Ania Solo

As a Human female descendant of Han Solo and Leia Organa Solo, Ania Solo lived through the period of the Second Imperial Civil War, which spanned from 130–138 ABY. During this time, the Galactic Empire under the control of the Sith Lord Darth Krayt was defeated by the Alliance consisting of the Empire-in-exile, the New Jedi Order, and the Galactic Alliance Remnant. In her early years, opinions about Solo varied; some predicted a grim future, while others foresaw a grand destiny. Solo, however, did not subscribe to the idea of destiny. At some point before 138 ABY, she entered into a romantic relationship with a spacer named Ramid.

Near the conclusion of the Second Imperial Civil War, Ania Solo was incarcerated in an Imperial prison camp located on Drash-So within the Selvatas system for the alleged murder of an unidentified individual. Her romantic partner, Ramid, also found himself in the same prison camp. During her imprisonment, Ania endured regular abuse and torture at the hands of a sadistic female guard, who possessed a prosthetic left hand and wielded a lightwhip. Ania and Ramid attempted to escape the prison camp, but their actions attracted the attention of the guards. During the escape attempt, Ramid was shot and recaptured, while Ania managed to evade capture. Ramid faced severe punishment for the escape attempt and harbored resentment towards Ania, whom he unfairly blamed for abandoning him. Although Ania regretted leaving Ramid behind, she had no way of knowing whether he had survived.

Following her escape from the Imperial prison camp, Ania Solo encountered the compassionate assassin droid AG-37. Despite Ania initially drawing a weapon on AG-37 during their first encounter, they would develop a close and loyal friendship. Several decades prior, AG-37 had made an unspecified promise to Ania's ancestor, Han Solo. AG-37 recognized Ania as a descendant of Solo and felt sympathy for her. Realizing that she lacked the funds to purchase transportation out of the Selvatas system, AG-37 provided Ania Solo with lodging and passage. Seeking to escape the turmoil in the Selvatas system, Ania fled to the remote Carreras system, a star system situated near the Surd Nebula in the Outer Rim Territories.

During a visit to 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. Showing compassion for a complete stranger, she assisted Sauk in securing lodging and a meal. As a result, Sauk developed respect for Ania for her help during his time of need, and they became close friends. By 138 ABY, Ania Solo had successfully established 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 examining the shipment of scrap, 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 transported the droid to an ice mining platform located in the rings of Carreras Minor, where she met with her friend Sauk and presented the comm droid to the Mon Calamari. 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.

Being pursued by additional guards, the two escaped through Carreras Major's sewer system aboard Solo's ship. Solo instructed Sauk to utilize the lightsaber for defense upon realizing that the vessel's targeting lead was damaged. When Sauk inadvertently damaged a pipe as Solo swerved to avoid their pursuers, Solo capitalized on the resulting smoke cloud to escape through an access tunnel to the surface. The pair returned to Solo's junkyard, where Sauk resumed work on the Imperial comm droid. However, Solo insisted that she would not abandon Sauk, even though she intended to dispose of the lightsaber. Their conversation was interrupted by the arrival of AG-37, a droid and frequent customer with whom Solo was friendly. She directed him to the north side of the junkyard in search of a linear converter. Before departing, AG-37 cautioned Solo to discard the lightsaber. Mere minutes later, an Imperial Knight arrived accompanied by guards from Carreras, demanding the return of the lightsaber.

However, Solo refused to surrender the weapon, asserting her ownership by right of salvage. She summoned her large droid in an attempt to persuade the Knight to leave. Nevertheless, the Knight simply seized the lightsaber from her grasp and used it to destroy the droid before departing, instructing the guards to eliminate Solo and Sauk. Fortunately for the two, the guards were distracted by several gesaw rats scavenging the remains of Solo's droid, enabling Sauk and Solo to escape into the junkyard. Firing upon their pursuers, Solo and Sauk fled deeper into the junkyard. However, the timely arrival of AG-37 saved them from execution as he neutralized the guards. AG-37 brought the two aboard his ship and offered to transport them as far as Bonadan. When Solo questioned his motives for assisting them, he perplexed her by explaining that he always honored his debts.

The droid then voiced his suspicions regarding the Imperial Knight's hostile actions. Solo returned to apologize to Sauk for the trouble she had caused, although his resentment was cut short when he repaired the comm droid 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. The droid pointed out that the Knight in the hologram—the one wielding 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.

