Golas Aram Golas Aram was a hover chair - bound Siniteen male who worked as a prison architect for the Galactic Empire and various other organizations . He helped the Empire build several prisons and helped with the conversion of the ancient prison ship Ashmead ' s Lock on the planet Kashyyyk into something suitable for the Empire ' s purposes . He eventually retired to the planet Irudiru , where he built himself a heavily defended compound away from other life forms , most of whom Aram considered idiotic . Aram was eventually captured from his compound by a group lead by the smuggler Han Solo and the New Republic pilot Norra Wexley , who were searching for the Wookiee Chewbacca , a prisoner of Ashmead ' s Lock . The former Imperial loyalty officer Sinjir Rath Velus then interrogated Aram , and after threatening to damage the Siniteen ' s intelligence , successfully got him to share what they wanted to know about the prison . Aram was then let free , and the group traveled to Kashyyyk , where they discovered Aram had not shared Ashmead ' s Lock ' s password and had to fight their way through its defenses . Biography . The prison architect . Golas Aram was a freelance Siniteen architect who specialized in designing prison s . During his career he created such structures for various criminals groups including Kanjiklub , the Junihar Cartel and Splugorra the Hutt and also designed several prisons for the Galactic Empire , including the Lemniscate on the planet Coruscant , the asteroid prison Orko 9 and the Goa Penal Colony . He also did work for the Empire on the prison ship known as Ashmead ' s Lock , which was a relic of a ancient civilization known as the Predori found on the planet Kashyyyk . With Arams aid , the Empire converted the alien vessel into a functioning prison which they used to incarcerate various dissidents . He eventually chose to retire to the planet Irudiru , where he built a compound near the town of Kai Pompos with heavy defenses and stocks of animals such as morak for hunting . A not - so - quiet retirement . Following the capture of the Wookiee Chewbacca by the Empire and his confinement , the smuggler Han Solo traveled to Irudiru in the hopes of gaining information from Aram about the prison so that he could free Chewbacca . Solo watched Aram ' s compound for X days , noticing that the Siniteen regularly swept his property for listening devices . A group led by the pilot Norra Wexley then arrived and also began scoping out the compound , having been led to it by intelligence from the Black Sun and the captive Imperial Adviser Yupe Tashu while searching for Solo . Unaware of Solo ' s presence , the group then observed Aram ' s compound for several days , in which time Aram did not venture outdoors . Wexley ' s group then attempted to remotely bug Aram ' s home , but were stopped by Solo , who drove a herd of Aram ' s morak toward them before they could fire the listening device at the house . Solo and Wexley ' s team then devised a plan together to capture Aram for questioning , initiating it under the cover of night . First , the bounty hunter Jas Emari began shooting the land mines that surrounded Aram ' s compound . The explosions acted as a signal for Wexley ' s son Temmin Wexley and his B1 battle droid Mister Bones to cut the conduit that connected Aram ' s compound to the wind farm that powered it . This deactivated the turret - droid s and laser fence s that also protected Aram , and allowed Sinjir Rath Velus to enter the compound . Alerted to the intrusion , Aram set his many droid protectors on the trespassers and then destroyed half of the his computer systems and attempted to flee using tunnels buried beneath his home . He found Solo waiting for him in the tunnels and shocked him with his hover chair before continuing on to a landing platform with a solar shuttle he planned to use to flee to family he had on the planet Saleucami . Wexley however , was waiting for him at the shuttle and knocked him out . Under interrogation . Wexley ' s group picked up Aram in their SS - 54 assault ship " Halo " and Sinjir then began interrogating him on board for information about Ashmead ' s Lock . Aram refused to divulge anything under the threat of physical torture , instead complaining about the damage his captors had caused to his property and insulting their intelligence . He finally broke when Sinjir threatened to drive a small antennae through Aram ' s ear , damaging his brain and his intelligence . The Siniteen quickly shared all he knew about the jail , but failed to tell the group about the password they would need to safely enter . Satisfied , the group let Aram free and traveled to Kashyyyk , where upon reaching the prison they were nearly captured by its defenses due to their lack of a password . Ultimately the group managed to free those imprisoned in Ashmead ' s Lock , and later went on to liberate all of Kashyyyk from the Empire ' s control . Personality and traits . Aram was a Siniteen male who was bound to a hover chair due to the state of his legs by the time he retired . He considered making inescapable , self - sustaining prisons his art and believed that Wexley ' s team only managed to break into his personally designed compound by luck . While living on Irudiru , Aram was extremely paranoid , hiding behind an unusually high number of defenses and regularly sweeping his home for bugs . When captured he cared little for threat to his physical form , and was happy to insult and criticize his captors , who he considered far inferior in intelligence . This changed when they threatened his brain and intellect , and he quickly gave them most of what they wanted , although still leaving a trap for them by omitting the need for a password at Ashmead ' s Lock . Behind the scenes . Golas Aram first appeared in the novel " " , which was written by Chuck Wendig and released in 2016 .