Sharad Hett was a powerful Jedi Knight who lived during the decades of relative peace prior to the Invasion of Naboo. A heroic and legendary figure in pre-Clone Wars Galactic Republic, Sharad eventually grew weary of his fame and, after a disaster destroyed his homeworld and killed his family, Hett exiled himself to Tatooine, where he became the warlord of a tribe of Tusken Raiders.

He sired a son, A'Sharad Hett, in this period, and continued to lead the Tuskens until the Jedi sent a representative to retrieve him—Ki-Adi-Mundi. During a war between the Tuskens and the Hutts of Tatooine, Sharad Hett was killed by Aurra Sing. Honoring the Jedi's final wish, Ki-Adi-Mundi took A'Sharad back to Coruscant as his Padawan.

Sharad's son would go on to eclipse even his father's fame.

"His... I'm certain of it."

―Ki-Adi-Mundi

Sharad used a lightsaber during his career as a Jedi Knight, which remained at his side even in self-imposed exile on Tatooine. Although the color of the blade could have varied during his time as a Jedi, the blade was blood red in color during Sharad's time as a warlord.

When a report reached the Jedi Temple in 32 BBY of a Tusken Raider wielding the lightsaber while leading a massive Tusken warband, the saber correlated to a historical holorecording of Sharad Hett. Due to Sharad's fame, it was instantly recognizable to many Jedi including Yoda and Eeth Koth, who trained him. It was this clue that led the Jedi to identify the Sand Person seen wielding it as Sharad himself.

Before becoming one with the Force, Sharad Hett gave his lightsaber to his son, A'Sharad Hett, which he would in turn wield it throughout the Clone Wars. However, A'Sharad pledged himself to the Sith and became Darth Krayt. It is unknown if the weapon is still in his possession.

A'Sharad was born on the desert planet of Tatooine, the son of the exiled Jedi Knight Sharad Hett and the Human woman named K'Sheek, who had grown up among the Sand People.

From his earliest days A'Sharad was raised, not only in the ways of the Jedi, but also among the traditions of the nomadic Sand People of his homeworld. While he had grown up informally learning the ways of the Force from his father, A'Sharad's formal Jedi training did not begin until shortly after a Hutt-provoked Tusken war designed to increase demand for old weapons, in which the bounty hunter Aurra Sing murdered his father. At this time A'Sharad was fifteen years old, and upon his father's death he gained possession of his father's lightsaber, which A'Sharad continued to use even after constructing his own. He would eventually become a strong wielder of two lightsabers at once.

"I am a Tusken, but no longer one with the desert. I am also a Padawan, seeking to complete his Jedi training."

―A'Sharad Hett to An'ya Kuro

Following his father's death, he was initially taken as the Padawan of Ki-Adi-Mundi, and under the Cerean Jedi Master's watchful eye he partook in a mission to the planet of Malastare. On this mission he worked alongside various members of the Jedi Council, which included Adi Gallia, his own master, Yaddle, Mace Windu, and Even Piell. The mission itself was launched in response to the insurgents of the planet Lannik who declared that they were finally willing to begin peace talks to end the civil war on their planet—the location for the peace meeting was none other then Malastare.^[3]

Two years after the Invasion of Naboo, his father's killer, Aurra Sing, resurfaced and A'Sharad accompanied Ki-Adi Mundi and Adi Gallia to track down the Jedi killer to end the threat. They tracked Sing to an uncharted world which had been claimed by Senator Tikkes and his Quarren underlings. Once there, they met up with the Dark Woman, Aurra Sing's former master, who had taken it upon herself to end the threat that her former Padawan presented. With Ki-Adi, Gallia, and the Dark Woman hunting Aurra Sing, A'Sharad was ordered to watch over Senator Tikkes, who was Sing's most recent target. Sing, though, was able to sneak aboard the Senator's vessel. A'Sharad found himself engaged in a deadly duel with his father's killer. However, during the fight, A'Sharad used his anger to overcome Sing, and was able to knock her unconscious. He was, though, able to regain control over his anger and willed himself not to kill the felled bounty hunter. Instead, he turned his prisoner over to Ki-Adi Mundi and the other Jedi Masters.^[4]

Feeling immense guilt over giving into his anger, A'Sharad begged Ki-Adi-Mundi to release him from his tutelage and to allow him to go into exile, like his father had before him. Instead, the Dark Woman offered to take up A'Sharad's training and, with Ki-Adi-Mundi's blessing, she became the Padawan's new master.^[4] Over the course of the next decade, A'Sharad managed to complete his training under the guidance of the Dark Woman, and ascended to the rank of Jedi Knight. Eventually, he also took a Padawan of his own—a young male Nikto by the name of Bhat Jul.