The Empire went on to establish a heavier presence on the planet, forging a tenuous relationship with Jabba Desilijic Tiure of the Hutt Clan. Generally ignored by the galaxy at large, Tatooine gained the notice of the Galactic Empire during the Galactic Civil War when an escape pod carrying two droids in possession of top-secret information landed on the sandy Outer Rim world. The planet then became a haven for smugglers and criminal activity, and fell under the influence of the Hutt Clan while scattered, isolated settlements of hard-working inhabitants endured. Finding the ore to have undesirable metallurgical properties, mining firms left the planet en masse, leaving behind valuable equipment, most notably large sandcrawlers, which were later used by the Jawa population. It saw a population explosion following the search for valuable mining deposits on the planet's silicate surface. It was the homeworld to the native Jawa and Tusken Raider species and of Anakin and Luke Skywalker, who would go on to shape galactic history. The planet also had little surface vegetation. As a result, many residents of the planet instead drew water from the atmosphere via moisture farms. Part of a binary star system, the planet orbited two scorching suns, resulting in the world lacking the necessary surface water to sustain large populations. Tatooine was a sparsely inhabited circumbinary desert planet located in the galaxy's Outer Rim Territories. " Well, if there's a bright center to the universe, you're on the planet that it's farthest from." ―Luke Skywalker, to C-3PO - Listen ( file info)