Shon - Ju Shon - Ju was a tall and muscular fallen Padawan - turned - cult leader who taught himself to direct the Force into his hands in the place of fighting with a lightsaber . He then went on to find other Force - sensitives to whom he taught his methods . During the Clone Wars , Shon - Ju ' s Force school went to Cavamina Minor to pursue the war - profiteer Attuma Duum . There they saved the Jedi Knight Aayla Secura from Duum ' s mercenaries , and Shon - Ju agreed to help the Twi ' lek Jedi stop Duum . Shon - Ju betrayed Secura , however , and his actions led Secura to cut off his hands and allow Duum to escape . Shon - Ju ran off into the doomed headquarters and later found his way back to his students ; eventually he accepted prosthetic hands , which were superior to his old ones . Biography . Life as a Jedi . Shon - Ju ' s first memories were of being taught at the Jedi Temple on Coruscant . However , the Jedi saw Shon - Ju as being too focused on using the Force as a weapon and refused to make him a Jedi Knight . Eventually he became too old to continue the training and was told he would never attain a knighthood . Angry and dejected , Shon - Ju decided to leave the Jedi Order . On exiting the temple , Shon - Ju was met by Count Dooku , alias Darth Tyranus , who encouraged him to take what he had learned as a Padawan and use it as a foundation to continue his studies on his own . Heeding Dooku ' s advice , Shon - Ju went into exile and focused on deepening his connection to the Force . During that time , he believed he had found balance and cast off his lightsaber so he could instead teach himself how to wield the Force for combat through his hands . He then went on to find other Force - sensitives who had been rejected or overlooked by the Jedi Order and established a school where his new students could learn the ways of the Force as he knew it . Encounter with Attuma Duum . Jedi Knight Aayla Secura met Shon - Ju during the Clone Wars on the Mid Rim moon of Cavamina Minor after her mission to apprehend Attuma Duum had initially ended in failure . Secura ' s starfighter had been shot down and she was running from the mercenary Sabat . Secura was rescued by Shon - Ju and his students ; Sabat chose to attack Shon - Ju directly after having been given a choice to fight or flee . Sabat ran away after Shon - Ju defeated his men , leaving Shon - Ju to assist a wounded Secura . Secura later woke up in Shon - Ju ' s castle . Finding her way outside , she saw Shon - Ju ' s students practicing their brand of the Force . Secura requested help , and Shon - Ju said they did not have a comm - unit , and it was too late to check out Sabat ' s ships . He then went on to tell her part of his history as a Jedi . The next morning , they agreed to help each other take down the war - profiteer Attuma Duum and stole two of Sabat ' s bombers to reach Duum ' s hidden base in the nearby asteroid field . The two force - sensitives snuck into Duum ' s facility . Shon - Ju deliberately tripped the alarm to infiltrate further by surrendering to the guards . Secura Force - pushed the guards and fired at Attuma Duum ' s security droid . Sabat , however , took Shon - Ju hostage to induce Secura to surrender . The two were held in bonds and were met by Duum himself . Duum told them they would be ransomed , and took Secura ' s lightsaber . Duum then left to watch his plan fall into motion . He had lured a Galactic Republic and Separatist fleet under false pretenses and ambushed the two fleets with a vast minefield . As Duum watched the fireworks , Shon - Ju confessed to Secura that he planned on killing Duum , to humiliate the Jedi Order . Shon - Ju used his hands to break free of his bonds then pushed Sabat into a turbine , killing him and causing an explosion . Shon - Ju told Secura he ' d return for her later , so she would not interfere in his plans , then arrived at Duum ' s control center . Duum revealed his true form , a cyborg body and directly challenged Shon - Ju . Meanwhile , Secura broke free of her bonds and arrived to save what was left of Duum , saying he was now under her custody . Shon - Ju then attacked Secura , telling her she had chosen her path and to follow through with it . He knocked her down , then picked her up , vowing to end it . She called her lightsaber to her using the Force , then cut off Shon - Ju ' s hands to teach him how helpless he was . Ignored , Duum escaped . In tears , Shon - Ju said the Jedi kept taking from him , and asked how much would be enough , before running into the flames . Secura then escaped the doomed station and returned to Coruscant . Unbeknownst to Secura , Shon - Ju survived the destruction . He was given prosthetic hands . Not willing to be just whole , he thought himself as more , using his hands to shear through the 2 - 1B droid attending to him . Personality and traits . In his time at the Jedi Temple , he channeled the Force in ways other students could only imagine . Eventually , he was told he could not graduate to Knighthood because of his focus on using the Force as a weapon . Angered , he left and pursued his studies elsewhere , and achieved tranquility . Afterward , he forsook a lightsaber and directed the Force through his hands . He developed another form of Force combat , and passed it on to others , teaching them himself and thereby rejecting the Order ' s exclusivity . He told Aayla Secura he was learning as much from his trainees as they were from him . Despite what he said , he harbored a grudge against the Jedi Order for abandoning him . He lied to Aayla Secura , and then tried to kill Attuma Duum to humiliate the Order , whose agent could not capture the mercenary . He thought the Order had taken everything for him . After his injuries at the hands of Secura , his felt his cybernetic replacement hands did not make him whole , but better . He enjoyed fighting and taunted Sabat . Behind the scenes . Shon - Ju appears in the 2010 graphic novella " " as the titular character .