Legacy 18 Legacy 18 is the eighteenth and final issue of the comic series . It was released on August 27 , 2014 , and is the final " Star Wars " comic book issue published by Dark Horse Comics , as well as the final comic released in the original Expanded Universe . Publisher ' s summary . " Ania Solo and her friends find themselves fighting alongside the Imperial Knight s and the Empress herself against a legion of Sith ! While the others fight for control of the galaxy , Ania fights to save her friend — Imperial Knight Jao Assam , who has been enslaved by the dark side ! " Plot summary . Following Ania Solo ' s kidnapping , the Imperial Knight companion Jao Assam suspends his quest to hunt down the rogue Sith Darth Wredd , who wanted to assassinate the Galactic Empress Marasiah Fel , the head of the Imperial Knights . After a grueling rescue mission , Ania was arrested for the alleged murder of the Imperial Knight Teemen Alton . However , Jao succeeds in clearing Ania ' s name by presenting evidence that the real murderer was a deceased bounty hunter who had tried to frame her for the crime . While Ania was acquitted and released by the Galactic Federation Triumvirate , Jao Assam is arrested and imprisoned for deserting the Imperial Knights , a crime which carried the death penalty . In prison , he was visited by his quarry Darth Wredd who helps him escape from prison . Jao decides to follow Wredd in order to foil his plot against Empress Fel . The Battle of the Floating World descends into full - scale pitched battle between the One Sith and the Imperial Knights , who had sent a large force to the floating world of Mala to hunt down the rogue Sith Darth Wredd . Within hours , the battlefield was piled with the corpses of countless Sith and Imperial Knights . During the fighting , Antares Draco , the commander of the Imperial forces , is wounded by a One Sith fighter . However , he is rescued by Ania and her Mon Calamari friend Sauk who attends to his wounds . Following the incapacitation of her lover Draco , Empress Fel enters the fray . Ania and Sauk aid the Imperial forces by blowing up a Chadra - Fan Lander that was being used by the Sith . Darth Wredd also helps the Imperial Knights by killing many Sith , thus avenging the destruction of his homeworld and family . Empress Fel is reunited with Jao during the battle and cautions the latter not to trust their Sith ally . By the end of the day , the Imperial Knights had succeeded in wiping out all Sith resistance with the exception of Darth Wredd . Ania ' s friend , the assassin droid AG - 37 theorizes that all of the Sith infiltrators in the galaxy had been killed in the fighting . Marasiah Fel orders the Imperial shuttle " Neuer " to evacuated the wounded Imperials and ordered her Knights to search for the surviving Sith . While attending to the wounded Antares Draco , Empress Fel is stabbed in the chest by Darth Wredd , who has resurfaced out of hiding . Enraged , Jao attacks Darth Wredd and succeeds in slicing off his hands with his lightsaber . Wredd pleads for Jao to destroy him ; insisting that the Sith have to be destroyed for the sake of the galaxy and his family ' s memory . However , Jao refuses to kill Darth Wredd ; knowing that such an act would complete his journey to the dark side . In the end , Darth Wredd is killed by Ania Solo , who fires a blaster at his chest . Following the battle , the wounded Empress Fel is evacuated . During his reunion with Master Val , Jao concludes that Darth Wredd had engineered the entire battle to punish and destroy the One Sith for the harm they had done to his homeworld . However , he realized that he was the only Sith standing and had deliberately goaded Jao into attacking him in order to destroy the Sith . Master Val thinks that all the Sith in the galaxy perished during the Battle of the Floating World but Empress Fel is skeptical . Following the Battle of the Floating World , Empress Fel offers Ania a new job as the captain of her personal bodyguard . Disliking Coruscant , Ania politely declines the offer but manages to secure clemency for Jao . Jao is allowed to join Ania and her companions , who depart Coruscant on AG - 37 ' s freighter following a heartfelt last meeting with Jao ' s mentor Master Val . By the following year , Ania and her companions were traveling throughout the galaxy . While visiting a cantina , Sauk succeeded in purchasing a retrofitted stabilizing coil from Jariah Syn and his companions Cade Skywalker and Deliah Blue . Sauk ' s purchase of the starship part came at an opportune moment . Shortly later , Sauk , Ania , Jao and AG - 37 were attacked .