Ania Solo Ania Solo was a Human female who was a member of the House of Solo , a descendant of the smuggler Han Solo and the Jedi Knight Leia Organa Solo . She was also a distant cousin of Empress Marasiah Fel and Jedi Cade Skywalker . Towards the end of the Second Imperial Civil War , Ania escaped from an Imperial prison camp on Drash - So and encountered the kindly assassin droid AG - 37 , who gave her transportation offworld to honor a promise that he made to her ancestor Han Solo . By 138 ABY , Solo was working as a junk dealer in the Carreras system , and she accidentally discovered the lightsaber of Imperial Knight Yalta Val after an Imperial communications droid containing the lightsaber turned up in her junkyard . Enlisting the help of her Mon Calamari friend Sauk , Solo attempted to sell the weapon on Carreras Major , but soon became the target of a Sith posing as Val . Assisted by Saul , AG - 37 and an Imperial Knight named Jao Assam , Ania found herself in the middle of an insurgency led by a rogue Sith Lord named Darth Wredd . The consequence of their action was the destruction of the Galactic Federation Triumvirate ' s communications array in the Carreras system , which brought Ania to the attention of Empress Fel . After the Carreras Incident , Ania joined forces with Jao Assam to hunt down Darth Wredd . Tracking him to the dead world of Dac , Ania and Jao discovered that a Sith Lord named Darth Luft had secretly been constructing a pirate fleet , using the remains of the Mon Calamari Shipyards and a slavery operation composed of Mon Calamari and Quarren refugees . Assisted by a Triumvirate force led by Admiral Gar Stazi and Yalta Val , they succeeded in saving the slaves and killing Darth Luft . However , their hunt for Wredd had been stalled as they discovered he had not been on Dac and that he had manipulated them into killing Darth Luft . Matters where complicated when Ania ' s past caught up with her . Framed for the murder of an Imperial Knight named Teemen Alton , she was kidnapped by her former lover Ramid who wanted to collect the bounty on her head as revenge for her abandonment of him in the past . They were forced to work together when a mysterious bounty hunter shot them down and became determined to capture Ania . The true murderer of the Imperial Knight and a former guard at the prison camp where Ania had been imprisoned during the war , the bounty hunter killed Ramid and tried to frame Ania for Alton ' s murder . However , Jao saved her and they were quickly retrieved by a squad of Trandoshan stormtroopers , who arrested Ania . Put on trial for her alleged crime , Ania ' s innocence was eventually proved by Master Val and Jao who produced evidence clearing her . However , Jao was arrested for his desertion from the Imperial Knights and sentenced for execution . Before the sentence could be carried out , Jao was broken out by Darth Wredd . With the consent of Empress Fel , Ania , her companions and a force of Trandoshan stormtroopers were secretly sent to recover Jao . Using coordinates sent by the latter , Ania and her team tracked them to the floating dead world of Mala , the location of the Carreras Incident . After rescuing Jao , ships carrying infiltrated members of the One Sith arrived as did Empress Fel and a fleet of stormtroopers and Imperial Knights . A great battle ensued on Mala between the Sith and the Knights during which Ania and her companions temporarily joined forces with Darth Wredd , who had orchestrated the whole confrontation to destroy the Sith . Once the battle was done , Wredd turned on them and tried to kill Empress Fel , badly wounding her . After a brief confrontation with Jao during which the Imperial Knight refused to kill the rogue Sith , Ania killed Wredd with a blaster rifle . Following the defeat of the Sith , Ania refused the empress ' s offer to become the captain of her personal guard and instead chose to continue her travels through the galaxy with her companions and a pardoned Jao . Biography . Early life and imprisonment . A Human female descendant of Han Solo and Leia Organa Solo , Ania Solo lived through the Second Imperial Civil War of 130 – 138 ABY , in which the Galactic Empire under the Sith Lord Darth Krayt was defeated by the Alliance of the Empire - in - exile , the New Jedi Order , and the Galactic Alliance Remnant . Early in her life , some people believed that Solo would come to a bad end , while others believed that she had a great destiny ahead of her ; Solo , on the other hand , did not believe in destiny . At some point prior to 138 ABY , she developed a romantic relationship with a spacer named Ramid . Towards the end of the Second Imperial Civil War , Ania Solo was sent to an Imperial prison camp on Drash - So in the Selvatas system for murdering an unidentified individual . Her love interest Ramid also ended up in the prison camp . During her imprisonment , Ania was regularly abused and tortured by a sadistic female guard , who had a prosthetic left hand and wielded a lightwhip . Ania and Ramid attempted to escape the prison camp but caught the attention of the guards . During the escape , Ramid was shot and recaptured but Ania managed to escape . Ramid was severely punished for the escape attempt and developed a grudge towards Ania , whom he unfairly blamed for abandoning him . While Ania regretted abandoning Ramid , she had no way of ascertaining that he had survived . Following her escape from the Imperial prison camp , Ania Solo encountered the kindly assassin droid AG - 37 . While Ania had pulled a gun on AG - 37 during their first encounter , the two would become close and loyal friends . Several decades earlier , AG - 37 had made an unspecified promise to Ania ' s ancestor Han Solo . AG - 37 recognized Ania as a descendant of Solo and took pity on her . Seeing that she had no money to buy a transport out of the Selvatas system , AG - 37 granted lodging and passage to Ania Solo . Seeking to escape the troubles in the Selvatas system , Ania fled to the remote Carreras system , a star system near the Surd Nebula in the Outer Rim Territories . The discovery . While visiting Carreras Minor , Ania encountered a homeless Mon Calamari engineer named Sauk , who had lost his family during the One Sith ' s genocide against the Mon Calamari . Taking pity on a total stranger , she helped Sauk secure lodging and a meal . As a result , Sauk came to respect Ania for helping him in his hour of need and the two became close friends . By 138 ABY , Ania Solo had succeeded in establishing a junkyard on Carreras Major . An insectoid individual named Tham and its Human partner delivered a shipment to her , and Tham became agitated when Solo refused to pay their price of ten thousand credits . The Human attempted to threaten her , but Solo summoned a large droid which she ordered to escort Tham and the man back to their starship . While looking through the shipment of junk , Solo discovered an Imperial communications droid , which had actually been launched by the crew of Imperial Knight Yalta Val a week earlier before their ship had been attacked . Solo took the droid to an ice mining platform in the rings of Carreras Minor , where she met with her friend Sauk and showed the Mon Calamari the comm droid . However , as Sauk examined the droid , the pair discovered Val ' s lightsaber , and Solo urged Sauk to shut off the lightsaber almost immediately when he activated the weapon . She then convinced Sauk to help her sell the lightsaber , persuading the Mon Calamari that it was their chance at a big score . On Carreras Major , Sauk and Solo witnessed a guard shoot an alien in the middle of the street , and she brushed aside Sauk ' s complaints and led him to a nearby shop . However , the owner refused to even consider buying the weapon in fear of being discovered by Governor Biala ' s security forces . When the shop owner insinuated that he might turn the pair in for possessing the weapon , Solo angrily confronted him , but the owner threw both Solo and Sauk out into the street . They were quickly set upon by a mounted guard , and Solo ran into an alleyway with Sauk to avoid the guard — but the two were forced to stop before they ran into a crowded intersection , allowing the guard to catch up to them . Angered by how the man called her and Sauk scum , Solo refused the guard ' s order