Dowager Queen

The Dowager Queen was a colony ship that was headed for the city of Mos Espa on Tatooine when a massive sandstorm ruined the ship's engines, causing it to crash in a canyon on the planet. The survivors of the ship used parts from their craft to assemble a rudimentary wall around the wreckage, and soon the small community grew into a town, which the residents named Eisley. Making its money from moisture vaporators and selling scrap to nearby Jawas, the town soon expanded to form one of the most famous spaceports on all of Tatooine.

One hundred years after the crash, Eisley (or Mos Eisley as it was now called, to match Mos Espa) was a prospering spaceport. Jabba the Hutt took particular interest in this spaceport as it was a good place to recruit Mercenaries, and Han Solo and Chewbacca made the city their home for a time. At the very center of the city, the wreck of the Dowager Queen still stood, nearly at a completely vertical angle, and it was later converted into a hotel due to its importance to the city.

Rather morbidly, three years into the conversion project, three bodies were dug up from the wreckage of the ship, presumably from the original crew. Preserved almost completely, the bodies could not be identified but were nontheless buried. Alongside the bodies was a severely damaged droid, and there were hopes that it could be restored to shed more light onto the identities of the bodies in the wreckage, however, the droid was riddled with sand damage and was far beyond repair. Years later, the Dowager Queen Hotel was finally opened.