Jaina Solo Fel

Even before their birth, Solo, her twin brother Jacen, and their mother were targeted in three kidnapping attempts by Grand Admiral Thrawn's Noghri Death Commandos. Thrawn had promised to capture Jedi Knight Luke Skywalker, Leia Organa Solo, and her unborn children—Force-sensitive individuals—to persuade the insane Dark Jedi Joruus C'baoth to assist him in his campaign. C'baoth intended to corrupt and mold them to his liking once he had them.

After visiting the ravaged world of Honoghr and securing the loyalty of the Noghri, Leia ensured that Solo and her twin brother were born on Coruscant during the final days of the Thrawn campaign, free from the threat of further kidnapping attempts by Noghri Death Commandos. However, Thrawn, still aiming to fulfill his promise, dispatched Imperial Intelligence agents to Coruscant to abduct the twins and their mother again. Although the Solo family's living quarters were destroyed, Thrawn's agents were once more thwarted, and the twins remained unharmed.

Despite ancient Jedi teachings suggesting that childhood innocence effectively shielded against the corrupting influence of the dark side of the Force, Solo's uncle, Luke Skywalker, believed that any exposure to the dark side could permanently damage a young child's mind. Considering the twins' Force potential, Luke advised Solo's parents to minimize their exposure to the dark side during this vulnerable period.

Following his advice, they sent the twins to New Alderaan, under the care of Leia's lifelong friend and aide, Winter. However, the safety provided by this arrangement was short-lived. The reborn Emperor Palpatine discovered New Alderaan's location and immediately ordered an attack on the planet. During the chaos of the attack on New Alderaan, Solo and her brother were nearly kidnapped by Darksiders Xecr Nist and Kvag Gthull, but their efforts were foiled by a group of Jedi warriors led by Skywalker.

After the battle, the Solo twins were taken to the ancient space city of Nespis VIII, where their parents and uncle learned that the New Republic had survived the destruction of Da Soocha V. Following the birth of their younger brother, Anakin, the Solo twins resided with their parents in the space city until they fled with the rest of the New Republic forces, shortly before the city was destroyed by a warhead from the Galaxy Gun.

Heeding Luke's advice, Han and Leia hid all three Solo children on Onderon to protect the future of the Jedi from Palpatine, who planned to spiritually enter Anakin and escape his deteriorating clone body. Han and Leia traveled to Onderon, but Palpatine, using a Sith oracle stone, located their destination and intercepted the Millennium Falcon. The Falcon was damaged in the ensuing confrontation, but Han and his Wookiee comrade Chewbacca managed to guide it to Onderon, landing in the city of Iziz.

With Palpatine pursuing them, the aged Jedi Vima-Da-Boda and Chewbacca attempted to create a diversion, making Palpatine believe that Leia and the children had fled Onderon aboard the Falcon. Meanwhile, the three children journeyed to Fortress Kira with their parents. Palpatine saw through the ruse and tracked them to the room where Leia and her children were staying.

Jaina and Jacen could only watch as their parents, uncle, the Jedi Empatojayos Brand, and Ysanna warrior Rayf Ysanna battled Palpatine's last clone. At the cost of Ysanna and Brand's lives, Palpatine's attempt to possess Anakin's body was thwarted. After the New Republic reclaimed Coruscant, Jaina, Jacen, and Anakin Solo were relocated to the isolated world of Anoth with Winter, where they rarely saw their parents.

At two-and-a-half years old, the twins returned to Coruscant to live with their parents. By this time, Solo and her brother occasionally demonstrated the ability to move objects with their minds. They also strengthened their mental bond and often completed each other's sentences and coordinated their misbehavior. Because Solo's parents had only visited Anoth a few times, the twins were anxious about leaving Winter (whom they considered their mother) for their mother, whom they saw as a stranger.

With her husband away, Leia Organa Solo struggled to balance her maternal duties with her responsibilities as Minister of State of the New Republic. Consequently, Leia enlisted the help of the family's protocol droid, C-3PO, who was eager to test his recently downloaded child-rearing subroutines. C-3PO accepted the job with enthusiasm but often found himself overwhelmed, including an incident where the twins entangled him in a tentacle-cactus during a diplomatic ceremony in the Skydome Botanical Gardens. He also used his storytelling abilities and took pride in singing lullabies in various languages and styles. However, the twins usually preferred their father's version of The Little Lost Bantha Cub over the droid's renditions.

After returning from their mission to Kessel with Han Solo, Chewbacca assisted C-3PO in caring for Solo and her brother while their parents attended to other duties. The first time the pair was tasked with watching the twins, the twins' pestering drove Chewbacca into a frenzy and strained C-3PO's patience programming. The Wookiee and the protocol droid decided to take the twins on a field trip to Coruscant's Holographic Zoo of Extinct Animals. The twins quickly grew bored and decided to play hide-and-seek with their escorts.

Without informing C-3PO and Chewbacca, Solo and her brother Jacen began their game. Evading Chewbacca, the twins found a turbolift and rode it to floor "1." Exiting the turbolift, they embarked on an adventure in Coruscant's undercity, encountering many unfamiliar creatures. They eventually discovered a refugee community of accountants who had fled the oppression of the Galactic Empire on Coruscant's surface. Despite his fear of the Empire—which he believed was still in power on Coruscant—King Onibald Daykim of the refugees helped the two children return home.

In 11 ABY, Solo and her twin brother accompanied their parents to the Jedi Praxeum on Yavin 4 after their uncle, Luke Skywalker, was found in a coma-like state atop the Great Temple by his students. Although the medical team couldn't revive the Jedi Master, Solo believed she could awaken him by kissing him, but she was unsuccessful. Later, the twins, along with their mother and the students, felt a significant disturbance in the Force when the Carida system was destroyed by the rogue Jedi Kyp Durron—who, with the help of the spirit of an ancient Sith Lord named Exar Kun, had also caused Skywalker's coma.

The twins stayed on Yavin 4, watching over their comatose relative. One night, they prevented Jedi trainee Streen, who had been deceived by Kun's spirit, from destroying their uncle's body after Luke appeared to them in a dream. When visiting Luke's body with the Mon Calamari healer Cilghal, who was caring for the twins after their parents left the Praxeum, the younger Solos discovered that—unlike the adults at the Praxeum—they could see their uncle's disembodied spirit. When Sith battle hydras were sent by Kun to attack Luke's body, the Jedi's spirit warned the twins again. After alerting Cilghal, Solo went to the audience chamber where Luke was lying and saw her brother defending Luke's body with Luke's lightsaber, and she rushed to his aid.

The twins held off the creatures until help arrived. Luke's students then devised a plan to end Exar Kun's threat once and for all. After helping the students combine their powers and defeat the ancient Sith Lord, the two children were delighted to see their uncle recover.

After Anakin was nearly kidnapped by pro-Imperial Ambassador Furgan on Anoth, Leia and Han Solo decided that he, along with Winter, would join his siblings on Coruscant. Due to their mother's increased diplomatic responsibilities as Chief of State of the New Republic, the three Solo children attended—and caused mischief at—important diplomatic ceremonies such as the Concert of the Winds on Vortex and the Herd Meet on Ithor.

Around the age of four, Solo accompanied her father and brothers on a trip with Chewbacca. While her father was occupied with her brothers, she wandered off, following a robotic hand. She found a droid who wanted to turn her to the dark side. Fortunately, Chewbacca destroyed the droid and rescued Solo. To thank him, she drew him a picture expressing her love.

As Solo grew older, she resembled her father, acquiring his cockiness and piloting skills, as well as a knack for mechanical things, which made him proud. At five, Solo received her own multitool, which she could use on wood in the workshop. At seven, she had one that worked on metal. Finally, at nine, Han felt Solo was responsible enough to help with simple repairs and fly the Millennium Falcon. There were times when Solo was overzealous with her mechanical innovations, such as when she and her brothers built a faulty droid to do their housework or when they "experimented" with their Uncle Luke's lightsaber.

Solo did not develop as close a relationship with her mother as she did with her father, creating an emotional distance between them. Though Leia Solo tried to be present in her daughter's life, her duties to the New Republic continually pulled her away from her family. Solo noticed this increasingly as she grew older and began to resent it.

In the year 13 ABY, the offspring of the Solos resided within the Imperial Palace, situated on Coruscant. During their time there, despite explicit prohibitions, the three children surreptitiously entered a Council meeting. This act of defiance diverted their mother's focus, causing disruption to a diplomatic envoy. Following the meeting's conclusion, Leia Organa Solo summoned Nanna, their droid guardian whom they had previously evaded, entrusting her with their supervision. Nanna escorted them away, threatening them with chores as a consequence for their misbehavior.

Not long after, a group of assassins, operating under the command of a staunch ex-Imperial named Ennix Devian, launched an attempt to abduct Organa Solo and her children under the cover of night. Organa Solo's chief of security, Mirith Sinn, along with Organa Solo herself and her Noghri protectors, eliminated the assassins, but the incident deeply troubled Organa Solo. Two Noghri then accompanied the twins to their mother, who instructed that they be taken to her room, where she would soon join them, under heavy guard. Later, the Solo children were able to communicate with their father, who was away fighting in a war, through a holocomm, assuring him of their safety following the attempted kidnapping.

The subsequent year, during a visit to the planet Munto Codru when she was five, Solo and her brothers were abducted, along with the Codru-Ji Chamberlain Iyon's wyrwulf. The kidnappers employed the dark side of the Force to conceal their presence, and a pressure bomb to obliterate any evidence and unsuccessfully attempt to kill Chewbacca. As they departed from Munto Codru's atmosphere, the three children left a trail of pain that their mother could sense through the Force.

Upon regaining consciousness, the Solo children were met by a man identifying himself as Hethrir. He falsely claimed that their parents, uncle, and Chewbacca had perished in an earthquake, asserting that he, Hethrir, was now their hold-father. The twins discerned Hethrir's deception, noting that their uncle and father were not on Munto Codru during the abduction. They confirmed their suspicions by eliciting an incorrect statement from Hethrir regarding their birth order, thereby disproving his claims of being present at their birth. In reality, Hethrir was affiliated with the Empire Reborn, a movement dedicated to the destruction of the New Republic.

The twins were confined within Hethrir's Worldcraft, generally separated except when in their cells, while Anakin remained with Hethrir at all times. Despite the fact that behaving in a manner amenable to the rules would guarantee her more privileges as an Empire Reborn Helper and eventually a Proctor, Solo consistently acted rudely and uncooperatively toward her superiors, even employing the Force to contaminate their food with sand, while Jacen deployed myrmin insects to torment them. Despite the bleakness of their situation, Solo found companionship in Lusa, a female Chironian who had also been kidnapped. However, Solo soon discovered that her new friend, along with Anakin and the wyrwulf, were scheduled to be taken away.

A distressing encounter with a fully indoctrinated Empire Youth named Vram further solidified Solo's conviction that she and her brother needed to escape Hethrir's Worldcraft. Utilizing a multitool that she had concealed from Hethrir's Helpers and Proctors, Solo successfully disabled the latch on her cell door. She promptly freed Jacen and then the other children, and they commenced their escape from the building housing their cells. Aided by Mistress Dragon—a sand dragon that Jacen had previously befriended—the children fled Hethrir's compound into the "wilderness" of the worldcraft with a group of Proctors in pursuit.

As the Proctors closed in, Leia arrived in her star yacht Alderaan with Chewbacca and a woman named Rillao and rescued them, but Hethrir had already departed with Anakin. The twins accompanied the adults to Crseih Station, where Hethrir intended to sacrifice their younger brother to a mysterious entity known as Waru and auction off Lusa, the wyrwulf, and numerous other children as slaves. As they approached Waru's temple aboard the station, Leia instructed the twins to remain with Chewbacca while she and Han ventured inside. Han and Luke had also independently reached the station separately from Leia and the children. Upon hearing what they believed to be cries of distress from Lusa and the wyrwulf, Solo and her brother persuaded Chewbacca to enter the temple to assist them. Following a confrontation with Luke, Han, and Leia, and deprived of Anakin's power, Waru annihilated Hethrir and itself.

Following the confrontation with Hethrir and Waru, life gradually returned to a semblance of normalcy for Solo and her brothers. However, the kidnapping incident prompted Solo's parents to become significantly more protective of their children, with Han refusing to let them out of his sight. While shielded from potential harm, the Solo children were also isolated from forming friendships beyond their parents, uncle, Chewbacca, Winter, C-3PO, and R2-D2. Despite having found a friend in Lusa during her imprisonment aboard the worldcraft, Solo lost contact with the Chironian after her return to her home planet of Chiron.

In contrast to their younger brother, the twins frequently devised innovative methods to test their father's patience. Jacen, however, became less inclined to play with his sister, opting instead to concentrate on developing his ability to use the Force to levitate objects. Solo, irritated by this behavior, began to disrupt his practice. Despite the annoyance she caused her father, she held him in great affection and was angered by the prospect of losing him when she learned of his capture by the Duskhan League during the Black Fleet Crisis, despite Leia's attempts to shield the children from the news of their father's incarceration.

In the year 18 ABY, Jaina Solo accompanied her family on a holiday to the Corellian system. Upon their arrival, Leia engaged the services of a Drall named Ebrihim to serve as a tutor for the children and a guide for the entire family, although the twins displayed a lack of enthusiasm for their new tutor.

During their initial excursion, the family visited Corellia's premier archaeological site, an excavation. While exploring the tunnels of the excavation, Solo observed that Anakin had deviated from the group and was captivated by a particular section of the tunnel floor. Accompanied by Jacen, they proceeded in a different direction, ultimately discovering what was later identified as Corellia's planetary repulsor, one of which was situated within each of the Five Brothers.

The children were soon located by Ebrihim's droid Q9-X2, who was the only one to notice their absence. Recognizing that the chamber was the object of interest for the Human League Heritage Squad conducting the dig, and understanding that its discovery by the xenophobic group would be detrimental to the New Republic, the twins employed the Force to conceal any evidence of their presence. Solo, her brothers, and Q9-X2 eventually rejoined their parents and subsequently informed them of their discovery.

After several days, Solo and her family relocated to the Governor-General's residence at Corona House, where they encountered Governor-General Micamberlecto. There, Leia and Han were scheduled to attend a significant trade conference aimed at reintegrating the Corellian system into the galactic community. On the conference's opening night, the children remained awake late, eavesdropping on the adults and learning of a threat to destroy planets by an unidentified group unless their demands were met.

The three Solo children were eventually confined to Corona House with Chewbacca, Ebrihim, and Q9-X2, while their parents departed to advise Micamberlecto. From their apartment, they witnessed enclaves within Coronet City being engulfed in flames and bodies accumulating in the streets during the initial stages of what would later be known as the Corellian Crisis.

Corona House came under attack, prompting the children, the Wookiee, the Drall, and the droid to hastily evacuate in the Falcon. With the freighter's hyperdrive damaged by fire from a pocket patrol boat's, they journeyed to the home of Ebrihim's Aunt Marcha on Drall. Solo and her brothers were warmly welcomed by Marcha, the Duchess of Mastigophorous. The following morning, the children recounted to Marcha the events that transpired before their forced departure from Corellia. Solo also shared with Marcha her observations from the conference's opening night, sensing a connection between Anakin's discovery and the ominous message.

Marcha escorted the children, Chewbacca, Ebrihim, and Q9-X2 to Drall's planetary repulsor. They entered the repulsor and observed Anakin experimenting, during which he inadvertently activated the repulsor, nearly causing a fatal incident. Despite her annoyance at Anakin's near-fatal mistake, Jaina recognized the futility of expressing her feelings and instead attempted to console her guilt-ridden sibling.

Solo and her brothers were subsequently captured by their father's cousin Thrackan Sal-Solo, who sought to claim the repulsor for the Human League, and imprisoned Solo, her brothers, Chewbacca, Ebrihim, and Marcha. The leader of the Human League broadcast images of the captive children throughout the Corellian system to coerce their mother into persuading the New Republic to recognize Corellian independence. However, this action shifted public opinion within the system against the Human League.

The twins managed to escape from their force field prison with Anakin and reached the Falcon undetected. With the adults left behind, Solo and Jacen assumed the roles of pilot and co-pilot, respectively. Before piloting the Falcon out of the repulsor chamber, Solo destroyed the force field generator and attempted to inflict as much damage as possible on the Human League's Mynock-class assault boat, but her efforts were largely unsuccessful. Ascending into the sky, the Millennium Falcon was closely pursued by the assault boat with Thrackan at the helm.

Despite his lack of experience in piloting the freighter and his initial inverted flight, Jacen managed to outmaneuver the assault boat and ultimately trailed it. Seizing the opportunity, Solo destroyed its sublight engine array, rendering the assault boat immobile in space. Immediately thereafter, the Falcon was ensnared in a tractor beam. Although the children initially feared the worst, the voice of Lando Calrissian emanated from the communications system, reassuring them that there was no cause for alarm, as the tractor beam belonged to the Bakuran vessel Intruder, which had arrived to support the New Republic movement in the Corellian system.

Aboard the Intruder, the Solo children were reunited with their parents, only to be separated once more as Han and Leia volunteered to assist the Bakuran fleet in its confrontation with the forces of the Sacorrian Triad, the masterminds behind the planet-destroying ultimatum, at Centerpoint Station. The twins accompanied their brother back to the planetary repulsor on Drall to determine if he could devise a means to utilize it to halt the ancient space station's ongoing destruction of entire star systems.

