Or Die Trying " Or Die Trying " is a short story by Sean Williams and Shane Dix that features the Jedi Knight Jaina Solo infiltrating the headquarters of Onadax Droid Technologies on the planet Onadax . The company has manufactured a Human replica droid ( HRD ) that betrayed the citizens of Bakura , and Solo hopes to bring them to justice for the crimes committed by their clients . She confronts an HRD named Stanton Rendar and engages him in a discussion regarding the moral implications of immortality and near - invincibility , but ultimately remains firm in her convictions and prepares to apprehend him . Rendar looses a group of battle droids on Solo and sets the compound to self - destruct , but she defeats the droids and escapes while Rendar flees the planet . " Or Die Trying " included a full - page illustration by Leanne Buckley in its publication in the seventy - fifth issue of " Star Wars Insider " , which was released in May 2004 . In 2003 , Williams and Dix had written the " Force Heretic " Trilogy , three volumes of " " book series ; " Or Die Trying " is set between the trilogy ' s and installments . The six - page story builds on the continuity of " Force Heretic " and additionally ties up several loose ends of the " Star Wars " Expanded Universe , such as the fates of Dash Rendar and Guri from 1996 ' s . " Or Die Trying " was also published in the of " " , and later went on to be archived online as part of StarWars . com ' s fan club . Its characters and events have since been mentioned in several reference guides . Plot summary . In the year 28 ABY , Jaina Solo — a Jedi Knight of the New Jedi Order — is on the planet Onadax on a mission to infiltrate the headquarters of a company called ODT . She is part of a group of representatives from the Galactic Federation of Free Alliances that has come to Onadax from Bakura after helping foil an invasion of that world by the Ssi - ruuvi Imperium — the invasion was made possible by a Human replica droid ( HRD ) that was in league with the Ssi - ruu k , and Solo hopes to confront the creators of the droid . After using the Force to distract the compound ' s security guards , she enters the main building with a stolen security pass and follows the Force presence of an HRD to a room . The HRD calmly greets her , and Solo asserts that he is responsible for endangering the people of Bakura . The HRD counters that his company can not be held accountable for what their clients do after receiving HRD bodies and deflects Solo ' s claims that the HRD procedure allows criminals to indefinitely put the galaxy at risk . The HRD introduces himself as Stanton Rendar , a formerly dead Human who was resurrected into an HRD body , and tells Solo the history and mission objectives of ODT , also known as Onadax Droid Technologies . Believing that every sapient being has the right to life , they create HRDs for wealthy clients with wishes of immortality and use the Ssi - ruuk ' s entechment process to transfer their soul s into the droid bodies . Nonetheless , they operate in secrecy , believing that the galaxy would not understand . Rendar offers Solo an HRD of her own , but she envisions an army of invincible dark side – using HRDs and steadfastly refuses . She prepares to apprehend him , but Rendar has anticipated her refusal and sends a group of battle droids after her as he flees the planet in a prepared shuttle . Solo swiftly destroys them with her lightsaber and is forced to also flee from the exploding building that Rendar has programmed to self - destruct . Main characters . Jaina Solo . Jaina Solo , having arrived on Onadax and caught wind of a company called ODT , is searching for the manufacturers of the Human Replica Droid purchased by Molierre Cundertol , the former Prime Minister of Bakura . Solo infiltrates ODT ' s compound and encounters an HRD named Stanton Rendar who admits to having served a client on Bakura , and who offers her immortality via having her soul enteched into an HRD . Solo considers the implications of HRDs roaming the galaxy unchecked and refuses the offer , prompting Rendar to loose a group of battle droids on her . He flees the planet while she fights them off ; Solo quickly disposes of them before rushing away from the self - destructing compound . Although she is furious that Rendar escaped , she takes comfort in a belief that the two of them may one day meet again . Stanton Rendar . Stanton Rendar is an HRD working within a small team of researchers at Onadax Droid Technologies , a company which recently provided a droid body for a client on Bakura . He believes that every sapient being has the right to life , and is prepared to provide wealthy clients with immortality by using the Ssi - ruuk entechment process to transfer their souls into HRDs . Solo asserts that he is responsible for the Ssi - ruuvi Imperium ' s invasion of Bakura , and , doubtful of his motives , prepares to apprehend him . Rendar orders a group of battle droids to attack her and uses the distraction to flee the planet . He programs the compound to self - destruct in five minutes ' time , confident that another one will be built elsewhere . Development . In 2003 , authors Sean Williams and Shane Dix wrote the " Force Heretic " Trilogy , three novels that respectively served as the fifteenth , sixteenth , and seventeenth volumes in " " book series . " " , the trilogy ' s middle installment , features a plot that takes place on Bakura , in which Galactic Alliance representatives Han Solo , Leia Organa Solo , Jaina Solo , and several others discover that the planet ' s Prime Minister , Molierre Cundertol , has been promised immortality and undergone the Ssi - Ruuvi entechment process in order to have his soul transferred into a Human replica droid . After helping foil his plans , the Solo family are told by an ally , the Ryn Goure Conor , to proceed to Onadax and meet with another member of the information - gathering Ryn Network . The " Force Heretic " Trilogy ' s concluding novel , " " , opens with the Solos already on Onadax . In a 2003 interview with TheForce . Net , Williams and Dix indicated that they were interested in writing a short story based on a small section of " Reunion " , but that there had been no official discussion on the subject . " The New Jedi Order " wrapped up in November of 2003 with James Luceno ' s novel " " . Nevertheless , Williams and Dix wrote " Or Die Trying , " a short story that took place in the New Jedi Order era between " Refugee " and " Reunion " but was not officially part of " The New Jedi Order " series . The story was published in the seventy - fifth issue of the Lucasfilm Ltd . magazine " Star Wars Insider " , which was released in May 2004 . Including a full - page illustration by Leanne Buckley , " Or Die Trying " is a six - page tale that introduces an additional reason for the Solos to have traveled to Onadax : they are following a trail of credits that Cundertol laundered off of Bakura in order to have his Human replica droid built . Onadax Droid Technologies , the company that built the droid , is known only as " ODT " during the opening pages of the story , an acronym that also applies to " Or Die Trying " ' s title . The story was also included in " " , and it was later published online for members of StarWars . com ' s fan club . Continuity . While they were writing the " Force Heretic " Trilogy , Sean Williams and Shane Dix were eager to reintroduce characters and elements from past stories of the " Star Wars " Expanded Universe that had not appeared in some time and whose fates were unresolved . Williams thus spent time researching dangling story arcs that he felt were ripe for being further explored . " Or Die Trying " addresses the fates of Guri and Dash Rendar , major characters from the 1996 . The 1998 comic series " " had previously established a partnership between Dash and Guri , and " Or Die Trying " reveals the fruits of their labors by resurrecting Stanton Rendar in the form of an HRD . Dash had been believed dead by Jaina Solo ' s parents and uncle after the events of " Shadows of the Empire " , and " Or Die Trying " marks the first time that a member of their family learns of his survival and subsequent work done in HRD development . Stanton Rendar had himself been mentioned in several previous " Star Wars " works , such as the " Shadows of the Empire " novelization and the " Shadows of the Empire Sourcebook " . " Or Die Trying " was the first appearance of his Human replica droid , who went on to be mentioned in such works as 2006 ' s " The New Essential Guide to Droids " , 2008 ' s " The Complete Star Wars Encyclopedia " , and 2012 ' s " The Essential Reader ' s Companion " , the latter of which briefly summarizes all of " Or Die Trying " . The story also references Project Decoy , an HRD - related project undertaken by the New Republic in the 1993 young reader novels " Mission from Mount Yoda " and " Queen of the Empire " . In " Force Heretic II : Refugee " , the Solos are told to go to Onadax by Goure Conor in order to meet another member of the Ryn Network . However , " Or Die Trying " states that Jaina Solo has picked Onadax as her target by telepathically learning of the world from an associate of Rufarr , Molierre Cundertol ' s former pilot .