Duel on Tatooine ( Imperial Period ) A duel occurred on the planet Tatooine in the year 17 BBY between two Jedi who had escaped the Jedi Order ' s extinction in Order 66 — A ' Sharad Hett and Obi - Wan Kenobi . In the aftermath of Order 66 , Hett returned to his homeworld of Tatooine and became warlord of a number of Tusken Raider clans , as his father had done decades before . Leading the Tuskens in an aggressive campaign against the settlers of Tatooine , Hett and his war band eventually came across the Lars homestead on the outskirts of the Jundland Wastes . Little did he know , however , that the Lars moisture farm was under the covert protection of Jedi Master Kenobi , who had also survived Palpatine ' s Order 66 . After a brief discussion between the two Jedi , during which Hett refused to put an end to his campaign of aggression , Kenobi and Hett found themselves involved in a fierce duel . Despite Hett ' s skill with wielding two lightsabers , Kenobi was able to defeat the fallen Jedi . Kenobi then made Hett swear on his father ' s honor not to return to Tatooine again , thus ensuring the continued protection of the Lars Homestead . Hett complied with Kenobi ' s demands , and agreed to never return to the backwater desert world . Prelude . In the final moments of the Clone Wars , Palpatine issued a top - secret command , better known as Order 66 , to a number of clone commanders . The order commanded the clones to assassinate their Jedi commanders , and the Jedi Order was virtually annihilated as a result — the Great Jedi Purge had begun . Meanwhile , A ' Sharad Hett , a Tusken Jedi , had been on a scouting mission near enemy lines , away from his clone troopers , when the order was given . After witnessing the deaths of numerous Jedi comrades , Hett made his way back to his clones and killed those assigned to execute him . After killing most of the clones , he kept one trooper alive just long enough to learn what had transpired , and why the clones had turned on the Jedi . Following his survival of Order 66 , Hett fled the field of battle and attempted to reach out to other Jedi through the Force . However , he was unable to sense any other Jedi and , fearing the worst , set out to plan his own private war against the forces of Palpatine . Believing himself to be the only Jedi to have survived Order 66 , Hett made his way back to his birth world of Tatooine , and once again donned the wrappings of a Tusken Raider . Just as his father had done before him , A ' Sharad Hett united several Tusken clans and proclaimed himself their warlord . In response to the age - old war against the Tusken people by the settlers of Tatooine , Hett led his new war bands in retaliation against the Human settlements that had encroached on Tusken land . Honed through years of fighting in the Clone Wars , Hett ' s leadership and skills as a warrior did much to gain back Tusken land that had been lost since the death of his father . Under the leadership of A ' Sharad Hett , the Tusken Raiders again became a feared fighting unit , taking by force the land that they believed was theirs by right . Through fragmented reports from other colonists , Obi - Wan Kenobi , who had settled on Tatooine to protect the infant son of Darth Vader , learned that the Tuskens had attacked at least three large moisture farms and had even killed seven farmers in a single day . Unaware that his former comrade had come back to his homeworld following Order 66 , Kenobi was unsettled by the strong Force presence that he sensed on the desert world ; thinking it might be the Sith , Kenobi determined to stay close to the Lars moisture farm , where young Luke Skywalker was living , in case his help was needed . Setting out to travel to the Lars homestead , Kenobi came across the Valley of the Spirits where he was approached by the spirit of his dead master , Qui - Gon Jinn . His spirit told Kenobi about the slaughter that Anakin Skywalker had precipitated in the valley , and how he had only shared the information with the Tusken - turned - Jedi A ' Sharad Hett . Slowly putting the pieces together , Kenobi asked Jinn if the tribe that Anakin had destroyed was that of Hett and his father ; however , Jinn would not answer if Kenobi ' s assumptions were true or not . With this knowledge , Kenobi continued on his route to the Lars homestead , intent on being between Hett and his Tusken army and the Lars family . The duel . Eventually Hett and his Tusken warriors came across a small moisture farm on the edge of the Jundland Wastes , which belonged to the Lars family . To Hett ' s mild surprise , his war band was halted by none other than his old Jedi acquaintance , Obi - Wan Kenobi , who had also chosen Tatooine to hide from Palpatine . While living in the desert , Kenobi had noticed the Tuskens and their aggressive campaign that Hett had been leading , and had decided that he was slowly falling to the dark side . Confronting Hett at the Lars homestead , Kenobi shared with the Tusken warlord his fears that Hett was becoming the very thing that the Jedi had sworn to fight against . Kenobi continued by asking him to stop his crusade against the settlers of Tatooine , but Hett refused to listen to Kenobi . Hett argued that it was the Jedi ' s job , indeed " his " job , to defend those who were oppressed , and that that was why he fought for the Tuskens . Refusing to forgive the