Once inside the planetary repulsor again, Solo and Jacen endeavored to assist the technicians in understanding their younger brother, despite their own waning patience. As the critical firing time approached, Solo encouraged Anakin to trust his instincts and reach out with the Force. Anakin complied and activated the repulsor, saving the lives of the twelve million inhabitants of Bovo Yagen.

During that same year on Coruscant, the Solo twins befriended a street urchin named Zekk. Despite his tendency to vanish unexpectedly back into the alleys, Zekk and the two Solo twins quickly became close companions, and Zekk led the twins on numerous adventures throughout the city. Solo eventually developed a romantic infatuation with him.

Following the discovery of a partial copy of the Caamas Document in 19 ABY, and in anticipation of the ensuing crisis and scandal, Jaina and her siblings were dispatched to Kashyyyk under the protection of Chewbacca and a contingent of Noghri. The document's discovery nearly ignited a civil war within the New Republic due to internal conflicts. After the crisis was resolved, she and her brothers attended the signing of the Pellaeon–Gavrisom Treaty with their parents aboard the Star Destroyer Chimaera, which marked the end of the Galactic Civil War. Shortly after the treaty's signing, Jaina attended Luke Skywalker's private Jedi wedding to Mara Jade. During the public ceremony commemorating the union between Luke and Mara, Solo and the other children of the guests were confined to a room designated for the children of the guests under the watchful eye of a friend of Jade Skywalker's, smuggler Booster Terrik.

In 22 ABY, at the age of thirteen, Jaina and her brother Jacen enrolled in her uncle Luke Skywalker's Jedi Praxeum on Yavin 4. At the Praxeum she met other Jedi candidates, including Hapan princess Tenel Ka, Raynar Thul and Chewbacca's nephew, Lowbacca. The Solo twins and those three would all form long-lasting friendships with each other. Solo developed into a skilled pilot and mechanic, thereby reinforcing her connection with her father.

During her time at the academy, the Solo twins, Tenel Ka, Lowbacca and Zekk would go on numerous adventures while learning lessons that would prepare them for the responsibilities of the Jedi.

In 23 ABY, after Lowbacca returned to the Praxeum late one evening with stories of a strange glittering object, Solo and her friends decided to investigate. The following day, they discovered that the object was a solar panel from a TIE Fighter that had crashed over twenty years prior. Solo decided to repair the ship and install a hyperdrive that had been given to her as a gift by her father. She began working on the damaged fighter with help from Jacen, Lowbacca, and Tenel Ka. Unfortunately for the young Jedi apprentices, the TIE's original pilot, Qorl, was still alive and had lived the last twenty-three years in Yavin 4's jungles. After kidnapping Jaina and Jacen, Qorl forced them to finish repairing his ship so he could escape his exile at long last. The twins eventually escaped due to the Millennium Falcon's arrival, but so did Qorl, leaving the jungle moon behind and searching for any remnants of the Empire. Qorl would discover the Shadow Academy, a training ground for Dark Jedi under the command of one of Luke Skywalker's fallen students, Brakiss, and the Nightsister Tamith Kai. The Shadow Academy was aligned with the Second Imperium.

During a field trip to Lando Calrissian's GemDiver Station, the twins and Lowbacca were kidnapped by stormtroopers led by Tamith Kai. While being transported to their kidnappers' secret base, the twins and Lowbacca were brought to the cockpit of the ship that had been used to board GemDiver Station. Here, they were reunited with Qorl, who told them that he had found "[his] Empire" and that the kidnapping of the young Jedi Knights was the result of the information that he had given to his masters. After reversion to realspace, Tamith Kai told Jaina, Jacen and Lowbacca that they would be trained to become Dark Jedi once they arrived at their destination—the Shadow Academy.

Brakiss greeted the trio of Jedi trainees and informed them of his plans for converting them. After a particularly disastrous lecture, Solo experienced the power of Force lightning firsthand for defying Brakiss. Brakiss knew that the new recruits were wise to his propaganda, so he decided to try to turn the twins by giving them what they desired.

In one training exercise, Brakiss pitted an unknowing Solo against her brother Jacen by concealing each of them with hologram devices that made them think that the other was Darth Vader. In another exercise, she and Jacen were injured when hardballs, rocks and knives were thrown at them. After they survived this exercise, Brakiss announced to them that he was so pleased with their potential that he had decided to kidnap more Jedi trainees. Luckily for Solo, she was rescued by Jacen, who had used a Corusca gem from the GemDiver Station to get out of his cell. Using Lowbacca's computer expertise, they sabotaged the Shadow Academy's security systems and attempted to flee just as Luke Skywalker and Tenel Ka arrived to rescue them. However, a clean escape was blocked by Brakiss and Tamith Kai. During a confrontation, Luke defeated his former student while Tenel Ka injured Tamith Kai's knee. The group then escaped the Academy in the stolen ship Shadow Chaser. Consequently, the Shadow Academy fled into hyperspace. After returning safely back to Yavin 4, the Solo twins, Tenel Ka, and Lowbacca resumed life at the Praxeum.

Shortly after their kidnapping, the friends returned to Coruscant for a month-long vacation from the Jedi Praxeum's strenuous curriculum. The twins, as well as Lowbacca and Tenel Ka, spent their first day back home with Zekk, who took them along on an adventure through the Coruscant Underworld. After a run-in with the street gang known as the Lost Ones and its leader, Norys, they managed to make it back to the apartment that Zekk shared with his old friend Peckhum.

The twins convinced Zekk to attend a diplomatic banquet that was going to be held in the honor of the new Karnak Alphan ambassador within the next couple of days. Zekk accepted, and he showed up at the Imperial Palace at the proper time, though shabbily dressed. Not knowing anything about the formal dinner, he inadvertently ate the decoration in front of him. His resulting embarrassment later caused him to flee.

After Peckhum described to them some of the places where Zekk might hide himself, Jacen and Tenel Ka ventured into the undercity by themselves while Solo helped repair the Orbital Solar Energy Transfer Satellite that Peckhum was assigned to. After returning, Jacen contacted his sister, told her about his encounter with Zekk and the fact that the Shadow Academy was conducting operations on Coruscant—and that Zekk was allied with the Shadow Academy. Shortly afterward, Solo realized that the Academy was in orbit over Coruscant, and the Second Imperium was forced to flee once again.

The incident brought the vacation of the Jedi to a close, and they returned to Yavin 4. Because combat with the Dark Jedi was imminent, Luke Skywalker decided that it was time for the Solo twins, Lowbacca, and Tenel Ka to build and train with their own lightsabers. Like her uncle had done years earlier, Solo created a synthetic lightsaber crystal, which created a purple blade when placed inside a lightsaber. Following an accident in which Tenel Ka lost her left arm, Solo and her companions journeyed to Tenel Ka's homeworld of Hapes so that the wounded girl could recover. While there, Solo and her companions helped defeat a revolution to overthrow Tenel Ka's mother Teneniel Djo.

However, the Shadow Academy, which had been relatively inactive, resurfaced, presenting a challenge to the young Jedi. Zekk engaged in multiple confrontations with the Solo twins, and Solo felt a deep concern for him, viewing him as more than just a friend. She persistently tried to guide Zekk towards the light side, but initially, her efforts were unsuccessful.

Following their time on Hapes, the Jedi companions journeyed to Kashyyyk, Lowbacca's home planet, where his younger sister, Sirrakuk, was preparing for a Wookiee ritual. Eager to support his sibling during the potentially dangerous ritual, Lowbacca sought to assist her. Unfortunately, a strike force from the Second Imperium, led by Zekk, launched an attack on Thikkiiana City, a significant exporter of computer technology. They employed holographic technology to imitate Wookiees. The four Jedi trainees managed to overcome the majority of the Imperium soldiers. During the conflict, Solo confronted Zekk, her former friend, in the perilous lower levels of the expansive jungle. However, Zekk, unwilling to harm his former comrades, instead cautioned them to avoid the Imperium's next target: the Jedi Praxeum itself.

Consequently, the four Jedi hurried back to the Jedi Praxeum to warn the Jedi residing there. Soon after, the Shadow Academy and a squadron of recovered Imperial warships materialized in orbit. Large groups of stormtroopers and Dark Jedi attacked the Praxeum. The twins, aided by their fellow students at the Jedi Academy, triumphed over the Second Imperium forces. As the battle neared its conclusion, Zekk and Solo clashed, with Solo making a final attempt to persuade her friend to return to the light. However, Zekk appeared to be lost, declaring that he would prevent anyone from entering the Jedi Praxeum. Immediately afterward, a massive explosion engulfed the academy. Zekk had shielded the Jedi from certain annihilation, suggesting that Solo had, if not fully converted her friend to the light, at least steered him away from the darkness.

After the Second Imperium's defeat, the Solo twins dedicated themselves to rebuilding the Academy and furthering their Jedi training. While Zekk recuperated from his injuries, he was troubled by nightmares stemming from his involvement with the Dark Jedi. Consequently, Zekk chose to abstain from using the Force and departed from the Academy aboard Peckhum's freighter, the Lightning Rod, to pursue a career as a bounty hunter. However, problems arose when their fellow student, Raynar Thul, received news that his father, Bornan Thul—a prosperous merchant and shipping magnate—had vanished while traveling to a crucial trade conference with Nolaa Tarkona, the Twi'lek leader of the Diversity Alliance, a zealous non-Human organization that sought retribution against Humans for the atrocities committed by the humanocentric Galactic Empire. Given her Twi'lek heritage, Tarkona's organization was based on the species' home planet of Ryloth. Upon learning of Bornan Thul's disappearance, Tarkona placed a substantial bounty on him for reasons yet unknown.

In the meantime, the Solo twins ventured to the Alderaan system to explore the asteroid field that was once Alderaan. The twins landed on a desolate asteroid and recovered a fragment from the planet's former core. However, they were ambushed by Ailyn Vel, disguised as the notorious bounty hunter Boba Fett. Fortunately, Zekk intervened and repelled the Fett impersonator. Despite rescuing them, Zekk declined to return with them to the Academy, although he resolved to participate in the search for Bornan Thul.

During their investigation, the Solo twins were joined by Raynar Thul, Tenel Ka, and Lowbacca. They explored Thul's last known locations, searching everywhere from ancient, ruined planets to the droid foundry planet of Mechis III. Simultaneously, Nolaa Tarkona embarked on a campaign to rally support among the galaxy's alien species, particularly the Chromans of Chroma Zed. The Jedi's situation worsened when Lowbacca, misguidedly influenced by fellow Wookiee Raabakyysh, joined the Diversity Alliance and traveled to their headquarters on Ryloth to gain a deeper understanding of their cause.

Concurrently, Zekk rescued Bornan Thul from bounty hunters and discovered the reason behind his disappearance. Thul had stumbled upon the location of a highly classified Imperial plague warehouse on an uncharted asteroid in the Deep Core. Concealed within was a stockpile of diseases created by General Evir Derricote nearly two decades prior. Despite the Galactic Empire's defeat, this plague warehouse and its deadly contents remained. Bornan also revealed that Boba Fett (actually Ailyn Vel) had infiltrated his ship's navicomputer and obtained the coordinates of the plague warehouse. Having obtained the information she sought, Tarkona now intended to unleash a plague that would target all Humans.

Recognizing that Lowbacca was only aware of the Diversity Alliance's public image, the Solo twins, along with Raynar and Tenel Ka, traveled to Ryloth, only to be apprehended by local authorities and forced to work in the hazardous ryll mines of Ryloth. However, Lowbacca soon learned of the fate that had befallen his Human companions. Enraged, the Wookiee turned against the Diversity Alliance and aided his friends in escaping the planet's harsh environment and the fanatical Diversity Alliance troops. The Jedi also uncovered evidence that the Diversity Alliance was amassing weapons in preparation for an impending war against Humans. Eventually, the group was rescued and transported off-planet by Zekk, Luke Skywalker, and Lusa, who had been searching for them.

Back at the New Republic Senate on Coruscant, Skywalker requested that an inspection team be dispatched to Ryloth to investigate reports of Diversity Alliance aggression. After recording an encrypted message to his wife explaining their plan, Bornan and Raynar Thul, Zekk, the Solo twins, Tenel Ka, and Lowbacca gathered explosives and headed to the plague warehouse, determined to destroy it. They were nearing completion of wiring the explosives when Diversity Alliance ships arrived. During the ensuing confrontation with Tarkona in the warehouse, some of the plague canisters were damaged, including the one containing the Human-killing plague. Bornan Thul sacrificed himself to prevent the plague from spreading, instructing Raynar to evacuate himself and his friends from the asteroid.

Meanwhile, in space, a New Republic fleet under Han Solo defeated the Diversity Alliance fleet. However, Tarkona managed to escape to a remote asteroid, though she later succumbed to a Twi'lek-specific disease. On Ryloth, fighting erupted when the New Republic inspection team discovered stockpiles of weapons. However, the conflict was quelled by the Twi'lek Kur, who convinced the Diversity Alliance soldiers that they had been misled and that Humans and non-Humans should collaborate. With the Diversity Alliance defeated, the young Jedi had eliminated another threat to the New Jedi Order and the New Republic. Following the demise of the Diversity Alliance, Zekk also rejoined the Jedi Praxeum.

After Zekk's return to the Academy, Jaina and Jacen Solo accompanied their father Han and brother Anakin to Ord Mantell to witness the Blockade Runners Derby. The race became a thrilling spectacle when Zekk, along with Tenel Ka and Lowbacca, emerged victorious at the last moment. Following the race, the group encountered Czethros, a bounty hunter who had pursued Han Solo years ago. However, Czethros now presented himself as an "honest" businessman, and they avoided any confrontation. Unfortunately, the surprises were not yet over. At their hangar bay, the group was ambushed by several Chameleon creatures. They were rescued by Anja Gallandro, a young woman who wielded a lightsaber but was not a Jedi. Instead, Gallandro relied on doses of spice to enhance her senses and enable her to wield a lightsaber safely.

Gallandro held Han Solo responsible for the death of her father, but Solo denied the accusation, stating that the elder Gallandro had died in a trap while searching for treasure. However, unbeknownst to the Solos, Anja Gallandro was secretly working as an agent for Czethros, who was, in reality, a leader of Black Sun. The notorious galactic crime syndicate had maintained a low profile for years following the death of its leader, Prince Xizor, during a battle above Coruscant in 3 ABY. Since then, Black Sun had been attempting to gain influence over the New Republic by infiltrating their sympathizers and agents into positions of power, including political, economic, and military roles. Czethros controlled Gallandro by keeping her addicted to spice.

Han Solo managed to convince Gallandro of his good intentions by resolving a 25-year-long civil war on her remote home planet of Anobis. There, the elder Solo met with the two opposing factions and brokered a truce between them. This caused Gallandro to question her hatred for the elder Solo, and she agreed to join the Solo twins and their companions at the Jedi Praxeum to explore her abilities.

Later, Lando Calrissian invited the twins and their friends to Cloud City, where he wanted them to be the first to experience the new SkyCenter Galleria amusement park, which he had invested in through the repurchase of interests from the spice mining world of Kessel and shares from a mining operation on Varn. However, the situation took a turn for the worse when Cojahn, a business associate of Calrissian's, was found dead. To further complicate matters, the Jedi discovered Czethros's true intentions and his scheme for galactic domination. Jacen, Tenel Ka, and Lowbacca were also ambushed by several Ugnaught Black Sun mercenaries in the lower levels of Cloud City.

After the Jedi exposed Czethros's plans, the New Republic targeted him, and arrest warrants were issued on numerous worlds. However, he managed to evade capture and went into hiding. Unfortunately for Gallandro, she realized that without Czethros, she would have no source for the spice that fueled her addiction. Gallandro then stole Zekk's ship, the Lightning Rod, and traveled to the ocean world of Mon Calamari, where she hoped to retrieve a hidden stash of andris spice from beneath the planet's frozen ice cap.

Meanwhile, on Kessel, Calrissian's longtime Sullustan associate Nien Nunb was nearly killed in a suspicious accident in the carbon-freezing sections of a processing facility. Black Sun had established cells there, and the Sullustan knew he was in danger. His workers were turning against him, and he called for help. Solo and Lowbacca traveled to Kessel to help protect Nunb, while Jacen, Tenel Ka, and Zekk pursued Gallandro to Mon Calamari. On Mon Calamari, at the resort city of Crystal Reef, Jacen confronted Gallandro as she attempted to lease a submersible to search for the hidden spice stash. Jacen helped Gallandro confront her spice addiction and persuaded her to accept her father's true fate. With Gallandro's assistance, they successfully destroyed Czethros's stash of spice on Mon Calamari.

Back on Kessel, Czethros and an army of Black Sun mercenaries seized control of the planet and captured Nunb, though Solo and Lowbacca managed to escape. The encounter also revealed the extent to which Black Sun had infiltrated the New Republic and that they had contacts on various worlds. From Kessel, Czethros intended to send a signal that would activate these cells. However, Solo and Lowbacca sabotaged his operations by destroying the transmitter before Czethros could broadcast the signal. Solo also helped liberate the prisoners and defeated the Black Sun mercenaries. Rather than be captured, Czethros threw himself into a vat of carbonite and was instantly flash-frozen. However, the criminal was recovered and placed in New Republic custody. Chief of State Leia Organa Solo would oversee his thawing and interrogation. As a result, the identities of Black Sun moles in strategic positions of power were revealed, leading to the crime syndicate's downfall.

