Anya Karu

"She was still impressive, wasn't she&hellip;Even all mangled and broken like that. My Anya Karu was a beautiful ship."

- Captain Aron Harcourt, to Boba Fett

The Anya Karu was an Imperial-class Star Destroyer serving the Galactic Empire's Imperial Navy prior to 3 BBY, during the Galactic Civil War, when the Empire fought against the Alliance to Restore the Republic. Helmed by Captain Aron Harcourt, the Star Destroyer was brought down by Rebel saboteurs, leaving it broken on a desolate planet. Disgraced and demoted by the Anya Karu demise, Harcourt hired the Bounty hunter Boba Fett to retrieve a holorecording of his departed wife from the wreckage of the Anya Karu. Fett managed to retrieve the holorecording moments before the Imperial Adjudicator destroyed the Anya Karu remains with its firepower.

Description
As an Imperial-class Super Star Destroyer, the Anya Karu was manufactured by Kuat Drive Yards, one of the largest Shipyards in the galaxy at that time. At 1,600 meters in length, the Anya Karu possessed the same characteristics of other Imperial Star Destroyers such as the massive bridge located to the aft of the warship.

History
"They ended my career&hellip;rather than admit they had lost one of their capital ships&hellip;to a team of Rebel Saboteurs."

- Captain Aron Harcourt, discussing the events after the loss of the Anya Karu

Helmed by Captain Aron Harcourt, the Anya Karu belonged to the Galactic Empire's Imperial Navy prior to 3 ABY during the Galactic Civil War, a major galactic conflict between the Empire and a Rebel group known as the Alliance to Restore the Republic. As Harcourt was a hero of the Empire, he and the Anya Karu were granted certain privileges, one such being Harcourt could keep a RHTC-560 Hunter Trainer droid and two RHTC-560 HT Drones as bodyguards, given to him by a Rodian warlord. Sometime before 3 BBY, Rebel agents sabotaged the Anya Karu, caused it to crash on a barren planet, and as she went down, Harcourt gave the order to abandon ship.

In response to the loss of one of their capital ships, the Imperials put in an Inquiry before having Harcourt used as the scapegoat for the incident, forcing him out of the command structure to be placed in control of a distant outpost, as the Empire did not want to admit that they had lost one of their ships to Rebel sabotage. Three years after the Star Destroyer's sabotaging, Harcourt hired the infamous bounty hunter Boba Fett to retrieve an old holorecording that he had left on the Anya Karu of his departed wife, Janelle Harcourt, who had died around 3 BBY.

Boba Fett arrived at the wreckage of the Anya Karu in the Firespray-31-class patrol and attack craft Slave I, destroyed the two TIE fighters patrolling the restricted area, and boarded the ship with twenty-five minutes to spare before the Imperial I-class Star Destroyer Adjudicator arrived to destroy the downed warship. While on board the Anya Karu, Fett discovered a dead Stormtrooper, before fighting off a pack of winged mynocks that had taken refuge on the ship and destroying Harcourt's old hunter trainer droids. Boba secured the recording and left the ship, whose wreckage was destroyed via turbolaser fire from the Adjudicator seconds later.

Commanders and crew
The Anya Karu was under the command of Captain Aron Harcourt, with 30 years of experience as a commanding officer by the time she was sabotaged. Serving as bodyguards to Harcourt was a RHTC-560 Hunter Trainer and two RHTC-560 HT drones, given to him as a gift from a Rodian warlord. Also serving aboard the Anya Karu was at least one Imperial Stormtrooper, whose body was later found by Fett while the bounty hunter searched the ship.

Behind the scenes
The Anya Karu first appeared in 2004's Dark Horse Comics' Star Wars: Empire 28: Wreckage, illustrated by Adriana Melo, Michael Atiyeh, and Michael David Thomas, with the script by Ron Marz. Anya Karu was later mentioned in Harcourt's entry in the The Complete Star Wars Encyclopedia, published in 2008 as an Encyclopedia of everything Star Wars. The entry in the Encyclopedia clearly stated that Janelle Harcourt died after the Anya Karu sabotage, making the incident happen prior to 3 BBY.

Appearances

 * Star Wars: Empire 28: Wreckage