"Mos Eisley Spaceport. You will never find a more wretched hive of scum and villainy."
―Obi-Wan Kenobi, to Luke Skywalker
Mos Eisley is a large spaceport ton on the planet Tatooine. It is the largest settlement on the planet and is generally known as the "armpit of the galaxy".
Mos Eisley is located in a valley somewhere to the southeast of the Jundland Wastes and roughly 80 kilometers north of Anchorhead.
The city lackes a main landing facility; therefore it relied on 362 individual hangars. By order of the Empire, all of these hangars were equipped with time-lock devices. Illegally parked vessels were not an uncommon sight.
The town is really larger than it looked, as a good portion of it lay underground. In fact, it has a population of around 40 to 60 thousand people, varying seasonally.
Many citizens rode rontos, dewbacks, and other beasts of burden.
The streets of Mos Eisley.Mos Eisley are divided into the "New Quarter" and the "Old Quarter". The Old Quarter was originally wheel-shaped and contained a thriving marketplace. Jabba the Hutt also maintained a residence there, known as the Desilijic Complex, since it was difficult to make business from his palace. The New Quarter is more tourist-friendly and was a merchant district where tourists could relax (though there was still much crime). Chalmun's Cantina serves as the hub of the newer quarter. Each quarter had individual neighborhoods, such as the rough-and-tumble Tar Mass area.
During the Galactic Civil War, the Empire established a small garrison in Mos Eisley, although this did not help with the city's massive crime rates. The base was located near the cantina and whenever an expansion was required, the Empire would simply bulldoze surrounding houses. To support the constant flow of spacers, Mos Eisley featured a large number of hotels, casinos, and cantinas.
Subject: Mos Eisley 
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