Great Mesra Plateau

The Great Mesra Plateau, also known as the Mesric Plateau, was a highland area on Tatooine. It stretched from the Xelric Draw to Mos Eisley.

History

It was the location of a Tusken Raider camp that Alkhara massacred.^[1]

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Behind the scenes

Secrets of Tatooine mislabels this area the "Great Mesa Plateau."

The Great Mesra Plateau appeared as a designated planetary region in the 2003 massively multiplayer online roleplaying game Star Wars Galaxies: An Empire Divided,^[2] prior to the game's closure on December 15, 2011.^[12] In the game, the plateau was identified as the "Mesric Plateau."^[2]

Appearances

• The Clone Wars: Decide Your Destiny: Crisis on Coruscant
• Star Wars: Episode IV A New Hope (First appearance)
• Star Wars radio drama — "The Millennium Falcon Deal"
• Star Wars Galaxies: An Empire Divided (Identified as Mesric Plateau)
• X-Wing Rogue Squadron 9
• X-Wing Rogue Squadron 11
• Tatooine Ghost

Sources

• Star Wars Blueprints (Picture only)
• "Anthony Daniels: Remembering That Galaxy Far, Far Away" — The Lucasfilm Fan Club Magazine 1 (Indirect mention only)
• Star Wars: The National Public Radio Dramatization
• Inside the Worlds of Star Wars: Episode I (First identified as Great Mesra Plateau)
• Secrets of Tatooine
• The Official Star Wars Fact File 38 TAT 23-24: Tatooine – Mos Eisley
• The Official Star Wars Fact File 74 TAT 43-46: Tatooine – Obi-Wan Kenobi's Home
• Inside the Worlds of Star Wars Trilogy
• Star Wars: Complete Locations
• The World of Star Wars: Kenobi on StarWars.com (original link is obsolete)

Notes and references