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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 4,000 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&mdash;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.