Following this ordeal, the Solo twins, Anakin, Tenel Ka, Lowbacca, and Zekk were promoted to apprentice Jedi Knights during a ceremony at the Jedi Praxeum. Jaina Solo became the apprentice of her aunt Mara as she continued her training. To congratulate her, Han rewarded Solo with a heavily modified Z-95 Headhunter, the Crystal, which she flew to Mon Calamari for a brief vacation at Crystal Reef resort. However, before she could jump from the Yavin system, Solo was intercepted by the Bail Jumper, an X-wing piloted by a cyborg pilot. The cyborg had mistaken her craft for the Onyx Star, an early Z-95 prototype that had been stolen from Bahalian Shipyards. Initially, the cyborg's superhuman reaction speed, combined with a newer starfighter, caused Solo to feel outmatched. However, Solo used the Force to attune herself to her new vessel in combat, quickly defeating the pilot and his ship, and continued her journey to Mon Calamari.

At the age of sixteen, Solo, along with her mother and mentor Mara Jade Skywalker, embarked on a diplomatic mission to Rhommamool aboard Jade Skywalker's shuttle, the Jade Sabre. Their destination was a conference with a Rhommamoolian partisan named Nom Anor, despite Jade Skywalker's serious illness. As they approached the system, fighters from the rival world of Osarian attempted to surround their craft. However, Jade Skywalker instructed Solo to evade them, which she did by executing a series of daring maneuvers in the Jade Sabre. When a Jedi-piloted X-wing arrived and repelled the pursuers, the remaining fighters withdrew, allowing Solo to guide the Jade Sabre into the hangar of a New Republic battlecruiser, the Mediator, which was attempting to maintain peace between Rhommamool and Osarian. Their Jedi rescuer was revealed to be Wurth Skidder, a Jedi known for his impulsive nature. Leia Organa Solo immediately criticized him for opening fire, which undermined her diplomatic leverage against the Osarians regarding their attempt to surround and force the Jade Sabre to land on Osarian. Nevertheless, the three proceeded with their planned negotiations to resolve the hostilities between Rhommamool and Osarian.

The three women met with Anor, who deliberately dressed in a manner reminiscent of Darth Vader to offend Leia. Anor displayed a lack of interest in negotiation, instead delivering a series of lectures on New Republic tyranny and demanding Osarian's disarmament. He then dismissed them, leaving the three women frustrated. As they departed, Anor ensured they flew over a scene of mass droid destruction, specifically to offend C-3PO, who had accompanied the delegation.

Solo piloted the others back to Coruscant, as her mother was fatigued and Jade Skywalker required rest. However, she did not remain there for long, as her family and the Skywalkers decided to visit her adopted uncle Lando Calrissian at his latest venture, a mining facility on Dubrillion. Solo was permitted to fly her X-wing solo from a layover on Reecee to Dubrillion as a test of her piloting skills by Jade Skywalker. As part of her test, Jade Skywalker provided slightly inaccurate coordinates to Solo, requiring her to use the Force to locate her family and make a flight correction to rendezvous with them. They met with an enthusiastic Calrissian, who eagerly showed them around his extensive operation on Dubrillion.

The three Solo children were particularly drawn to the opportunity to fly a modified TIE fighter through a treacherous asteroid belt known as Lando's Folly. Visiting pilots seeking recognition used the course to refine their skills, and the modified TIEs, equipped with shield protection, made the flight relatively safe. Jaina Solo flew last, and despite encountering a particularly challenging section of asteroids, she used the Force to guide her hands. Her piloting impressed her viewers, and she achieved a new record time, surpassing the previous winner, Jedi Knight Kyp Durron. The three Solo children later met with Durron, who congratulated Solo on her victory before departing with his squadron to combat smugglers and pirates in the Outer Rim. They then watched Han Solo and Chewbacca navigate the asteroid field in a two-seat craft. Despite a serious equipment malfunction that disabled their shields, they successfully completed the course, and Solo congratulated her father on his achievement.

Subsequently, Calrissian requested that Han Solo undertake a supply run to the nearby world of Sernpidal, which the elder Solo agreed to do, accompanied by his son Anakin. They discovered that the planet was doomed, as its moon, Dobido, was on a collision course. While attempting to evacuate as many people as possible, Chewbacca was left behind while trying to save Anakin and perished. The loss devastated the Solo family, particularly Han. Upon the return of her father and Anakin, Solo attempted to comfort her brother, but both he and Han were inconsolable. The Solos and Skywalkers also soon learned of an alien menace that had nearly destroyed Durron's squadron, was invading the galaxy, and had instigated the destruction of Sernpidal. After receiving reports of a group of ships belonging to the aliens—the Yuuzhan Vong—approaching Dubrillion, Solo and her brothers joined the defense of the planet. They engaged Yuuzhan Vong coralskipper starfighters defending the settlements on Dubrillion, flying Calrissian's modified TIEs. After initiating pursuit, they entered Lando's Folly and used a Force meld to coordinate their flying. In the ensuing chase, all the hostile craft were destroyed by their synchronized gunnery and the hazardous asteroids, though Anakin made a risky jump to hyperspace to escape. However, he returned safely, and they were hailed as heroes by the populace of Dubrillion.

However, after Luke and Mara Jade Skywalker discovered evidence of a massive Yuuzhan Vong base on Helska IV, with prisoners trapped inside, the Solo twins secretly departed and took one of Lando's iceborers to penetrate the ice planet and rescue them. After Solo loaded Jacen, disguised in a Yuuzhan Vong skirt and equipped with an ooglith masquer, into the iceborer, she flew the iceborer Merry Miner to Helska IV, but was quickly detected by coralskippers. Fortunately, a New Republic task force arrived, accompanied by the Millennium Falcon and Jade Sabre. While the fleet engaged the Yuuzhan Vong, Solo waited in orbit in the unarmed mining ship, evading coralskippers, until Jacen was ready for extraction, having rescued the captured scientist Danni Quee and witnessed the death of the other prisoner, Jedi Miko Reglia. After the New Republic was repulsed from Helska IV with the loss of the Star Destroyer Rejuvenator, the Solos, Skywalkers, and Calrissian realized the severity of the Yuuzhan Vong threat, particularly after Quee informed them of the yammosk war coordinator buried beneath the planet, which telepathically coordinated the Yuuzhan Vong warships.

They decided to evaporate the ice planet using Calrissian's shieldships, and Solo flew in the Jade Sabre as part of the covering fleet of starfighters and other ships protecting the shieldships against the Yuuzhan Vong defense. When Mara Jade Skywalker collapsed in the heat of battle, Solo attempted to take over as pilot but soon required assistance herself as she struggled to alter the ship's course. The ship would have crashed into the planet had Luke Skywalker not intervened and used his X-wing's repulsor coils to alter the Jade Sabre's course. Solo regained control and was able to escape the planet, which was successfully frozen before it exploded in a cloud of ice crystals.

When the Yuuzhan Vong took control of the world known as Artorias, Luke Skywalker aided the New Republic in the removal of some inhabitants from the planet. Subsequently, he journeyed alongside Prince Finn Galfridian to the Academy situated on Yavin IV. At the Academy, Galfridian commenced his Jedi training, encountering Solo, her two siblings, and Lowbacca. Solo and Galfridian engaged in lightsaber practice together, and the young prince began to show a romantic interest in her. She, in turn, conversed with him about the ongoing war, expressing sympathy for the loss of his family and home planet. However, the Solo twins, Galfridian, and Lowbacca soon found themselves in a perilous situation when they stumbled upon a tuk'ata that sought to harm them. Due to their advancing Jedi skills, the Solos and Lowbacca reacted without fear, while Galfridian was paralyzed by terror. Jacen successfully repelled the creature, and shortly thereafter, a disheartened Galfridian departed from Yavin IV, traveling with Solo's uncle to Rychel.

Later, Solo, accompanied by her mother, brothers, Lowbacca, and Galfridian, embarked on a journey to Nar Shaddaa aboard the Millennium Falcon, which Han Solo had permitted his wife and children to utilize. Their objective was to locate a smuggler possessing information regarding clandestine Yuuzhan Vong operatives, but their initial efforts yielded little success. However, Galfridian unexpectedly encountered Han Solo aboard the Falcon while searching for his droid companion, Prowl. On this occasion, an irritated Solo cautioned Galfridian, warning him not to become too close to her daughter, or risk being shot. Meanwhile, Jacen and Lowbacca sought out the criminal Dahal, who had pilfered Jacen's credit pouch, while Solo and the others monitored the meeting with the assistance of Prowl. Hoping that Dahal would lead them to their smuggler, Galfridian, accompanied by Prowl, trailed Dahal but declined the assistance of Solo and the others. Eventually, through Galfridian's surveillance, they were able to confront the Vratix smuggler Spraug. After Solo and her companions prevented Spraug from escaping, they obtained from him a Jedi holocron revealing the identity of a Yuuzhan Vong agent—Dulac, an advisor to Galfridian's father.

Solo, her brother, Galfridian, and Luke Skywalker were together on Yavin IV, examining the holocron recovered on Nar Shaddaa. During this time, Galfridian declared his intention to depart and locate his missing father. After Galfridian stated his plan to fly to Artorias with only Prowl as an escort, Solo criticized his lack of preparation, suggesting that he would be better off completing his training. However, when she and Jacen discovered the Artorian prince and Prowl searching for a ship to secretly leave with in the middle of the night, they chose to accompany them instead of preventing them, despite the absence of a concrete plan. They secured Master Skywalker's reluctant approval to travel to Artorias and then departed.

Solo, acting as the pilot of their vessel, deliberately exited hyperspace prematurely to assess the Yuuzhan Vong defenses. While discussing how to reach the surface of Artorias, Galfridian proposed crash-landing the ship and making their way to an underwater sanctuary that his people had prepared for emergencies. Solo concurred with this plan and flew closer to Artorias, only to discover that there was minimal Yuuzhan Vong presence in orbit. The Yuuzhan Vong launched grutchin insects at their ship, which began to bore through the hull. In response, Solo pointed out that if the hull was breached before they cleared Artorias's atmosphere, they would perish. Galfridian ventured into space and destroyed the grutchins already on the ship using his and Solo's lightsabers, while Jacen operated the turret to destroy other incoming insects. Solo successfully guided their damaged ship into the atmosphere to crash-land in the water, enabling Galfridian to steer the ship to his people's refuge. Upon disembarking, Galfridian learned that his father was still alive, but in the company of Dulac.

The Solos hastened to the chamber where Dulac and the elder Galfridian were engaged in combat, assisting in the slaying of Dulac. However, before succumbing to their lightsabers, Dulac employed an ocular implant to spit poison at the Artorian king. Solo and her brother utilized their Jedi healing abilities to delay the king's death and ease his pain, but they could not completely neutralize the effects of the Yuuzhan Vong poison. Before the elder Galfridian passed away, Solo advised Finn Galfridian to bid farewell to his father.

The Solo twins attended the funeral for the elder Galfridian, where Finn Galfridian vowed that the Artorian refugees would eventually return and reclaim the planet from the Yuuzhan Vong. While most of the refugees were headed elsewhere, Galfridian had been instructed by his holocron to travel to Nar Shaddaa. The Solos decided to return to the Jedi Praxeum instead, though Jacen assured Galfridian that he and Solo were only a call away. They parted ways on Nar Shaddaa, despite Solo's suggestion that Galfridian return to Yavin IV. She also cautioned him against getting killed, stating that it would be difficult to explain leaving him on Nar Shaddaa if he died. Solo bid farewell to Galfridian with a kiss on the cheek, which caught the attention of her twin, though she dismissed it as a purely platonic gesture.

Upon Solo's eventual return to the Jedi Praxeum, she convened with her brothers and uncle, who had organized a meeting of the Jedi and assigned tasks to each of them. Solo was tasked with picking up Danni Quee and traveling with her mother to Agamar to address their rulers, persuading them to support the effort against the Yuuzhan Vong. Their words resonated with the Agamarian leaders, who agreed to provide refuge. Solo found her assignment tedious, as she had little to do beyond teaching Quee some Force techniques and supporting her mother. She also felt uncertain about her identity and somewhat resented being around Leia Solo, whom she felt overshadowed her. Solo discussed her feelings with Quee, who advised her that it was normal to pursue her own identity, but also cautioned her against rejecting the admirable qualities that Solo's mother possessed. However, the issue of identity would continue to trouble Solo throughout the war and beyond.

The three women then returned to Dubrillion to evacuate a significant portion of the population, accompanied by Admiral Traest Kre'fey and a small New Republic fleet. After their arrival on Dubrillion, Solo was inducted into the renowned X-wing unit Rogue Squadron due to her mother's persistence and her own skills in piloting an X-wing, though Solo was unaware of Leia's involvement in her Rogue Squadron acceptance. Solo was assigned the designation Rogue Eleven and soon earned the nickname "Sticks" due to her lightsaber's shape and her X-Wing had a joystick. She also formed a friendship with her wingman, a female Human named Anni Capstan. Solo's initial action was to provide cover for the transports evacuating civilians as the Yuuzhan Vong attacked the convoy. Most of the ships managed to escape, and Solo assisted in defeating a Yuuzhan Vong warship by firing proton torpedoes at its weapons immediately after they fired and before the triskele valve that protected them could reseal.

With the convoy's exit route to Agamar blocked by the Yuuzhan Vong, Solo, Leia, and Danni then transported the refugees to Dantooine, where they helped establish a camp with the assistance of Kre'fey's ship, Ralroost. However, the Yuuzhan Vong were not far behind and soon launched a major air and ground assault on the refugee camp. In pre-battle planning, Solo devised a tactic that detonated proton torpedoes prematurely before they could be consumed by a dovin basal shielding creature, causing collateral damage and overloading the dovin basal. Her commanding officer, Colonel Gavin Darklighter, approved of the tactic. During the Battle of Dantooine, Solo assisted refugees in escaping offworld before the Vong could seize Dantooine. She and the other Rogue Squadron pilots battled coralskippers that were harassing the camp and also participated in strafing runs on Yuuzhan Vong ground forces. To help counter two Yuuzhan Vong rakamat walkers, Solo and three other Rogue pilots were tasked with firing torpedoes at them while Luke Skywalker turned the defensive dovin basals on the rakamat, consuming them. The defeat of the walkers allowed the remaining refugees—half had fallen to the relentless Yuuzhan Vong—to board the remaining ships and flee to Agamar, their retreat covered by the Rogues and Kre'fey. Solo and her brothers then returned to Coruscant along with Kre'fey.

Rogue Squadron kept her occupied, and soon the young Rogue Eleven was assisting in recruiting new pilots and training under renowned pilots Tycho Celchu and Wedge Antilles. Simultaneously, she and her brothers had to cope with their father's descent into depression and drunkenness, stemming from the loss of Chewbacca. When she wasn't training, Solo flew on missions such as covering the Battle of Garqi. That event inserted her brother Jacen and a commando/Jedi team onto the ground on Garqi to perform a reconnaissance of the planet. Solo encouraged her brother to not only prepare, but to also take the time to focus on the mission and learn from his companions, Jedi Corran Horn and Ganner Rhysode. During that run, Solo was deceived, along with almost everyone else in the New Republic task force led by Traest Kre'fey, into thinking Jacen and the ground team had been killed during insertion. She was understandably upset at first, thinking her brother dead. After being informed of the truth later by Darklighter, she was pleased to find out that was not the case, but did not enjoy the deception, even though it was necessary for operational security. The event humbled her, as Solo realized she didn't have any right to special information regarding the mission and it reminded her that she was accorded any undue privileges due to her heritage.

Their next mission was a reconnaissance run through the ruins of Sernpidal, another difficult emotional experience for Solo due to the death of Chewbacca in the planet's destruction. They found the Yuuzhan Vong were growing a worldship and immediately reported back to their flagship, Ralroost, to relay what they had found. Solo and Ralroost returned to Garqi and once again flew cover for the commando team, though this time she was covering the extraction from the planet. The presence of a Yuuzhan Vong fleet nearly doomed them, but the timely arrival of Admiral Pellaeon's Imperial fleet, accompanied by Chiss pilots, turned the tide. The Chiss pilots were led by Jagged Fel, son of famed Imperial ace Baron Soontir Fel and nephew of New Republic ace Wedge Antilles. He and a group of his pilots patronizingly escorted Solo and her wingman Capstan back to Ralroost, much to her irritation. The ground team's discovery on Garqi that bafforr pollen had an adverse effect on Yuuzhan Vong vonduun crab armor led Kre'fey to retreat his forces to Ithor, where the bafforr trees grew. The Yuuzhan Vong had also learned of this discovery, though, and planned a full-scale assault.

As the defense for Ithor was planned, Solo was invited to attend a formal ceremony on Ithor attended by Imperial, Chiss, and New Republic military representatives, as well as few New Republic and Imperial politicians also. Solo in particular wanted to meet the leader of the Chiss unit, who had defeated her several times in simulations. To her surprise, she found that their leader was a Human, Jagged Fel, who took the time to introduce himself to her and backhandedly complimented her on her flying skill.

When a shuttle arrived from the Yuuzhan Vong bearing the remains of the Caamasi Senator Elegos A'Kla, Solo and Capstan were sent out to retrieve it. While watching the decontamination procedures, she was joined by Fel, who commented that they should just take the risk and open the shuttle. Solo responded that his comments seemed very mature, at which Fel implied she wasn't sufficiently hardened or mature enough to handle battle. Solo took offense at his remarks, but at the same time felt something stir within her for the stolid pilot. At any rate, the remains of A'Kla also came with a challenge from the Yuuzhan Vong commander Shedao Shai, threatening Ithor and in particular, Corran Horn, who had offended Shai on Bimmiel.

