Boba Fett; Uncle Owen & Aunt Beru.....

I never believed they blasted the Lars Home from orbit. That just makes no sense whatsoever.

I am also fully aware that it was not Tuskens. To me, it looks like Stormies showed up, interrogated the Lars' and didn't get what they were looking for and torched them. That is kinda the Empire's MO.

 

Exactly... I am just not sure where the "mystery" surrounding this came from, or why anyone would think it happened any other way...

 

Me neither, especially since I was pulled into this thread from my Lords Of The Sith thread...

 

Because it is so strange for Stormtroopers to burn their victims than simply shooting them and Tusken seem to use only blasters and gaderfiis (not sure about spelling) not flamethrowers or thermal detonators!

 

Again: I fail to see what that had to do with my thread from LOTS and why I was brought here. You are simply failing to explain the connection. If you have yet to read LOTS, you probably would understand that my topic had ZERO to do with yours, and should never have been related to this.

 

Sorry for this! I used your post simply to show the power of blaster weapons against human targets and because one of my theories involved the stardestroyer in orbit or imperial war machinery!

 

We are about to see flametroopers torch a village (if the reports are true) so... the Lars residence would be the only place in the saga thus far where torching would have been an appropriate option

 

But storywise wouldn't we have seen flametroopers or flamethrowers in the Droid Search Scene?

One other thought: Maybe the Homestead was sort of napalm bombed by the imperial shuttle, that was added in the SE...

 

I don't think you need anything more than standard Troopers to take out the wimpy Lars family. I'm sure they just desroyed everything to make it look like a Tusken attack, which they did at the Sandcrawler. And I bet they were instructed to destroy all droids they came across. In Mos Eisley, they couldn't openly blow away people's droids, so they were searching them...unless mind-tricked not to. Out in the boondocks where the Lars' live they could just incenerate everything, use weapons at full power (no risk of rupturing the hull of a spacecraft if you're out in the desert) and make it look enough like a Tusken attack that no one would say anything. Same Tuskens that took out the sandcrawler. They were just covering they're butts to make sure the locals didn't get too rowdy over it. I'm sure the Tatooine garisson is equiped with all sorts of armaments, maybe even flamethrowers...or just good old fastion combustible fuel. Soak it in gas the light it up.

Of course no one really knows much about the Tusken Raiders. I'm thinking they scavenge what they can then they burn the rest. I'm thinking if Obi Wan hadn't showed up, Luke would have ended up a skeleton as well, and his speeder a burnt hunk of scrap. But...then again...who knows?

 

Whatever they did... the point that started all this was that the bodies were burned, not just shot... how that exactly happened (and why) didn't get covered, but it is not out of the question for a search squad to call in support for an assault, be it aerial support, or a "hit squad". Tactically, your scouting party would be light, and while resistance would be expected to be minimal, the Empire tends to be the type to just send in the hammer to make sure... they are kinda an overkill organization...

One could further assume that if they were tracking the droids, they would have sent in an interrogation unit to extract the information they wanted. As for masking it as Tuskans, this doesn't necessarily make sense, as I don't think the Empire exactly worried about PR... if they took out the hovel, who would really object? The only reason to hide it would be if they didn't want anyone to know they were after the droids, and were trying to hide the fact that the plans were stolen entirely... which kinda sorta does make sense in a twisted way, but I still think they would just torch the place and say, "and?" to anyone who asked questions...

 

According to Ultimate Star Wars the Larses were shot with Blasters by a Stormtrooper Execution Squad!

 

I am sure they were... and then I think the place was torched...

 

The THEORY behind why Darth Vader walks over to stand directly in front of Boba Fett and tells him specifically "NO DISINTEGRATIONS" during the chase scene in the asteroid field during "Empire" and he almost ignores the other bounty hunters is that Fett was responsible for the disintegration of Luke's Uncle Owen and Aunt Beru (who were the only family Darth Vader had). Boba Fett was covering his tracks and disposing of the evidence of his interrogation so no other bounty hunters could get info from them. They can't talk if they're dead! The storm troopers wouldn't worry about covering their tracks because they were following direct orders and had nothing to hide. Vader knew this and didn't want that to happen to Luke who he knew was his son by then, he thought Luke was on the Falcon and/ or he needed Leia alive so she could draw Luke to the trap at Bespin. Also if you've had a chance to read the new Darth Vader CANNON comic you would have seen that he started using bounty hunters long before this scene. He uses them in the comics which is set before "Empire"

 

Keeping in mind that all of that is built on the THEORY that it was Boba that did it.
BUT.... it was not Boba, as Vader contracted and met Boba for the first time in the new comic, after ANH. (Yes, I know he met him before during the Clone Wars, but this would have been the first meeting between the armored Vader and the armored Fett, and it is very clear to that point in the dialog of the comic).

 

Maybe the "No Disintegration" Speech is about Boba's use of Thermal Detonators!

 

Exactly. Because this is how 'police states' really behave. This is how they really think and act. Paranoia. Secrecy upon secrecy. Deny everything. Parrallel reconstruction. False flags. They make your think, "Well, the Empire doesn't really burn people, so.. maybe it wasn't them. Maybe it was a bounty hunter. I hear they like using odd weapons."
For all the criticism I have of George, he has an uncanny knack for capturing the true nature of the police state, especially in ANH.

 

This should clear thing up. Official.

 

Also, at this point in the story, Vader has no clue he even has a son. He has zero awareness of said moisture farmer boy. The Darth Vader comic is covering his quest to find out who the pilot was that destroyed the Death Star, among other things, which is going to lead to his eventual discovery of the name and after that obvious parentage of the boy.