Duel on Kamino (Galactic Civil War)

The duel on Kamino was a vicious battle taking place in 6 ABY between Jedi Master Durja Lanew and his former apprentice Kau-Ja Manew. The ghost of Sith Lord Darth Octillious had corrupted Jedi Knight Kau-Ja Manew. Kau-Ja became overwhelmed with the dark side and Octillious’s spirit got him to believe that Durja Lanew wouldn’t like the way he thought, and would ultimately attack Kau-Ja. When he revealed his corruption to his former master Durja Lanew, Durja wouldn’t let him leave Kamino with those thoughts. Being harassed and challenged, Kau-Ja attacked him.

Duel
Durja quickly took to an advantage with his powerful Jar’Kai attack form, driving Kau-Ja Manew out of the main building into the cold, rainy Kaminoan night. Kau-Ja slowly led his former master to a pole near the platform’s edge. Once there, he side-kicked Durja Lanew into the pole, causing him to drop his lightsabers. Durja then disarmed his attacker by twisting the lightsaber out of Kau-Ja’s hand, but before he could grip it properly Kau-Ja punched it aside. Durja quickly grabbed Kau-Ja’s arm and pulled the Nonderanian into his knee. In retaliation, Kau-Ja Manew punched Durja in the chest to knock him back and tripped him. Durja’s foot immediately struck his attacker’s head, knocking Kau-Ja over and they both got to their feet. The corrupt Jedi charged at Durja Lanew but the Jedi grabbed his arm and spun him into the pole, then immediately ripped Kau-Ja off the pole, onto the ground.

They both then grabbed their lightsabers and clashed. Kau-Ja force pushed his former master away and got to his feet. They resumed their duel. As Durja drove Kau-Ja back to the center of the platform a stray slash cut the pole in half. In the center of the platform they clashed again. It broke as Kau-Ja force pushed Durja Lanew. The Jedi came right back driving the Nonderanian up a ramp to the top level of the platform. As they got to it Durja proceeded to drive Kau-Ja Manew back to the very edge of the platform. There, with the very back of Kau-Ja’s feet in open air they clashed. To keep balance Kau-Ja stepped forward. After nearly a minute of the clash, Kau-Ja’s strength started to fail, giving Durja an opening. Durja Lanew ripped Kau-ja’s lightsaber aside (cutting Kau-Ja Manew’s hand off at the same time) and force pushed him 30 meters off the ledge, into the waters below.

Aftermath
When Kau-Ja was fished out of the water he was still unconscious. Durja Lanew had a few Kaminoans chain him to a pole. When regaining conciousness, Durja Lanew redeemed Kau-Ja as the Jedi explained to him that what he spoke of was wrong, and that only using the light side keeps you pure and therefore strong. It was over a year before anyone trusted Kau-Ja again but eventually they did. The Nonderanian also had to get a prosthetic hand to replace the one cut off by Durja.