Hudu Shiv Hudu Shiv was a Human male member of Death Watch during the Clone Wars . He was regarded as one of their best snipers . He was sent to work for Count Dooku in 21 BBY to ensure the assassination of Commissioner Langu Sommilor from the planet Kynachi before they reached Coruscant , and to further the plans of Dooku and his master using Jedi Padawan Nuru Kungurama . Shiv performed his assassination , but was unable to flee without being seen by the Jedi , and was forced to fake his own death to ensure Death Watch ' s anonymity . Biography . Hudu Shiv was a Human male Death Watch assassin . In 22 BBY , Count Dooku contacted the Death Watch and requested a sniper , and Hudu Shiv was sent . Shiv arrived at Dooku ' s retreat on Kohlma , and after being tested with remotes to prove his prowess , he was sent on to Vaced with specific instructions to assassinate the Commissioner of Kynachi , Langu Sommilor . Arriving on the planet Vaced , where Sommilor was going to meet with an escort , Shiv prepared an ambush outside of Vaced Spaceport , and was hidden under a camouflage net in a tree when Breaker , a member of the Galactic Republic unit Breakout Squad , was on patrol and stumbled upon Shiv ' s speeder bike Shiv knocked Breaker unconscious and tied him up , as he had been instructed to not allow anyone to know that a Mandalorian had been involved in the assassination . When Sommilor arrived on Vaced , Shiv used poison darts to kill him and the two KynachTech Industries pilots who accompanied him . Shiv prepared to go , leaving behind the utility belt of Jedi Master Ring - Sol Ambase as Count Dooku had instructed , when Ambase ' s Padawan Nuru Kungurama approached him on a stolen swoop with a swoop gang in hot pursuit . Shiv had been instructed to leave Kungurama alive , and attempted to elude them , but knowing the swoops were faster than his speeder bike , tossed a thermal detonator , knowing Kungurama would be able to avoid it . Kungurama dodged the detonator , but the explosion took out the swoop gang . When Kungurama followed Shiv into the canyon called Shattered Rock , now accompanied by the sole survivor of the gang , Gizman , Shiv circled around to ambush them . Shiv shot Gizz and caused the swoop to crash . Shiv checked to see if the young Jedi was alive , and found him not only alive but conscious . The two fought a brief duel before the " Hasty Harpy " , the starship Kungurama had been traveling on , arrived . Shiv used his jetpack to flee , and when the " Hasty Harpy " followed him , he used his rocket to attack the ship . He returned to his " Pursuer " - class enforcement ship and , after detaching the lifeboat , sent the ship by remote control to follow the Harpy , and let it be destroyed , fooling Breakout Squad into thinking he was dead . The confrontation , though , also resulted in the damaging of the " Hasty Harpy . " Then he took the lifeboat to a nearby space station to wait for a Death Watch ship to pick him up , hoping to someday confront Kungurama again . Personality and traits . Dooku commented on Shiv ' s skill as a Death Watch sniper . Shiv took many precautions but was proud of his abilities and wore a heavily armed set of Mandalorian armor . Shiv was capable of piloting a variety of vehicles and could use a jetpack . Behind the scenes . Hudu Shiv appeared in Ryder Windham ' s 2011 book " " .