Dusty Duck

"Duck's not meant for flying&hellip; at least, not for too long."

- Aneesa Dym's father

The Dusty Duck was a ship parked on the outskirts of Mos Espa in 32 BBY, with DUM-series pit droids performing maintenance on it.

History
The Dusty Duck was a custom-made jalopy notorious for its engines cutting out in the dead of space, necessitating drop-landings on many backwater planets. It was pieced together by a Pa'lowick smuggler on Nar Shaddaa. The smuggler's daughter, Aneesa Dym, helped him pilot the light freighter until his death at the hands of a disgruntled employer. Left with her father's ship, Aneesa traveled the galaxy, in search of vengeance on her father's killer.

She eventually met up with bounty hunter Rango Tel, after Tel captured her father's murderer. Together, they set off for Tel's new bounty, Kam Nale.

They ended up on Tatooine. Aneesa guarded the Dusty Duck while her DUM pit droids made repairs, something often needed. Little did Dym know that Nale murdered Rango in a dark alley.

As fate would have it, the Dusty Duck was then seen in one of Darth Maul's DRK-1 Dark Eye probe droids, right before it was cut down by Qui-Gon Jinn. Maul headed there, and demanded that Aneesa tell him the location of the Jedi. Aneesa had no answer to give, and paid the price: Darth Maul murdered her. The Dusty Duck, now abandoned, became a Mos Espa ghost story as the pit droids continued to perform their repairs.

Behind the scenes

 * The backstory of the Dusty Duck was established by Hyperspace member Greg Mitchell, a.k.a. Hedec Ga, as part of the What's The Story? campaign on StarWars.com.
 * In the author's original submission, when Maul boarded the Duck, he demanded that Aneesa tell him where "the boy" was, meaning Anakin Skywalker, suggesting that Maul was really on Tatooine looking for the Chosen One. Aneesa refused, thinking the Sith was referring to Rango, and died to protect her friend. In the final entry, however, this was excised and "the boy" was simply changed to "the Jedi".
 * Mitchell later elaborated on his entry with his story The Smuggler's Daughter in the fan-made magazine, Star Wars Outsider, in which further information of Dym just prior to her meeting with Tel featured.

Appearances

 * Star Wars Episode I: The Phantom Menace