Kitster Chanchani Banai Kitster Chanchani Banai was a Human slave boy on Tatooine , and the best friend of Anakin Skywalker . After not seeing his smuggler father , Rakir Banai , in many years , Kitster gave up hopes of being rescued from Tatooine and instead hoped to one day be a majordomo for a wealthy Mos Espan estate . Biography . Childhood . Kitster Chanchani Banai was born the son of pirate Rakir Banai , circa 41 BBY . Rakir was wanted by the Hutts , who eventually tracked him down and captured his ship with his family onboard . As a result , Kitster and his mother were sold into slavery , which brought them to the Tatooine city of Mos Espa . A short time before the 32 BBY Boonta ' s Eve , the young Kitster , with Anakin Skywalker and their friends , narrowly avoided disaster upon hearing of children who had been captured and imprisoned by Sebulba . The Dug intended to sell the captives , including Princess Arawynne , to Gardulla the Elder . The children , disguised as Jawas , sneaked into Gardulla ' s estate and freed the Ghostling children . Kitster was the best friend of Anakin Skywalker on Tatooine , but he was also a slave — ' property ' of Gardulla herself , who was ever threatening to sell him to the glitterstim miners if he didn ' t ' shape up ' . During the podrace on Boonta Eve , Kitster was part of Anakin ' s pit crew . Before Anakin left to become a Jedi , he left Kitster some of his prize credits . With it , Kitster bought " Par Ontham ' s Guide to Etiquette " , a book that Kitster memorized to secure a job at the Three Moons , run by Rarta Dal . With that job , Kitster earned enough to buy his own freedom by the time he had grown up . Bandrik wrath . It was said that when Kitster grew up years later during the Clone Wars , he became a smuggler and disappeared on one of his runs . However , he was seen at Mos Espa again in 1 . 5 ABY . Sadly , he did not know at the time that his best friend fell to the dark side and became the dreaded Darth Vader . In fact , he believed Anakin died during the Clone Wars . When Kitster attempted to improve the lives of a group of slaves , he ended up offending their owner , Drik Bandrik . Angered , Bandrik framed Kitster by manipulating a tribe of violent Jawas into believing that Kitster had stolen a droid from them . Luckily for Kitster , a benovolent traveler agreed to help Kitster and kill the group of aggressive Jawas , all of whom were working for Wittin . As a reward , Kitster gave the traveler Anakin ' s podracing helmet . However , Kitster ' s problems were not yet over . Bandrik had once again framed Kitster , this time planting evidence with Jabba the Hutt that implicated Kitster with attempting to lead a slave revolt at his palace a few years ago . Though a revolt did take place , and fail , Jabba was still enraged enough to send a Rodian henchman named Deeng to kill Kitster . The same traveler who had helped him before agreed to hunt down and kill Deeng . Though the traveler succeeded in killing Deeng , Bandrik ' s persistence in framing Kitster did not end there . This time Kitster was being implicated in the murder of a moisture farmer . Kitster insisted that he was nowhere near the murder , and had the evidence to prove it . Kitster ' s alibi was that he was rotting in an Imperial jail cell during the time of the murder . He was arrested for " political agitation , " as a result of his attempts to promote slave rights . Ultimately , the Galactic Empire released Kitster , because they believed him to be harmless . However , Sont Toipo , a local vigilante leader on Bandrik ' s payroll , was already rallying a lynch mob to kill Kitster . Kitster surmised that the mob consisted of six or eight local moisture farmers . He pleaded with the traveler to kill Sont Toipo , but to make an effort to spare the others , as they were merely farmers . Kitster hoped they would run off after Toipo was killed . The traveler agreed , and set out to successfully kill Toipo , while making an effort to spare the lives of the farmers . For the traveler ' s efforts , Kitster gave away another souvenir , a droid brain built by his old friend , Anakin . Eventually , Kitster learned that the " murdered " moisture farmer was in fact not murdered at all , but rather paid by Bandrik to leave town long enough for a lynch mob to be formed . In order to clear his name , Kitster asked the traveler to find the moisture farmer , a female Twi ' lek named Krin Vel , and bring her back to Mos Espa . Despite being ambushed by thugs working for Bandrik , the traveler managed to find Krin , and escort her back . Krin claimed that she did not know she was being used in a plot against Kitster . She wished to be brought back , so that both Kitster and herself could see to it that Bandrik went to prison . With the help of Krin , Kitster managed to assemble enough evidence that would clear him of Bandrik ' s fake charges . He considered sending the evidence to the police , but soon changed his mind when he surmised that the police and the Empire would have no reason to arrest him . He instead told the traveler to bring the evidence to a slicer friend , a Kitonak who went by the name Thermal Det . The traveler agreed to Kitster ' s final task , and succeeded in finding Thermal and giving him the evidence . Thermal saw to it that the information went straight to Jabba , and made it onto the HoloNet . Kitster thanked the traveler once again for helping him . Kitster concluded that Jabba would be angered with Bandrik for being manipulated . He believed that Bandrik would have to leave the planet if he ever hoped to survive . Anakin ' s legacy . Eventually , Kitster married a local Kuati woman named Ulda , who maintained the old Podracing Arena , eventually turning it into a swoop bike arena . However , Kitster quickly fell in love with the arena ' s bartender , Tamora Spice . Kitster left Ulda and married Tamora , and together they had two kids , Ji and Elly . With Tamora by his side , Kitster soon accomplished his ultimate goal in life by becoming the majordomo at the Rendala Estate in Mos Espa . However , by 8 ABY the estate had foreclosed , leaving Kitster unemployed . Times became so hard that Kitster took to auctioning off personal objects , such as a holocube of his old friend Anakin Skywalker after winning the Boonta Eve Classic . The holocube was sold to a Gotal collector for thirteen hundred credits at the same auction as the famous painting , " Killik Twilight " , which held Rebel codes in it . In 8 . 5 ABY , he met Leia and Han Solo at the same auction . When " Killik Twilight " was threatened with destruction , Kitster acted fast , stealing the painting and using his old friend Wald ' s swoop bike to escape into the deserts from pursuing stormtroopers . When a huge sandstorm struck , Kitster took shelter in a Jawa Sandcrawler that eventually was attacked by Tusken Raiders . The Sand People kidnapped Kitster and the painting and brought them back to the Valley of the Spirits , where they planned on sacrificing him to the " angry ghost " that had slain an entire tribe with a " glowing , humming sword . " The Tuskens began to torture Kitster as part of the sacrifice by breaking his fingers for every time the moss painting needed to be watered . Fortunately , within a few days , Han and Leia found and rescued him and the painting . Before parting , Kitster explained his beliefs that Anakin must have always regretted his vengeful attack on the Tuskens , even after becoming the feared Darth Vader , which eventually brought Leia to conclude that she should forgive her father . Behind the scenes . Kitster Banai was portrayed by Dhruv Chanchani in " " . " Chanchani " was later given as his middle name in " The Complete Star Wars Encyclopedia " .