• DragonTypeWyvern@midwest.social
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    2 days ago

    You seem confused about Owen.

    Owen is Anakin’s stepbrother. His father bought/freed/whatever’d Shmi after Owen’s mother died, and neither had anything to do with Anakin’s slavery.

    Tatooine does get annexed back into the Republic/Empire shortly after the events of the movie iirc. In old canon it was always part of the Republic so people get confused on the status a lot. I think the current canon is that was part of the Old/High Republic and had slipped out into Hutt control at some point.

    Now Owen was a slave holder, he owns several droids on his metaphor for a frontier farm in the middle of Manifest Destiny.

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      1 day ago

      Thx for the info!
      So Anakin lived with his mother, who wasn’t a slave, and neither was Owen - but Anakin was?

      And yes, I just assumed the planet was always under Hutts, but the lore def got expanded, which is always nice.