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The Dusty Duck was a light freighter designed by and utilized by Dym, a Pa'lowick smuggler residing on Nar Shaddaa during the Republic Classic era. The craft was notoriously unreliable, would often sputter to a halt in space, and made involuntary and abrupt descents to many barren worlds. The smuggler was assisted in his piloting by his daughter, Aneesa Dym. When the elder Dym was murdered by a client, Aneesa became the sole owner of the craft. She took the Dusty Duck on a pan-galactic hunt for her father's killer.

Eventually, her quarry was killed by Rango Tel, an aspiring but inexperienced bounty hunter from Sernpidal. As a sign of gratitude, she gave Tel her ship and offered him her services as a pilot. He agreed, and together they set off on a search for Tel's next target, Kam Nale. Nale proved elusive, but the pair eventually tracked him to Mos Espa, Tatooine. While Dym had a set of DUM-series pit droids maintained the ship, Tel hunted his quarry and was killed in the process. The Pa'lowick, not knowing her friend's fate, was murdered on the same day by Darth Maul, a Sith Lord who had been hunting Queen Amidala of Naboo, and had thought that the Dusty Duck was the monarch's transport. The ship would remain parked outside Mos Espa for the rest of its days.