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.

The team immediately began chasing Darth Wredd, but ship damage caused them to be stranded in space. They then aided their injured while activating the Imperial comm droid to request assistance. Soon, Solo and her companions encountered the Imperial Star Destroyer Animus. It took AG-37's ship aboard, and Solo received a quick tour from an Imperial officer. The officer told Solo that Empress Marasiah Fel was impressed by Solo's actions during the recent crisis. Fel wanted a formal meeting, and the officer thought Solo could get a good job on the capital Coruscant because the Triumvirate wanted to keep her content. Solo soon discovered from Sauk that AG-37 had offered her friend a job as an engineer on his ship. AG-37 also invited her to join his crew. However, when she chose the Coruscant offer, the droid advised her to be cautious before leaving the Animus with Sauk.

Some time later, Jao Assam revealed to Solo that he had foreseen Darth Wredd attacking the Empress. The Knight admitted he believed Wredd wanted Assam as his apprentice to bring back the Rule of Two Sith philosophy. After they discussed Wredd's ego and his desire to eliminate other Sith, Assam brought up the idea of destiny. Solo confided in the Imperial that she did not believe in destiny, and they agreed to do what the Empress expected. Despite this, Solo changed her mind and went to Assam's quarters, convincing him to help her hunt down Wredd. After Assam put on his armor, they went to the hangar to get a ship, but Master Val and a squad of stormtroopers were waiting. Master Val tried to reason with Assam, reminding him that they had orders to serve the Empress. Assam unsuccessfully attempted to convince Val that Darth Wredd was still a serious threat that needed to be stopped.

A stormtrooper, acting impulsively, initiated a brief exchange of fire, interrupting their conversation. During the brief skirmish, Ania fired at least one shot. Jao Assam used his lightsaber to deflect the blaster bolts, instructing Ania to seek cover behind him. Ultimately, Assam successfully negotiated a truce by assuring Master Val that he wished to avoid bloodshed. Val conceded and instructed his stormtroopers to cease fire and stand down. Master Val reluctantly permitted Assam to depart with Ania on his mission but cautioned the younger Knight that he was acting selfishly. 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 reconsidered their decision. Ania and Jao then left Animus on a stolen shuttle.

While traveling through hyperspace, Ania inquired of Assam whether his vision had provided any indication of their destination. They also reviewed regional incident reports for information regarding Darth Wredd's whereabouts, including court-martial records and prisoner-of-war files. Ania also questioned Assam about the duration of record retention by the authorities and whether these records extended back to the Second Imperial Civil War. She also wondered whether the Triumvirate would have purged these documents as well. Assam noted that Wredd was likely a Sith apprentice because he did not have the traditional Sith tattoos worn by most members of the One Sith. The Imperial also speculated that Wredd could have served 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 moment, Ania recognized Dieben, a Nalydian who had been Darth Wredd's henchman on Mala, in one of the files. Dieben had been picked up in an escape pod in the Surd Nebula following the Carrerras communications array's destruction. They soon discovered that Dieben was a wanted fugitive who had been extradited to his homeworld of Nalyd to be punished for various crimes. Ania and Jao then traveled to Nalyd, a planet covered in swirling orange fog. After landing at a spaceport, Assam learned from local sources that Dieben had been sentenced to death for crimes, including assassinating a minister, assaulting an "officer of the law," and sabotaging public transport, resulting in ten deaths. Dieben was to be executed by firing squad in a public arena as punishment.

Before the execution could happen, Ania took control of a spider-like creature and "saved" Dieben. Ania, Jao, and Dieben then fled the arena. Nalydian authorities, also riding spider-like creatures and firing blasters, pursued them. During the escape, the spider was shot, and the three fell down a steep cliff. Ania and Jao survived, but Dieben was impaled by a sharp, needle-like plant, resulting in fatal wounds. Though they couldn't get any information from Dieben, they learned from the guards that he planned to meet Darth Wredd on Dac after the events in Carreras. Dac, the homeworld of the Mon Calamari and Quarren species, had become a 'dead world' after the One Sith released a biological weapon into its oceans the previous year. Meanwhile, on Coruscant, Empress Fel noticed Ania's actions and ordered her capture, also sentencing Assam to death for desertion.