to hand over the lightsaber and drew her blaster instead , shooting the man in the stomach and killing him . Pursuit . Pursued by more guards , the two fled through Carreras Major ' s sewers in Solo ' s ship , and Solo ordered Sauk to use the lightsaber to defend them when she realized that the targeting lead on the vessel was damaged . When Sauk accidentally damaged a pipe when Solo swerved after being hit by their pursuers , Solo used the cloud of smoke that issued from it to escape through an access tunnel to the surface . The two returned to Solo ' s junkyard , where Sauk continued to work on the Imperial comm droid , but Solo insisted that she would not abandon Sauk , though she intended to get rid of the lightsaber . Their conversation was interrupted by the arrival of AG - 37 , a droid and frequent customer that Solo was friends with , and she directed him to the north side of the junkyard to find a linear converter . Before departing , AG - 37 warned Solo to get rid of the lightsaber , and it was only minutes later that an Imperial Knight arrived with guards from Carreras , demanding the return of the lightsaber . However , Solo refused to give him the weapon , claiming ownership by right of salvage , and she summoned her large droid to convince the Knight to leave . However , the Knight simply pulled the lightsaber out of her grasp and used it to destroy the droid before he departed , ordering the guards to kill Solo and Sauk . Fortunately for the two , the guards were distracted by several gesaw rat s scavenging the remains of Solo ' s droid , allowing Sauk and Solo to escape into the junkyard . Firing at her pursuers , Solo and Sauk fled deeper into the junkyard , but the timely arrival of AG - 37 saved them from execution as he eliminated the guards . AG - 37 brought the two aboard his ship and offered to take them as far as Bonadan , and when Solo questioned him as to why he was helping them , he confused her by explaining that he always paid his debts . The droid then expressed his suspicions about the Imperial Knight ' s hostile actions , and Solo headed back to apologize to Sauk for the trouble she had caused , though his resentment was cut short when he repaired the comm droid enough to the point where it began to display a hologram . The droid displayed an image of an Imperial Knight battling a Sith , prompting Solo to call for AG - 37 , and the droid pointed out that the Knight in the hologram — the one using the lightsaber that Solo had discovered — was not the same Knight who had attacked them at Solo ' s junkyard . Their conversation was interrupted by the ship ' s proximity alarm , and the three were dismayed to see an entire blockade of ships . Forced to turn back towards the interior of the Carreras system , AG - 37 followed Sauk ' s instructions and headed towards an unstable part of Carreras Minor ' s ice ring , piloting the freighter through tunnels in the ice as their Carreras starfighter pursuers followed . Thinking of a way to stop the fighters , Solo rushed to the freighter ' s cargo bay and opened it , venting Sauk ' s ship and sending it flying into the starfighters , which were unable to avoid it in the narrow tunnel and collided with the ship . AG - 37 quickly landed the freighter on Carreras Minor ' s surface , where Sauk finished repairing the comm droid as Solo grew frustrated with the group ' s decision to sit and wait . However , the ship was attacked by a tentacled creature , prompting AG - 37 to head outside after ordering Solo into the pilot seat , but Solo passed his orders on to Sauk and headed outside with AG - 37 , donning a face mask and grabbing a blaster . While battling the creature , Solo was nearly killed by one of its limbs , but the timely arrival of Imperial Knight Jao Assam saw him defend her and then drive off the creature enough for the ship to escape , though the two were nearly thrown off the top of the freighter in the process . Solo immediately drew her blaster on the Knight when they landed nearby , and Assam explained to AG - 37 and Solo that he was looking for his mentor , Yalta Val . AG - 37 convinced Sauk and Solo to stand down , explaining that " Val " had been attacking them , and the Imperial comm droid showed Assam the hologram of the fight . Assam identified the Knight in the hologram as Yalta Val , leading the group to realize that the Knight they had encountered before was an impostor , and AG - 37 allowed Assam to load his starfighter into the freighter ' s hold before the group departed the planet to find the real Val . Helping her friends . Evading more pursuing starfighters , the group followed the comm droid ' s coordinates into the Surd Nebula , though they were surprised when their pursuers broke off upon reaching the edge of the nebula . To the surprise of Solo and the others , when the freighter arrived at the coordinates where Val had vanished , there was no planet to be found , and they were soon captured in the tractor beam of a larger ship . Dozens of tiny droids burst through the hull when the freighter was deposited in the larger ship ' s hangar , and Solo and her friends were forced out into the hangar where they were captured by Carreras guards . Knocked unconscious and imprisoned in holding cells on the Carreras G51 communications array with Sauk and a deactivated AG - 37 , Solo began searching for a way out immediately upon awaking , but her efforts were in vain . Some time later , Sauk came to the realization that the planet they had been searching for had in fact " moved " , though the two were unable to do anything with the knowledge at the time . The three of them were finally freed when Jao Assam was liberated from his separate imprisonment by Governor Biala , who had realized that the false Knight was trying to destroy the array . Solo was insulted by Assam ' s insistence that they would be unable to take on the Sith without Master Val , and she continued to argue with the Knight as they headed to the hangar — but when they encountered the Sith in the hangar , Solo ignored Assam ' s warnings and opened fire on the Sith ' s departing ship . The Sith escaped the explosion and leaped back to the hangar floor , where he choked Solo with the Force and threw her aside . The Sith made short work of AG - 37 and sent Sauk flying into the bulkhead before engaging Assam in a duel , and though Assam was able to score several hits on the Sith , the fight ended with Assam being tossed out of the hangar into space as the Sith escaped in a new ship . When Solo came to , she was horrified to find the hangar destroyed after the battle , and AG - 37 urged her to pursue the Sith and stop him , reminding her that her ancestor Han Solo had become a hero because he always helped his friends . Grabbing Assam ' s fallen lightsaber , Solo took Assam ' s starfighter and headed for the moving planet — now located just in front of the communications array — in pursuit of the Sith . Spotting the Sith ' s shuttle , Solo headed down into a series of caverns , where she found the newly - proclaimed Darth Wredd declaring an insurgency and preparing to execute Yalta Val live on camera , a spectacle that was being broadcast all over the galaxy using the Carreras communications array . Solo interrupted Wredd ' s speech and opened fire upon the Sith , but he used the Force to disarm her before he entangled her in wreckage and threw her to the floor . However , Yal summoned Assam ' s lightsaber from Solo ' s boot just in time to free himself and stop Wredd from executing him , and the two began to duel as Solo freed herself . Seeing that the array was about to crash into the planet , Solo fled the caves and returned to Assam ' s fighter in hopes of saving Sauk and AG - 37 from the array , and she dragged her injured friends to the freighter despite Sauk ' s pleas that she save AG - 37 and get to safety . Escaping aboard the freighter , AG - 37 flew back down to the planet ' s surface and Solo rushed to the boarding ramp so that Master Val could leap aboard , and the freighter escaped just before the array crashed into the planet . Tending to Sauk in the medbay , Solo apologized to her unconscious friend for involving him and getting him hurt , but Val and Solo were called to the cockpit by AG - 37 when the droid encountered a surprise — Jao Assam , floating in space but still alive thanks to