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The question as to why Stormtrooper would slaughter Jawas is in my opinion far from the main question that springs to my mind when I watch this part of A New Hope.

We see Sandtroopers riding Dewbacks, but there are Bantha tracks leading up to the Jawas' Sandcrawler, so we can only assume that at some point the Sandtroopers switched steeds in order to blame it on the Tusken Raiders. Where did the Stormtroopers get the Banthas from? They didn't exactly have time to tame any so perhaps they took them from some Tusken Raiders? And, if they were riding Banthas then this suggests a planned attack on the Jawas. Why would they go to all the trouble of planning the attack and why, once they'd interrogated the Jawas and slaughtered them, would they bother to hide their actions so thoroughly? Since there is a lot of urgency to find the droids, planning the interrogation and murder of Jawas and then covering it up seems a little ridiculous, when they could have just ridden up on Dewbacks interrogated them, shot them and gone on to the Lars homestead. The Bantha deception is just an awful waste of time and Imperial resources.

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