Dust Dancer

"Dust Dancer has entered the system. Wynn will be here within half an hour by shuttle."

- Desha Lor to Cheif of State Daala

Dust Dancer was a Kuat Drive Yards cargo transport owned by former smuggler Booster Terrik. It was loaned to the Jedi Order in 44 BBY to transport well-known individuals off of the planet Borleias in the Pyria system. It was later flown by Jedi Knight Seha Dorvald when smuggling two Jedi Masters into the Senate Building on Coruscant.

Description
The Dust Dancer was a cargo transport manufactured by Kuat Drive Yards and was eighty meters long. It had a ball for the command center at one end, many engines at the other end, and a in-between was a connecting spar. The spar was thickly covered with cargo pods and shuttle attachment points.

History
The Dust Dancer was a cargo transport owned by former smuggler Booster Terrik. The Dust Dancer was a legitimate cargo transpor. Terrik had "kidnapped" some very well-known individuals as protection against attacks by the Galactic Alliance in his personal starship, the Errant Venture. When he was ready to release his captives, he loaned the Jedi Order&mdash;which was working with him&mdash;his cargo transport the Dust Dancer. Jedi Knight Seha Dorvald piloted the Dust Dancer to the planet Borleias in the Pyria system just before Terrik dropped his "captives" there. Jedi Masters Octa Ramis and Kyp Durron were in the shielded smuggling compartments of the Dust Dancer. They were using the Dust Dancer as a way to get armed Jedi into the Senate Building on Coruscant&mdash;the capital planet of the Galactic Alliance&mdash;so they could over-throw Chief of State Naatasi Daala. They brought the Dust Dancer to Borleias and Dorvald went to the night-shift quartermaster at the Borleias outpost, a man by the name of Dolo Karenzi. She told him that the Dust Dancer was in orbit and was carrying a load of consumable luxury items with a listed destination of the Borleias outpost. She said the ship was carrying expensive wines, exotic foods, fresh sabacc decks, entertainment datapads, candies, and pastries. Karenzi realized that there had to have been a mistake, but he decided to sign for it and keep it himself, hidden in a storage pod. He knew that the cargo needed to be off-loaded fast, but right in the middle of the off-loading process, the Errant Venture entered the system to drop off the celebrities. Karenzi quickly got the cargo hidden and made a false manifest for the Dust Dancer so no one would know about the real cargo. The Jedi had worked it out,though, that almost the only way for the celebrities to get back to Coruscant would be by taking the Dust Dancer. So, with the Jedi piloting, the Dust Dancer made its way to Coruscant to drop off the celebrities.

Behind the scenes
The Dust Dancer made its first appearance in the sixth novel of the Fate of the Jedi series, Conviction written by Aaron Allston.

Appearances

 * Conviction