The Yuuzhan Vong attacked Ithor soon enough and in force. Solo and the rest of the Rogues launched to engage their fighters and troop transports. During the battle, while engaging the Yuuzhan Vong fleet, she lost her wingmate Anni Capstan, which emotionally hurt Solo deeply. The New Republic forces were nevertheless able to stall the space advance. However, the battle overall was a loss for the New Republic since the Yuuzhan Vong unleashed a biological weapon that decimated Ithor's world-spanning jungle even after Shedao Shai was slain during a duel with Jedi Knight Corran Horn that had been set to determine Ithor's fate. The attack violated the terms of the duel, but devastated Ithor's surface, causing the Imperial forces to return to the Imperial Remnant and Horn to be exiled, though two of the Chiss squadrons and Fel remained in the New Republic. Furthermore, Ithor's destruction contributed much to the Anti-Jedi sentiment of the galactic public. For her part, Solo bore her own grief for the loss of her wingmate, though Anakin tried to help her through it.

Jaina Solo accompanied her family to Chewbacca's funeral on Kashyyyk, where she stood by her grieved father, trying to support him emotionally. In his grief at the loss of his longtime friend, Han lashed out and left his family behind on Kashyyyk, ordering Solo to take the family back to Coruscant in the Millennium Falcon. This eventually lead to a stronger bond between Solo and her mother, who she previously lambasted for her distance. In her father's absence, Solo continued her career as a Rogue, though she did take a brief leave to visit Yavin IV, where she learned of a plan posited by Talon Karrde to meet with the Hutts for intelligence-gathering purposes. Solo offered to aid Talon Karrde on his mission, but Ganner Rhysode and Kyp Durron volunteered and were chosen instead.

In 26 ABY, Lieutenant Solo, along with Rogue Squadron and their Chiss allies, engaged the Yuuzhan Vong fleet at Kalarba. The battle went poorly for the New Republic because the extragalactic aliens had employed their Yo'gand's Core tactic; this involved using a dovin basal to cause Kalarba and its moon Hosk Station to collide. The New Republic fleet, outnumbered and outgunned, was forced to simply defend fleeing refugee ships while dueling coralskippers.

The Yuuzhan Vong then assaulted the flagship of the New Republic fleet, the Bothan Assault Cruiser Champion. Solo attempted to defend the ship, but the Yuuzhan Vong succeeded in destroying it. The explosion wrecked her X-wing, though she managed to eject into space. Before she was retrieved she experienced hallucinations caused by low oxygen levels, where she spent several hours talking to Yoda, but couldn't understand what he was saying because he was speaking Gamorrean the whole time. Unfortunately for her, Solo also suffered injuries that temporarily blinded her. She received a medical leave transfer to Duro, which had been selected as a SELCORE haven for refugees from conquered worlds and was where her father and brother Jacen were.

Solo was not thrilled to be taken off active duty, but she tried to rest and heal as quickly as possible, knowing that the Yuuzhan Vong were continuing to advance, taking Druckenwell and Rodia. She tried to get a message to her mother via Senator Viqi Shesh, but was unsuccessful, which frustrated her. One night, Jacen awakened her, bringing her to investigate a strange insect infestation. They soon realized that the insects were naotebe winglings, a Yuuzhan Vong creation meant to destroy the refugee camps on Duro. They evacuated their colony, but the decontamination procedures to avoid spreading the winglings required Solo to go through the same quarantine as all the other evacuees, which required her to be dipped in a chemical bath and her head shaved to prevent the winglings from spreading. While there, she, Han and Jacen were joined by Leia Solo, who had also been on Duro working with the refugees. However, Solo was not pleased to see her mother, blaming her for being absent in the midst of her daughter's darkest hours. Leia replied that she hadn't even known about Solo's injuries and further stated that she would undergo the same decontamination procedures as Solo and the rest of the refugees—which included having her head shaved. That brought some measure of respect from Solo towards her mother, though Solo continued to resent her mother's perceived lack of attention to her children.

While she convalesced and her sight continued to return, she was asked by her father to deal with a troublesome Hutt, Randa Besadii Diori. She approached him to upbraid him for crashing into the communications shed when he suddenly handed her a Yuuzhan Vong villip communication device, telling her that the Yuuzhan Vong had an agent in the camp and that he had already reported the matter to Senator Shesh, one of the senatorial leaders of SELCORE.

She was then asked by Mara Jade Skywalker to help her investigate a Duros scientist named Dassid Cree'Ar, who was ostensibly working on reclaiming Duro's toxic environment. Solo agreed and they proceeded—with Skywalker disguised as Baroness Muehling of Kuat and Solo as Emlee, her servant. They discovered that Cree'Ar was actually the Yuuzhan Vong Nom Anor. Solo used the Force to unmask him, but he fled before they could subdue him. Anor attempted to cave in a tunnel on them, but Jade Skyawalker was able to keep the rock fall from crushing them until help arrived.

Knowledge of Anor's presence came too late, since he had already sabotaged several of the operations, including releasing the naotebe winglings that had destroyed a refugee encampment. As the refugees were again frantically prepared for evacuation, Solo helped Mara, Anakin and Luke Skywalker find her brother Jacen, who had gone missing. While Anakin and Skywalker staged a diversion, Solo found the building where her brother was unknowingly waiting for a meeting with a collaborationist who intended on turning him over to the Yuuzhan Vong. She helped him escape but they still had no way of tracking down the Yuuzhan Vong agents or collaborationist Peace Brigade members on Duro. The planet was then attacked by the Yuuzhan Vong, who sabotaged the planetary shields and unleashed bioengineered siege creatures including Tu-Scart and Sgauru and the serpentine Ychna. Despite the efforts of the Jedi and the New Republic, Duro fell and became the first Core World to be conquered.

When it fell, Solo was on the ground with her mother and other refugees, seeking shelter underground. While the rest of the refugees tried to dig their way farther from the Yuuzhan Vong landing party, Leia Solo sought to sabotage the Yuuzhan Vong advance, bringing her daughter and son Jacen with her. They managed to free some prisoners by taking out their guards, but Leia was not through. She attempted to use a mining laser to inflict further damage, only to be caught by a Yuuzhan Vong party. She closed a door, sealing her children off from her, though she urged them to run before she did so. Her choice meant that the twins could escape, but their mother was captured. Jacen immediately went back for her, and while Solo hesitated some, expressing more resentment towards her mother abandoning them again, she too eventually returned also. Solo soon found her mother imprisoned by the Yuuzhan Vong and was able to communicate with her in Mon Calamari blink code by tapping on the walls. Solo wanted to free her mother immediately, but Leia instead told her to warn the others of her captor—Warmaster Tsavong Lah—and his threat to destroy Duro's orbital cities and the millions of people in them. Solo obeyed the request and relayed the message, though she was exasperated at her mother running her off yet again. She then returned just in time to see Jacen finishing off the Yuuzhan Vong that had been torturing her mother. With Jacen carrying a wounded Leia, Solo led the way out back through the tunnels on Duro back to the Millennium Falcon where Han Solo was waiting for them. They then blasted off Duro together. The incident on Duro led Tsavong Lah to offer the galaxy a chance at peace in exchange for the Jedi, particularly Jacen.

Solo made her way back to Coruscant alongside her brothers, while Han Solo took steps to ensure Leia received the necessary medical attention. Following her mother's return, Solo was requested to accompany her to a Senate session where accusations of corruption were being leveled against Senator Viqi Shesh. Despite Leia's lingering leg injuries, she asked her daughter for assistance using the Force to aid her in walking, a request Solo fulfilled. Leia's accusations against Shesh were substantial, leading to a vote on the Appeasement Act, legislation that could have effectively outlawed the Jedi. The act failed to pass by a margin of two to one, while Shesh was left to address the charges of corruption.

Subsequent to that meeting, Solo was present at a gathering of Jedi on Coruscant, where Kyp Durron voiced his discontent with what he perceived as a lack of action from Luke Skywalker and many other Jedi. Solo and her siblings defended their uncle, though they shared Durron's sentiment regarding the need to confront the invaders. After Durron's abrupt departure, Solo and her brother Anakin pursued him, attempting to convince him to reconsider, but he remained resolute in his decision. Solo and her brothers then endeavored to predict the next target of the Yuuzhan Vong and their Peace Brigade allies, concluding that the Jedi Praxeum on Yavin 4 was a likely candidate. They informed their uncle of their findings, but while he acknowledged the potential threat, he indicated that he required their assistance for other missions. Anakin, however, disregarded these instructions and traveled to Yavin 4 independently, arriving shortly before the Peace Brigade's assault.

Reports of a Yuuzhan Vong fleet appearing over the system prompted Skywalker and Solo to approach Borsk Fey'lya, the Chief of State of the New Republic, seeking military assistance in the Yavin system, but Fey'lya refused their request. Solo suggested gathering as many Jedi and ships as possible without official support or authorization, but Skywalker advocated for patience. As they deliberated on their course of action, Solo and Jacen realized that Mara was expecting a child and offered their congratulations. Mara expressed her gratitude and offered them the use of the Jade Shadow to locate Booster Terrik and his Star Destroyer Errant Venture in order to enlist his help in rescuing the students from Yavin Four. They accepted the mission and departed. Eventually, they successfully located Terrik and assisted him in rescuing Anakin and his friend Tahiri Veila from occupied Yavin. The three young Solos defended the evacuation of the remaining students aboard Talon Karrde's ships, at one point engaging dozens of Yuuzhan Vong on foot with their lightsabers. Taking to the skies in their X-wings, the Solo twins managed to prevent Yuuzhan Vong ships from attacking the salvaged transport Anakin had acquired to transport the Jedi students who had not been retrieved by Talon Karrde, giving Terrik enough time to recover them all and retreat.

Solo made her way back to Coruscant, anticipating a return to Rogue Squadron once her eyes had fully recovered, but they were hesitant to reinstate her due to prevailing anti-Jedi political pressures. When an arrest warrant was issued for Luke and Mara Jade Skywalker, the two elder Jedi fled aboard the Jade Shadow, signaling Solo to provide cover for them. She assisted them in repelling a squadron of interceptors, disabling their ships rather than destroying them outright. Rogue Squadron arrived to support the Skywalkers as a gesture of solidarity, but Master Skywalker instructed them not to jeopardize themselves and their future with the New Republic. Colonel Darklighter assured Solo that she was still considered a Rogue, which she appreciated, even if she was unable to fly with them at that time. At that moment, the Skywalkers prepared to jump to hyperspace. Before doing so, however, Luke tasked Solo with locating Kyp Durron and arranging a meeting with him. He also provided her with the means to track Durron—a tracking device on his ship that placed his location near Sernpidal.

Solo arrived in the remote system where Durron was located, and he expressed his gratitude at seeing her, stating that he was about to seek her out along with Rogue Squadron. Solo gratefully landed at his remote base to discuss his findings, and also informed Durron that Master Skywalker wished to meet with him. Durron agreed to meet with the Jedi Master, but requested Solo's assistance with something in return. He informed her of a massive Yuuzhan Vong vessel being cultivated in the ruins of Sernpidal, which he described as a weapon capable of destroying planets. Convinced of the threat, Solo reported the existence of a Yuuzhan Vong gravitic superweapon to her superiors, despite her distrust of Durron and her disapproval of his aggressive and manipulative demeanor. Landing on Chandrila with Durron, she met with Darklighter and Antilles to explain the threat. Antilles was displeased to see Durron, but after reviewing the report himself, he agreed that action was necessary and contacted Admiral Kre'fey.

While awaiting his response, Solo found herself alone with Durron. He requested that she fly with his squadron in the upcoming attack on Sernpidal, which she declined in favor of remaining with Rogue Squadron. He then asked her to become his apprentice, which she responded to with skepticism, stating that she would consider it, though she was struggling to discern Durron's true motives and feelings towards her. In any case, Kre'fey agreed to assist in the attack with his forces, and Solo was pleased to be included in the planning meetings.

During the Second Battle of Sernpidal, Solo, Rogue Squadron, and Kyp's Dozen-and-Two Avengers assisted in clearing the stable hyperspace entry point of Yuuzhan Vong ships, allowing Kre'fey's capital ships to arrive. She destroyed several coralskippers as part of the advance force, but the squadron suffered heavy losses even as the capital ships arrived. To bolster their numbers, General Antilles himself took to an X-wing, flying alongside Solo, which excited her. His piloting instincts alerted him to a trap set by coralskippers attempting to ram them, and they successfully evaded the suicidal coralskippers. The rest of the squadron was not as fortunate, losing another pilot. Solo continued fighting, but when Kre'fey's ships destroyed the superweapon, she was too close to the explosion, which crippled her ship. While drifting through space, she discovered that the so-called gravitic superweapon was actually a series of dovin basals that were drawing material for the ship from the system's star. Solo realized that they had been tricked into destroying a worldship for Yuuzhan Vong civilians, not a weapon. This deception and betrayal created a deep rift between her and Kyp Durron, as she vowed never to trust him again. The destruction of the worldship also brought an end to the pretense of the Yuuzhan Vong truce.

In 27 ABY, shortly after the birth of Ben Skywalker, Solo was asked to pilot the Jade Shadow, assisting Mara Jade Skywalker on a mission to locate Alema and Numa Rar, two Twi'lek Jedi who had been leading an independent resistance on New Plympto. The Rar sisters were aboard the freighter Nebula Chaser, which Solo located just as it was being boarded by a Yuuzhan Vong frigate analog. An escape pod was ejected from the ship, and while Solo and Jade Skywalker could do nothing for the unfortunate refugees and crew aboard the ship, they were able to recover the ship, which contained Alema Rar and the body of Numa. Rar informed them of a new Yuuzhan Vong creature, the voxyn, which hunted Force-sensitive beings. Several Jedi had fallen victim to them, including Solo's brother's former Melodie classmate Lyric, and the Jedi Master Eelysa. Furthermore, the Yuuzhan Vong threatened to kill thousands of refugees unless the location of the new Jedi base that Luke Skywalker was establishing was revealed. With this dual threat looming over the Jedi, Solo and Jade Skywalker returned to Coruscant to devise a strategy to counter this new menace. While there, Solo was still unable to fly with Rogue Squadron, so she occupied herself with looking after baby Ben.

While the Mon Calamari Jedi Master Cilghal led the investigation into the nature of the voxyn threat from the hidden Jedi shelter on Eclipse, Solo and her brothers agreed to assist Cilghal in collecting more voxyn corpses for study. Solo was assigned to oversee tactical planning for the mission based on her experience in Rogue Squadron, though her brother Anakin was in overall command. Taking a team of young Jedi who had grown up and trained together, they conducted a stakeout on the outskirts of the Froz system, hoping to detect a Yuuzhan Vong ship and voxyn. They observed a Yuuzhan Vong ship approaching a freighter, but refrained from engaging it, as it was outside the scope of their mission. Durron's squadron, which had also been lying in wait on a separate mission, had no reservations about intervening to assist the freighter, only to be ambushed by a group of Yuuzhan Vong ships jumping into the system. Anakin then led his team of Jedi in their X-wings and blastboat to engage the Yuuzhan Vong ships and rescue Durron. Solo accounted for at least four coralskippers in the brief engagement, and they also inflicted significant damage on a Yuuzhan Vong frigate analog. That engagement also served as an opportunity to demonstrate two new tactics: shield trios and shadow bombs, both of which would soon become standard Jedi weapons.

Upon their return, a large gathering of Jedi and their supporters convened on Eclipse to discuss the voxyn. Cilghal was able to determine that the voxyn were cloned from a single specimen and that the queen was located on Myrkr. In response, Anakin Solo proposed that a Jedi strike team be surrendered to the Yuuzhan Vong by a traitor and then seize the Yuuzhan Vong ship once they were deep enough in Yuuzhan Vong space to reach Myrkr. Solo volunteered for the mission as well, along with fifteen other young Jedi, including her other brother Jacen, Tenel Ka, Tahiri Veila, Alema Rar, and Raynar Thul.

The plan was rapidly developed, with the agreement that Lando Calrissian would play the role of the ersatz "traitor" handing over the Jedi to the Yuuzhan Vong. Calrissian also provided two of his new Yuuzhan Vong Hunter droids for the mission, and the droids assisted with the intensive tactical planning for the Jedi strike team. To further aid their plan, the Jedi also devised a strategy to use a Jedi battle meld to strengthen each other during the mission, particularly while they were held captive by the Yuuzhan Vong.

Calrissian executed his part of the plan, taking the Lady Luck to a rendezvous point where they were intercepted by a Yuuzhan Vong ship. Calrissian met with their leader, Duman Yaght, and agreed to hand over the seventeen Jedi. Calrissian's wife and crew entered with blasters and "captured" the Jedi, forcing them to discard their lightsabers down a waste chute. As they were handed over to Yaght, Anakin made a show of attempting to breach a weapons locker and stage a revolt to reinforce the illusion that they were unwilling captives. The blasters inside the locker were stored without their power packs, however, and the Yuuzhan Vong quickly suppressed the escape attempt. Unfortunately for the strike team, the Bith Jedi Ulaha Kore was stabbed with a coufee knife during the struggle, sustaining a serious, though not fatal, injury.