the Imperial comm droid . Solo began to care for Assam in the medbay as well when they brought the injured Knight aboard , and Solo repeated her apology to Sauk when the Mon Calamari awoke — but Sauk brushed it off , reminding Solo that she had saved all of her friends . Detour to Nalyd . The group immediately set off in pursuit of Darth Wredd , but damage to the ship soon left them dead in space , and the group tended to their wounded as they activated the Imperial comm droid to call for help . Solo and her friends were soon met by the Imperial Star Destroyer " Animus " , which brought AG - 37 ' s ship aboard , and Solo was given a brief tour by one of the Imperial officers , who informed her that Empress Marasiah Fel herself was impressed with Solo ' s actions during the recent crisis . Fel was requesting a formal audience , and the officer expressed her belief that Solo could gain a comfortable assignment on the capital Coruscant from the audience , as the Triumvirate wished to keep her happy . Solo soon learned from Sauk that AG - 37 had offered her friend a job as an engineer on his ship , and AG - 37 offered her a place on his ship as well , but when she decided to take the offer on Coruscant , the droid advised her to remain alert before departing the " Animus " with Sauk . A little while later , Jao Assam confided in Solo that he had foreseen Darth Wredd attacking the Empress , and the Knight admitted his belief that Wredd wished to make Assam his apprentice to reinstate the Rule of Two Sith doctrine . When Assam brought up the idea of destiny after the two discussed Wredd ' s megalomania and his desire to kill off the other Sith , Solo confided in the Imperial that she did not believe in destiny , and the two agreed to do what the Empress expected of them . However , Solo eventually decided otherwise and went to Assam ' s quarters , where she convinced him to join her in hunting down Wredd . Once Assam had donned his armor , the two headed for the hangar to secure a ship , but found Master Val and a squad of stormtroopers waiting for them . Master Val attempted to reason with Assam by reminding the younger Imperial Knight that they had orders to serve the Empress . Assam tried unsuccessful to convince Val that Darth Wredd still posed a serious threat that needed to be stopped . Their conversation was interrupted by a trigger - happy stormtrooper , who triggered a brief fire fight . During that brief skirmish , Ania fired at least one shot . Jao Assam used his lightsaber to deflect their blaster bolts and told Ania to hide behind him . In the end , Assam was able to call a truce by telling Master Val that he did not want any bloodshed . Val agreed and ordered his stormtroopers to cease fire and stand down . Master Val allowed Assam reluctantly to leave with Ania on his quest but warned the younger Knight that he was being selfish . Unlike Ania , Assam was an Imperial Knight and was expected to serve the Empress , who was guided by the Force . Ania then urged Jao to leave before Master Val and his stormtroopers changed their minds . Ania and Jao then departed " Animus " on a stolen shuttle . While traveling through hyperspace , Ania asked Assam about whether his vision had given him any hint of where they should be traveling . The two of them also browsed through regional incident reports for information on Darth Wredd ' s whereabouts , which included files on court martials and prisoners of war . Ania also asked Assam how long the authorities kept these records and whether they stretched back through the Second Imperial Civil War . She also wondered whether the Triumivrate would have purged these documents as well . Assam commented that Wredd was probably a Sith apprentice since he did not wear the traditional Sith tattoos which most members of the One Sith wore . The Imperial also speculated that Wredd could have been serving anywhere during that time and that they should look at files relating to that period . Ania also noted that many people were forced into doing things during the war that they did not want to . At that point , Ania recognized one of the individuals on the file as Dieben , a Nalydian who had been Darth Wredd ' s henchman on Mala . Following the destruction of the Carrerras communications array , Dieben had been picked up in an escape pod in the Surd Nebula . The two quickly learnt that Dieben was a wanted fugitive who had been extradited to his homeworld of Nalyd to face punishment for various crimes . Ania and Jao then travled to Nalyd , a planet of swirling orange fog . After landing at a spaceport on that planet , Assam discovered from local sources that Dieben had been sentenced to death for various felonies including the assassination of a minister , assaulting an " officer of the law " , and the sabotage of a public transport resulting in ten deaths . As punishment , Dieben was to be executed by firing squad in a public arena . Before the execution could be carried out , Ania commandeered a spider - like creature and " rescued " Dieben . Together with Jao and Dieben , Ania fled the arena . They were pursued by the Nalydian authorities , who also rode spider - like creatures and fired blasters . During the escape attempt , the spider was shot and the three beings fell down a steep cliff . While Ania and Jao survived the fall , Dieben was not so lucky and was impaled by a sharp needle - like plan , resulting in wounds that led to his death . While Ania and Jao were unable to extract any information from Dieben , they quickly found out from the guards that Dieben had planned to rendezvous with Darth Wredd on the planet Dac following the events in Carreras . Dac , the homeworld of the Mon Calamari and Quarren species , had become a ' dead world ' after the One Sith unleashed a biological weapon into its oceans the previous year . Meanwhile on Coruscant , Ania ' s activities attracted the attention of Empress Fel herself who ordered Ania ' s apprehension and also condemned Assam to death for desertion . Mission to Dac . Ania Solo managed to convince the Nalydian guards to release her and Jao Assam by pointing out that the latter was an Imperial Knight who was skilled in lightsaber combat . In exchange for returning Dieben ' s body to the Nalydian authorities , the Nalydians informed the two companions that Dieben had indeed planned to rendezvous with Darth Wredd in Dac . While preparing to disembark to Dac , Ania tried to convince a skeptical Jao that Dieben had been telling the truth because he was not smart enough to lie . Jao also recalled that Dieben had bragged about having powerful friends , whom Ania assumed to be Darth Wredd . Since the One Sith had poisoned Dac a year ago , the planet had become uninhabited and was lawless . There was some criminal activity in the Calamari system since the Galactic Triumvirate lacked a presence there . Ania replied that Dac ' s lawlessness made it a perfect hiding place for the Sith . Upon exiting hyperspace , Ania and Assam arrived outside the Mon Calamari Shipyards , a series of orbital shipyards which had fallen into ruins since the Mon Calamari genocide . Ania and Jao ' s shuttle was quickly attacked by two Dac pirate droid s which proceeded to wreck the starship ' s systems . However , Jao managed to shake off the intruders . Their shuttle was then caught in a tractor beam and then dragged into a hangar bay . Two criminals , an Aqualish and a Gran then approached the shuttle . However , Ania and Jao fought against the two criminals and overpowered them , stealing their clothes and armor . Jao deduced that the two were merely common criminals but sensed the presence of the dark side of the Force , which implied a Sith presence . Followed by their Imperial communications droid , Ania and Jao explored the shipyard and quickly discovered that a pirate gang had taken over the shipyards and were forcing enslaved Mon Calamari and Quarren to build a fleet of pirate ships . Jao and Ania also managed to make contact with a Mon Calamari and a Quarren named Luen and Tikin respectively . Luen revealed that the Mon Calamari and Quarren refugees had been lured back to Dac by promises of making the planet habitable again . Tikin added that the pirates had held their children and elderly relatives hostage in order to force the able - bodied Mon Calamari and Quarren to build ships . Tikin also