Snowball

Snowball was a four-eyed bilge rat who nested within the droid SM-33. Around 9 ABY, the children Wim, Neel, Fern, and KB discovered the buried starship Onyx Cinder on the planet At Attin. Inside, Neel examined the deactivated SM-33 and was startled when Snowball jumped out of the droid's eye socket, causing him to jostle SM-33's arm, which pulled down on a lever that closed the ship's hatch. While attempting to restore the ship's power so the hatch could be opened, Wim accidentally caused the ship to make a hyperspace jump, resulting in the children becoming lost and embarking on a journey to find their homeworld. When SM-33 had been reactivated, Snowball scurried across the vessel's control panel and jumped onto Neel while the droid was searching his memory bank for At Attin. The droid was unable to recall it and took the children to the Port Borgo spaceport. There, SM-33 was shot with an ion rifle while attempting to rescue the children from pirates, and they and Snowball were locked in the port's brig. Neel attempted to train Snowball to retrieve the cell's key, but when the rat reached the key, he instead scurried away.

The pirate Jod Na Nawood soon helped the children escape, and they then convinced him to return for SM-33 and Snowball. Na Nawood successfully rescued the droid and brought them both back to the Onyx Cinder. When the children eventually located At Attin, Snowball watched as the Onyx Cinder approached the planet. After SM-33 was beheaded by Na Nawood, who had betrayed the children, Snowball climbed out of the droid's head and was kicked by Na Nawood. Soon after, while KB was piloting the Onyx Cinder past the Barrier surrounding At Attin, Snowball climbed on her head. While KB spoke with the astronomer Kh'ymm via hologram, Snowball watched the hologram and waved his paws at it. When the children were reunited on At Attin, Snowball once again jumped into Neel's hands.

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