Smiley (mynock)

A mynock, posthumously nicknamed Smiley, lived inside the exogorth Sy-O inside one of the asteroids of the Hoth asteroid field. In 3 ABY, it fed on the power cables of the Millennium Falcon when the rebel vessel landed within Sy-O's maw. The Starship's captain, Han Solo, then shot and killed the mynock and its body was sucked out into space when the Falcon exited through the exogorth's mouth.

The mynock's body was then discovered by Imperial Admiral Rae Sloane and Lieutenant Kanna Deltic while they were flying through the asteroid field in the Lambda-class T-4a shuttle Bastinade. The pair collected the mynocks body and brought it with them to the Executor, Flagship of the Sith Lord Darth Vader. After Deltic analyzed the corpse and gave it its nickname, it was presented to Admiral Firmus Piett and Vader, with Sloane showing the blaster burn on Smiley's corpse as proof that the Falcon had been hidden in the asteroid field.

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