Ania Solo convinced the Nalydian guards to release her and Jao Assam by pointing out that the latter was an Imperial Knight skilled in lightsaber combat. In exchange for returning Dieben's body, the Nalydians confirmed that Dieben had planned to meet Darth Wredd on Dac. As they prepared to leave for Dac, Ania tried to convince a skeptical Jao that Dieben was telling the truth because he wasn't smart enough to lie. Jao also remembered that Dieben had boasted about having powerful friends, whom Ania believed to be Darth Wredd. Since the One Sith had poisoned Dac a year prior, the planet was now uninhabited and lawless. There was some criminal activity in the Calamari system because the Galactic Triumvirate had no presence there. Ania replied that Dac's lawlessness made it a perfect hiding place for the Sith.

Upon exiting hyperspace, Ania and Assam arrived near the Mon Calamari Shipyards, a series of orbital shipyards that had fallen into ruin since the Mon Calamari genocide. Two Dac pirate droids quickly attacked Ania and Jao's shuttle, damaging the ship's systems. However, Jao managed to evade the intruders. Their shuttle was then caught in a tractor beam and pulled into a hangar bay. Two criminals, an Aqualish and a Gran, approached the shuttle. Ania and Jao fought and overpowered them, stealing their clothes and armor. Jao realized that they were just common criminals but sensed the dark side of the Force, indicating a Sith presence. Along with their Imperial communications droid, Ania and Jao explored the shipyard and discovered that a pirate gang had taken over, forcing enslaved Mon Calamari and Quarren to build a fleet of pirate ships.

Jao and Ania also contacted Luen, a Mon Calamari, and Tikin, a Quarren. Luen revealed that the Mon Calamari and Quarren refugees had been lured back to Dac with promises of making the planet habitable again. Tikin added that the pirates held their children and elderly relatives hostage to force the able-bodied 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 worried about Jao being executed for desertion, Jao explained that the pirates were a greater threat to the Triumvirate and the galaxy than his own situation.

Jao, Ania, and their two local "guides" were then chased by more pirates. After evading them through the shipyard, the four encountered the Sith Darth Luft, a tall, red-skinned male Twi'lek. Darth Luft said he had no connection to Darth Wredd and mocked the rogue Sith for rebelling against the One Sith. He also mentioned that the One Sith had contacted the Galactic Triumvirate and claimed that the government wasn't interested in Dac. Instead of killing Jao, Ania, and the two escaped slaves, Darth Luft decided to drop them through a trapdoor into Dac's poisonous oceans. The four fell into an escape pod that was immediately jettisoned into the ocean. Due to viral spores in Dac's oceans, a single drop could kill a living being.

As Ania and her companions faced certain death in the escape pod plummeting into Dac's oceans, the Imperial communications droid managed to reconfigure his antenna 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 realized that Ania and her companions were trapped in an escape pod. They knew they had to reach them before the hull broke because a single drop of the poisoned ocean was fatal. Meanwhile, Ania refused to accept death and tried to control the escape pod's directional thrusters. However, Tikin revealed that the Sith Lord and his pirates had forced their slaves to remove all propulsion systems from the pods for use in the fleet.

At that moment, AG-37 contacted Ania and her companions, assuring them that they would 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 to catch the plummeting escape pod. Sauk and AG-37's rescue effort was successful, and they rescued Ania and her companions. AG-37's ship 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 dealt with them. Sauk also confirmed that they had intercepted enough of the Imperial comm droid's transmission to know that their companions needed help.

After their close call with death, Jao Assam stated his intention to eliminate Darth Luft and end the suffering 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 emphasized 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 determined to continue his crusade against Wredd and Luft. Ania tried to reason with Assam by pointing out that Dieben had lied about Wredd's location and that their target was not in the Mon Calamari Shipyards. AG-37 concurred with Ania and announced that they would depart immediately.

In response, Assam argued that their arrival on Dac was not a coincidence and claimed that he could feel Wredd's involvement. 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 rebelling workers by harming their families. Refusing to participate in Jao's plan, he returned to the shipyards. Finally, Ania tried to reason with Jao by warning him that his plan to fight the entire pirate ring was reckless and insane. However, Jao refused to listen and left 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 destroyed. By then, Master Yalta Val and Admiral Gar Stazi had received the Imperial communication droid's transmission and learned 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 point, a slave uprising had begun in the Mon Calamari shipyards. In an attempt to free his son Tilin, the Quarren Tikin alerted Darth Luft to Jao Assam's escape. However, instead of sparing his son, the Sith threw Tikin out of the window, killing him. This murder enraged the Mon Calamari and Quarren slaves, who began attacking their pirate captors. Jao Assam then joined the fight 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 that had tried to attach themselves to a Galactic Alliance tanker.

