Arzid Arzid was a planet in the Calaron sector of the Outer Rim Territories . It was inhabited by forests of giant macaab mushroom s , tentacle - bush es , and by the dangerous arachnor that feasted on the mushrooms as part of their diet . It was also the site of a small Imperial outpost . Death rates among sentries at this outpost , due to arachnors or tentacle bushes , were high enough that being sent there as a sentry was seen as a death sentence . In 16 ABY , a squad of E4 baron droid s overthrew the administration of the only settlement on the planet , setting themselves up as warlords over its population . Description . Arzid was a hot , dense world , appearing gray from space . Located in the Arzid system in the Outer Rim ' s Calaron sector , the world orbited the star Tiki - hava , which was known for ejecting vast green fire storm s that cast an eerie space - glow for thousands of miles and could prove a challenge to navigating the system . Arzid was covered by forests of macaab mushroom s , which varied in size from small ground cover comparable to flowers , to towering fungi that were as big as trees . Other flora on the world included the tentacle - bush , which evolved long , thin tentacles to capture small rodents that could also entangle the feet of any nearby humanoid . Arzid was also the home of the arachnor , a dangerous two - meter arachnid whose webbing was regarded as among the stickiest and most intractable of any arachnid species in the galaxy . Macaab mushrooms were a primary component of the Arachnor diet , and chemicals in the mushrooms , when digested by an arachnor , were the cause of this stickiness . Though nonsentient , they have an instinctive understanding of how to use fear to direct prey into their webs . History . Arzid was located in an area of space that was largely unexplored until after 15 , 000 BBY . This region fell within the influence of Hutt Space at several points in history , including during the Clone Wars . Following the rise of the Empire , Arzid was visited by Senior Anthropologist Mammon Hoole and his assistant , biologist Chlar Kotchmin . Kotchmin became trapped in an arachnor web , and the arachnor had him completely encased in webbing within seconds . Hoole nearly became caught himself , but was able to confuse the creature enough to cause it to wander away . Hoole lacked the tools to free Kotchmin , who suffocated within the shroud of webbing before Hoole could return with an energy slicer from their ship . In 5 ABY , Arzid had become the location of a small Imperial outpost . The life expectancy of a sentry at this outpost was so short that being sentenced to five years of sentry duty there was deemed a suitable punishment for Grand Moff Muzzer , who had plead guilty to treason and disloyalty in a show trial held by the Prophets of the Dark Side . Muzzer was sent from Scardia Station under stormtrooper guard to the outpost . At the same time , Senate Planetary Intelligence Network ( SPIN ) medical personnel determined that the only way to permanently disable an Imperial mind control implant in the tooth of Triclops , a prisoner they were holding , was by using a chemical derived from macaab mushrooms . SPIN agents Luke Skywalker , Chewbacca , C - 3PO , R2 - D2 , and Ken traveled by modified Rendili StarDrive Y - wing to Arzid , the nearest source of the mushrooms to their headquarters on Yavin 4 . There , Skywalker and Chewbacca were promptly ensnared by tentacle - bushes while Ken became stuck in an arachnor web . Skywalker was able to cut himself free with his lightsaber and rushed to assist Ken , only to himself be entangled by an arachnor . While he was able to kill the beast , his lightsaber slipped from his hand just as the sound of an Imperial command speeder heralded the arrival of Muzzer and his guards at the nearby sentry tower . The stormtroopers promptly investigated the commotion and discovered the ensnared Skywalker and Ken . They stunned the two , used a pulse - mass generator to melt the webbing away , and departed Arzid with the two prisoners . C - 3PO and R2 - D2 were subsequently able to free Chewbacca , and the trio pursued their abducted companions . Muzzer was subsequently executed by Imperial Intelligence Director Ysanne Isard . By 16 ABY , Arzid had developed a single settlement . The administrators of this settlement were overthrown by a squad of Baktoid E4 baron droid s . These droids subsequently ruled the planet by force of arms . Behind the scenes . Arzid first appeared in " Prophets of the Dark Side " , the sixth and final book of the " Jedi Prince " series by Paul and Hollace Davids , published in 1993 .