The Starry Ice was one of the starships in Talon Karrde's smuggling operation. It was a modified Corellian Engineering Corporation Action V transport.
Capabilities[]
Like many of the starships of Karrde's smuggling operation, the Starry Ice was heavily modified, similarly to the Wild Karrde. She was armed with a trio of turbolasers and carried a single Defender starfighter as a reconnaissance craft.
History[]
The ship led a group of freighters that were ambushed at the Graveyard in 7 ABY.
It was stationed on Myrkr in 9 ABY when Luke Skywalker was brought to Karrde's base of operations there. When Grand Admiral Thrawn arrived, everyone who knew of Skywalker's presence was sent to prepare the Starry Ice for launch so as to keep this information hidden from the Imperial warlord.
Also present at the Smugglers' Alliance meeting on Hijarna, several crew members from the Starry Ice helped search the Wild Karrde for an intruder.
When the Smuggler's Alliance and the New Republic attacked Bilbringi, Starry Ice was present along with Dawn Beat, Lastri's Ort, Amanda Fallow, and several others.[2] Eventually Shirlee Faughn became the ship's captain.
At the beginning of the Caamas Document Crisis in 19 ABY, the Starry Ice, alongside Mara Jade, assisted and rescued Luke Skywalker from the self-destruction of the Cavrillhu Pirates Kauron asteroid base. The ship, alongside Skywalker, would fight their way free of the pirates automated defenses[3]. Later, the Ice would investigate the hyperspace courses of a pair of Chiss Clawcraft to the planet Nirauan. Jade would take the ship's Defender to investigate the planet.
Behind the scenes[]
"Starry Ice" may be a pun on the term "starry eyes." This would be in line with Talon Karrde's habit of naming his starships with puns.
Appearances[]
- X-Wing: The Bacta War
- X-Wing: The Bacta War unabridged audiobook
"First Contact" — Star Wars Adventure Journal 1 (Mentioned only)
"First Contact" — The Best of the Star Wars Adventure Journal, Issues 1-4 (Mentioned only)- Heir to the Empire (First appearance)
- The Last Command
- The Last Command unabridged audiobook
- Specter of the Past
- Specter of the Past unabridged audiobook
- Vision of the Future (Mentioned only)
- Vision of the Future unabridged audiobook (Mentioned only)
Sources[]
- Heir to the Empire Sourcebook
- The Thrawn Trilogy Sourcebook
- Star Wars Encyclopedia
"Ships of the Smuggler's Alliance" — Star Wars Gamer 4- The New Essential Guide to Characters
- The Complete Star Wars Encyclopedia