Knowing that the Mon Calamari and Quarren were amphibians, Admiral Stazi had brought a tanker among his forces to flood 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 Yalta Val's command then entered the ring and rounded up the pirates, who were not accustomed to an aquatic environment like the Mon Calamari and Quarren. In response to the slave revolt and the Triumvirate attack, Darth Luft 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 watched the ice plume expand outside the family detention area. Knowing that the ice wouldn't hold for long, Ania and her crew vowed to close the bay doors. Wearing a breathing apparatus, Ania entered the shipyard with Sauk, and the two attempted to access the bay door's controls but found them covered in ice. She then ordered Sauk to evacuate the Mon Calamari and Quarren inmates. Meanwhile, AG-37 stayed aboard their starship and narrowly avoided laser fire from the space battle. He assured Ania that he would 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 busy dodging laser fire, Ania ordered the Imperial communications droid to go 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, with the help of two Imperial Knight cadets, killed Darth Luft. Following Luft's death, Yalta Val's Knights and seatroopers took 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, Luen adopted Tikin's son Tilin.

After the events on Dac, Ania and her companions left in AG-37's ship and jumped into hyperspace. AG-37 told Ania that pursuing Darth Wredd was the right thing to do but warned that they were running out of money. At that point, they received an incoming transmission for Jao Assam. The transmission was a holographic recording from Darth Wredd, praising Assam for following his trail and eliminating Darth Luft. According to Wredd, his plan was now 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 surprised that Wredd had contacted them. He lamented that Wredd had wanted to eliminate Luft from the beginning and that Ania and her companions had unknowingly been helping the rogue Sith. Ania took a more optimistic view and pointed out that the team had freed the Mon Calamari and Quarren slaves at the ring. If they could do that, Ania reasoned that they could eliminate an "arrogant" Sith.

One year after the Carreras Incident, Ania Solo and her companions were making a delivery run to Lasgo Port, a spaceport on a world surrounded by a minefield. After navigating the minefield, AG-37's freighter landed in Lasgo Port to deliver cargo. Ania tried to earn extra credits by taming 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 denied murdering the Knight and insisted that Jao Assam was the first Imperial Knight she had ever met. Suspecting her, Jao questioned why she had been living in the remote Carreras system around the time of the alleged murder.

While leaving Lasgo Port's planet, AG-37's freighter had to travel through the minefield again. While passing through the minefield, some asteroid debris dented their freighter's fuel injection bay. 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 contacted the crew. During that meeting, Ania met her former love interest Ramid, who claimed that a mine had damaged his ship's net isolator, causing the shield systems to fail. Without shields, the starship couldn't travel through space. While Ania reunited with Ramid, her companions returned to AG-37's freighter to get tools and spare parts. However, this was a trick.

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, trying to destroy it in the minefields. Jao narrowly saved their starship from destruction. However, Ramid and his crew used the explosion to jump into hyperspace, taking Ania captive. Ania's companions received a response signal from her comlink, which they traced to Port Lasgo. Since Ania had lost her comlink as collateral while trying to tame a yarthul, Sauk doubted that it was really her. Knowing that Ramid's starship had made a cold jump into hyperspace, Sauk figured they couldn't have gone further than two star systems before running out of fuel.

On Ramid's starship, Ania was locked in a makeshift holding cell. When a Nikto crew member brought her food, she demanded to see Ramid. Ania then overpowered the Nikto guard and hit him in the stomach with a loose metal rod. However, a green-skinned female Twi'lek crew member then overpowered her and restrained her with a blaster rifle. Ramid then reappeared and forcibly led her back to her cell. When Ania protested and demanded an explanation, Ramid expressed his anger at her for leaving him behind at the Imperial prison camp on Drash-so. He also revealed that he was collecting the Triumvirate bounty on Ania's head and hoped to get 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 grateful that he and his crew were taking her to the authorities alive. Ania tried to explain her side of the story, but Ramid angrily 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 had a small outpost. This planet was an inhospitable place with clouds containing acidic vapor and rain of molten silica or shards of glass. While descending to 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 damaged Ramid's ship, killing his Twi'lek pilot.

