Keepsake

The Keepsake was a VCX-150 freighter used by the Sullustan resistance during the Galactic Civil War. On the same day as the Battle of Hoth, a number of Stormtroopers stormed it and apprehended a Chadra-Fan who was part of the Sullustan resistance. A detonator was then set off in response and killed several of the stormtroopers.

Characteristics

The freighter registered as the Keepsake was a carbon-scored VCX-150 freighter model manufactured by the Corellian Engineering Corporation^[1] as part of its VCX series line.^[2] It had over half a dozen rooms, including bunks, a cargo hold, and a cockpit. Outside the cockpit was a tight corridor with a conduit access panel.^[1]

History

During the Galactic Civil War, the Keepsake was used by the Sullustan resistance, a Rebel Alliance cell based on the planet Sullust. The rebels smuggled supplies aboard the freighter to Sullust's^[1] capital,^[3] the cavern city of Pinyumb, transporting things like food, tools, anti-Imperial videos, and medical gear like bacta packs and bandages.^[1] In 3 ABY,^[4] as the Sullustan resistance's operations against the Galactic Empire continued to to stoke Imperial crackdowns, the Imperial Security Bureau was able to link the Keepsake to the rebel cell. As a result, twelve stormtroopers from the Imperial Ninety-Seventh Stormtrooper Legion, led by the trooper SP-113, were sent to search the vessel while it was parked in a docking bay in the Pinyumb spaceport.^[1]

The twelve stormtroopers fanned out around the Keepsake before two teams were sent inside the freighter. A Chadra-Fan member of the Sullustan resistance was inside the ship and hid inside a conduit access panel outside the cockpit to evade being caught in the search. The stormtroopers looked through every room in the Keepsake.^[1]