revealed that he had lost his wife during the Genocide and that his son was being held hostage . Luen also revealed that the pirates were part of a criminal syndicate led by some " rogue " Sith . Jao ordered the Imperial communications droid to send an encrypted message to Coruscant informing Empress Fel about the pirates ' slave - labor operations in the Dac system . When Ania raised concerns about Jao being executed by the Triumvirate authorities for desertion , Jao explained that the pirates were a threat to the Triumvirate and the galaxy which outweighed his own predicament . Jao , Ania and their two local " guides " were then pursued by more pirates . After dodging their pursuers through the shipyard , the four encountered the Sith Darth Luft , a tall red - skinned male Twi ' lek . Darth Luft revealed that he had no connections with Darth Wredd and derided the rogue Sith for rebelling against the One Sith . He also mentioned that the One Sith had sent emissaries to contact the Galactic Triumvirate and claimed that the government was not interested in Dac . Instead of killing Jao , Ania and the two escaped slaves , Darth Luft decided to dump them through a trapdoor into the poisonous oceans of Dac . The four fell into an escape pod which was immediately jettisoned into the ocean world . Due to the presence of viral spore s in Dac ' s oceans , one single drop was enough to kill a living being . While Ania and her companions faced certain death as the escape pod plummeted into Dac ' s oceans , the Imperial communications droid managed to reconfigure his antenna in order to broadcast their location even from the ocean depths . Meanwhile , Sauk and AG - 37 arrived in the Dac system . AG - 37 detected the Imperial communication droid ' s signals from beneath Dac ' s oceans and quickly deduced that Ania and her companions were trapped in an escape pod . They realized that they had to get to them before the hull buckled since a single drop of the poisoned ocean was enough to kill any lifeform . Meanwhile , Ania was unwilling to resign herself and her companions to death and attempted to gain control of the escape pod ' s directional thrusters . However , Tikin revealed that the Sith Lord and his pirates had forced their slaves to strip all of the propulsion systems from the pods to use in the fleet . At that point , AG - 37 made contact with Ania and her companions , assuring them that they were going to use their ship ' s grappling arm to retrieve the escape pod . AG - 37 ' s ship had dived into the oceans of Dac and Sauk had fired the ship ' s grappling gun in attempt to catch the plummeting escape pod . Sauk and AG - 37 ' s rescue effort succeeded and they managed to rescue Ania and her companions . AG - 37 ship ' s towed the escape pod into one of the shipyards above Dac where Ania and Jao reunited with Sauk and AG - 37 . When Ania asked if Sauk and AG - 37 had gotten past the pirates , they assured her that AG - 37 had already dispatched them . Sauk also confirmed that they had intercepted enough of the Imperial comm droid ' s transmission to know that their companions needed help . Stopping Darth Luft . Following their narrow escape from death , Jao Assam expressed his intentions to eliminate Darth Luft and to put an end to the plight of the Mon Calamari and Quarren slave laborers . Ania Solo and AG - 37 disagreed with Jao Assam ' s plan and urged the Imperial Knight to wait for reinforcements before confronting the pirates . Ania stressed that they needed more firepower . AG - 37 concurred and announced that they would depart immediately . The Quarren Tikin vowed not to abandon his son in the Mon Calamari Shipyards . However , Assam was adamant on pursuing his crusade against Wredd and Luft . Ania tried to reason with Assam by pointing out that Dieben had lied to them about Wredd ' s whereabouts and that their quarry was not in the Mon Calamari Shipyards . AG - 37 concurred with Ania and announced that they would depart immediately . In response , Assam argued that they were not led to Dac by coincidence and claimed that he could feel that Wredd was behind the situation . He vowed not to miss this opportunity to stop Darth Wredd . Assam ' s plans alarmed Tikin who feared that his crusade would endanger his son . He warned that the pirates punished workers who rebelled by hurting their families . Refusing to be part of Jao ' s plan , he returned to the shipyards . Finally , Ania tried to reason with Jao by warning him that his plan to fight the whole pirate ring was reckless and insane . However , Jao refused to listen to reason and departed to confront Darth Luft and the pirates . Unhappy with these developments , Ania and AG - 37 left on their starship . Shortly after leaving the docking hangar , they were attacked by several pirate starfighters . Ania urged AG - 37 to " dispatch " their pursuers but the droid responded that these new starfighters were more formidable than those they had previously encountered . Before AG - 37 could finish his sentence , their pursuers were hit by laser fire and incinerated . By then , Master Yalta Val and Admiral Gar Stazi had received the Imperial communication droid ' s transmission and learnt about the pirate presence in the Dac system . Seeking to free the enslaved Mon Calamari and Quarren captives , Stazi had assembled a fleet of Galactic Alliance warships while Yalta Val brought a detachment of trainee Imperial Knights . By that stage , a slave uprising had broken out in the Mon Calamari shipyards . In an attempt to free his son Tilin , the Quarren Tikin alerted Darth Luft to Jao Assam ' s escape . Instead of sparing his son however , the Sith threw Tikin out of the window , killing him . This murder outraged the Mon Calamari and Quarren slaves who began attacking their pirate captors . Jao Assam then entered the fray and engaged Darth Wredd in a lightsaber duel . Meanwhile in space , Ania watched with satisfaction as the Galactic Triumvirate ships arrived . She also destroyed at least two pirate droids which had tried to attach themselves to a Galactic Alliance tanker . Aware of the amphibian nature of the Mon Calamari and Quarren , Admiral Stazi had brought a tanker among his forces with the intention of flooding the shipyards . This was intended to neutralize the pirates while creating a comfortable environment for the aquatic species . Stazi ' s plans worked and the pirate ' s space ring was quickly flooded with water . Imperial seatroopers and Knights under the command of Yalta Val then entered the ring and rounded up the pirates , who unlike the Mon Calamari and Quarren were not accustomed to an aquatic environment . In response to the slave revolt and the Triumvirate attack , Darth Luft had ordered his men to expose the detention bays containing the slaves ' family members to the vacuum of space . While several Mon Calamari and Quarren were killed , the flood of water created a massive ice plume that prevented many more lives from being lost . In space , Ania Solo , AG - 37 , Sauk , and Luen witnessed the expansion of the ice plume outside the family detention . Knowing that the ice would not hold for long , Ania and her crew vowed to close the bay doors . Donning a breathing apparatus , Ania entered the shipyard with Sauk and the two attempted to access the bay door ' s controls but found them encrusted in ice . She then ordered Sauk to evacuate the Mon Calamari and Quarren inmates . Meanwhile AG - 37 stayed aboard their starship and narrowly evaded laser fire from the space battle . He assured Ania that he would do a loop around and return for her and Sauk . With the ice beginning to crack , she and Sauk were still struggling to evacuate the Mon Calamari and Quarren captives . With AG - 37 preoccupied with dodging laser fire , Ania ordered the Imperial communications droid to travel to Bay 519C ' s access panel and close the doors . Just as the ice shattered , the Imperial communications droid succeeded in shutting the detention bay ' s doors , saving countless Mon Calamari and Quarren lives . Meanwhile , Jao Assam succeeded in killing Darth Luft with the help of two Imperial Knight cadets . Following Luft ' s death , Yalta Val ' s Knights and seatroopers asserted control of the space station and apprehended the pirates . Meanwhile , the liberated Mon Calamari and Quarren settled in the flooded