Without a pilot, Ramid dragged Ania 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. After a steep dive, Ania landed Ramid's freighter, damaging the cockpit and killing Ramid's Nikto crew mate. 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 by blasting her helmet. Ania then fled into the planet's wilderness.

Ania eventually found a ruined temple overlooking a valley inhabited by giant beetles. However, she fell off a cliff and slid into the valley, where a large beetle immediately attacked her. Ania tried 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 improvised handcuffs. As the bounty hunter led her back to her ship, Ania protested her innocence, claiming that she couldn't be the killer since she had been caught so easily. However, the bounty hunter retorted that Ania had shot her in the head, making 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, Ramid rescued Ania, knocking the bounty hunter out with his speeder bike. Distrusting Ramid, she grabbed the bounty hunter's pistol and tried to shoot Ramid. However, Ramid convinced her that he was the only friend she had on this dangerous world. Before the bounty hunter could wake up, Ania and Ramid fled on the speeder bike.

Amidst a "glass-storm," Ania and Ramid sought refuge beneath the cover of Ramid's speeder bike. During this period, Ania and Ramid were able to resolve their disagreements. When Ania questioned Ramid about the possibility of crashing on a more pleasant planet, he countered by stating that he was not the one steering the ship. A fragment of glass sliced Ania's hand, prompting Ramid to encourage her to bandage it. Ramid expressed regret for his past actions, clarifying that causing her harm was never his intention. Ania commented that she had not encountered a laser whip since their time at the Imperial detention center located on Drash-so. Ania also admitted that the enigmatic bounty hunter she faced had a disconcerting familiarity to her. Subsequently, Ramid detailed his strategy to reach the outpost and escape offworld before the bounty hunter could intercept them.

Following this, Ania challenged Ramid regarding his decision to abduct her, despite knowing that she was not responsible for the death of the Imperial Knight. Ramid responded that he harbored resentment towards her for abandoning him during her escape from the Sith labor camp. Ania clarified that she had fled because she believed that Ramid had been fatally shot by a guard. Her continued flight was motivated by the knowledge that the guard would have also shot her. She also recounted witnessing the guards dragging Ramid away, leading her to assume his death. She then escaped offworld, an act she conceded was not honorable. When Ramid suggested that she could have returned, Ania reminded him that the prison camp had been liberated, making it impossible for her to confirm Ramid's survival.

Ramid then recounted his experience of being confined to solitary and subjected to beatings by the guards. The Sith had kept him alive solely to extract information about Ania's location. Eventually, Ramid succumbed to the pressure and revealed Ania's whereabouts. However, by that time, Ania had already escaped to the Carreras system, leading the guards to inflict further beatings upon him. Ania apologized for the suffering and torture that Ramid had endured, and they reconciled. As the storm began to subside, Ania and Ramid noticed several beetles approaching. However, the beetles ignored them and began consuming the glass shards. Ania and Ramid then sought shelter beneath the giant beetles.

Bounty hunter tortures Ania

With the "glass-storm" behind them, Ania and Ramid resumed their journey to the settlement. Ania successfully obtained a promise from Ramid to contact her associates. In exchange, Ramid requested Ania's forgiveness for his act of kidnapping. Upon reaching the settlement, they quickly realized that its inhabitants had been slain by the same mysterious bounty hunter who had been pursuing Ania. The bounty hunter then launched an attack on Ania and Ramid, wielding her lightsaber whip. During the ensuing confrontation, Ramid managed to damage the bounty hunter's prosthetic hand. However, the bounty hunter retaliated by fatally breaking his neck. At that moment, Jao Assam arrived and engaged the bounty hunter with his lightsaber. While Jao confronted the bounty hunter, Ania escaped through a window, only to find herself caught in an "acid storm."

Ania managed to shield her skin and eyes by pulling her jacket over her head. The acid storm severely damaged the jacket. Fortunately, AG-37 came to Ania's rescue, risking his own safety to carry her to shelter inside a cave. AG-37's mechanical body sustained significant damage from the acid storm, forcing Ania to shut him down to preserve his memories. Soon after, Ania was ambushed by the bounty hunter, who appeared to have gained the upper hand over Jao by detonating a thermal detonator. During the struggle, Ania managed to force a blaster rifle upon her opponent. She then leaped into a chasm, but the bounty hunter ensnared her boot with her laser whip. As they struggled, both women fell to the bottom of the pit.

