Under the Tusken's Robes and Tatooine's Past

I have always wondered what are under the savage Sand People's robes? Humans? Aliens? Jawas?! I doubt we will ever get an awnser from George Lucas but hopefully some day in the EU we will. I was wondering if any of you have an idea about what is under the Robes? Also is it true Tatooine had water on it thousands of years ago?

 

Under Tusken robes are...naked Tuskens.
And Tatooine still has water, just buried extremely deeply. Hence the moisture farms.

 

And Tatooine still has water, just buried extremely deeply. Hence the moisture farms.

Wouldn't that make them moisture mines? After all, if you're digging for something deep, there's not much farming involved in its retrieval.

I always imagined moisture farming to be collecting the moisture from the air, a la Dune. Hence the moisture vaporators, for instance. Also, it really gives the impression of people barely eeking out a living, literally scraping the water out of the air.

 

That's what I thought too.

 

I think it was KOTOR that explains Tuskens as being an ancient race of people, possibly humans, that came and settled there and had great respect for the planet. It was apparently a more green and watery planet, which is how I would explain places like Beggar's Canyon being developed [by water, river, etc.]. I can't remember if Shadows of the Empire explains the origin of Beggar's Canyon when Luke goes into it. Anyway, I have no clue what they look like.

 

Yea, this came from the thought of Tatooine being a Grass Planet...I just heard that story in KOTOR, I usually kill the Tuskens, but I didn't know what to put this in, EU{ or OT. It relates to both

 

Should've named this thread

"UNDER THE TUSKEN SUN".

Yeah, moisture farming takes moisture from the air.

Proof.

"Dotting the property were a number of moisture vaporators, devices designed to pull water vapor from the parched air. The resulting water was either stored in reservoirs for later resale, or directed underground to irrigate sheltered crops."

More.

"If not involved in Hutt business, most colonists on the planet eke out a meager existence as moisture farmers. Small homesteads employ devices called moisture vaporators to tug what little water vapor is suspended in Tatooine's air."