Yaght was far from finished with his Jedi captives. Keeping them bound, cold, and barely clothed in the hold, he tortured them one by one, particularly the injured Kore, by repeatedly exposing them to a voxyn and allowing it to use its acid, sonic screech, and claws on them. When Yaght threatened to use a neuropoison on Kore if she did not confirm the existence of a Jedi base, Solo shouted that it did exist, despite the disapproval of the other Jedi. Yaght then released Kore from the torture, only to present Solo with a sadistic choice: which of her brothers would be tortured next. Based on what her brothers communicated to her mentally, she chose Anakin, as Yaght threatened to inflict further harm on Kore if she did not choose. She was then forced to watch as he used a voxyn to repeatedly slash Anakin, until Solo revealed another piece of information.

Now that Yaght knew he could break one member of the team, he continued to press for information, dragging the helpless and weakened Ulaha Kore back for more torture. At that point, Ulaha grabbed a warrior's coufee and killed the voxyn, but was even more severely injured in the process. With his instrument of torture destroyed, Yaght temporarily ceased his predations.

Once they were deep within Yuuzhan Vong space, Anakin initiated the escape plan. Two YVH droids that had been riding on the ship's hull broke free and stormed into the ship, freeing the Jedi. They also provided them with arms, combat jumpsuits, and their lightsabers from an equipment pod that they had also attached to the ship. Solo helped subdue the remaining Yuuzhan Vong and their other voxyn, and the Jedi used healing trances to recover from the torture.

For her part, when not healing, Solo assisted in examining the workings of the Yuuzhan Vong ship they had seized and repairing the damage inflicted on the YVH droids. They soon reached Myrkr and discovered a Yuuzhan Vong worldship, the Baanu Rass, which orbited Myrkr and served as the voxyn-cloning facility. Solo helped pilot the ship even as Anakin used a baradium missile to destroy a Yuuzhan Vong matalok cruiser that attempted to intercept them. Kore then volunteered to pilot the ship while the strike team disembarked and sought out the voxyn queen. The rest of the team dropped down to the worldship in cargo pods while Kore and one of the Yuuzhan Vong Hunter droids rammed into a group of corvettes that were attempting to capture the ship the Jedi had commandeered.

They advanced through the worldship as stealthily as possible, engaging the Yuuzhan Vong only when necessary. Sensing the presence of other Jedi aboard, they attempted to rescue them, but once the Jedi were freed, the strike team realized they had rescued two Dark Jedi, Lomi Plo and Welk, who agreed to assist them. The strike team was unhappy with the situation, but they could not simply abandon the two. They brought the Dark Jedi with them even as the Yuuzhan Vong closed in. Their remaining YVH droid sacrificed itself to destroy a pair of coralskippers, and the Yuuzhan Vong responded by adding more voxyn to their hunting parties. Solo and the strike team set an ambush that killed dozens of the pursuing warriors and their voxyn, but the pursuit remained relentless.

As they progressed through an area of a vast voxyn training facility, they found an obsolete All Terrain Armored Transport and even a starship, as part of the Yuuzhan Vong simulacrum of environments where the voxyn were expected to hunt Jedi. Anakin began to feel confident as they continued to survive and approach the central voxyn cloning facility, but a series of Yuuzhan Vong traps, including hostile stinging flitnats that injured two more Jedi on the team, Lowbacca and Jovan Drark, caused him to lose some of his confidence.

The strike team pressed on, knowing there was no hope of extraction and that their odds of survival, much less success, were rapidly diminishing with each passing hour. The Yuuzhan Vong continued to whittle away at the strike team, culminating in an ambush inside a city built for slaves they were housing on the worldship. Solo was struck by a heavy amphistaff and fell, prompting Anakin to fight his way to her rescue. He was stabbed by an amphistaff in the process, and two more Jedi, Drark and Eryl Besa, were killed by the Yuuzhan Vong. Anakin did save her, though she immediately scolded him for acting so recklessly. Her youngest brother then ordered the team to press on despite the severity of his injury.

Anakin's wound eventually forced them to stop while their healer Tekli treated him, but the delaying action they fought cost the Jedi the life of the Barabel Jedi Bela Hara. Solo continued to fight against the Yuuzhan Vong, but despite the number of warriors and voxyn she and the others killed, the Yuuzhan Vong kept coming. They took a shortcut through feral voxyn nests to escape the Yuuzhan Vong warriors, though Solo nearly encountered a Yuuzhan Vong hunting party led by Vergere, a Fosh who had been the familiar or pet of a deception priestess. Vergere used the Force to sense Solo, which startled her, but did not immediately pursue her, as Solo dropped a flechette mine and departed.

Another Barabel fell and Raynar Thul was wounded as the strike team breached the central arena where the voxyn cloning facility was located, and Anakin continued to weaken. He ordered the team to retreat through a tunnel, and they planned to use a derelict but functional starship, the Tachyon Flier, to escape the worldship. However, Lomi Plo and Welk stole the ship and escaped, taking with them an injured Raynar Thul. The strike team pressed forward, attacked on all sides by Yuuzhan Vong. At that point, they fell back, but Anakin charged despite his severe injury. He battled through the warriors even as Solo and the other Jedi attempted to cover his wild charge. Even as he was wounded repeatedly, he managed to fight his way through and hurl a detonator onto a pod filled with voxyn tissue samples that could be used to clone more voxyn. That was his last act, as the massive amount of Force energy he used to sustain himself finally burned out and he died. His death sent Solo into a dark rage even as the strike team survivors retreated.

Solo could not remain idle and returned to retrieve her brother's body. Setting up an ambush, she and a number of others picked out Yuuzhan Vong targets while Solo targeted Vergere. When the coordinated blasts were unleashed from their weapons, Zekk knocked her weapon aside, claiming that Vergere was an innocent. Solo disagreed vehemently, ordering him to get out of her way as she jumped down to battle through the few warriors around Anakin's body. One attempted to slice her brother's body, but Solo's anger manifested itself in the form of Force lightning, killing the warrior. She then directed her attack at Vergere, but the feathered alien used Anakin's lightsaber to deflect the lightning, then retreated. Solo claimed her brother's body and then stole a Yuuzhan Vong assault shuttle, using it to attack a group of Yuuzhan Vong around the frigate that had brought Vergere and the Yuuzhan Vong agent Nom Anor along with the warriors that had chased them. Her actions cleared the way for her brother and the other survivors to destroy the voxyn queen. The frigate returned fire, though, damaging her shuttle. Solo crash-landed the ship without further casualties. Still burning with anger, Solo contributed to the defense as more Yuuzhan Vong attempted to take the remaining Jedi captive.

In the meantime, Jacen and the others were able to capture the frigate Ksstarr, but while the rest of the Jedi captured the frigate and extracted Solo and her party, Jacen was separated while dealing with the queen. Under fire from more Yuuzhan Vong vessels, Solo was forced to retreat, believing her other brother was dead as well at the hands of the Yuuzhan Vong. She did not want to, and could not even vocalize the order, but the others understood her intention and had their stolen frigate withdraw. Though Jacen was actually a prisoner, she had no way of knowing that. Solo helped defend the frigate from Yuuzhan Vong attacks, even though her own heart felt broken at the loss of her brothers. She taught Ganner Rhysode how to fire the frigate's weaponry, then took command of the ship over the objections of Zekk, who feared her anger had turned her to the dark side.

Once they were safely in hyperspace, bound for Coruscant, Solo took the time to confront Zekk, asking if he still trusted her and tacitly blaming disunity for the losses among the Jedi during the mission on Myrkr. Zekk replied that she could not blame Jacen for Anakin's death, nor herself for Jacen's disappearance. Solo refused to be comforted though. In mid-flight, Tekli approached her and asked if setting course for Coruscant while in a Yuuzhan Vong vessel was wise. The alternate destination of Gallinore, in the Hapes Cluster, was suggested and Solo agreed that it was a better choice. They dropped out of hyperspace further from Coruscant than planned, intent on heading for Gallinore.

With Coruscant captured by the Yuuzhan Vong, Solo encountered the aftermath of the battle, her ship caught in a crossfire between Yuuzhan Vong and fleeing New Republic forces. Her parents were still in the area and discerned that she was aboard the frigate, which allowed them to remove New Republic pursuit from her ship. Jumping back into hyperspace again, Solo led the remnants of the Jedi strike force to Gallinore. While en route, she used that time to heal and begin thinking about a mission to rescue Jacen.

Upon arrival over Hapes, the ship was attacked by the Hapans, who believed it was controlled by the Yuuzhan Vong. Solo dispatched Tenel Ka, whose mother was the Queen Mother of Hapes, along with Rhysode, in an escape pod to arrange their safe passage. After fending off the Hornet Interceptors that attacked them, Solo was able to salvage one of their communication units and used it to contact the Hapans. She was answered by Ta'a Chume, the former Queen Mother of Hapes, who promised them safe landing and that they would be her guests. While they were still aboard the ship, Solo found a communications villip, which she used to speak with Tsavong Lah. Lah threatened to capture her and have her sacrificed to their gods, but Solo taunted him and a deception sect priest, Harrar, who was set to preside over her sacrifice. She further misled them into trying to make contact with the ship even while she had Lowbacca block the signal telling them where their captured frigate was. She also renamed the ship Trickster at this point, choosing it as an insult to the Yuuzhan Vong.

When Tenel Ka didn't respond to the Trickster, Solo surmised her friend had been taken onto a large Hapan vessel. Giving chase, she accelerated the frigate towards the other ship, but then experienced a Force sensation akin to Jacen's death. This emotional blow briefly incapacitated her, but she quickly regained composure, refocusing on Tenel Ka's location. After boarding the ship, some Jedi assisted Tenel Ka in subduing the pirates who had tried to abduct her. Solo remained in command, dispatching Zekk and Tenel Ka onward with the captured Hapan ship. Others were concerned by her dominant nature and willingness to use violence and seek revenge, but they tolerated her actions while keeping a close watch. Escorted by the newly arrived Jagged Fel and Kyp Durron, both vessels achieved a safe landing.

While arranging transport for Anakin's remains, she encountered her parents at a refugee camp. Solo apologized to her mother for failing to retrieve Jacen, but Leia insisted their other son lived. Although Solo disagreed, her father cautioned her against judging her mother's feelings. Seeking solitude to grieve, Solo then left. She journeyed to Ta'a Chume's gardens, where Ta'a Chume discovered her. The former Queen Mother invited her to a diplomatic dinner, suggesting that—after being properly adorned—Solo could leverage her attractiveness to secure Hapan military support for avenging her brothers.

Solo accepted the invitation to the banquet and engaged in conversation with Fel, experiencing a surge of attraction as he spoke. Their dance was interrupted by Ta'a Chume, who requested a private discussion with Solo. Chume spoke of the current Queen Mother, Teneniel Djo, and her failing health. Solo realized Chume intended to ask her to act as an intermediary in arranging a marriage between her mother and Djo's husband, Prince Isolder. She immediately refused the proposition and departed. Unbeknownst to her, Chume planned to connect herself with Isolder, plotting to manipulate them both into marriage.

Later at the dinner, she encountered Kyp Durron, who insisted she change into Jedi robes and accompany him to her brother's funeral. Though angered by his demand, Solo complied. She attended the funeral, listening as friends and family shared memories of Anakin before his cremation. Solo distanced herself from both Zekk, who informed her of his imminent departure, and Durron, toward whom she still harbored resentment.

The following day, she and Lowbacca were working to repair the Trickster. Fel arrived, seeking her assistance in scouting Hapan space for Yuuzhan Vong. Solo responded rudely, mentioning she had a ship of her own, some of her irritation stemming from her unkempt appearance. Fel departed, leaving Solo to continue her work in a fit of pique. Her mother visited and inquired why she was so difficult to sense in the Force. Solo explained she was suppressing her emotions and rejecting any support Leia offered. Leia then shifted the conversation, asking Solo about her work. Solo described the modifications she was making to the Trickster to enable it to transmit misinformation to the Yuuzhan Vong during combat. Fel later returned, seeking an apology for her earlier behavior. Solo rebuffed him and denied any rumors of joining his squadron as Durron had. She then resumed working on the frigate with Lowbacca.

Once her work was done for the day, Solo sought an audience with Chume, aiming to interrogate some of the pirates captured after attempting to kidnap Tenel Ka. Chume granted permission to take some of the pirates to the bio-engineers on Gallinore for experimentation with Yuuzhan Vong slave implant devices, suggesting she bring someone along. Due to his lack of scruples, Solo chose to ask Durron, who agreed and also brought Tenel Ka and Lowbacca.

During the flight, Solo consented to become Durron's apprentice, but stipulated that the arrangement remain secret. He agreed. Upon arriving on Gallinore, she sought out a scientist named Sinsor Khal. Contacting Khal discreetly, Solo learned from the scientist that he could find ways to reverse-engineer the slave seeds if he had a prisoner implanted with a seed made available to him. To gain a deeper understanding of Yuuzhan Vong slave seed technology, Solo, along with Kyp Durron, Tenel Ka, and Lowbacca, selected a pirate—one of the three who had attacked the Jedi group in Hapan space—and took him to Khal for "experimentation" to determine the nature of the Yuuzhan Vong biots. Solo concealed her true intentions from the other Jedi except Durron, knowing they would disapprove of her methods. When Tenel Ka questioned her association with Durron after the events at Sernpidal, Solo explained she needed to acquire specific skills from him.

With Lowbacca's unwitting assistance, she and Durron secretly delivered the prisoner to Khal for his experiments. Although the man attempted to escape, Solo subdued him with Force lightning. The technique triggered an alarm, flooding the corridor with coolant. She, Durron, and their prisoner escaped the flood into a guarded area, but Durron swiftly incapacitated the guards, allowing them to transport their cargo to Khal. Solo also learned how to erase memories from Durron, and erased Lowbacca's after she had him remove her presence from the security records so that nobody would know of her handing a prisoner over to Khal's experimentation.

Having received Khal's promise of results the following day, Solo spent time training with Lowbacca and Tenel Ka in Gallinore's wilderness. After obtaining the modified slave seeds from Khal, she returned to Hapes to finish her modifications to the captured Yuuzhan Vong frigate. While there, she secured additional promises of support from Ta'a Chume, though Tenel Ka cautioned her against trusting the old woman. She also spoke with Fel again, who delivered a message from her parents, who had departed after Han was injured in a brawl. Fel also echoed Tenel Ka's warning about Ta'a Chume.

By closely examining Trickster, Solo, aided by Lowbacca, uncovered a key aspect of Yuuzhan Vong space travel—the recognition of spacecraft by their unique gravitic signatures. She began devising strategies to exploit this knowledge against the Yuuzhan Vong. Solo noticed markings on the dovin basal that represented the Trickster. She replicated these markings and applied them to ships piloted by Hapan pilots, effectively giving them the gravitic signature of the Trickster. Her tests proved successful, albeit at the expense of Hapan pilots. These deceptive tactics disrupted the enemy's ability to distinguish between allies and enemies, and she had pilots test them against Yuuzhan Vong patrols, seeking a way to fool the Yuuzhan Vong's sensors from reading the proper ship signatures. She also dispatched some of the technology she was engineering to Kashyyyk for further improvement.

Durron was enraged upon learning of her actions. She retorted that she was simply following his example and doing what was necessary. He demanded she cease, prompting her to draw her lightsaber on him. They engaged in a brief duel over the fate of the next flight she intended to launch to test her theories. However, it ended when Durron offered to fly the mission himself. Solo relented and as Durron left, Fel arrived and warned her not to marry Prince Isolder. Solo took imagined offense at his every word, turning them into insults and sent him packing quickly as she prepared to launch her frigate for the next test of her deceptive tactics. As it turned out, the Yuuzhan Vong had brought a sizable fleet, intent on capturing her.

During the Battle of Hapes, the Trickster engaged the Yuuzhan Vong fleet, employing decoy dovin basal signatures to induce the Yuuzhan Vong vessels to attack each other. With their numbers reduced, the Yuuzhan Vong retreated, and Solo and her allies were celebrated as heroes upon their return. Ta'a Chume then directly requested that Solo marry Isolder. Solo refrained from an outright refusal, recognizing the political implications. Instead, she sought out Fel to inquire about the incident that had caused her parents to leave. Unable to find him, she attempted to locate him through the Force, but instead experienced a vision of herself killing her brother Jacen while he was wearing Darth Vader's armor. Durron intervened, pulling her out of the vision and expressing his understanding of her experience, the vision of the darkness within her. Solo realized she had crossed too many moral lines already and resolved to keep fighting the Yuuzhan Vong, but this time in an ethical manner. She also realized that she was attracted to Jag Fel and used that attraction to find him via her nascent Force connection with him. He had been detained on the orders of Ta'a Chume, but Solo and Durron freed him. He told them that an attempt on Teneniel Djo's life was likely. They raced to the Queen Mother, but found her dead of poison.

Ta'a Chume appeared triumphant as she announced the imminent selection of a new queen, but Tenel Ka agreed to succeed her mother as Queen Mother of Hapes, and Solo supported her. Meanwhile, Yuuzhan Vong forces approached Hapes, prompting Tenel Ka to unveil a rebuilt Hapan fleet, placing it under Fel's command. Solo then launched her frigate into space. Durron tried to dissuade her, fearing she would sacrifice her life, but Solo outmaneuvered him, leaving him behind while she piloted the Trickster into combat. Solo fought valiantly, but her ship was outmatched. During the battle, she experienced another Force vision of battling someone in Darth Vader's armor, this time Kyp Durron. In fact, the Jedi Master had flown to her aid and been forced to eject from his fighter. Realizing that she would accomplish nothing further by seeking more vengeance at this time, she retrieved Durron and withdrew as the new Hapan fleet dealt with the remaining Yuuzhan Vong vessels.

