Muza The Muza were a sentient species native to the planet Muzara , in the Expansion Region . The Muza were large , strong beings with massive overbites and scoop - like teeth . Their forearms were highly muscular . They descended from ruminants and established themselves as the dominant lifeform on their homeworld through the extermination of all large predators there . The species ' religious beliefs revered certain areas of their world as sacred and shunned others as unholy . The ruins of Kabus - Dabeh , for instance , were regarded as the former home of an ancient and evil people . As nomadic clansmen , the Muza had no sense of individual property or territory . In 4000 BBY , Humans from the Brentaal League colonized Muzara and established farms , which angered the Muza . As the dispute between the two species reached the cusp of outright war , a Human Jedi Knight named Keval Raffaan arrived on Muzara and offered to negotiate a peace . The Muza agreed to allow him to attempt to do so — provided he prove his mettle by retrieving a " skuhm " - hide bag from the ruins of Kabus - Dabeh . The Jedi passed this test , and the Muza honored the truce he negotiated between them and the settlers . Other Jedi helped the Muza overcome a predatory creature that had snatched up members of their species and a group of Dark Jedi who sought to overrun Muzara with a Sith artifact hidden in the Kabus - Dabeh ruins . Biology and appearance . The Muza were hulking , sentient creatures , much taller and heftier than typical Humans . The average Muza had a massive overbite , with the upper jaw and teeth extending over the lower mandible . The species ' eyes were minuscule and could be retracted , while the forearms were bulky and strong . Society and culture . The Muza were divided into wandering tribes and clans . These groups roamed the savannas of their homeworld , and dragged supplies , such as tents , behind them on sledges . Each group was headed by a chief clansman . Other Muza served their fellows as shamans and scouts . Members of the species spoke their own language , although they were also capable of learning to speak Basic . In 4000 BBY , the Muza had access to stone - age technology . Muza were given to bellicosity if their interests were threatened , and they came to dominate their homeworld through brute force of population and their systematic elimination of predatory species . The Muza used tests of integrity , skill , and willpower to determine a being ' s worth . Muza created items of " skuhm " leather , such as bags , and they collected coins from other cultures . The species strongly upheld their cultural beliefs , which included reverence for certain individuals regarded as " bravest protector s . " The Muza had no concept of personal property or land ownership . Instead , their relationship to landforms centered on the concept of certain areas being sacred and others being infernal . For example , the Muza regarded the ruins of Kabus - Dabeh — the site of a minor dark side nexus — as evil , the last trace of an ancient and evil people . History . The Muza evolved on Muzara , an arid planet of mesas , savannas , and lake s . The ancient forebears of the species were ruminant grazers . By virtue of their sheer numbers , the Muza came to dominate their world ' s ecosystem . Although Muzara had been discovered by outsiders by 5000 BBY , it was not until 4000 BBY that offworlders tried to establish a presence there . The newcomers , Human settlers from the Brentaal League , had been sent to found an agricultural colony on the world . The offworlders settled atop a mesa and began to cultivate the land with gigantic machines known as harvester crawler s . Meanwhile , the world became part of the Northern Dependencies in the Expansion Region . Nearby Muza tribes approached the outsiders but were met with hostility ; a Human farmer named Tallov Kersk greeted the Muza with blaster rifles . The Muza , due to their ingrained cultural belief that land could not be owned , failed to recognize the Humans ' claim to their farms . Although the Brentaal League settlers tried to negotiate with the indigenous species , their efforts proved fruitless . By 4000 BBY , the aggressive Muza outnumbered the settlers 55 , 000 to 7 , 800 . The settlers thus brought their grievances to the attention of the Jedi Knights to try to avert what seemed to be an inevitable war . The Jedi dispatched a young Human member of their order named Keval Raffaan to mediate the dispute . A group of Muza had set up camp near the Brentaal League settler ' s population center . When Raffaan approached them and expressed his desire to negotiate peace between the Muza and the settlers , the clan chiefs decided that he would first have to prove himself worthy by passing a test of integrity , skill , and willpower . The chief clansman explained that the Human Jedi would have to infiltrate the ruins of Kabus - Dabeh , a location reputed by the Muza to be the last trace of an ancient and evil people . There , they explained , Raffaan would have to find a leather " skuhm " - skin bag that contained ancient coins and had been placed there by a Muza bravest protector . Should he retrieve the bag and return to the Muza settlement , the elders would recognize Raffaan ' s right to mediate the dispute with the farmers . The Jedi accepted the challenge . Raffaan eventually recovered the bag of coins from a subterranean chamber accessible via a deep well . When he presented the bag to the Muza clansmen , they accepted his authority to mediate their dispute . The Jedi then successfully negotiated a truce between the Muza and the settlers . After recognizing the Humans ' rights to their farmland , one tribe of Muza was forced to set up camp two kilometers from the dreaded Kabus - Dabeh ruins . Over several nights , Muza began to disappear , seemingly stolen away by some predator from the unholy place . Muza scouts tried to locate their missing confreres , but all they could establish was that the attacker had struck from the ruins . The Muza thus called in a group of Jedi to find the source of the attacks and put a stop to them . The Jedi investigated Kabus - Dabeh and found the attacker : a pitiful creature known as Togarn . They defeated him and thus put an end to his predations on the Muza tribe . Some time later , Muza shamans discovered that an evil force seemed to be emanating from Kabus - Dabeh . They determined that if the evil was left unchecked , it would overrun not only Muzara but the entire Muzara system . They approached the Human settlers to enlist their aid to combat the evil force , but the farmers could not understand the shamans and simply ignored them . A shuttle landed near the ruins , and its three passengers questioned the Muza and the Humans about Kabus - Dabeh . They then set off into the ancient site . At that point , a group of Jedi was dispatched to follow the newcomers and determine their intentions for the site . The Jedi stopped the strangers , who were actually Dark Jedi on an investigation into Sith teachings and were trying to find a Sith artifact in Kabus - Dabeh . In so doing , the Jedi spared the Muza , the Human settlers , and the Muzara system from being overwhelmed by the forces the Dark Jedi had intended to unleash . From 1004 BBY to 1000 BBY , Muzara fell within territory controlled by the Galactic Republic as it fought the Sith in the New Sith Wars . The Muzara homeworld remained in Republic space during the Clone Wars in 20 and 19 BBY . After the defeat of Emperor Palpatine , the Muza ' s planet fell within territory retained by the Galactic Empire from 7 to 8 ABY . By 137 ABY , the world fell within Darth Krayt ' s Galactic Empire . Behind the scenes . The Muza feature in " Ruins of Kabus - Dabeh , " a solitaire adventure written by Peter M . Schweighofer for " " and published by West End Games as part of " Tales of the Jedi Companion " in 1996 . The adventure allows for the player , portraying Keval Raffaan , to fail , in which case the negotiations between the Muza and the Brentaal League settlers fail and war ensues . The book provides two further adventure seeds that involve the Muza ; the history above assumes that the unnamed Jedi characters achieve the stated goals , defeating the creature Togarn and stopping the Dark Jedi from unleashing evil from the Sith artifact located in the ruins .