Purdy M. Trico was a Human male who served as the captain of an Imperial Star Destroyer that would later be renamed the Crynyd during the Galactic Civil War. He was an extremely muscular man, being a fourth-generation settler of a high-gravity world. Trico, a follower of a polytheistic religion (whose gods included Mugg, Bron, and Pula) who always wore a religious amulet underneath his uniform, was notoriously harsh and did not hesitate to shoot his subordinates if they had failed him.