After the battle, Ta'a Chume approached Solo, expressing regret that Solo had declined the opportunity to become Queen of Hapes. Solo scorned the old woman, who was promptly arrested, and asked Durron where they were headed next. He stated he was going to meet with Luke Skywalker to patch up their differences and she agreed to go with him.

Following her success with deceptive tactics at Hapes, Solo's reputation began to grow thanks to crafty disinformation spread by New Republic agents. Because of her role in deceiving them, as well as subsequent disinformation by the New Republic Intelligence Service, the horrified Yuuzhan Vong began to believe that Jaina Solo was Yun-Harla, the Goddess of Deception. It was something New Republic commanders wholeheartedly encouraged by referring to her as "Goddess", "Great One", and similar.

After the fall of Coruscant, the remaining members of the New Republic Advisory Council convened at Borleias in 27 ABY. There, the New Republic forces led by Wedge Antilles attempted to reorganize and began developing strategies to counter the Yuuzhan Vong threat, beginning with defending Borleias. On one occasion, they deployed the "Starlancer" to project a laser beam through hyperspace at Warmaster Tsavong Lah's flagship as bait for the Yuuzhan Vong. During this period, Solo arrived from Hapes, accompanied by several other survivors from the Myrkr strike team, Durron, and Jag Fel. Following discussions about her role on Borleias with her uncle, Antilles, and her parents, she was appointed commander of an elite fighter unit known as Twin Suns Squadron, originally established by Luke Skywalker. The unit included pilots such as Kyp Durron and Jagged Fel. As part of her new concept for the squadron, Solo worked on developing Force-based coordination with Durron in order to quickly eliminate Yuuzhan Vong coralskippers.

During a practice run to assess their coordination, Solo detected a disturbance in the Force. Redirecting her flight, consisting of Fel, Durron, and herself, to investigate, she discovered a substantial Yuuzhan Vong fleet approaching Borleias. As she and her pilots approached the nearest frigate, it ejected numerous civilian hostages into space. While Yuuzhan Vong ooglith masquers shielded them from the vacuum, the Yuuzhan Vong intended for the hostages to burn up during re-entry into Borleias's atmosphere. Inspired by an idea from Fel, Solo's flight managed to avert this fate by maneuvering their fighters into the hostages' paths; the resulting low-speed collisions altered their trajectories, enabling their rescue. However, the arrival of the Yuuzhan Vong fleet signaled an escalation in the invaders' campaign against Borleias.

Subsequently, Solo learned of a mission to Coruscant being orchestrated by Luke Skywalker. The mission had two objectives: to investigate the Yuuzhan Vong's activities there and to determine if Jacen was still alive. Solo initially intended to participate, but was dissuaded by Tahiri Veila, who cautioned that Solo's presence would endanger the mission due to the Yuuzhan Vong's preoccupation with twins, should Jacen be alive. Instead, Veila volunteered for the mission. She also advised Solo to reconcile with her mother, from whom Solo had emotionally distanced herself. Solo had been attempting to sever her attachments to others to mitigate the impact of her perceived imminent death, but she conceded that Veila's advice was sound.

Also while on Borleias, Antilles encouraged her to use the Yuuzhan Vong belief that she was an incarnation of Yun-Harla for psychological warfare. A group of Wraith Squadron members including Sharr Latt and Voort saBinring helped Solo develop her "Goddess" moniker and persona, creating the personification of Yun-Harla for the Yuuzhan Vong. She was granted special privileges and even a porter in the form of Durron to reinforce the illusion that Solo held deified status among both the New Republic and the Yuuzhan Vong. Although Solo initially disliked being called the "Goddess," she acknowledged the necessity of impersonating the Yuuzhan Vong goddess Yun-Harla as part of a sustained psychological warfare campaign against the Yuuzhan Vong. She was also addressed by similar titles, such as "Great One."

Meanwhile, Solo and her Twin Suns participated in the Starlancer Project by guarding the starfighters involved in the plan. However, when the Yuuzhan Vong targeted Solo instead of the Starlancer vehicles, Antilles and his staff were caught off guard. Enduring waves of coralskippers, Solo and her squadron found themselves surrounded by a swarm of Yuuzhan Vong craft. Fel devised a daring maneuver, flying back through the Yuuzhan Vong ships while Solo and Durron positioned two Jedi shadow bombs behind him, launching them at the last moment into the interdictors trapping the squadron. Fel's maneuver successfully destroyed one of the Yuuzhan Vong interdictors, but a gravitic singularity sent him off-course, pursued by numerous coralskippers. While the rest of her squadron jumped to safety, Solo refused to abandon Fel, and Durron in turn refused to abandon her. Defying direct orders from Colonel Celchu, she and Durron returned to the battle, and Durron employed an exhausting Force technique to turn the second interdictor's gravity wells against it, crushing it. The remaining coralskippers attempted to pursue them, but Fel, Durron, and Solo escaped to the safety of the frigate Lunar Tide and Rogue Squadron.

Upon returning to base, Solo was immediately summoned to General Antilles's office. Anticipating a severe reprimand, Solo was instead confronted by Fel before meeting with Antilles. Fel, rather than scolding her, questioned why she had risked her life to save him. Her response was "Everyone is going away. They keep going away and I can't stop it. I didn't want you to go away." She began to cry, and Fel embraced her, reassuring her that he wasn't going anywhere and kissing her. He then met with Antilles in her stead, averting any disciplinary action against Solo.

Shortly afterward, Solo reconciled with her mother after Leia returned from a mission transporting young trainees to a Jedi facility hidden in the Maw Cluster. Between this reconciliation and the development of a relationship with Fel, she became more emotionally stable. Soon after, the Yuuzhan Vong launched a major ground offensive against the Borleias garrison the next day. As she was running to her X-wing, Solo was confronted by a distressed civilian male, Tam Elgrin, who had been forced to serve as Yuuzhan Vong spy. He confessed his duplicity to her despite severe physical pain, prompting her to call for medical assistance and then run to her fighter so she could participate in the defense.

Solo and Twin Suns helped defend against the push, including using another tactic where Fel once again guided two shadow bombs into position to knock out Yuuzhan Vong rakamats, but they were repeatedly ordered to retreat to avoid being cut off from other New Republic forces. Once the New Republic forces had withdrawn into a tight cordon around their central facility, Antilles unleashed his surprise; orbital bombardment by the Executor-class Star Dreadnought Lusankya to annihilate the Yuuzhan Vong approach. This punishing action bought the garrison a brief respite while the Yuuzhan Vong replenished their losses.

The Yuuzhan Vong soon returned, though, harassing incoming and outgoing convoys with coralskipper attacks. Solo and the Twin Suns helped provide cover for these supply ships, including the transport Reckless Abandon. While defending against the Yuuzhan Vong marauders, Solo was irked to be the subject of Taanab Yellow Aces leader Wes Janson's flirtations, but after Janson learned her identity, he abandoned any advances he had been considering. Solo also helped defend against a midnight attack by the Yuuzhan Vong that employed two light cruiser analogs as artillery against the central New Republic facility. At this point, Solo unleashed one of her new weapons, a missile that fired proton torpedo decoys at the Yuuzhan Vong to divert their defensive dovin basals. While the defenses tried to shield the ship against the decoys, Solo and her wingmates fired four proton torpedoes that mortally wounded one of the ships. This and the loss of numerous coralskippers caused the Yuuzhan Vong to retreat. They continued to wage a war of attrition against the garrison, which Solo and her pilots did their best to counter. As part of the deception that Solo was an avatar of Yun-Harla, the Twin Suns were afforded numerous privileges, including a private mess and full proton torpedo loads. These benefits were largely unexplained to the rest of the New Republic forces, which generated some measure of ill will among other squadrons not in on the full plan.

In between missions, Solo continued to deepen her relationship with Fel, and also recruited, on his suggestion, a Mon Calamari pilot named Beelyath into her squadron to assist with some of her deceptive tactics involving a B-wing starfighter. She also called Durron to a late night picnic with her and Fel; Durron had been closing himself off emotionally from her, much as she had done before her mother's advice had encouraged her to open up to those who cared for her. She, Fel, and Durron were able to reach an understanding where Durron served as her mission partner and would fly alongside her, while also acknowledging that she and Fel were romantically involved.

Eventually, the Yuuzhan Vong launched an all-out assault to take the planet Borleias after weeks of constant harassment. Antilles was prepared for this, though, and dictated the timing of the push by launching the supposedly-finished Starlancer fighters. The Starlancer project represented a threat to the Yuuzhan Vong worldships and forced them to respond, but little did they know that the entire Starlancer project was a deception.

Solo and her Twin Suns briefly defended one of the Starlancer pipefighters, but soon abandoned the craft to rendezvous with Lusankya, which had emerged from hyperspace near the main Yuuzhan Vong worldship at Borleias. The Twin Suns along with the other elite starfighter units of the New Republic, guarded the mammoth warship as it closed on the worldship in a ramming attempt. Yuuzhan Vong forces attempted to capture Solo, but she used gravitic alterations to her craft to change her identity while Beelyath fired a missile that emulated her signature. This lured several skilled Yuuzhan Vong pilots to their doom while Solo continued to protect the Lusankya. The Star Dreadnaught was successful in ramming and destroying the worldship and though the Yuuzhan Vong claimed Borleias, the victory was Pyrrhic as they lost a worldship, numerous warships, and the famed tactician Czulkang Lah in the process. For her part, Solo and the rest of the New Republic forces withdrew from the battle after the worldship was destroyed, bound for Mon Calamari.

Later that year, Jedi Knight Ganner Rhysode told her that he'd heard a rumor that Jacen was still alive. Solo, who had felt Jacen's presence in the Force die, flatly denied that rumor, despite her mother's claims that Jacen was still alive. Solo also told Rhysode to keep his mouth shut and not tell anyone or investigate the matter, or else face her wrath.

Following the triumph at Borleias, the New Republic initiated a series of personnel changes within Solo's Twin Suns Squadron. The goal was to integrate inexperienced pilots with seasoned veterans, fostering expertise and improving pilot longevity. Consequently, renowned pilots like Kyp Durron and Jagged Fel were reassigned from Twin Suns. However, Solo was compensated with a temporary promotion to Major.

As part of her expanded responsibilities, Solo collaborated in the planning of the Second Battle of Obroa-skai, aiming to eliminate the Yuuzhan Vong Supreme Overlord. This endeavor involved the cooperation of the Hapans and General Keyan Farlander's fleet. Solo commanded her captured Yuuzhan Vong frigate, named Trickster, during the battle. She entered the system with a New Republic fleet following closely behind, creating the illusion of pursuit. This tactic exploited the Yuuzhan Vong's inherent aggressiveness, rendering their flagship susceptible to attack. Simultaneously, the New Republic deployed innovative weaponry, such as a yammosk jammer, to disrupt the Yuuzhan Vong war coordinators. Despite the initial ineffectiveness of the first yammosk jamming attempt, Solo astutely recognized the presence of a secondary yammosk coordinating the Yuuzhan Vong forces. This second yammosk was promptly jammed, granting the New Republic fleet a superior level of synchronization. Concurrently, Solo maneuvered her frigate to the rear of the enemy formation, deploying decoy dovin basals that induced Yuuzhan Vong ships to target one another. She then targeted the flagship, coinciding with the arrival of Hapan reinforcements who decimated the weakened rear of the Yuuzhan Vong fleet. The battle resulted in a decisive victory, bordering on a complete rout. However, Supreme Overlord Shimrra Jamaane was not among the casualties, which frustrated Solo, although she was happy to see Tenel Ka again.

Subsequently, Solo, along with Farlander, returned to Kashyyyk as instructed, where they met with Admiral Traest Kre'fey, Farlander's superior officer. Kre'fey commended them on their victory before informing them that the Bothans had initiated ar'krai, a declaration of total war against the Yuuzhan Vong. Kre'fey also conveyed the news of Solo's brother's survival and return to Mon Calamari. While she was relieved to learn of Jacen's well-being, she also contemplated how to address her dark-side-influenced actions during his absence.

Shortly thereafter, Solo and her Twin Suns squadron were engaged in a training exercise alongside Colonel Ijix Harona's Scimitar Squadron when they intercepted a distress signal from a New Republic capital ship that had sustained damage during the Battle of Obroa-skai. Responding to the call for assistance, Solo and her pilots aided the Far Thunder and its escort, the Whip Hand, in repelling the harassing coralskippers, allowing sufficient time for the cruiser to be evacuated and scuttled.

In the meantime, the loss of Borleias compelled the New Republic to seek refuge on the aquatic world of Dac in the Outer Rim Territories. It was on this planet that Kre'fey granted Solo a temporary leave, during which she reunited with her brother Jacen. She was also tasked with requesting additional Jedi from her uncle to assist with fleet coordination. However, Solo found little enjoyment in her respite from active duty, yearning to rejoin Kre'fey's fleet on Kashyyyk and continue the war effort. During her meditative sessions with her brother, she found no solace in anything that did not prepare her for future encounters with the Yuuzhan Vong.

She attended a Knighting ceremony where she, Jacen, and several other survivors of the Myrkr strike team were recognized as Jedi Knights by the newly re-established Jedi Council. Her uncle bestowed upon Solo the title of "the Sword of the Jedi," a role she embraced with unwavering commitment. In granting her this title, Skywalker proclaimed that she would consistently be at the forefront, resolute, and determined; restless, but protecting others. Nevertheless, this designation occasionally caused her distress, as she sometimes felt destined to remain detached from intimate relationships, particularly following the loss of numerous friends and comrades during the Yuuzhan Vong War. After gathering additional Jedi to support Kre'fey and acquiring new strategies, she shortened her leave and returned to Kashyyyk to resume her participation in the war.

Throughout the subsequent months, Solo served with Kre'fey's fleet in a series of perilous raids and skirmishes against the Yuuzhan Vong, including one targeting Duro. During these engagements, she and her pilots gained valuable experience for the pilots under her command as part of the retired Mon Calamari strategist Ackbar's plan to decimate the Vong war fleet. This campaign culminated in the Battle of Ebaq. While Solo and some of the other Jedi were purportedly defending the newly-formed government on the moon, it was, in reality, a trap designed to ensnare the Yuuzhan Vong, as Ebaq 9 was a hyperspace dead end with no means of escape. While a massive Yuuzhan Vong fleet assaulted the base, New Republic forces flanked, surrounded, and dismantled their vessels while guiding them through minefields as part of a carefully orchestrated ambush. Initially, Solo and her squadron provided support to Farlander's fleet stationed above the moon, but after prolonged combat against the Yuuzhan Vong and incurring casualties, they were ordered to withdraw.

As the battle raged in space, Solo and the remaining members of Twin Suns, including Tesar Sebatyne and Lowbacca, retreated to the moon and took shelter inside. While the combined fleets of Kre'fey, Farlander, Han Solo, and Garm Bel Iblis relentlessly pounded the Yuuzhan Vong in space, Tsavong Lah landed on the world with ten thousand warriors, intent on either slaying or capturing all the Jedi. Solo and her pilots engaged in a delaying action, employing mines, blasters, and the Force to diminish the Yuuzhan Vong forces and their voxyn. Retreating into a mine shaft, Solo, Tesar, and Lowbacca found themselves cornered, but remained resolute in their determination to fight. It was at this moment that Vergere sacrificed her life to eliminate the majority of the Yuuzhan Vong forces on the barren moon, although Tsavong Lah survived to ambush them. With her companions and her feet immobilized by blorash jelly, Solo engaged Tsavong Lah in a one-on-one duel, ultimately slaying him by impaling her purple lightsaber blade through his throat.

Following the conclusion of the battle, the Yuuzhan Vong had suffered the loss of Lah and the majority of their fleet. Solo and the remaining Jedi escaped without casualties and were transported off the moon along with her companions after the victory to move on to the next theater of war. In the aftermath of the New Republic's victory, newly-elected Chief of State Cal Omas oversaw the reorganization of the New Republic into the Galactic Federation of Free Alliances, also known as the Galactic Alliance for short. The governmental changes implemented between the New Republic and the Galactic Alliance included a new constitution, a more robust judicial branch, and an improved system of checks and balances that curtailed the power that, under the New Republic, had been almost exclusively concentrated in the hands of the Senate.

In 28 ABY, Major Solo participated in a series of follow-up raids subsequent to the Battle of Ebaq 9 as part of Ralroost's fleet. Partnering with her brother Jacen, Saba Sebatyne, and several other Jedi, Solo expressed satisfaction with the success of the raids, but wanted to propagate the conflict against Yuuzhan Vong further. Kre'fey announced that their destination was the Peace Brigade capital of Ylesia, and although the Bothan admiral intended to strike from orbit, the Jedi advocated for capturing and placing the Peace Brigade leaders on trial, to maximize the propaganda victory and reduce civilian casualties. While she was planning the mission and assisting in the training of her pilots, Solo was taken by surprise by Fel, who had arrived with his squadron to undergo repairs at Kre'fey's fleet. Having detected some ambiguity in Solo's messages to him, Fel decided to ascertain her lingering feelings for him. He surreptitiously entered her cabin and kissed her upon her arrival, an embrace that Solo momentarily enjoyed before regaining her composure and forcefully repelling him with the Force. Nevertheless, she was pleased to see him, spending time with him and winning large amounts of his money in sabacc. He also consented to assist with the assault on Ylesia.

