A ' Yark / Legends A ' Yark , previously known as K ' Yark , was a female Tusken Raider tribal leader . She was the daughter of Yark and the adoptive sister of K ' Sheek , which made of her the aunt of A ' Sharad Hett . Biography . Early life . A ' Yark was born the youngest of six children . When three of her siblings died , her father abducted K ' Sheek , who was nearly an adult when A ' Yark ' s family took her in , and it was A ' Yark who was granted the privilege of teaching K ' Sheek the ways and words of the Tusken Raider , with her also learning how to speak Basic from K ' Sheek . Yark allowed both A ' Yark and K ' Sheek to learn the ways of the warrior guessing correctly that K ' Sheek would learn the Tusken ways faster and defended his daughters from criticism . When they were older Sharad Hett joined the Tusken Raiders , and married her sister . Life went on as it were , with her adopted sister disappeared during a sandstorm and her father died , she took a Tusken Raider named Deen as her spouse and gave birth to children . When Jabba the Hutt began to incite war between the Humans and Tuskens of Tatooine as a way to sell off his stock of antiquated blasters , the fight claimed the life of her eldest son who was six cycles old . Her tribe as well as others followed Sharad into battle against the Hutt . During the battle she lost both her spouse and her brother in law . With her believing that Sharad ' s son had disappeared ( Unaware that he was taken into the Jedi Order , but later became the Sith Lord Darth Krayt over a hundred years later ) . A ' Yark , a widow with only two children left , hadn ' t originally sought the role of War Leader , but when no one else rose to take the mantle she did . Losses continued after that incident , losing not only another son but one of her eyes as well ( Taken by an infection from a wound she received . ) She replace the missing organ with a crystal that was a gift from Sharad , which led to the settlers calling her Plug - eye . . She saw how the morale of her tribe was strickened , especially after the lost of a mightier tribe of Tusken were killed , leaving behind a village . A ' Yark tried to raise the morale of her Tribe by example and later by daring exploits . Though this too backfired due to Orrin Gault and the Settlers ' Call Fund . Seeing the Force in action . After a disastrous raid A ' Yark group retreated to The Pillars . she then heard from a youngling about two people riding a animal through the dunes again . She order the others to start while she went out to deal with the intruder . From behind the dune A ' Yark saw Ben Kenobi save Kallie and was shocked when the women Annileen was thrown off the dewback when it tripped in a hole but instead of being crushed by the fallen beast she saw it hover in the air for a second then fall at an angle that laid it to rest just shy of the woman ' s body . After seeing she hid behind the dune . She needed to know what was the cause of what she seen and who done it . She didn ' t believe it was Kenobi since she saw no reason for him to put himself at risk for either of the women . Believing that the woman had tried to tame the wilderness of Tatooine since she was on a mountain Dewback in the dune region , combined with the Tusken raiders ' view that living beings only helped themselves , believed that it was the woman who performed the feat she saw . She then resolved to kill Annileen but before she could she felt a tremor in the sands . Realizing that it was one of the Sarlacc children was waking up due to what happened earlier . She decided to head back to her tribe to share the information , knowing the human could be found again and believing that this might be what they need to regain their defiant spirit . Comet Run Day battle . Later she led an assault on Dannar ' s Claim , in the beginning the Tuskens had the upperhand , but after the intervention of Ben Kenobi and the raising of the Settlers ' Call Fund alarm . the members of her raiding party fled . The members of the Fund pursued and massacred them at Hanter ' s Gorge , among the casualties was her son A ' Deen . She also learnt that Kenobi had known Hett . Orrin Gault who was badly injured was forced to help A ' Yark repair a stolen water vaporator for her people to survive off of . Behind the scenes . A ' Yark was the first known female Tusken Raider warrior , who made an appearance in " Kenobi " .