The Fowl Star was a ship that carried Artemis Fowl I, Butler's uncle The Major, and 250,000 cans of cola to Kola Bay, Russia. The Mafia however, did not like Western Businessmen taking a chunk of their business, and sank the Fowl Star with a missile. Butler's uncle was killed and his body turned up in the local morgue, but Artemis Fowl I was only injured (but thought dead for 3 years). The missile was, in true mafia style, stolen.