Arrax ( Zarro ' s father ) Arrax was a human male who lived with his daughter , Zarro , on the planet Andelm IV during the time of the Galactic Civil War . Around the time of the Battle of Yavin , Arrax owed money to the crime lord Jaum . To pay his debts , Arrax was forced to work in the Andelm beetle caverns . Later , he , his daughter and the other enslaved miner s were able to escape with the help of the Wookiee Chewbacca , a member of the Rebellion . Biography . Debt slavery . Arrax lived on the planet Andelm IV during the Age of the Empire . He was the husband of a woman who became the mother of their daughter Zarro . Arrax got into debt due to his sabacc gambling habit . Shortly before the Battle of Yavin , he took a loan from the local gangster Jaum , who had a reputation for enslaving his clients . To keep Arrax and his daughter trapped in debt , Jaum pegged their loan to Imperial Credit s , which experienced a downturn as a result of the Battle of Yavin . When Arrax and his daughter were unable to repay their debt , Jaum forced them to work as slave miners in the Andelm beetle caverns . Jaum used the larvae of the Andelm beetle s to produce dedlanite , a substance used in the production of blaster s . After several days of toiling in the mines , Arrax decided to smuggle his daughter Zarro out to save her life . Arrax convinced Zarro to hide in a crate of larvae . Before parting , he warned his daughter not to return home and never to come back to the mine . Later , his daughter Zarro befriended a Wookiee named Chewbacca , a member of the Rebel Alliance who had played a role in destroying the Galactic Empire ' s Death Star . Zarro managed to convince Chewie to free her father and the other enslaved miners . The Great Escape . Despite Arrax ' s warning , Zarro chose to return to the mine in order to free her father and the other miners . While Chewie searched for a functioning air vent , Zarro allowed herself to be recaptured by Jaum ' s henchmen , who took her back into the mine . While Arrax was disappointed in his daughter , he was mollified when she told him that she had come to rescue all the miners . Zarro planned to rendezvous with Chewie in a hollowed - out section of the mine but was captured by Jaum ' s henchmen . Jaum then summoned all of the miners including Arrax and Zarro for a special debriefing . Arrax was relieved that Jaum was not going to hurt his daughter . However , this elation dissipated when Jaum informed them that he would be selling his entire work force to the Empire in order to buy droid s for his dedlanite mining activities . When Arrax quickly realized that Jaum intended to sell them , another human miner tried to strike the gangster with his spade but was shot in the chest . Realizing that Jaum was going to kill his work force , Arrax and the other miners fled by reached a dead end . Before the gangster ' s henchmen could execute them , Chewie surprised them and knocked them out with his fists and bowcaster . While Arrax distrusted the Wookiee , Zarro urged her father to trust her judgment for once . Arrax immediately told the miners to be prepared to fight their way out of the beetle caverns . Chewie gained Arrax ' s trust and respect after the Wookiee used an improvised rod to disable Jaum ' s wheeled battle droid . When Chewie dropped his bowcaster to dispatch another of Jaum ' s minions , Arrax picked up his bowcaster and handed it to him . Despite defeating Jaum ' s minions , the gangster ' s Shistavanen enforcer Tyvak tried to destroy the mine by blowing up several stocks of incendiary Andelm beetles . This created an explosion that levelled much of the mine and trapped Arax and the other miners underground . Arrax was relieved that his daughter and Chewie survived the explosion and cave - in . After hugging her , he began to chastise Zarro for disobeying his orders not to return . However , Zarro urged them to devote their energies to finding a way out of the mine . Arrax and his companions ' predicament was worsened when he realized that the explosion had disabled the power grid , allowing the Andelm beetles to return to the caverns . Father , daughter , and Chewie were pursued by a swarm of Andelm beetles but Chewie managed to slow down the horde by shooting down a metal girder , sending tons of earth crashing down on the insects . However , Chewie ' s action destroyed the miners ' only way out . Zarro and his daughter watched as the other miners debated how to escape the mine . When Chewie suggested climbing through a sinkhole , Arrax thought that a vertical climb was practically impossible . Zarro shared her father ' s sentiments and thought the sinkholes were too dangerous . Despite their skepticism , they and the other miners agreed to give Chewbacca a chance to try out his plan . With much difficulty , Chewie managed to climb out through a sinkhole that led to the roots of a dead tree . Using his strength , the Wookiee was able to create a pit wide enough for all the miners to climb out . Stopping Jaum . Arrax , Zarro , and the other miners climbed out using a rope . Arrax waited for the other miners to climb out before leaving the mine . When he advocated fleeing Andelm IV on the next ship , his daughter Zarro disagreed and argued that she did not want to become a refugee on a strange world . Zarro further added that failing to stop Jaum would lead to the destruction of Andelm ' s natural environment . While Zarro disliked the Empire , he refused to consider losing his daughter to the Rebellion . Zarro responded that she only wanted to keep the Empire out of Andelm IV . When Arrax asked Zarro to help treat the wounded , she responded that he had enough help and that she was going to fight Zarro . While Arrax understood his daughter ' s sentiments , he told her that she was just a kid . Realizing her father ' s opposition to her plan , Zarro made up the lie that she was going to help Chewie fix his starfighter . Arrax reluctantly acquiesced to his daughter ' s request but warned her to stay away from the spaceport . Despite Arrax ' s wishes , Zarro and Chewie embarked on a mission to stop Jaum . The two companions managed to sabotage Jaum ' s business deal with the Empire by planting a bomb inside a mothballed R5 repair droid called Boomer . After being captured by Imperial forces led by Commander Kai , Zarro managed to convince the Commander that Jaum was a fraudster and rebel spy . Zarro managed to back - up her story by detonating Boomer , creating an explosion that damaged Kai ' s Imperial Star Destroyer . As a result , Jaum was imprisoned and the Empire abandoned its plan to establish a dedlanite mining operation on Andelm IV . After parting company with Chewie , Zarro commandeered Jaum ' s landspeeder and returned to their family home . Arrax was initially startled because there had been a rumor his daughter had been taken by the Empire . Zarro reassured her father that Jaum had been taken by the Empire and no longer posed a threat to them . Arrax was proud of his daughter ' s actions . When he asked about her friend Chewie , she told him that the Wookiee had left Andelm IV for a " special mission . " Personality and traits . Arrax was a pragmatic , moderate individual who preferred finding peaceful resolutions to conflicts . He deeply loved his daughter Zarro but was sometimes frustrated with her stubborn , strong - willed streak . Prior to the Battle of Yavin , Arrax had a habit of gambling with Sabacc , a pastime that landed his family in debt to the gangster Jaum . Arrax ' s love for his daughter Zarro led him to try and protect her from slavery by smuggling her out of the mine . When Jaum recaptured Zarro , he pleaded with the crime boss not to hurt his daughter . While Arrax disliked the Galactic Empire , he was unwilling to lose his daughter to the Rebellion . Though he understood his daughter ' s frustration with living under Jaum ' s oppression , he still regarded her as a child who should not be doing dangerous adult work . During his stint as a forced miner , Arrax developed some familiarity with harvesting the larvae of Andelm beetles , which were used in the manufacture of blasters . Behind the scenes . Arrax first appeared as a secondary character in Gerry Duggan ' s 2015 Marvel comic story " " , which featured the titular character Chewbacca . He was illustrated by Phil Noto .