Unidentified Black Sun agent

In 18 BBY, a non-binary agent working for the Black Sun criminal syndicate was sent to recruit the former Jedi Ahsoka Tano. Tano, who had departed the planet Thabeska, noticed their starship approaching her location after she landed in the mountains on another planet in the same system. As she had not gone into hyperspace and there was no tracking device aboard her light freighter, Tano realized the other ship had likely tracked her visually.

After the agent disembarked from their vessel, they told Tano that Black Sun had noticed her work under her pseudonym "Ashla" as a pilot for the Fardi clan. "Ashla" had helped people affected by the rule of the Galactic Empire and thereby disrupted Black Sun's criminal enterprises, leading the agent to threaten Tano that she could either pay back the syndicate with credits and labor or pay with her life. Tano turned down the Black Sun agent's offer and dodged their blaster fire to escape in her light freighter, but they pursued her in their more advanced ship. Both parties damaged the engines of the other's ship, and Tano was close to crashing when a larger ship, operated by the pilots Chardri Tage and Tamsin on a mission to locate Tano on Imperial Senator Bail Organa's behalf, fired upon the agent's vessel and forced them to flee.

The agent regarded the Fardi clan as petty scum yet, in contrast, described Black Sun as a high-level organization engaged in business ventures. As those ventures included trafficking in sentient beings, Tano would not have described them in such terms.

To secure the outcome desired by Black Sun, the agent was willing to threaten Tano's life, but they did not begin firing blaster shots at her until Tano said she was not interested in their offer. At one point, they were flying toward Tano when she pulled her freighter around, and it was unclear to Tano if the agent did not care about ramming her or failed to notice her change of direction. After the agent successfully targeted Tano's starboard engine and she spun out of control, they appeared to seek a better viewpoint to watch her expected crash, but the agent chose to flee instead of engaging in further combat upon the arrival of the larger ship sent by Organa.

The agent was capable of using a blaster and able to pilot a ship. While able to utilize a blaster, their reflexes were not quick enough to land a hit on Ahsoka Tano before she entered her ship, leaving the agent with a choice between charging its ramp or pursuing in their own ship; choosing the latter.

The agent wore dark armor that completely covered their body and utilized a voice modulator; as a result, Tano was unable to identify them by their physical appearance, such as their species. The difficulty of understanding their modulated words left Tano uncertain if they were a seasoned professional utilizing old equipment or too new to afford a modulator of better quality. Tano observed their cracked knee plating was a vulnerable spot she could target. They armed themselves with at least two blasters that were readily visible. Their well-maintained starship was small and sleek, with cannons that were slower but more powerful than those of Tano's freighter.

The Black Sun agent appeared in the novel Ahsoka, written by E. K. Johnston and published on October 11, 2016. The use of gender-neutral singular they pronouns in the novel was confirmed by Johnston via Twitter to indicate the agent's correct pronouns as a non-binary character. Though the agent was not present in the first draft of Ahsoka, the character was later added to the novel to replace Darth Maul after Johnston was informed the latter character could not be used for the scene. They are the second non-binary character in the current Star Wars canon, preceded in the same year by the pirate Eleodie Maracavanya in Chuck Wendig's novel, Aftermath: Life Debt which was published on July 12.