Wenny Boggs Wenny Boggs was one of the planet Tatooine ' s moisture farmers . While hunting a herd of womp rats one day , Boggs discovered that he had traveled too far into the desert to return home under the safety of daylight . Fearing an overnight encounter with a Tusken Raider hunting party , Boggs set up camp to await morning . During the night , Boggs was awoken by hauntingly sad singing , which he soon found to be coming from a Tusken mourning over a dying elder . As he witnessed the singing Tusken ' s anguish over the death of his comrade , Boggs began tearing up , moved by the emotion shown by the normally savage creature . He came to see that the Tuskens were not simply mindless monsters as he had believed . Biography . Stranded in the desert . Wenny Boggs was a young moisture farmer who resided on the Outer Rim desert planet Tatooine . One day in 0 ABY , Boggs embarked upon the Tatooine wastes in a landspeeder , hunting an elusive herd of womp rats , when he eventually realized that he had journeyed farther out into the desert than planned . Noticing Tatooine ' s twin suns rapidly setting in the sky , and wary of the nomadic Tusken Raider hunting parties that owned Tatooine ' s night , Boggs reasoned that it would be safer for him to camp out for the night than risk traveling kilometers of barren sand in the dark . He soon settled into a cranny in a rise of rocky hills , which he found neither roomy nor comfortable , but it provided him a defensible position from which to wait out the night . Armed with a blaster rifle at his side and stocked with a hunk of SoroSuub Insta - Meal to sustain himself , Boggs , soothed by the desert darkness and soft sounds of the night , eventually drifted off to sleep , despite his best efforts to stay awake . After a time , he awoke with a start , having heard singing off in the distance , though when the desert night went quiet again , he was unsure if he had simply dreamed the sound . When the singing , a somber chant , started again , echoing over the rocky peaks from behind him , Boggs found himself captivated . Curiosity piqued , he grabbed his rifle and climbed over the rocks to see the singer . Tusken Raider dying ceremony . At first , Boggs found only a single bantha waiting at the mouth of a narrow canyon , riderless , though strapped with packs and pouches that clearly belonged to a Tusken Raider . Although no one was in sight , the singing continued , luring Boggs into a series of tall crags at the end of the canyon . He eventually came upon a hollow circle surrounded by high walls of stone , at the center of which lay a flat stone platform , ringed with painted , rocky totems honoring some ancient gods . There , Boggs found his singer , a Tusken Raider bending over an aged , feeble - looking figure resting on the stone platform . The singing Tusken had removed his breathing filter , and , though Boggs could not see his face , he found the Tusken ' s unencumbered song surprisingly melancholy and dreamy , not frightening , as he would have imagined . As Boggs watched , the aged figure grasped the hand of the singing Tusken and whispered a short series of words into his ear before his own hand fell away and he died . The Tusken ' s song stopped just as quickly , and the creature began wailing in anguished torment over his dead comrade , which echoed through the canyon . Boggs bowed his head as tears came to his eyes , never imagining that the hostile Tuskens could feel emotion as he did . Giving a final nod to the expired elder , Boggs quietly returned to his cranny to await the dawn . Personality and traits . As one of Tatooine ' s moisture farmers , Wenny Boggs was duly cautious of the savage Tusken Raiders , who were notorious for regularly attacking Tatooine ' s Human settlers , isolated moisture farmers included . After Boggs found himself trapped out in the desert with not enough daylight to safely return home , he opted to seek shelter , not wanting to confront a hunting band of the fearsome creatures at night . Boggs came to reevaluate some of the surface impressions he held of the creatures upon discovering the singing Tusken in mourning over his aged , dying comrade . Boggs was transfixed by the Tusken ' s song , unable to offer resistance as it pulled him to its source in the Tusken ceremonial rock circle . The Tusken ' s singing , sad and lilting , belied the creatures ' typical growling vocals , which surprised Boggs , who found the singing strangely wistful rather than harsh and frightening , as expected — of course , he never imagined that Tuskens could sing in the first place . Boggs ' most profound revelation came as he witnessed the singing Tusken agonizing over the death of the elder , discovering for himself that Tuskens were not mindless monsters but instead beings of feeling and emotion . Behind the scenes . Wenny Boggs appeared in the short narrative " Song for a Fallen Nomad " , originally published by West End Games in the 1987 " The Star Wars Sourcebook " , written by Bill Slavicsek and Curtis Smith , and later reprinted in the sourcebook ' s 1994 second edition . The story provides a rare insight into the intimate social rituals of the Tusken Raiders , who earned a common reputation as savage brutes among Tatooine ' s other inhabitants .