space ring . As a gesture of reconciliation between the two species , Luen adopted Tikin ' s son Tilin . Following the events above Dac , Ania and her companions departed in AG - 37 ' s ship and made a jump into hyperspace . AG - 37 counseled Ania that pursuing Darth Wredd was the right thing to do but cautioned that they were running short on funds . At that point , they received an incoming transmission that was for Jao Assam . This transmission turned out to be a holographic recording from Darth Wredd praising Assam for following his trail and eliminating Darth Luft . According to Wredd , his plan was now several steps closer to completion . The rogue Sith expressed his desire to thank Assam in person and offered him a place in his reconstituted Sith Order . Assam was taken by surprise that Wredd had managed to contact them . He lamented that Wredd had wanted to eliminate Luft from the beginning and that Ania and her companions had been inadvertently playing into the rogue Sith ' s hands . Ania took a more optimistic approach and pointed out that the team had liberated the Mon Calamari and Quarren slaves at the ring . If they could accomplish something like that , Ania reasoned that they could eliminate an " arrogant " Sith . Wanted . One year following the events of the Carreras Incident , Ania Solo and her companions were doing a delivery run to Lasgo Port , a spaceport on a world surrounded by a minefield . After navigating through the minefield , AG - 37 ' s freighter landed in Lasgo Port to deliver some cargo . In an attempt to earn some extra credits , Ania attempted to tame a yarthul , a large quadruped beast native to the planet . Unfortunately , Ania failed and lost her comlink as collateral . While walking through Lasgo Port , Ania and her companions discovered that she was wanted for the murder of an Imperial Knight named Teemen Alton . When confronted , Ania vehemently denied murdering the Knight and insisted that Jao Assam was the first Imperial Knight that she had ever met . Suspicious , Jao questioned why she was residing in the remote Carreras system around the time of the alleged murder . While departing Lasgo Port ' s planet , AG - 37 ' s freighter had to travel through the minefield again . While passing through the minefield , their freighter ' s fuel injection bay was dented by some asteroid debris . The ship crew sent their Imperial communications droid to fix the damage . While repairing the fuel bay , the communications droid discovered a damaged starship nearby with its crew alive but in distress . AG - 37 ' s freighter docked with the damaged starship and Ania and her companions made contact with the crew . During that meeting , Ania met her former love interest Ramid , who claimed that his ship ' s net isolator had been damaged by a mine causing the ship ' s shield systems to break down . With their shields inoperative , the starship was unable to travel through space . While Ania reunited with Ramid , her companions return to AG - 37 ' s freighter to get tools and spare parts . However , this was all a ruse . Once Ania was separated from her companions , Ramid and his crew took her captive . Ramid ' s starship then activated its engines and opened fire on AG - 37 ' s freighter , attempting to blow it up in the minefields . Jao narrowly saved their starship from destruction . However , Ramid and his crew took advantage of the explosion to make a jump into hyperspace , taking the captive Ania with them . Ania ' s companions received a response signal from her comlink , which they trace to Port Lasgo . Since Ania had lost her comlink as collateral during her failed attempt to tame a yarthul , Sauk was skeptical that it is actually her . Knowing that Ramid ' s starship had made a cold jump into hyperspace , Sauk deduced that they could have gotten no further than two star systems before their fuel ran out . Captivity . On Ramid ' s starship , Ania was locked in an improvised holding cell . When a Nikto crew member brought her refreshments , she demanded to see Ramid . Ania then overpowered the Nikto guard and hit him in the abdomen with a lose metal rod . However , she was then overpowered by a green - skinned female Twi ' lek crew member who restrained her with a blaster rifle . Ramid then resurfaced and forcibly led her back to her cell . When Ania protested and demanded an explanation for his actions , Ramid expressed his anger towards her for leaving him behind at the Imperial prison camp on Drash - so . He also revealed that he was answering the Triumvirate bounty on Ania ' s head and hoped to obtain some credits as revenge for her alleged betrayal . When Ania denied killing the Imperial Knight , Ramid refused to believe her and told her to be thankful that he and his crew were taking her to the authorities alive . Ania tried to explain her side of the story but Ramid furiously slammed the door in her face , leaving her in her holding cell . Short on fuel , Ramid and his crew decided to land on the fourth world of an unnamed star system , which was home to a small outpost . This planet was an inhospitable planet with clouds that contained acidic vapor and rained molten silica or shards of glass . While descending into the planet ' s surface , Ramid ' s freighter was attacked by a TIE Bomber , a relic from the Galactic Civil War . The smaller and more maneuverable TIE Bomber inflicted damage on Ramid ' s ship , killing his Twi ' lek pilot . Bereft of a pilot , Ramid dragged Ania out from her cell and forced her to land his ship . At the helm of Ramid ' s freighter , Ania struggled to land the heavy ship while dodging laser blasts from the TIE Bomber . Following a steep dive , Ania landed Ramid ' s freighter , damaging the cockpit and killing Ramid ' s Nikto crew mate in the process . Ramid was alive but unconscious and wounded . A mysterious bounty hunter then emerged from the TIE Bomber , which had landed nearby , and demanded that Ania surrender . After sending a medical droid to treat the wounded Ramid , Ania confronted the bounty hunter and temporarily incapacitated her with a blast to her helmet . Ania then fled into the planet ' s wilderness . Ania eventually came across a ruined temple that overlook a valley inhabited by giant beetles . However , she fell off a cliff and slid into the valley where she was immediately set upon by a large beetle . Ania attempted to shoot the creature but was grabbed around the wrist by the bounty hunter ' s lightsaber whip . The bounty hunter dragged her up the cliff to safety and restrained her using her whip as an improvised set of handcuffs . As the bounty hunter led her back to her ship , Ania protested her innocence , claiming that she could not be the killer since she had been caught so easily . However , the bounty hunter retorted that Ania had shot her in the head which made her unsympathetic to her cause . The bounty hunter then used a remote to summon her modified TIE Bomber which flew down to meet them . Ania taunted the bounty hunter about working alone , prompting the bounty hunter to tell her to shut up . However , Ania was rescued by Ramid , who proceeded to knock the bounty hunter out with his speeder bike . Distrusting Ramid , she grabbed the bounty hunter ' s pistol and attempted to shoot Ramid . However , Ramid managed to convince her that he was the only friend on this dangerous world . Before the bounty hunter could awake , Ania and Ramid fled on the speeder bike . Reconciliation . Due to a " glass - storm " , Ania and Ramid were forced to take shelter under the latter ' s speeder bike . During that time , Ania and Ramid reconciled their differences . When Ania asked Ramid whether he could have crashed on a nicer planet , he retorted that he was not the one who piloted the ship . Ania ' s hand was cut by a shard of glass and Ramid urged her to wrap it up . Ramid apologized for his actions and said that hurting her had not been part of his plan . Ania recalled that she had not seen a laser whip since their time at the Imperial prison camp on Drash - so . Ania also confided that there was something eerily familiar about the mysterious bounty hunter she had encountered . Ramid then discussed his plan to travel to the outpost and escape offworld before the bounty hunter caught up with them . Ania then confronted Ramid on why he had kidnapped her despite knowing that