Battle of the Jundland Wastes Prelude . During 32 BBY on Tatooine , Gardulla the Elder was hoping to usurp the position of Tatooine ' s foremost Hutt warlord from Jabba Desilijic Tiure by provoking her armies to attack Tusken settlements . She would then have her merchants sell their antiquated weapons to the Tuskens more much more than they were worth . The Tuskens ' Jedi leader , Sharad Hett , who had lived with them for several years , found out about Gardulla ' s plot . Sharad Hett and his Tuskens retaliated , first attacking Jawa sandcrawlers and places where the weapons were being sold , then moving on to attack bigger settlements , like Anchorhead . During the raid on Anchorhead , a Galactic Republic surveyor took a holo of the Tuskens slaughtering with amazing skill the thugs who opposed them . He took the holo to the Jedi Council on Coruscant , so that they and the Republic might be able to put an end to this conflict . Once the holo arrived , Jedi Masters Yoda and Eeth Koth took a look at it , and discovered something amazing . If they enlarged the holo on the Tusken in the holo who appeared to be the leader , they would see a lightsaber hanging at his belt . Ki - Adi - Mundi came to take a look at it , and recognized the lightsaber . He knew that it was the weapon of Sharad Hett , who had vanished about 15 years before . He believed Sharad to be dead , but Yoda and Koth thought that that was him also . From what they had heard from the surveyor of the mysterious Tusken leader , the Tuskens now weren ' t just fighting sloppily in tiny bands , they were now launching full - scale assaults with the precision of an elite army . The Jedi then sent Ki to investigate . Ki arrived and eventually met up with Sharad , he tried to convince Sharad to return , but was rejected . Sharad revealed he had had a son , and was now with the Tuskens , but still a Jedi nonetheless . Eventually , Ki and Sharad saw a huge task force led by Gardulla set out to attack the Tusken camp . The battle . Sharad set off to aid his warriors , and discovered that Gardulla had set a trap . She had had several of her troops on flyers and drawing the Tuskens closer . When the Tuskens had charged they threw and set off large bundles of explosives , killing many of the warriors . Sharad then rallied his troops , and attacked . The two armies fought , with Sharad ' s superior combat knowledge coming in hand and gaining him the upper hand . Gardulla eventually decided to pull back to Mos Espa , but Sharad leapt onto her flyer and quickly killed all five of her bodyguards . Meanwhile , Jabba ' s troo , ( tipped off by Sing ) , arrived to help Gardulla . Sharad then decided to not kill Gardulla , but stood at the top of the railing on her flyer , commanding his troops . This made him an easy target , and Aurra Sing shot him in the arm , wounding him . She leapt forward and engaged him in lightsaber combat , and eventually stabbed Sharad . Sharad ' s son and Ki arrived , and A ' Sharad angrily sprung toward Sing . He was about to kill her , but Ki told her that was not the way of the Jedi , A ' Sharad considered this , and this bought Sing a moment to kick A ' Sharad and escape . Aftermath . In the end , A ' Sharad decided to become Ki ' s Padawan , and the Tuskens were decimated , losing the battle . With the death of their leader , the Tuskens now were very uncoordinated and unable to reassemble an army . The Tuskens then returned to their isolated life in the Jundland Wastes .