Amni Ponnar Amni Ponnar was a young Human female who lived at her parent ' s homestead on Tatooine around 0 BBY . That year , her life was put in danger after her father ' s plan to make the local Jawas and Tusken Raiders go to war over food turned wrong . She was saved by Jedi Master Ben Kenobi and his new young trainee Luke Skywalker . Back to her home , she learned of her father ' s treachery from Kenobi and noticed that the locals had followed them . However , Kenobi defused the escalation of violence and went his way , leaving Amni and her mother settle accounts with her father . Biography . Amni Ponnar was born to Human parents in the later years of the Imperial Period . By 0 BBY , she lived with her father and mother at the family homestead , situated in the Jundland Wastes . Although her father considered him to be a " crazy old man , " Ponnar was an acquaintance of Ben Kenobi , secretly a Jedi Master in hiding who lived out beyond the Dune Sea . She was also familiar with Luke Skywalker , a nineteen - year - old who resided at his uncle ' s home on the Great Chott salt flat . In 0 BBY , Amni ' s father sought to expand his farm at the expense of the local Jawas and Tusken Raiders . Unbeknownst to his wife and daughter , he stole all the hubba gourd s that grew on a cliff while they were still growing . Since those hubba gourds were the main staple food of both species , Amni ' s father hoped the two groups would fight over the vanished fruits . With the Jawa and Tusken Raider clans wiping out one another , the farmer could farm beyond the bounds of his current property . However , some of the locals noticed Ponnar ' s landspeeder while he was stripping the hubba gourds clean . When Amni was sent to Anchorhead to purchase supplies , she found herself in the middle of a fight between Jawas and Tusken Raiders on her way back , and the fighters recognized the Ponnar family speeder . The girl was rescued by the timely arrival of Kenobi , who was headed to Mos Eisley with Luke Skywalker , who was now his apprentice . The two men returned Amni safely to her homestead , where the farmer Ponnar gave them a lukewarm reception . Suspecting that Ponnar might have something to do with the natives ' hostile behavior , Kenobi pretended to wash off the sand from his clothes so he could investigate the house . Kenobi found the stolen hubba gourds behind a sliding wall and exposed the treachery in front of the homestead residents . The young Amni was appalled to learn of her father ' s machinations . When Ponnar threatened Kenobi with a blaster , Luke Skywalker reacted by swinging his father ' s lightsaber at the gun , cutting through its barrel before the farmer had the occasion to shoot . Immediately afterwards , Amni realized that the fighting Jawas and Tusken Raiders had followed them home and were about to assault the place . Since the farm ' s occupants were clearly outnumbered , Kenobi defused the situation by redistributing the stolen hubba gourds . Once the natives had left , Amni and her mother waved their heroes of the day goodbye , while her father was crushed by the shame of his devious scheme . Personality and traits . By 0 BBY , Amni Ponnar was a juvenile female with fair skin and green eyes . She had a speckled face and brown hair , which she wore in twin bunches . Despite her young age , Amni ' s parents deemed her responsible enough to travel through the Jundland Wastes on her own , and she was also capable of piloting the family landspeeder herself . While she had been attacked by the Jawas and the Tusken Raiders , Amni was still shocked at the idea that her father would lead them to stand at daggers drawn . Following Kenobi ' s departure , she looked at her father with contempt , which the Jedi found to be enough of a punishment . Behind the scenes . Amni Ponnar first appeared in " War on the Jundland Wastes " , a comic written by Mike W . Barr and illustrated by Bob Molesworth , which was published in 2014 in " Star Wars Comic 1 " .