she did not kill the Imperial Knight . Ramid replied that he had been bitter about her leaving him behind during her escape from the Sith labor camp . Ania explained that she had fled because she thought that Ramid had been shot dead by the guard . She had kept on running because she knew that the guard would have shot her dead . She also had witnessed the guards dragging Ramid away and presumed that he was dead . She then escaped offworld which she admitted was not a proud thing . When Ramid suggested that she could have returned , Ania recalled that the prison camp had been liberated and that there was no way for her to ascertain that Ramid had survived . Ramid then related how he had been thrown into solitary confinement and beaten up by the guards . The only reason the Sith had kept him alive was because they wanted to know Ania ' s whereabouts . In the end , Ramid had broken down and told them Ania ' s whereabouts . However , by then , Ania had fled to the Carreras system so the guards assumed him beaten up further . Ania apologized for the beatings and tortures which Ramid had endured and the two reconciled . As the storm began to deteriorate , Ania and Ramid witnessed several beetles approaching . However , the beetles were not interested in them and proceeded to devour the glass shards . Ania and Ramid then sheltered under the giant beetles . An old enemy . After the " glass - storm " ended , Ania and Ramid continued their journey to the settlement . Ania managed to extract a promise from Ramid to contact her friends . In return , Ramid asked Ania to forgive him for kidnapping her . When they arrived at the settlement , they quickly discovered that it ' s inhabitants had been killed by the same mysterious bounty hunter who had been hunting Ania . The bounty hunter then attacked Ania and Ramid with her lightsaber whip . During the ensuing struggle , Ramid managed to damage the bounty hunter ' s prosthetic hand . However , the bounty hunter killed him by breaking his neck . At that point , Jao Assam arrived and attacked the bounty hunter with his lightsaber . While Jao dealt with the bounty hunter , Ania fled out the window only to end up in an " acid storm . " Ania managed to protect her skin and her eyes by pulling her jacket over her head . The jacket was ruined by the acid storm . Fortunately , Ania was rescued by AG - 37 , who at a great risk to himself , carried Ania to shelter under a cave . AG - 37 ' s mechanical body was seriously damaged by the acid storm and Ania was force to shut him down in order to prefer his memories . Shortly later , Ania was surprised by the bounty hunter , who had seemingly gained the upper hand over Jao by igniting a thermal detonator . During the struggle , Ania managed to shove a blaster rifle at her opponent . She then jumped into a chasm but the bounty hunter caught her boot with her laser whip . During the struggle , both women landed at the floor of the pit . Ania attempted to use her assailant ' s laser whip against her only to find that it only answered to the bounty hunter ' s prosthetic hand . After immobilizing Ania with a punch to her head the bounty hunter revealed herself as a former Imperial prison guard from Ania ' s prison camp . As revenge for her escape , the bounty hunter intended to sever Ania ' s left hand and implant her prosthetic hand on Ania in order to frame her for the murder of Teemen Alton . The bounty hunter also revealed that she had assumed Ania ' s identity following her escape and was the real murderer of Teemen Alton . At that point , the bounty hunter was attacked by Jao Assam , who had survived the explosion . Using her laser whip , the bounty hunter gained the advantage over the Imperial Knight . However , Ania managed to break free of her restraints and shot the bounty ' s prosthetic hand off with a blaster . Before the bounty hunter could kill her , Ania ' s used the former ' s remote to use her TIE Bomber to crush her to death . However , Ania Solo ' s troubles were still not over . An Imperial shuttle had landed nearby and disembarked a force of Trandoshan stormtroopers with orders to arrest Ania for the alleged murder of Teemen Alton . Jao and Sauk were unable to stop them and could only watch as the Imperials apprehended Ania . On Coruscant , Ania Solo was brought before a military tribunal , that consisted of three officials — the Imperial Knight Antares Draco , a Sullustan Galactic Alliance official , and a female Human Jedi . Knowing the facts about the Teemen Alton case , Master Yalta Val , her old friend , volunteered to represent Ania during the court proceedings . He defended Ania , pointing out that the evidence was circumstantial and stressing Ania ' s recent actions to save members of the Order . Representing the prosecution , Antares Draco stressed Ania ' s guilt and demanded a swift resolution to the case . Yalta Val was able to weaken the prosecution ' s case by pointing out that Teemen ' s murderer had a prosthetic hand and that Ania had two biological hands . He added that Alton was strangled by a laser whip that could only be operated by a matching prosthetic hand . Val ' s evidence managed to sway the Galactic Alliance and Jedi members of the tribunal but Antares Draco remained unswayed and demanded more evidence . However , Ania Solo was saved by the arrival of Jao Assam who presented the bounty hunter ' s severed prosthetic hand . He explained to the tribunal that the artificial hand belonged to Teemen ' s real murderer and that this person had tried to frame Ania for a crime that she did not commit . Faced with compelling evidence , the tribunal was forced to find Ania not guilty and to release her . Following her acquittal , Ania was reunited with her companions Sauk , AG - 37 and their Imperial communications droid . Ania admitted that she had been sent to the prison camp for murdering a malevolent individual . However , this good news was shattered by news that Jao Assam had been arrested and imprisoned for deserting the Imperial Knights , a crime that carried the death penalty . Despite clearing Ania ' s name , Yalta Val explained that by returning to Coruscant , Jao had effectively given himself up . While in prison , Jao Assam was visited by the elusive Darth Wredd himself , who sensed the former ' s despondency at being untreated unfairly . Darth Wredd offered to help Jao escape from prison by handing him a Sith lightsaber through the bars of his cell . The Empress ' errand . The following day , Ania Solo sought an audience with Empress Marasiah Fel to request clemency for Jao Assam . However , the Empress ' schedule was full . Jao ' s superior , Master Antares Draco , refused to listen to Ania ' s petition , and insisted that the Empress ' decision would be final and that there would be no clemency for Jao . Meanwhile , Jao Assam successfully escaped offworld on Darth Wredd ' s starship . Jao decided to follow Wredd in order to discover and foil the rogue Sith ' s plot against the Empress . Unsuccessful with her attempts to gain an audience with the Empress , Ania rejoined her friends Sauk and AG - 37 at the hangar bay , where AG - 37 ' s freighter was docking . Ania related her frustrations to Sauk , who reasoned that Marasiah Fel was the Empress of a third of the galaxy . Ania then revealed that she was a distant relation of the Empress but was not sure about the details . At that moment , AG - 37 received word from the nets that Jao had escaped . At that point , a squad of stormtroopers arrived at the hangar and ordered Ania to come with them . Ania reluctantly complied and the troopers let her down a street into an empty hallway . There , Ania encountered Empress Fel herself who had finally decided to grant Ania an audience . After some bantering , the Empress acknowledged that Jao ' s recent escape was the main reason why she had organized a meeting with Ania . During the meeting , Fel confided in Ania that she thought that Jao had not turned to the dark side but was merely seeking to foil Wredd ' s plot . Seeking to save Jao ' s life , Marasiah sent Ania to find him and bring him back . She explained that she could not rescue Jao herself because it was politically inconvenient for her to publicly show leniency towards Jao , a deserter . When Ania confronted the Empress over the Imperials spying on her , Fel admitted that the Triumvirate