<i> "I have broken the spine of the galaxy… Sometimes, things must be broken in order to be rebuilt. As I have bent the Force to my will, so I will bend the galaxy and it will know order. My true work is about to begin." </i>
&#8213;Darth Krayt, in his holocron

Darth Krayt, born A'Sharad Hett, was a Human male who served as a Jedi Knight in the waning days of the Galactic Republic. The son of legendary Jedi Knight Sharad Hett, he eventually became the Padawan of Jedi Masters Ki-Adi-Mundi, and later, An'ya Kuro. During the Clone Wars he served the Republic as a General, and established himself as a charismatic leader who often led his troops from the front. He eventually became friends with the young Anakin Skywalker and helped Anakin come to terms with the destruction which had been wrought by the galaxy-wide war. He managed to survive the Clone Wars, and was one of the few Jedi known to have escaped the Great Jedi Purge.

A'Sharad Hett eventually made his way back to his homeworld of Tatooine where he vowed to wage a private war against the new Galactic Empire. However, he eventually fell to the Dark Side and at some point later on he proclaimed himself Dread Lord and Dark Lord of the Sith, taking the name Darth Krayt. As Krayt, he became the founder and leader of the new Sith Order. In addition, he was the first Sith Lord since Palpatine to rule the entire galaxy. For unknown reasons, perhaps to extend his life, Krayt began wearing Yuuzhan Vong-bioengineered Vonduun armor, and kept his identity secret even from most of his own Sith followers.