Ania attempted to use her attacker's laser whip against her, only to discover that it only responded to the bounty hunter's prosthetic hand. After incapacitating Ania with a blow to the head, the bounty hunter revealed herself to be a former Imperial prison guard from Ania's prison camp. Seeking revenge for Ania's escape, the bounty hunter intended to sever Ania's left hand and replace it with her prosthetic hand in order to falsely accuse her of Teemen Alton's murder. The bounty hunter also disclosed that she had assumed Ania's identity after her escape and was the actual perpetrator of Teemen Alton's murder. At that moment, Jao Assam, who had survived the explosion, attacked the bounty hunter. Using her laser whip, the bounty hunter gained the advantage over the Imperial Knight. However, Ania managed to break free from her restraints and used a blaster to shoot off the bounty hunter's prosthetic hand. Before the bounty hunter could kill her, Ania used the former's remote to use her TIE Bomber to crush her to death.

However, Ania Solo's troubles were far from over. An Imperial shuttle landed nearby, and a squad of Trandoshan stormtroopers disembarked with orders to arrest Ania for the alleged murder of Teemen Alton. Jao and Sauk were unable to intervene and could only watch as the Imperials apprehended Ania. On Coruscant, Ania Solo was brought before a military tribunal consisting of three officials: the Imperial Knight Antares Draco, a Sullustan Galactic Alliance official, and a female Human Jedi. Aware of the facts surrounding the Teemen Alton case, Master Yalta Val, her old friend, volunteered to represent Ania during the court proceedings. He defended Ania, emphasizing that the evidence was circumstantial and highlighting Ania's recent efforts to save members of the Order.

Representing the prosecution, Antares Draco emphasized Ania's guilt and demanded a swift resolution to the case. Yalta Val weakened the prosecution's case by pointing out that Teemen's murderer had a prosthetic hand, while Ania possessed two biological hands. He further stated that Alton was strangled by a laser whip that could only be operated with a matching prosthetic hand. Val's evidence swayed the Galactic Alliance and Jedi members of the tribunal, but Antares Draco remained unconvinced 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 attempted to frame Ania for a crime she did not commit. Faced with compelling evidence, the tribunal was compelled to find Ania not guilty and order her release.

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 positive development was overshadowed by the news that Jao Assam had been arrested and imprisoned for deserting the Imperial Knights, a crime punishable by death. Despite clearing Ania's name, Yalta Val explained that by returning to Coruscant, Jao had effectively surrendered himself. While in prison, Jao Assam was visited by the elusive Darth Wredd himself, who sensed the former's despondency at being treated unfairly. Darth Wredd offered to help Jao escape from prison by handing him a Sith lightsaber through the bars of his cell.

Ania and her Stormtroopers

The next day, Ania Solo sought a meeting with Empress Marasiah Fel to request clemency for Jao Assam. However, the Empress' schedule was completely booked. Jao's superior, Master Antares Draco, refused to consider Ania's plea, insisting that the Empress' decision would be final and that Jao would not receive clemency. Meanwhile, Jao Assam successfully escaped offworld aboard Darth Wredd's starship. Jao decided to follow Wredd in order to uncover and thwart the rogue Sith's plot against the Empress. Unsuccessful in 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 shared her frustrations with Sauk, who pointed out that Marasiah Fel was the Empress of a third of the galaxy. Ania then revealed that she was distantly related to the Empress but was unsure of the specifics. At that moment, AG-37 received news from the nets that Jao had escaped.

At that point, a squad of stormtroopers arrived at the hangar and ordered Ania to accompany them. Ania reluctantly complied, and the troopers led 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 playful banter, the Empress acknowledged that Jao's recent escape was the primary reason for their meeting. During the meeting, Fel confided in Ania that she believed Jao had not turned to the dark side but was simply trying 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 questioned the Empress about the Imperials spying on her, Fel admitted that the Triumvirate had eyes everywhere.

For this highly confidential mission, Empress Fel assigned Ania a platoon of Trandoshan stormtroopers. Ania agreed to the mission in exchange for obtaining a promise from Marasiah Fel to find a way to circumvent the desertion charges. Before 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 conditions of the transport compartment, which was unsuitable for the large Trandoshans. That evening, Ania and her companions departed into hyperspace aboard AG-37's freighter to find Jao. They had no information about 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 concerned 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.

Ania aiming at a Sith landing ship

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 jokingly asked if 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 he did not already have. 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.