had eyes everywhere . For this top - secret mission , Empress Fel assigned Ania a platoon of Trandoshan stormtroopers . Ania agreed to the mission in return for extracting a promise from Marasiah Fel to find a way around the desertion charges . Prior to their departure , Ania briefed her stormtrooper charges and instructed them not to transmit any communications to Coruscant while on their mission to find Jao . She also apologized for the cramped state of the transport compartment which was unsuitable for the large Trandoshans . That evening , Ania and her companions departed into hyperspace on AG - 37 ' s freighter to find Jao . They had no clue to his destination so they decided to wait for Jao to transmit a signal to them . Meanwhile , Jao and Wredd landed on the floating world of Mala , which had traveled through space since its destruction at the hands of the One Sith . On Mala , Wredd tricked Jao into transmitting Mala ' s coordinates to Ania and her companions , intending to lure both the One Sith and Empress Fel into a trap . As planned , Jao ' s Imperial comm droid , which was stationed aboard AG - 37 ' s freighter , received the transmission . Ania intended to change their course as soon as the comm droid had finished feeding the coordinates to the freighter ' s navigation computer . AG - 37 was skeptical of finding anything at their location since it was far from any star system or any current hyperspace route . However , Ania was adamant that there was something on the other side of that hyperspace jump since that was where Jao ' s message had originated from . Sauk was afraid that it was a trap but Ania insisted on going there since they had no other leads on Jao . After changing course , Ania went to brief the Trandoshan stormtroopers again about the change of course . After asserting her authority , she instructed her charges not to shoot first and reiterated that they would bring him home alive , emphasizing that Jao was not a traitor despite what others were saying . At that point , AG - 37 announced over his freighter ' s intercom that they were arriving at the new coordinates . Upon returning to the cockpit , Ania and her companions were shocked and astounded to discover that their destination was none other than the rogue planet which they had encountered during the Carreras Incident . The Mala trap . As AG - 37 ' s freighter descended into Mala ' s atmosphere , AG - 37 advised Ania to brief the stormtroopers . Acknowledging her inexperience as a military commander , Ania admitted forgetting that her charges were in the cargo hold and joked whether it made her a bad boss . When Sauk suggested that they do some planning for their exploration of Mala , Ania pointed out that the source of Jao ' s transmission had come from the wreckage of the Carreras communications array , which had come to rest on Mala ' s surface . She speculated that Jao was being housed in a nearby cave . Not knowing what lay before them , Ania ordered her stormtrooper charges to follow her and not to send any outgoing transmissions including comlinks . She reiterated that they did not want to give Darth Wredd any advantage than he already had . Ania and her forces headed down a cave . Unknown to them , the stormtrooper commander , Blue Two held back from the group and transmitted Ania ' s coordinates to Empress Fel . Inside the cave , Ania and her companions found a captive Jao , who was being held suspended by several restraints . After freeing him , Jao revealed that Darth Wredd had intended to lure the Imperials to Mala . A fleet of civilian starships landed near the Carreras communications array , but turned out to be a large army of One Sith , who had learned about Darth Wredd ' s whereabouts and were out to hunt and kill him . Believing that Ania and the Imperials were sheltering the rogue Sith , the Sith leader Fanoste , whose cover job was a diplomat , ordered his followers to attack the Imperials . During the fighting , Darth Wredd resurfaced and came to the aid of Ania ' s party by killing several Sith with his lightsaber . He also handed Jao a Sith lightsaber , allowing the Imperial Knight to join the fighting . Despite their valiant resistance , Ania ' s party was quickly overwhelmed by the One Sith horde and were forced to retreat into the Carreras communications array . Wredd and Jao temporarily succeeded in slowing down the One Sith advance by pushing a wrecked portion of the communications array onto the One Sith horde , crushing many Sith . This enabled Ania , Sauk , AG - 37 , and the stormtroopers to retreat to a trench position within the communications array . Sauk confronted the stormtrooper who had sent the transmission and accused him of working for the Sith . However , the stormtrooper protested his innocence and stressed his loyalty to Empress Fel . At that point , Wredd arrived and stated that he was the real quarry of the Sith . Darth Wredd tried to rationalize his actions by claiming that he was aiding the Galactic Triumvirate by rooting out the Sith . He also shared with Jao about his ambitions of restoring the Rule of Two and regarded Jao as a prospective apprentice . While acknowledging they were temporary allies , Jao reiterated that he was loyal to the Empress and that he would never join the dark side . As their argument became heated , Ania managed to calm Jao down by telling him that they had to stay focused if they wanted to make their way out in one piece . Shortly later , the One Sith army caught up with Ania ' s party and Wredd . Despite fighting back , Ania ' s forces were quickly overwhelmed by the Sith horde . During the fray , Ania fired on several Sith . She also saw a Sith sneaking up on Sauk . Before the Sith could finish the Mon Calamari , he was struck by a laser blast fired by a " Predator " - class fighter . Ania and her companions quickly realized that a Triumvirate force under Empress Fel had arrived in Mala , using the coordinates sent by the stormtrooper . " Predator " fighters flew over the wrecked communications array and strafed several Sith . After the One Sith rejected an ultimatum by the Imperial authorities to lay down their arms , the Empress deployed her Imperial Knights and stormtroopers onto the battlefield , thus beginning the second stage of the Battle of the Floating World . Stopping Darth Wredd . A fierce and savage battle ensued between the Imperial Knights and the One Sith . Ania and her companions aided the Imperial Knights by helping to kill Sith but Ania felt that they could do more to help the Imperials . During the fighting , Ania and Suak came to the assistance of Empress Fel ' s wounded lover Antares Draco , the head of the Imperial Knights . Empress Fel , who had arrived on the battlefield , thanked Ania for her actions . Ania also recovered a heavy repeating blaster from a fallen Trandoshan stormtrooper and then instructed Sauk to get Draco ' s comlink . While Sauk instructed the Imperial Knights to evacuate a nearby Chadra - Fan Lander in Sector 2 . 4 , Ania opened fired on the starship , killing several One Sith fighters . The rogue Sith Darth Wredd also aided the Imperials by killing many One Sith , thus extracting vengeance against the Sith for destroying his homeworld of Mala and his family . By dusk , the Imperial Knights had succeeded in wiping out all Sith resistance with the exception of Darth Wredd . AG - 37 theorized that all of the Sith infiltrators in the galaxy had been killed in the fighting . Marasiah Fel ordered 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 was stabbed in the chest by Darth Wredd , who had resurfaced out of hiding . Before the rogue Sith could finish his work , Jao intervened and chased Wredd up a cliff . A fierce lightsaber duel ensued and Jao succeeded in slicing both of Darth Wredd ' s hands with his lightsaber . Wredd then pleaded with Jao Assam to finish him off , hoping that Jao would kill him in anger and fall to the dark side . He insisted that the Sith had to be destroyed for the sake of the galaxy and for the memory of his family . However , Jao refused to kill Wredd , having realized his plan . In the end , Wredd was killed by Ania Solo , who fired a blaster bolt to his chest . Following the battle , the wounded Empress Fel was evacuated and Jao reconciled with Master Yalta Val . Jao reasoned that Darth Wredd had engineered the