Dust Dancer The Dust Dancer was a Kuat Drive Yards cargo transport arranged by former smuggler Booster Terrik to be loaned to the Jedi Order . The Jedi Order used it in 44 ABY to transport well - known individuals off the planet Borleias in the Pyria system to Coruscant , capital of the Galactic Alliance . Shuttles attached to the " Dust Dancer " were then used to take the individuals to the Senate Building on Coruscant . Description . The Kuat Drive Yards - manufactured " Dust Dancer " was an eighty - meter - long cargo transport . It was capable of holding two shuttles , one of which was the " DeepRay " . The " Dust Dancer " had a ball for its command center at one end and many engines at the other . A long connecting spar joined the bow and the stern together ; this spar was thickly covered with cargo pods and shuttle attachment points . History . A legitimate cargo transport , the " Dust Dancer " was arranged by former smuggler Booster Terrik to be loaned to the Jedi Order . In 44 ABY , Terrik invited some very well - known individuals to his personal starship , the Imperial Star Destroyer " Errant Venture " , for a large sabacc tournament . In actuality , he had brought the sabacc players onto his ship as hostages to prevent the Galactic Alliance from moving to control the Jedi Order , which planned to deploy its forces off the galactic capital planet Coruscant against the wishes of Chief of State Natasi Daala . Terrik used the hostages to force Daala to let the Jedi leave . After the Jedi completed their mission , he loaned the " Dust Dancer " to the Jedi so they could use it to transport the celebrities back to Coruscant . Jedi Master Octa Ramis , along with Jedi Knight Seha Dorvald , piloted the " Dust Dancer " to the planet Borleias in the Pyria system just before Terrik left his hostages there . The Jedi brought the " Dust Dancer " into orbit above Borleias , and Dorvald took a shuttle down to the planet ' s surface . On Borleias , she met with Dolo Karenzi , the night - shift quartermaster of the Borleias outpost , and told him that the " Dust Dancer " was carrying a load of consumable luxury items — expensive wines , exotic foods , fresh sabacc decks , entertainment datapads , candies , and pastries — with the outpost as the items ' listed destination . Karenzi realized that there had to have been a mistake , but he decided to sign for the items in the " Dust Dancer " and keep them himself , hidden in a storage pod . After the " Dust Dancer " landed , Karenzi attempted to unload the cargo fast . Right in the middle of the off - loading process , however , the " Errant Venture " entered the system to drop off the celebrities . Karenzi quickly hid the cargo and made a false manifest for the " Dust Dancer " so no one would know about the real cargo . The Jedi had planned for the " Dust Dancer " to be the only transport available to send the celebrities back to Coruscant once the " Errant Venture " left the sabacc players on Borleias , and Ramis and Dorvald piloted the celebrities to the capital aboard the " Dust Dancer " . Once on Coruscant , the players were ferried by the " Dust Dancer " shuttles into the Senate Building . Unbeknownst to the players , however , several Jedi had hidden in the shuttles ' smuggling compartments , providing them easy access to the building so they could prepare for a coup against Chief of State Daala . Commanders and crew . Former smuggler Booster Terrik received the transport " Dust Dancer " from a contact and then loaned the ship to the Jedi Order to pick up the celebrities whom Terrik had held hostage after dropping them off on Borleias . Jedi Octa Ramis and Seha Dorvald piloted the " Dust Dancer " when they picked up the celebrities and took them to Coruscant . Behind the scenes . The " Dust Dancer " made its first appearance in the seventh novel of the " " series , " " , written by Aaron Allston and published on May 24 , 2011 .