Fixer had both legs amputated and his right hand lost articulation. Camie announced she was pregnant about the time Fixer sold Tosche Station to Rosworth Industrial. Fixer gave his girlfriend half the credits and kicked her out of their hovel. He told anyone who asked that Beggar's Canyon humbled him enough to realize he would make a dead-beat husband and worse father.
Uncle Owen's health went back and forth. Sometimes he seemed at the cusp of death and then the next morning was out repairing the green house. His temper was shorter than ever.
"Did I raise an idiot or farmer? You have three deaths on your hands, Luke. A good mechanic became a useless shell. His woman's pregnant and out there alone. That guilt will follow you everywhere for the rest of your life. Learn a lesson from it. A lesson in the consequences of stupidity, childishness, irresponsibility. Those friends of yours sit around wasting their lives. You can follow them or you can wise up and become someone important."
Nightmares woke the young man often at night as if to pick up the slack when Owen slept. Luke chose to suffer both.
Their three workers quit and left the planet right before harvest. Owen threw a tantrum when he learned this. Luke ducked outside with dinner while Aunt Beru cleaned glass and cotton from the floor.
He spent sundowns searching the land with macrobinoculars. Tuskens attacked a farm hundreds of kilometers away and news spread about what they had done to the occupants. Skinned alive and left to cook in the sunlight. Tuskens traditionally strayed from humans, but times were rough. They now killed and raided when they thought they could get away.