The sand slum pirates were a group of pirates active on Tatooine during the Galactic Civil War.
After the Battle of Yavin, the pirates harassed a couple of farmers, Roric and Helen Goldenfield, who inhabited a ranch near their base. In 1 ABY, Roric Goldenfield managed to capture some of them while they were looting the ranch and hold them captive in the house. In the meantime, an adventurer attacked the pirates in their base. Nevertheless, the spacer spared the pirate leader's life after he surrendered. The pirate leader tasked the spacer to head to the ranch and free the captive pirates. However, the spacer instead helped Helen Goldenfield to prevent the pirates to escape while her husband was contacting Imperial authorities.
The sand slum pirates appeared in the 2003 video game Star Wars Galaxies, a massively multiplayer online roleplaying game developed by Sony Online Entertainment and published by LucasArts, prior to its closure on December 15, 2011. The sand slum pirates and their base were added to the game as part of the revamped version of the "Hero of Tatooine" questline, released with the "Publish 25", a.k.a. the "New Game Enhancements," on November 15, 2005.
Players taking part in the "Honor" portion of the "Hero of Tatooine" had to fight the sand slum pirates in their base and defeat their leader. This version of the quest was significantly easier than the original in which players had to find and defeat a generic "pirate leader" who spawned at random location across Tatooine. However, upon release of the "Publish 25", several bugs affected the new pirate leader and it was impossible to compete the quest until the publication of the "Chapter 2.7" update, on September 6, 2006.