"The noise was pretty startling," he agrees. "We thought it was a Tusken attack at first. Things had been better, but Owen liked to remind me that it was only a matter of time before they decided we'd overstayed our welcome."

Shmi's death had scarred all the people living there.

"Of course, we worked out pretty fast what it actually was. Beru made me help her mend all the clothes that were damaged."