearby support vehicle then torched the home to cover it up.

 

In ROTS, when Obi-Wan shot at GG, all of his organic parts caught fire and burned up leaving his cyborg shell. Perhaps something similar happened with the Lars, they were shot so many times their bodies burned up.

 

Could be possible. Ultimate Star Wars mentions that Owen and Beru were shot by an Stormtrooper Execution Squad.

 

I thought they were confined by the stormtroopers to the burning hovel and caught on fire and then ran out while still ablaze and were then shot. It looks like they had come up the stairway.

 

I've always like the Boba Fett theory...

 

If they ran out of the fire, they would look burned. But would they burn down to the bone?