Sanguine Eagle

The Sanguine Eagle was a Corellian YT-Series light freighter most famously used by Magus Vance, Tart Smak, Digs, Dr. Dicks Ucker, and XD-991-IG as a home base and platform from which to explore the galaxy during the Imperial Era preceding the Galactic Civil War. The ship originally belonged to Dunda Kume, a Cato Neimoidan crime lord and imperial conspirator, who utilized it primarily for drug smuggling and personal transportation.

Description
The Sanguine Eagle was a YT-2400 light freighter and thus consisted of the YT-Series' trademark saucer and command pod design. Like other Corellian-engineered freighters, the YT-2400 was fast, durable, and highly customizable. This made the model a popular choice amongst mercenaries, smugglers, and anybody who had need of reliable armored transport.

The Sanguine Eagle required at least one navigator and one pilot to operate. The command pod consisted of a forward cockpit and an aft escape pod capable of seating a crew of six. The majority of the saucer hull was dedicated to cargo space (which was often used as makeshift crew berthing), generators, and engines, with the remaining space being used for crew quarters, recreation, and a small infirmary.

The Sanguine Eagle was equipped with a standard Corellian hyperdrive core, as well as basic navigational computers, life support systems, shield generators, and communication arrays. The ship's armaments included a single dual-barrel hull-mounted manned turret.

Escape from Cato Neimoidia
The Sanguine Eagle originally belonged to Dunda Kume, the leader of the . The ship was ostensibly used as part of the crime lord's drug running fleet for the purpose of smuggling blue booster onto Cato Neimoidia. However, during the months leading up to the Cato Neimoidian Uprising and the planet's subsequent bombardment, the ship served as Kume's personal transport during his collusion with Imperial agents.

Dunda offered the Sanguine Eagle as a reward to Magus Vance, Tart Smak, Digs, Dr. Dicks Ucker, and XD-991-IG as a reward for their successful infiltration of one of 's armory headquarters. After the party completed the task and killed , one of Kume's biggest rivals, Kume revealed that he did not intend to give the party his ship outright, but rather hire them to help establish his syndicate's foothold in the galaxy at large following Cato Neimoidia's destruction. The Party watched from orbit aboard the Eagle as Imperial Star destroyers bombarded many of Cato Neimoidia's hanging cities.

Feeling betrayed and uncomfortable with Kume's imperial dealings and betrayal Cato Neimoidia, Magus Vance gave the appearance of accepting the deal only to stab Dunda Kume in the side. This led to a brief but bloody skirmish between the Party and Kume's small crew, during which Vance was nearly mortally wounded. Thinking they had successfully taken the Eagle, the Party found a recording indicating that Kume had sabotaged his own ship's life support systems as a precaution against mutiny. Digs barely managed to bring the systems back online before the party suffocated.

Crash on Dxun
After escaping Cato Neimoida, , Vance and Tart got in an altercation over a bottle of Corellian Brandy they had found in 's office. This, along with Tart's refusal to allow Digs to navigate despite the Drall's far greater experience, forced the crew to crash land on a cliff edge on Dxun, the "Demon Moon" of Onderon. The ship sustained significant damage, although XD was able to use the still-functional turret to fend off local wildlife, and the party was able to repair the engines just enough to fly the Eagle through Dxun's atmosphere to the outskirts of the Mandalorian Village.