Cliegg Lars

Cliegg Lars was a human male moisture farmer from the desert planet Tatooine. He lived and worked on a family farm he inherited from his parents with his son from his first marriage, Owen Lars, and Owen's girlfriend Beru Whitesun. Though the Lars family was content with their simple lives, they became involved with the White Suns liberation movement, which helped free Tatooine's slaves. Because of his work with the movement, Cliegg met his future wife, Shmi Skywalker Lars. Through his marriage to her, Cliegg would be the step-father of Anakin Skywalker and the step-grandfather of Luke Skywalker and Leia Organa.

Cliegg won Shmi's freedom in a bet with her enslaver, Watto, and the two moved to the Lars homestead, where they married and lived happily as moisture farmers. Using a deprogramming device the family had designed to remove Shmi's transmitter chip, the Larses secretly helped emancipate escaped slaves. One day, however, Shmi was captured by a band of Tusken Raiders. Cliegg organized a posse to rescue her, but the attempt failed, and he lost his right leg in the process. As he mourned her, Cliegg was visited by her son, Anakin Skywalker, who led his own rescue mission, but the boy returned only with her corpse. Cliegg never recovered from the incident and died shortly after. He was buried alongside Shmi on the farm, which was bequeathed to Owen and Beru.

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