settlers , whom he had witnessed killing countless Tuskens , Hett advised Kenobi that he would continue his war . With the whole of the Tusken army watching , the two Jedi ignited their lightsabers and fought a vicious duel in the sands surrounding the Lars moisture farm . The fight lasted for several minutes , and both men demonstrated the skills they had earned throughout their careers as Jedi . The duel , however , ended when Kenobi sliced off Hett ' s right arm , and tore off his Tusken wrappings — in the culture of the Tuskens , to expose any part of the flesh was forbidden and seen as a disgrace . Also , with only the use of one hand , Hett could not hope to wield the gaderffii , the traditional weapon of the Tuskens , and therefore could no longer be their warlord . Having witnessed their leader defeated and defaced at the hands of a stranger , the Tusken army left Hett to fend for himself in the desert . Now an outcast unable to return to his home , Hett asked Kenobi to kill him , thus giving him an honorable death in the traditions of the Tuskens . Even though Hett would not have hesitated to kill Kenobi , given the chance , Kenobi could not kill his old friend . Instead , Kenobi made Hett swear on the honor of his father that he would leave Tatooine and never return , hoping that Hett would see the error of his ways and again take up the Jedi way . Aftermath . Decades after his duel with Kenobi , Hett learned that the moisture farm Kenobi had stopped him at concealed the son of Anakin Skywalker ; he would also learn that Skywalker had become Darth Vader , the being responsible for so many Jedi deaths . Upon the realization that Skywalker and Vader were in fact the same person , Hett regretted protecting Skywalker ' s secret of massacring a tribe of Tuskens , which the young Jedi had confided to him during the Clone Wars . Hett felt that if he had turned young Skywalker over to the Jedi Council , he would have spared the galaxy untold amounts of suffering and grief . Hett had been training a Force - sensitive Tusken Raider named KkH ' Oar ' Rrhr before the duel , and Hoar continued to revere his mentor even after Hett was unmasked . Hoar decided to depart Tatooine with a number of other Tusken Raiders in search of Hett , but they ultimately were unable to locate their missing chieftain . More than one hundred years after the event , A ' Sharad Hett , now the Sith Lord Darth Krayt , would retell the details of the duel to his prisoner , the former Jedi Cade Skywalker . The direct descendant of Anakin Skywalker , Cade would choose to follow his ancestor ' s footsteps and accept the offer to be trained in the ways of the Sith . Behind the scenes . The duel between A ' Sharad Hett and Obi - Wan Kenobi was written by author John Ostrander and illustrated by artist Jan Duursema for the sixteenth issue of the " " series of comics . After the publication of " " there was some confusion over whether Kenobi used the Force or his lightsaber to sever Hett ' s right arm from his body . The confusion surrounds a series of comic - panels , drawn by Jan Duursema , which seems to suggest that Kenobi might have used the Force to amputate Hett ' s arm . Nevertheless , Jan Duursema replied via her official message board that , " " … the arm was not Force pulled off . Certainly would be a lot messier than the surgical precision of a lightsaber . Probably bleed to death though … " " , thus clarifying the initial confusion among readers . Before the release of " Claws of the Dragon , Part 3 " there was much fan speculation regarding what type of role Obi - Wan Kenobi would have with regards to the " Legacy " storyline . These ranged from theories claiming that Darth Krayt was actually the lovechild of Siri Tachi and Kenobi , to stating that Kenobi ' s role would be a confrontation with A ' Sharad Hett on Tatooine , thus causing Hett to start down the road of the dark side . Likewise , upon learning that Kenobi would have some type of role to play in the " Legacy " comics , fans expressed a wide range of emotions ranging from happiness , to surprise , to apathy to displeasure . Similarly , following the release of " Claws of the Dragon , Part 3 " in September 2007 , some fans were quick to condemn Kenobi for not killing the defeated A ' Sharad Hett . These claims revolved around the idea that had Kenobi killed Hett following their duel , he could have saved the galaxy from Hett ' s eventual fall to the dark side — this criticism relates back to Kenobi ' s unwillingness to kill Anakin Skywalker after defeating him on Mustafar , thus theoretically allowing Darth Vader to terrorize the galaxy . In response to these various critiques , " Claws of the Dragon " artist Jan Duursema retorted with , " " Would Obi - Wan be a better Jedi if he killed every misguided fool that he ever met ? " " Along these same lines , writer John Ostrander commented that Kenobi suffered from what he referred to as the " Spider - man syndrome . " In Ostrander ' s own words , " " Peter Parker didn ' t stop the Thief when he had a chance ; Thief later kills gentle Uncle Ben . Uncle Ben ' s death is all Peter ' s fault for not stopping him when he could . In this case , Hett wasn ' t yet a Sith or even a Dark Jedi . A ' Sharad really hasn ' t done anything that his father , Sharad , hadn ' t done earlier . Killing him would not have been an appropriate response for a Jedi . " "