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Nebit was a Jawa male who served as chief of a tribe[3] of Jawas from the planet Tatooine. The Jawa's combed the planet's deserts in a sandcrawler for lost droids or technology that they could sell. In 0 BBY, Nebit and his tribe stopped at the Lars moisture farm and brought out a variety of droids for the Lars family to browse. Owen Lars selected the protocol droid C-3PO and the astromech droid R5-D4 from amongst Nebit's stock, but as the pair discussed the purchase, R5-D4 blew its motivator.[2]

Based on advice from C-3PO, Lars' nephew Luke Skywalker then recommended they buy the astromech R2-D2 instead, which Nebit agreed to. The sandcrawler was later attacked by Imperial stormtroopers searching for C-3PO and R2-D2. Most of Nebit's tribe were murdered in the attack,[2] and as he died, Nebit pointed the Imperials in the direction of the Lars Homestead.[4] The bodies of the tribe were later found and burnt by Skywalker, the droids, and the Jedi Obi-Wan Kenobi.[2]

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Nebit first appeared in the 1977 original trilogy film, Star Wars: Episode IV A New Hope. In the current canon, the Jawa was first named in the mobile card game Star Wars: Force Collection[3] which initially launched in 2013. Although the launch of Force Collection predates[5] the Star Wars canon reset of 2014,[6] Lucasfilm Story Group member Leland Chee confirmed that the game was kept updated to fit with canon.[7]

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  1. The Odyssey of Star Wars: An Epic Poem states that the chief of the Jawas who sold the droids to the Lars family, which Star Wars: Force Collection (Card: Nebit (★)) identifies as Nebit, pershied during the Imperial attack on his sandcrawler. Star Wars: Galactic Atlas establishes that the events that take place on Tatooine during Star Wars: Episode IV A New Hope, which includes the attack, take place in 0 BBY.
  2. 2.0 2.1 2.2 2.3 2.4 2.5 Star Wars: Episode IV A New Hope
  3. 3.0 3.1 3.2 Star Wars: Force Collection (Card: Nebit (★★★))
  4. The Odyssey of Star Wars: An Epic Poem
  5. StarWars Announcing Star Wars: Force Collection on StarWars.com (content now obsolete; backup link)
  6. StarWars The Legendary Star Wars Expanded Universe Turns a New Page on StarWars.com (backup link)
  7. TwitterLogo Leland Chee (@holocronkeeper) on Twitter: "I'm not gonna go through the trouble of changing them and I don't have any reason to believe currently that anyone would. […] On the off-chance that we DID have a current need to change any of these, we would have for Force Collection." (screenshot)Leland Chee of the Lucasfilm Story Group has confirmed that in-universe information from Star Wars: Force Collection conforms with Star Wars canon.
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