Crab (individual)

Crab was a human male who was a member of the Maya Pei Brigade during the Imperial Era. In 4 BBY, the brigade was ambushed and took heavy losses, leaving Crab as part of a group of fifteen survivors that became stranded on the moon Yavin 4. There, they encountered and killed the Axis network pilot Porko then captured his ally Cassian Andor when the latter arrived in a stolen TIE Avenger.

Crab held Andor while he was questioned by the group's self-proclaimed leader, Gerdis, and was then left to guard him alone while the other brigade members discussed what to do with the prisoner and starfighter. Crab merely spat when Andor suggested the pair of them escape together but eventually revealed to the prisoner that he and the other survivors were part of the brigade, whom Andor's allies had helped supply in the past. The rest of the group was unhappy to discover that Andor had learned their identity, and when Andor still refused to reveal who he worked for, Crab became furious and had to be held back.

Later that night, the brigade continued to argue about what to do and whether their leader, Maya Pei, had been killed in the ambush. Gerdis and Crab claimed that she had, but the group's pilot, Rika, claimed that Crab could not have seen Pei die, as he had been hiding in a bunker during the fight. Crab demanded she recant the claim and eventually shot her when she refused. He was then immediately shot in return by brigade member Rowd, and the creatures of Yavin 4 later claimed Crab's corpse, leaving only a severed foot for his allies to find.

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