During the Clone Wars, Pantora’s Chairman Papanoida and his son Ion followed the trail of the chairman’s kidnapped daughter Che Amanwe to Tatooine, where she’d been taken by Greedo, a thug working for the Neimoidians. Their hunt led them to the cantina, where the Papanoidas found themselves in a wild firefight with Greedo’s associates.

Forced into exile after the destruction of her Nightsister clan, Asajj Ventress traveled to Tatooine to drown her sorrows at the Mos Eisley cantina. She killed a clumsy suitor and attracted the attention of the Trandoshan bounty hunter Bossk, who brought her to meet his boss, the young Boba Fett.

Looking for passage to Alderaan, Obi-Wan Kenobi traveled to Mos Eisley with Luke Skywalker and his droids. Obi-Wan knew the cantina was a watering hole favored by expert star pilots who didn’t waste time worrying about whether the jobs they took were entirely legal. Obi-Wan entered the cantina with the confidence of a veteran warrior, but Luke gawked at the variety of alien species in the bar’s dim confines.

If the idea was to avoid attention, it didn’t go well. First the bartender ordered Luke to have his droids wait outside, barking that their kind wasn’t served there. Then two alien thugs tried to bully Luke, seeing the farmboy as an easy mark. Obi-Wan tried to calm tensions, but the aliens shoved Luke aside and went for their guns. Given no other choice, Obi-Wan drew his saber and cut them down.

Obi-Wan and Luke met with Han Solo and Chewbacca, who agreed to take them to Alderaan aboard the Millennium Falcon. But a departing patron had tipped off Mos Eisley’s stormtroopers to the violence at the cantina. The Imperial troops shouldered their way through the crowd, and the bartender indicated where Obi-Wan and Luke were sitting. The old Jedi and his young protégé found another exit before they could be apprehended.

Han sent Chewbacca off to get the Falcon ready for space travel, but was intercepted by the lowlife bounty hunter Greedo, who sought to collect the debt Han owed to the crimelord Jabba the Hutt. Greedo was eager to prove himself by killing Han, but he failed to keep an eye on the smuggler’s hands. Han fired at Greedo from under the table, killing the luckless thug.