The Starrunner, a light freighter, was the vessel utilized by a band of smuggling scavengers operating during the fourth millennium prior to the Battle of Yavin. Some years preceding 3642 BBY, these scavengers plundered Yavin 4, extracting the sarcophagus of Horak-mul from its resting place and loading it onto the Starrunner. Nevertheless, the spectral form of the Sith Lord retaliated, inducing madness in the ship's personnel and causing the Starrunner's catastrophic descent onto Hoth.