Sand beast

The sand beast was a reptile covered in thick, armored brownish scales. Its face had two white eyes and large off-white teeth. Its most notable trait was its six muscular limbs that functioned as both arms and legs, allowing it to adopt a bipedal or quadrupedal stance depending on the situation. The creature could be found buried beneath the sand on the planet Tatooine.

Shortly after the fall of the Galactic Empire, a Rodian and the bounty hunter Boba Fett were taken prisoner by Tusken Raiders and forced to dig for black melons buried underneath the sands of Tatooine. The Rodian inadvertently dug up the creature's arm, and immediately the beast lunged, grabbing the Rodian by the throat, and began to drag Fett, who was connected to his fellow prisoner by a chain on his ankle. The Tusken youngling and his massiff charged the behemoth. The creature grabbed the massiff by the throat, knocking it away before crushing and smothering the Rodian in the sand.

The creature stalked towards the Tusken, ready to attack, before Fett wrapped his chain around its throat. Despite its desperate attempt to grab him, Fett tightened his grasp, ultimately asphyxiating the creature. After this encounter, the youngling presented the deceased creature's decapitated head as a trophy to his tribe, earning Fett respect from the tribe's chief.

Sand beasts first appeared in "Chapter 1: Stranger in a Strange Land," the first episode of the live-action Disney+ television series The Book of Boba Fett, which was directed by Robert Rodriguez and premiered on December 29, 2021.

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