Solo volunteered to command the ground component of the assault on Ylesia, overseeing the Jedi forces, while Tigran Jamiro led the conventional military forces of the Galactic Alliance. However, Kre'fey's fleet first had to neutralize the Yuuzhan Vong and Peace Brigade naval forces. Solo led her Twin Suns squadron into battle against the Peace Brigade flotilla, who proved to be no match for the disciplined and well-equipped Galactic Alliance Fleet. Twins Suns Squadron was then tasked with clearing the spaceport, but drew off to engage a Yuuzhan Vong coralskipper force attempting to attack the ground troops. After destroying the coralskippers, Solo and her squadron moved in to cover the landing.

As the ground troops landed, Solo soon joined them. She found her second cousin, Thrackan Sal-Solo, the Peace Brigade leader, had already been captured after attempting to pose as a civilian. Since Sal-Solo claimed that he wasn't a willing participant in Peace Brigade activities, Solo decided to compel his assistance as a guide so they could capture the rest of the Peace Brigade leadership. En route, she helped deal with Peace Brigade defenders, who were no match for her and Lowbacca, combined with the Galactic Alliance ground troops. They soon reached the central shelter where the Peace Brigaders were hiding, and Solo insisted that Sal-Solo call for the surrender of the government. They refused to heed his call, so the Galactic Alliance forces blew the door and went in after them. Solo and Lowbacca led the way, subduing all resistance by capturing the Peace Brigade government, including renegade Senator Pwoe.

The arrival of a Yuuzhan Vong fleet forced a hasty withdrawal back to the landing zone for departure to Kre'fey's fleet, but the remaining Yuuzhan Vong ground forces ambushed the speeder convoy as they arrived. Solo battled to defend the convoy in the confused skirmish that resulted, and the arrival of Fel and Twin Suns Squadron as close air support allowed the landing force to escape back to their ships. Kre'fey's fleet retreated after inflicting damage to the Yuuzhan Vong ships in space, having achieved a victory. However, Solo was displeased with how operations had gone on Ylesia, particularly the Yuuzhan Vong ambush, but settled down when Jacen and Fel explained that the Peace Brigade was crippled.

Subsequent to the Battle of Ebaq, Solo attained the rank of Lieutenant Colonel and journeyed back to Mon Calamari, where she encountered Kyp Durron. Solo also inquired about the status of Tahiri Veila, who had left her a message earlier requesting a meeting, and was informed by Durron that Veila had not attended a recent gathering of the Jedi. Solo met her parents and Fel, listening to them plan out a mission without much interest while Durron left to investigate the whereabouts of Veila. To her surprise, she was assigned to escort her parents on diplomatic missions for the Galactic Alliance. She was not particularly looking forward to the mission as she preferred to be on the front lines, but she did relish the prospect of spending more time with Jagged Fel, who was also accompanying Twin Suns, the Pride of Selonia, and the Millennium Falcon.

As the meeting drew to a close, Solo received a communication from Veila, who appeared distraught and claimed that Anakin Solo sought her demise. Solo enlisted the assistance of an intelligence officer involved in the planning, Belindi Kalenda, to trace Veila's comlink. Upon obtaining the coordinates, Solo swiftly located Veila in the care of a medical team, unconscious and suffering from self-inflicted wounds. At the medcenter where Veila was conveyed, Solo explained what she had heard from Veila and helped Jacen observe her until she awoke. Meanwhile, while awaiting the mission's departure, she sparred with Fel, relishing their time together even as she grappled with her frustration at being excluded from combat duty. She also bid farewell to her brother, Luke and Mara Skywalker, and Danni Quee, as they embarked on their own mission to locate the sentient planet Zonama Sekot. When she had time in between organizing Twin Suns squadron for the diplomatic mission, Solo visited Veila, who was still convalescing, but her spare time was limited. Eventually, to keep an eye on the traumatized young Jedi, Veila was asked by Leia Solo to accompany them on their diplomatic mission.

After their departure, Solo learned of the Yuuzhan Vong assault on the Imperial Remnant and also listened to her parents debate the mission's initial destination, the Koornacht Cluster. Their first stopover was at Galantos, where the mission re-established contact with the native Fia and tried to learn the status of the Yevetha in the nearby Koornacht Cluster. Solo grew increasingly worried about Veila, though, as she had taken to wandering around mindlessly or collapsing suddenly, in addition to being frail and ailing. Solo also observed a holo of Veila eluding a number of escorts while on Galantos and finding some kind of object. Veila's reaction to it was startling and elicited a wild defense with a lightsaber by Veila against anyone who approached her before fainting to the ground. At that point, Solo grew even more concerned about Veila, but with the younger Jedi unconscious again, there was little she could do.

Solo also learned from the ground party that the Yevetha were no longer a concern to the Fia. Solo then volunteered to probe the edges of the Koornacht Cluster to see the reason for their nonchalance about the Yevetha. On her scouting trip to the Yevethan homeworld of N'zoth, Solo and her flight found that the world had been totally pounded flat, with no trace of civilization. Then, she found a single surviving Yevethan pilot, but the fanatical alien destroyed his own ship in a murderous suicide, causing severe damage to her craft and killing another of her pilots. She nursed her crippled X-wing back to Galantos as the Yuuzhan Vong arrived with a small fleet to enslave the world. The Fia had made a deal with the Yuuzhan Vong to destroy the Yevetha in exchange for peace, not knowing that the invaders planned on enslaving them as well. The resulting action between Galactic Alliance and Yuuzhan Vong, with the Galactic Alliance Forces eventually aided by a few Fia defenders, was the Battle of Galantos. Solo avoided the majority of the dogfight, as her craft was already damaged. Instead, she worked on disabling the slaveships that the Yuuzhan Vong had brought with them. They were successful and the Fia renounced all ties to the Peace Brigade and Yuuzhan Vong in favor of the Galactic Alliance. After Solo had rested, Fel told her about Jacen helping the Empire fend off a Yuuzhan Vong attack and additionally showed her the Yuuzhan Vong pendant that Tahiri had discovered on Galantos which had triggered her reaction. Solo then began to realize that Tahiri was still having issues with her having been shaped by the Yuuzhan Vong.

The next stop on the diplomatic mission was to Bakura based on information gathered from a Ryn informant by Solo's parents. Upon arrival over Bakura, Solo was part of a group of Twin Suns pilots deployed to escort the Pride of Selonia and the Millennium Falcon into orbit around Bakura. A Bakuran cruiser, Sentinel, suddenly deployed a swarm of Ssi-ruuvi battle droids from its hold after someone hijacked Leia's transmission to the ground, but though Solo prepared her squadron for action, the droids, along with an accompaniment of piloted fighters, proved to be part of an escort. After learning that Bakura was under martial law, the expedition docked with Sentinel. Solo along with her parents, Veila, and an honor guard met the Bakuran commander of the ship, General Grell Panib. They were surprised to see a reptilian P'w'eck, a species known to serve the hostile Ssi-ruuk, aboard the ship. Panib quickly explained that the P'w'eck, Lwothin, was part of the P'w'eck Emancipation Movement. Lwothin told them of a Ssi-ruu of great spiritual significance to their culture, the Keeramak, who had led the oppressed P'w'ecks to overthrow their masters and seek to ally themselves with the Bakurans. The expedition had arrived as the negotiations were coming to a head—the Keeramak planned to visit Bakura in a few days to consecrate the planet and establish a formal alliance with the Bakurans. The expedition also learned of civil unrest on Bakura over the proposed treaty and the recent disappearance of Bakura's Prime Minister, Molierre Cundertol, from Deputy Prime Minister Blaine Harris. Solo's parents agreed to attend the consecration ceremony, but also resolved to investigate the situation on Bakura further, worrying that the Peace Brigade might have been attempting to sabotage Bakura.

Solo then accompanied her parents and Veila down to Bakura's surface, where received word via Fel that Cundertol had escaped captivity and returned to Bakura. Any official discussion about matters of state was delayed by celebrations of Cundertol's escape, which irked Solo. Back in their quarters, Veila discovered a message capsule that she had been told about from a Ryn contact. The message it contained said that Malinza Thanas, a local girl who had been imprisoned on charges of instigating unrest and suspicion of kidnapping Cundertol, would have the information they needed. Chafing to do something and knowing she was fairly inconspicuous, Solo volunteered to visit Thanas in prison.

Her attempts to break into the prison covertly were unsuccessful in accomplishing anything but tripping an alarm, so Solo backed off and bluffed her way into arranging a meeting with Thanas, threatening a diplomatic incident if she didn't get her meeting. The intimidated guards led her to Thanas, whom Solo persuaded to explain why she was under arrest. Thanas told her about the group of nonviolent isolationist activists she was involved with, who had stirred up dissent towards the New Republic. Thanas also explained that she and her group had been digging up information on the sordid deeds of Bakuran senators, including a large offworld money transfer. The imprisoned girl also implied that she would soon be convicted to keep her from leaking the news about the information. Solo resolved to try and help her, but as she turned to go, found that the guards were missing. Thanas took that as an opportunity to escape and a reluctant Solo helped her find her way out of the prison.

Solo followed Thanas through the city of Salis D'aar by night as Thanas led her back to the headquarters of her movement, Freedom. Solo met with some of the other activists, who were as puzzled about Thanas's escape as she was. They resolved to look into the matter further, as well as investigate who had actually kidnapped Cundertol. At that point, they discovered that a homing beacon had been planted on Thanas—their hideout was about to be surrounded and invaded. The Freedom activists fled and, carrying the beacon, Solo followed one of them, Salkeli, in an attempt to create a false trail. They ditched the bug and, once they had eluded their pursuit, Salkeli offered her a ride back into town on a speeder. She agreed, but it was a ruse, as he stunned her instead. In the mean time, her activities had been noticed by Bakuran security forces, who declared her a suspect and placed a warrant for her arrest.

When Solo awoke, she was still Salkeli's prisoner, and learned that he had sold Freedom out before he stunned her again. She awoke in the presence of Deputy Prime Minister Blaine Harris in his private safe room. Harris revealed to her that he was working towards making Bakura independent of the galactic government by supporting the alliance with the P'w'eck. He also lured Thanas and her group of activists to his location, revealing that he'd been using them to help foment his ideals of an independent Bakura. In doing so, Harris informed Thanas that her "tragic death" would help rally the people behind him and his cause. Thanas attempted to resist, but Harris was armed with a blaster, killing one of the activists who attempted to attack him.

Harris took Solo, Thanas, and the remaining Freedom activist, Vyram, to the consecration ceremony. He then forced Solo to press a remote detonator that would kill Cundertol, her parents, and the Bakuran Senate so Harris could seize power. Solo would then be framed for a slaughter and Thanas would be seen as the loyal citizen who attempted to stop Solo. Harris then locked them in an equipment closet with the bomb while he prepared to escape. Unbeknownst to him, Solo used the Force to warn her parents of the danger. When Harris attempted to use her lightsaber to inflict wounds on Thanas and Vyram to help make his story sound more plausible, Solo snatched it from him telekinetically. Solo and Thanas quickly subdued Harris and Salkeli just as Veila and a Ryn named Goure arrived, having traced Solo's use of the Force. Solo sent Veila to disarm the bomb—the remote detonator had been damaged in the clash—while Goure tried to free them from the equipment locker. Salkeli informed them that there was no other way to deactivate the bomb. Solo tried to persuade Veila to abandon her attempts to disarm it, but Veila stubbornly continued trying, shouting at Solo in the Yuuzhan Vong language as she defiantly attempted to defuse the bomb.

It exploded and Solo freed herself so Thanas could find security and alert them to Harris's plan. She was concerned for Veila, but was relieved to find that her parents had received and heeded her warning. For her part, Solo and Goure searched for Veila, whom they found unconscious, having used a Force bubble to protect herself from the bulk of the blast. Solo's parents also informed her via comlink that Cundertol had perished in the explosion. Solo then assisted with the rescue efforts while the P'w'eck resolutely concluded their consecration ceremony.

Too late, the Solos realized that the treaty was a smokescreen for a Ssi-ruuk attempt at seizing Bakura. As Ssi-ruu troopships began landing, Solo participated in the battle from the ground, helping her parents retreat to the Millennium Falcon in the face of the Ssi-ruu landing force. They fell back through the bomb crater, passing by the equipment locker where Solo had left Vyram and Harris. Solo met Thanas there, who informed her that the exit was blocked. Solo then asked Harris if there was an alternate escape route, but his only response was to bargain for power. Disgusted with his selfishness in the midst of an invasion, Solo ignored him, only to be surprised by the re-appearance of Cundertol. Cundertol questioned Harris about alternate exits, but the irate Deputy Prime Minister said there were none. Cundertol then slew Harris and planted his blaster against the head of Malinza Thanas, revealing himself to be in league with the Ssi-ruuk. A group of the reptilian invaders and the Keeramak soon arrived, offering them to have their life-forces drained to power droids in a process known as entechment. Solo and the others refused, while Cundertol let slip that he had brokered the bargain with the Ssi-ruuk, as he had already transferred his consciousness into a human replica droid.

At that point, the P'w'eck rebelled against the Ssi-ruuk, slaying the Keeramak. In the confusion, Solo and the others were able to assist in dealing with the Ssi-ruuk and rescuing Thanas from Cundertol. In orbit, the P'w'eck were able to deceive the Ssi-ruu ships into releasing all the prisoners they had seized for entechment, including Jagged Fel. With the captive starfighters released from the tractor beams that had held them in place, Fel, the Galactic Alliance squadrons, and Bakuran fighters, attacked the Ssi-ruu warships with the assistance of P'w'eck droid ships.

When Cundertol made his escape, Solo gave chase, but his enhanced droid frame proved a challenge to subdue. Before she could use her lightsaber, he struck her with his augmented strength and fled once more. Her parents discovered her on the ground, suffering from the blow. While Leia attended to her daughter, Han and some P'w'eck followed Cundertol. The battle concluded as Fel and his squadron secured the Ssi-ruuk's surrender, and the P'w'eck rebellion defeated the reptilian invaders on the planet's surface.

Solo, for her part, was transported back to the Pride of Selonia for medical attention. She was more concerned, however, to find Veila still in a catatonic state, unchanged since the explosion. Although Cundertol had managed to evade capture for the time being—he would later be killed by Yuuzhan Vong agents within the Ssi-ruuvi Imperium—Solo was heartened to learn that the P'w'ecks and Bakurans had ratified a peace accord. Furthermore, Goure verified that Veila's Yuuzhan Vong personality was in conflict with her Human identity. The Ryn suggested ending Veila's life to resolve the issue, an idea Solo immediately dismissed. A Kurtzen healer named Arrizza attempted a healing ritual to address Veila's inner turmoil, but it yielded no immediate results. Consequently, Solo and Fel took turns guarding her.

Based on information from the Ryn, the expedition then traveled to Onadax. Seeking information or another contact within the Ryn's network of informants, Solo and her father explored the city independently. Solo also sought out the engineers responsible for transforming Cundertol into a human replica droid, eventually locating their fortified facility on Onadax. Using the Force, she bypassed the outer security layers with relative ease. Upon reaching the manufacturing center, she encountered Stanton Rendar, the leader of the collective that produced the human replica droids. Rendar, who had also been converted into an HRD, offered no resistance and denied any responsibility for Cundertol's actions. He then attempted to persuade her to accept an HRD body, but she refused. When she declared her intention to shut down his operation, he released ten security droids and escaped while she engaged them. With the added threat of a self-destruct sequence, Solo had no chance of capturing Rendar and barely escaped the explosion. The blast ignited an anti-Galactic Alliance mob that quickly formed in response to her presence. Separated from the Millennium Falcon, Solo made her way to the Pride of Selonia instead_, reaching the ship just before the mob arrived. As they lifted off, Solo's parents disclosed that they had rescued the Ryn leader Droma on Onadax, who requested that they investigate Esfandia, where the Yuuzhan Vong were attacking the communications relay. As the Pride of Selonia set course for Esfandia, Solo assisted in monitoring the comatose Veila, whose condition continued to deteriorate.

Upon arriving at Esfandia, the expedition discovered a Yuuzhan Vong armada assaulting the planet. Severely outmatched by the Yuuzhan Vong forces, they were uncertain of their next move when an Imperial fleet under Gilad Pellaeon appeared and initiated combat. The Pride of Selonia moved to provide assistance, but Solo did not participate in the initial engagement—she had entered a mind meld with Veila before the battle commenced. Solo witnessed Veila's personality battling her implanted Yuuzhan Vong persona, Riina Kwaad, but each injury Veila inflicted on Kwaad was mirrored in herself. Ultimately, Solo aided Veila in merging the two disparate aspects of her personality while both women remained unconscious. During Solo's unconsciousness, Fel remained at her bedside and confessed his love for her, imploring her to return, a declaration Solo overheard and later acknowledged.

Once Veila had reintegrated her fractured mind, Solo regained consciousness, followed shortly by Veila. Fel quickly updated her on the situation, informing her that they were in a stalemate with the Yuuzhan Vong fleet, while the Millennium Falcon had landed, searching for the mobile relay station on Esfandia's surface. Veila suggested posing as a turncoat, feigning an offer to hand over Han and Leia Solo to the Yuuzhan Vong commander, a plan Solo endorsed. Solo also secured Imperial support from Pellaeon for the scheme, as she was essentially in charge of executing Veila's idea. She, Fel, Veila, and a small team boarded a damaged Yuuzhan Vong vessel with a functioning set of villips. Veila successfully deceived the Yuuzhan Vong into allowing their derelict ship to land on Esfandia, where she claimed she would surrender the Jedi and the relay station. After landing, they departed in speeder bikes to locate the relay station.

