The Griffon's Wings served as a scouting ship for the Rebel Alliance in the Galactic Civil War; it was a space transport that had been modified. Shortly after the Battle of Yavin, the Griffon's Wings journeyed to the Yorgraxx system to perform reconnaissance on the planet Yorgraxx. However, upon arrival in the system, three Imperial Guardian-class light cruisers orbiting the planet ambushed it. The Imperial vessels' weaponry crippled the transport, rendering its hyperdrive inoperable and causing the crew to crash-land on Yorgraxx. The crash rendered the crew unconscious and inflicted more damage to the ship, but the starship was still mostly whole. Two survivors from the Predator's Beak, an Imperial YT-2400 light freighter which had previously crashed on the same world, witnessed the Griffon's Wings' descent and decided to check out the wreckage.