Ania kills 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 Sauk 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 evacuate 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.

Ania and her companions run into trouble

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.

Before 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. Before 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.

Solo refuses to give the Knight the lightsaber.

Ania Solo, a Human female, possessed black hair, fair skin, and brown eyes. She exhibited independence and stood up for herself, seizing the opportunity to pursue something greater after she and Sauk discovered the lightsaber belonging to Imperial Knight Yalta Val. When Darth Wredd, a Sith impostor masquerading as Yalta Val, confronted her and demanded the return of his lightsaber, Solo defied him, believing that the law was on her side and that she had the right to salvage the weapon. However, when the Knight's forces attacked them, Solo regretted her actions, deeming them foolish and reckless. When prompted to act, Solo disliked waiting and planning, preferring a proactive approach, and inactivity caused her significant frustration.

Ania was also particularly loyal to her friends, unwilling to expose them to danger unless she was present with them. When Sauk, AG-37, and Assam were injured in the conflict with the Sith that Solo had initiated, Solo was distressed and angry at herself for causing them harm, and she apologized to Sauk for her actions—though, as Sauk pointed out, Solo risked her life to rectify her errors and save her friends. Solo held the opinion that all governments were inherently corrupt, and she was initially hostile toward Jao Assam upon meeting him, believing him to be similar to 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 falsely accused of killing the Imperial Knight Teemen Alton. In return, Ania sought clemency for Jao after he encountered difficulties with the Imperial Knights authorities.

Ania's friendship and loyalty prompted her to refuse to abandon AG-37 during the Carreras Incident, despite his pleas that she and Sauk leave him behind in order to expedite their escape from 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 him secure a job and shelter in the Carreras system. Due to this small act of kindness, Ania earned the friendship and loyalty of Sauk, who was the first to defend her when she was accused of murdering Teemen Alton. In addition, Ania was known for her courage. On one occasion, she confronted the assassin droid AG-37 with a gun in a desperate attempt to secure 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 grant her free passage on his freighter to the Carreras system.

In Solo's opinion, an intelligent individual was one who recognized and seized opportunities, and Solo almost never gave up—when captured, she immediately began searching for an escape route, and it was only when reminded of the danger to her friends that Solo began to lose hope in situations. Solo refused to be compared to her famous ancestors in the Solo family, for although she aspired to be a hero like them, Solo felt incapable of doing so. However, when AG-37 reminded her of how Han Solo had become a hero by consistently doing the right thing to rescue his friends, Solo put aside her self-doubt and became determined to rescue her friends and stop the Sith.

Ania Solo was resourceful, utilizing Sauk's ship as a weapon against pursuing starfighters when she realized that AG-37's freighter was unarmed, and she took pride in her skill as a blaster marksman. Her marksmanship proved invaluable when she killed the rogue Sith Darth Wredd, ending the threat posed by the Sith to the galaxy. Solo was also a skilled pilot, capable of piloting starfighters, freighters, and other ships of various sizes and models. In addition, Ania possessed 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.

Ania Solo serves as the main character in the comic series Star Wars: Legacy Volume 2, which is a sequel to the original Star Wars: Legacy with a similar title. The series was written by Corinna Bechko and Gabriel Hardman, with Hardman also contributing as a penciler. The concept of a female lead originated outside of the writing team, but it played a significant role in attracting them to the project—both Bechko and Hardman believed it would enable them to write Star Wars from a fresh perspective. They have described her as a character who relies on her intelligence and refuses to be intimidated, but is not a "traditional bad-ass female." Hardman hopes she will be "an inspiring but very down-to-Earth human sort of character, as well.

Solo was first introduced to the public on December 3, 2012, in a solicitation for the series released on Comic Book Resources. She was identified as Han and Leia Organa Solo's great-granddaughter, but Dark Horse Comics' solicitation for Legacy's first issue later identified her as their great-great-granddaughter. Bechko and Hardman have stated that the exact nature of her relationship to them is a mystery that will be revealed at a later time. Later, Star Wars: Legacy Volume II Book 4—Empire of One, 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, characterized Jao and Ania as an interesting pair, contrasting Jao's sense of honor with Ania's sense of self-preservation. He highlighted Ania's concern regarding the danger Jao was willing to expose himself to by alerting the Fel Empire to the pirate presence in the Calamari system. Earlier in the series, Jao had abandoned his post to pursue 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 guided them in slightly different directions throughout the series.