entire battle to punish and destroy the One Sith for the harm they had done to his homeworld . But after it was over , Wredd had realized that there was still one Sith left : himself . Believing that he had delved too deep into the darkness to be redeemed , Wredd had committed suicide by goading Jao into attacking him . In the process , Wredd had almost created another Sith . Following the Battle of the Floating World , several participants including AG - 37 and Master Val speculated that all of the One Sith in hiding had been killed during that battle . However , Empress Fel was more skeptical and commented that history had a way of continuing . A life of adventure . Following the events on Mala , Ania Solo and her companions returned to Coruscant . Ania secured an audience with the Empress Marasiah Fel , who was bedridden and recovering from her injuries . Ania was allowed to enter Empress Fel ' s medical bay by Antares Draco , who was grateful to the junk dealer for saving his life on Mala . Out of gratitude for Ania ' s help and bravery , Fel offered to make her the captain of her personal guard . However , Ania declined the offer but managed to convince the Empress to drop Jao Assam ' s desertion charges . Jao was also allowed to leave the Imperial Knights and to join Ania and her companions on their travels throughout the galaxy . Prior to their departure , Jao Assam had a final meeting with his mentor Master Yalta Val . With the apparent demise of the Sith , Empress Fel had announced plans to reform the Order by removing the rule that the Knights had to pledge complete loyalty to the Empress . Jao also promised his Master never to stray from the light side of the Force . Jao ' s Imperial comm droid was also allowed to join Ania ' s party . After embracing Val for the final time , Jao departed with Ania ' s companions into space . Prior to their departure , Sauk asked Ania about what the Empress had wanted from him . Ania explained that the Empress had offered her a job as the head of her personal guard , a very lucrative and esteemed job offer . However , Ania revealed that she had turned down the offer simply because she could not stand Coruscant . 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 . Personality and traits . A Human female , Ania Solo had black hair , fair skin , and brown eyes . She was independent and stood up for herself , and she leaped at the chance to move onto something bigger after she and Sauk discovered the lightsaber of Imperial Knight Yalta Val . When Darth Wredd , a Sith impostor posing as Yalta Val confronted her and demanded his lightsaber back , Solo stood up to him , believing that the law was on her side and that she had the right of salvage to the weapon . However , when the Knight ' s forces attacked them , Solo came to regret her actions and viewed them as stupid and brash . When roused to action , Solo disliked waiting and planning , believing that one should be proactive , and inactivity was a source of great frustration to her . Ania was also particularly loyal to her friends , and she was unwilling to put them in harm ' s way unless she was there with them . When Sauk , AG - 37 , and Assam were injured in the fight with the Sith that Solo had started , Solo was dismayed and angry with herself for causing them harm , and she apologized to Sauk for her actions — though , as Sauk pointed out , Solo risked her life to remedy her errors and to save her friends . Solo was of the opinion that all governments were essentially corrupt , and she was hostile to Jao Assam upon meeting him in the belief that he was like the Sith impostor . However , Ania soon recognized that Jao was a good and just person and the two became close friends . This friendship led Jao to rescue her after she had been kidnapped and false accused of killing the Imperial Knight Teemen Alton . In return , Ania sought clemency for Jao after he fell into trouble with the Imperial Knights authorities . Ania ' s friendship and loyalty led her to refuse to leave AG - 37 behind during the Carreras Incident despite his pleas that she and Sauk leave him behind in order to save time to escape the Carreras communications array , which was colliding with the floating world of Mala . Ania was also known for her compassion . On one occasion , she vouched for the homeless Sauk and helped secure him a job and shelter in the Carreras system . Due to this one small act of kindness , Ania earned the friendship and loyalty of Sauk , who was the first to spring to her defense when she was accused of murdering Teemen Alton . In addition , Ania was known for her courage . On one occasion , she took on the assassin droid AG - 37 with a gun in a desperate attempt to seek transportation offworld from the Selvatas system , where she had been imprisoned in a Sith labor camp . AG - 37 was sufficiently impressed by her courage to recall his old promise to her ancestor Han Solo and to give her free passage on his freighter to the Carreras system . In Solo ' s opinion , a smart individual was one that recognized an opportunity and took it , and Solo almost never refused to give up — when captured , she began searching for a way out , and it was only when she was reminded of danger to her friends that Solo began to lose hope in situations . Solo refused to be compared with her famous ancestors in the Solo family , for though she desired to be a hero like them , Solo felt that she was incapable of doing so . However , when AG - 37 reminded her of how Han Solo had become a hero because he always did the right thing to rescue her friends , Solo put aside her self - doubt and became determined to rescue her friends and stop the Sith . Powers and abilities . Ania Solo was inventive , using Sauk ' s ship as a weapon against the pursuing starfighters when she realized that AG - 37 ' s freighter was unarmed , and she prided herself on being a good shot with a blaster . Her skills as a marksman was put to good use when she killed the rogue Sith Darth Wredd , ending the threat posed by the Sith to the galaxy . Solo was also a capable pilot , able to pilot starfighters , freighters , and other ships of various sizes and models . In addition , Ania had some knowledge of hand - to - hand combat . These skills were put to good use when she attempted to fight off several kidnappers including her former lover Ramid ' s crew members and a masked bounty hunter , who had been a prison guard in her past . Behind the scenes . Ania Solo is the protagonist of the comic series , a sequel to the original and similarly - named " " . The series was written by Corinna Bechko and Gabriel Hardman , and additionally penciled by Hardman . The idea of a female lead originated outside of the writing team , but it played a significant role in drawing them to the project — both Bechko and Hardman believe it will allow them to write " Star Wars " from a fresh perspective . They have described her as a character who relies on her wits and does not take a lot of guff , but is nevertheless not a traditional badass female . Hardman hopes she will be " an inspiring but very down - to - Earth human sort of character , as well . Solo was first revealed to the public on December 3 , 2012 , in a solicitation for the series released on . She was identified as Han and Leia Organa Solo ' s great - granddaughter , but Dark Horse Comics ' solicitation for " Legacy " later named her as their great - great - granddaughter . Bechko and Hardman have stated that how exactly she is related to them is a mystery that will not be revealed soon . Later , " " , the fourth story arc of the series , confirmed that Ania was a distant cousin of both Empress Marasiah Fel and Cade Skywalker but did not specify the nature of the relationship . One fan Reed Beebe described Jao and Ania as an interesting duo , contrasting Jao ' s sense of honor with Ania ' s sense of preservation . He drew attention to Ania ' s concern at the danger that Jao was willing to put himself in by alerting the Fel Empire to the pirate presence in the Calamari system . Earlier in the series , Jao had abandoned his post to hunt down the rogue Sith Darth Wredd . In response , the series ' assistant editor , Freddye Lins , confirmed that both characters were headstrong in their own way . These traits took them in slightly different directions throughout the series .