Moldy Crow

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The Moldy Crow is a starship in the fictional Star Wars universe.

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The Moldy Crow was the personal starship of mercenary-turned-Jedi Kyle Katarn and his partner Jan Ors. After years of faithful service, the Crow was destroyed at the Valley of the Jedi in Jedi Knight. After this point it was replaced by its successor, the Raven's Claw. The Crow first appeared in the game Dark Forces.

The Crow is a modified Corellian Engineering Corporation HWK-290 Hawk class light freighter. It has a quartet of fast engines, strong shields and armor, and a pair of laser cannons. What it has in armor and armament is balanced by its poor cargo space, which can only hold 30 metric tons of cargo, and helped to make this ship slightly less popular than CEC's YT-series freighters, specifically the YT-1300. This doesn't stop smugglers and bounty hunters from using it, as it is fast and maneuverable, and has enough structure to mount even heavier weapons, shields, and armor.

Little was known about the Moldy Crow until the release of The Dark Forces Saga by Wizards of the Coast in 2005. According to this source, the Moldy Crow was a Corellian Engineering Corporation HWK-290 light freighter and was built approximately nine years before the Battle of Yavin. The size of the Moldy Crow implies a fighter in-game, however, the actual internal space of the Crow is unknown.