She encountered her father and Droma, who had also arrived on speeder bikes to set up a transponder to explode and repair a transmitter for Veila to communicate with the Yuuzhan Vong commander. Solo then assisted in guarding the transponder while the combined scouting party prepared an ambush for the Yuuzhan Vong who responded to Veila's message. They ambushed the Yuuzhan Vong landing party, but Solo's speeder was destroyed, and her enviro-suit was breached. Veila, Fel, and Droma reached her, and Droma transported her back to the Millennium Falcon as she lost consciousness. She awoke en route to find themselves pursued by Yuuzhan Vong Tsik-Seru fliers. Solo assisted Droma in dealing with the fliers, using thermal detonators to destroy them and her lightsaber to deflect the netting beetles they launched at her.

Sensing that her mother was in danger at the relay station, Solo and Droma proceeded there. Solo assisted in subduing a traitor within the station, eliminating that source of information to the Yuuzhan Vong, while Veila's deception convinced the Yuuzhan Vong that the transponder was the relay station. Its destruction prompted the invaders to withdraw from the surface, leading to their decisive defeat in orbit, allowing the relay station to resume transmissions.

Due to the injuries she sustained on Esfandia, Solo was unable to resume flying duty, so she remained behind to recover. Veila visited her, apologizing for the problems she had caused during her internal conflict, and explained that she had sought Solo's help because Solo reminded her of her lost love, Anakin Solo. Solo reassured her that she was glad to have been of assistance.

After completing the Pride of Selonia missions, Solo and Twins Suns Squadron rejoined the Galactic Alliance fleet and participated in the attack on Fondor. Thanks to a diversionary tactic on Duro, the planet and its shipyards were lightly defended, enabling the Galactic Alliance to capture the planet. Solo was particularly pleased that her squadron emerged from the battle unscathed. However, during a subsequent celebration, a Duros pilot named Lensi from Rogue Squadron attempted to resign, claiming that his people had been manipulated into believing they were liberating Duro. Solo calmed him down and explained that the decision was made to maintain operational security and was the correct choice to achieve the larger objective of liberating Fondor. Although Lensi remained unconvinced, he reconsidered his resignation.

Her next major engagement was Operation Trinity, where she and the Twins Suns once again served under the command of General Antilles. When the HoloNet relays in the area were severed, Antilles' command found itself isolated and surrounded by Yuuzhan Vong forces. As Yuuzhan Vong coralskippers breached the Galactic Alliance fleet, deploying grutchins to attack the capital ships, Solo and her pilots were assigned to fly extremely close to the warships and incinerate the grutchins with their thrusters.

Following this task, General Antilles personally assigned her squadron to investigate, retrieve, and reactivate a derelict Golan II battle station. After evading pursuing coralskippers, they approached the station, which was still operational. Solo landed on the station alone, sending the rest of her squadron ahead to draw away any further pursuit. She met with Erli Prann, the station's commander, and discovered that it had remained undetected by the Yuuzhan Vong due to its cloaking shield. As it turned out, Prann and his crew were scavengers seeking to steal equipment and escape the system. They stunned Solo and then captured the rest of her squadron, disabling their X-wings with ion beams, using tractor beams to pull them into the station, and stunning her pilots to steal their hyperdrive motivators, which they needed to escape with their station. Solo was enraged and attempted to persuade Prann to assist her and Antilles, but he was unmoved and ordered her guarded.

While Prann plotted a course to take the Golan Two out of the system, Solo used the Force to influence his mind and alter the trajectory, directing the station directly toward a Yuuzhan Vong interdictor that was holding down the Galactic Alliance fleet. They emerged from hyperspace in front of it, forcing an enraged Prann to fight for his life. They managed to destroy the interdictor, allowing Antilles' beleaguered fleet to escape. Once the interdictor was eliminated, Prann attempted to kill her, although Solo tried her best to dissuade him. However, just as Prann was about to fire his blaster, her parents, who had been acting as couriers to determine what had happened to Antilles, arrived, along with the other pilots of Twin Suns that they had freed. Han Solo was furious at Prann for attempting to murder his daughter and struck him with his blaster pistol, warning him that he would be killed if he ever touched his daughter again. With the station secured and the interdictor destroyed, the remnants of Antilles' fleet jumped out of the Bilbringi system, ending the battle. Afterward, Solo commemorated the fallen and acknowledged the successful retreat along with her parents, General Antilles, and even Imperial Grand Admiral Pellaeon, whose force of Imperial warships had been a reserve for Antilles' fleet but had never received the signal to engage.

Following these missions, in 29 ABY, Solo returned to Mon Calamari, where she spent her limited free time walking along the beaches with Jagged Fel. However, Solo was not destined to remain idle during wartime. She led an attack on a Yuuzhan Vong prisoner transport convoy over Selvaris. Solo and her squadron inflicted heavy casualties on the Yuuzhan Vong and their Peace Brigade allies, destroying numerous coralskippers. The Alliance seized the majority of the prisoner ships, preventing the Yuuzhan Vong from taking them to Coruscant for sacrifice. Before the Galactic Alliance transports could escape, Yuuzhan Vong reinforcements arrived, and Solo helped defend the transports from their attackers, who flew larger, more dangerous versions of coralskippers. These enhanced coralskippers, known as "stingcrawlers," penetrated the Galactic Alliance transports and fighter escort, causing significant damage before the convoy finally escaped.

Upon returning to Mon Calamari, Solo was alarmed to learn that her parents, who had been part of the rescue convoy, had not returned. In response, she took off again in her damaged fighter to investigate their whereabouts. She remained on Ralroost, maintaining a constant vigil for her parents' return. With the Skywalkers and Jacen still in the Unknown Regions and her parents missing, she became increasingly worried and despondent. Fel and Durron both attempted to provide emotional support, but she remained inconsolable, questioning how much people meant to her and whether she could cope with losing them. Summoned to a Jedi meeting regarding the missing team in the Unknown Regions, the Jedi decided to wait one more week to see if Master Skywalker responded before assembling a strike team to pursue them. Solo agreed that the missing Jedi seemed further away than before, but she did not sense that any of them had died.

When her parents finally returned from an extended stay at Caluula, Solo greeted them warmly. She also informed them of intelligence indicating that the Yuuzhan Vong were gathering a massive fleet to seize Mon Calamari, staging from Toong'l and Caluula. Solo participated in reconnaissance missions that detected the Yuuzhan Vong approach, reporting on their fleet's movements until she was ordered back to Mon Calamari.

She was present during the full-scale Yuuzhan Vong attack and subsequently participated in the defense of Mon Calamari. Her squadron was assigned to provide cover for assault E-wing and B-wing starfighters attacking Yuuzhan Vong ships along vulnerable fire lanes. Flying through intense enemy fire, she managed to survive the onslaught, withdrawing from the massive armada as soon as the order was given. She and her surviving pilots regrouped as the Yuuzhan Vong continued their advance. Half of the enemy fleet departed, and while the remaining ships pressed forward for some time, they eventually retreated, heading Coreward. The battle was a victory for the Galactic Alliance, partly due to the death of a yammosk war coordinator on nearby Caluula.

It was later discovered that the biological weapon Alpha Red had killed the yammosk and also devastated much of Caluula's biosphere, but this was not the reason for the new Warmaster, Nas Choka, to withdraw his fleet. Instead, the Yuuzhan Vong armada had received word that Zonama Sekot, with the Skywalkers and Jacen aboard, had entered the Yuuzhan'tar system, formerly the Coruscant system and now the Vong capital. Recognizing that Yuuzhan'tar was more important, Choka had ordered the fleet to retreat from their advance. In response, Kre'fey and Admiral Sien Sovv consolidated their fleets, including Solo and Twin Suns Squadron, and advanced on Coruscant.

Solo was reunited with many of her friends and family on Zonama Sekot, as the Yuuzhan Vong were reluctant to attack the world. While there, some of the Jedi were bonded with seed-partners to create living ships to defend the planet, but Solo was not chosen for this role. She was disappointed and confused, knowing she was one of the most skilled pilots among the Jedi. As the Galactic Alliance fleet approached Coruscant, Solo wanted to be with her squadron, but Mara encouraged her to wait a little longer before leaving. Eventually, she was selected for a strike team including her parents, Luke Skywalker, and Jacen that would attempt to prevent Coruscant's dhuryam or World Brain, from destroying the planet on the orders of Supreme Overlord Shimrra. The Supreme Overlord had threatened to destroy Coruscant rather than surrender it to his enemies, but Jacen had developed a connection with the dhuryam during his captivity. Therefore, the strike team hoped to neutralize Shimrra and control the dhuryam after penetrating the Well of the World Brain.

During the Recapture of Coruscant, Jaina and her brother Jacen Solo, along with Luke and Mara Jade Skywalker, flew to the surface of Coruscant in the Millennium Falcon, evading dovin basals and coralskippers, and initiated their assault on Shimrra's Citadel. Galactic Alliance commandos cleared a path into the sacred precinct, granting the Millennium Falcon access. After landing near a group of Alliance commandos, they received an update on the status of Yuuzhan Vong forces, who were retreating thanks to the "Jeedai"-worshiping Shamed Ones, who were eager to overthrow their oppressors. Solo was surprised to see Fel on the ground, assisting there after being shot down. She bid him farewell and then rejoined the team from the Millennium Falcon and some of the commandos heading for the citadel on foot, fighting through pockets of Yuuzhan Vong resistance. At one point, Luke Skywalker dispatched Jade Skywalker, Veila, and Kenth Hamner to assist the Shamed Ones and commandos, while he, Jacen, and Jaina Solo continued their advance on the citadel. Jacen was able to use his empathy over Yuuzhan Vong creatures to allow them to breach into Shimrra's sanctum, while Jade Skywalker's party and the Shamed Ones distracted many of the warriors and gained access to the dhuryam.

Solo, her brother, and uncle fought their way through layered defenses of Yuuzhan Vong warriors, but none of their opponents could withstand Luke Skywalker's mastery of the Force and combat skills. They confronted the Supreme Overlord and his elite bodyguards, the Slayers, engaging them in fierce hand-to-hand combat. Seven of the fifteen slayers attacked Solo, perceiving her as the weakest in combat. The shifting structure of Shimrra's bunker, caused by Jacen's successful manipulation of the dhuryam, complicated the duel, making it difficult for the combatants to maintain their footing and fight.

During the assault, Shimrra and his jester Onimi watched as their elite Slayers fell one by one to the Jedi. While Luke Skywalker dealt with Shimrra, Solo pursued Onimi, who attempted to escape. She followed him into another chamber, where he subdued her with a sedative poison. It was soon revealed that Onimi was the true ruler of the Yuuzhan Vong and had been manipulating Shimrra the entire time. He took Solo captive, believing she was the Trickster and intending to sacrifice her after he escaped in Shimrra's private escape vessel. However, her brother came to her aid and killed Onimi. As the ship succumbed to the effects of Onimi's toxins, Solo's parents, guided by the turncoat Nom Anor, reached the ship and rescued them. Anor attempted to betray them, but Jacen quickly neutralized him and, at his own request, left him to die in the crashing ship while they used a Yuuzhan Vong Yorik-trema landing craft to escape. The deaths of Shimrra and Onimi brought the Yuuzhan Vong War to an end. Later, the Galactic Alliance signed a peace treaty with the Yuuzhan Vong.

Solo then participated in a Jedi Conclave, where Luke Skywalker outlined his vision for the new role of the Jedi in the post-war galaxy. The elder Jedi asked them to examine themselves and determine where the Force would lead them next. Solo, for her part, resolved to continue fighting for "peace and justice." She was also reunited with Fel on Zonama Sekot, who expressed his love for her and asked her to return with him to the Chiss homeworld of Csilla, but Solo said she needed some time to settle down before she committed to marriage. Fel was disappointed, but he also promised to see her more often, as he had been appointed a diplomatic liaison to Coruscant by the Chiss government. Solo then departed Zonama Sekot, attending a ceremony on Kashyyyk to commemorate Anakin and Chewbacca, marked by Han Solo leaving Anakin's lightsaber at a memorial for the Wookiee hero. Her role in the Yuuzhan Vong War was later mentioned in a scandoc critical of the New Republic and Galactic Alliance's conduct during the war that circulated in Confederation holofeeds during the Second Galactic Civil War.

In the wake of the conflict, Solo persisted in her service to the Jedi Order, successfully apprehending 37 warlords and dismantling over 100 smuggling operations as the Galactic Alliance endeavored to reconstruct itself. A half-dozen years Six years following the war's conclusion, she, along with Lowbacca and Tesar, triumphed over the pirate Redstar and his crew aboard his vessel, the Night Lady. However, shortly thereafter, she found herself at MaxSec Eight, responding to inquiries from a Reconstruction Authority inquisitor. During this interrogation, she experienced a powerful sense of distress through the Force, originating from the Unknown Regions. Acting upon this Force signal, she abandoned her assigned duties, pinpointing the source of her sensation to an area within a hundred light-years of Chiss space. Several other Jedi who had survived the Myrkr mission accompanied her, including Tahiri Veila, Alema Rar, Lowbacca, Zekk, Tesar Sebatyne, and Tekli.

Solo discovered a colony of Killiks, an insectoid species residing on the fringes of known space. These Killiks had rescued Raynar Thul and the other two Dark Jedi who had escaped from the Myrkr mission years prior. Thul, Welk, and Lomi Plo had integrated into the Killik nests as Joiners, and it was Thul who had transmitted the Force signal to summon his former allies, seeking their assistance in a border dispute with the Chiss.

Operating from a moon orbiting the planet Qoribu, Solo and six other survivors of the Myrkr strike team aided the Taat nest against Chiss incursions. As a result, their minds, already interconnected through the extensive use of the Jedi battle meld during the Yuuzhan Vong War, became even more deeply intertwined with the subtle biochemical influences of the Killik nest. They were subsequently joined by Jacen, who arrived shortly thereafter. Jacen had received the coordinates of the Killik nests from his sister, but he detoured to investigate the wreckage of the Tachyon Flier, the vessel that had transported Thul and the Dark Jedi to the Unknown Regions. Employing a combination of StealthXs, Jacen's ChaseX, and Tahiri's Sekotan ship, they collaborated with Killik dartships to neutralize Chiss defoliators that were attempting to deprive the Killiks of food and natural resources they were trying to gather.

However, during one particular mission, while battling through a squadron of clawcraft in an effort to disable four additional defoliators, the Chiss dispatched reinforcements: a cloaked Victory-class Star Destroyer. This warship managed to damage and capture Lowbacca, and Chiss starfighters quickly surrounded the Killik dartships and Jedi fighters. At that moment, Alema Rar chose to employ lethal force, a tactic the Jedi had previously avoided. The battle escalated into a full-scale conflict, and Solo, despite her fury, recognized that even with the destruction of several Chiss starfighters, four more Jedi craft had been ensnared in the Star Destroyer's tractor beams. In response, another Killik nest, the Mueum, launched thousands of its primitive rocket-powered dartships to collide with the Star Destroyer. Although Lowbacca was forced to eject, the Jedi had avoided casualties for the time being, but at the cost of Chiss lives and the intensification of hostilities.

Unbeknownst to Solo and the others, her parents, along with Masters Skywalker and Saba Sebatyne, had traveled to the Unknown Regions to meet Raynar Thul, who now identified as "UnuThul" as his fully integrated persona within the Killik nest. Having learned of the seven Jedi's location through a Force message that Jacen had left at the wreckage of the Tachyon Flier, the elder Solos, Saba, and the Skywalkers arrived at Qoribu shortly after the battle. After repelling a small swarm of dartships belonging to Gorog, the Dark Nest controlled by the Dark Jedi Lomi Plo and Welk, the visitors landed and convened with the seven renegade Jedi.

Following the initial greetings, Masters Skywalker demanded explanations for Solo's and the others' actions. Although Solo would have preferred to be rescuing Lowbacca, Luke Skywalker insisted on answers. Solo and the other Jedi who had journeyed to Qoribu guided them through the nest, highlighting various aspects of Killik life. However, when questioned about the Killiks who had attacked the Solos and Skywalkers en route to Qoribu, all seven of the Joiner Jedi denied any knowledge of the attackers, asserting that such an attack was impossible. At that point, Master Skywalker requested that all seven of them return to Coruscant. Solo and the others expressed indignation, but when she sought her mother's opinion, Leia responded that the seven Jedi were exacerbating the situation. Solo agreed to depart at that point, but only after Lowbacca was rescued. Her parents and Saba Sebatyne assisted in the search for Lowbacca even amidst a Chiss search cordon, but the Chiss managed to recover the Wookiee Jedi before the elder Solos could, much to Solo's frustration.

While Masters Skywalker had departed with four of the strike team members, Solo, Zekk, and Rar remained, refusing to return to Coruscant despite pleas from Solo's parents. Instead, the three young Jedi decided to remain on Qoribu and delay the Chiss, while also pledging to investigate the mysterious Killiks that had repeatedly attacked the elder Solos' and Skywalkers' party, to the point where a lightsaber-wielding assailant and several vicious Killiks had dueled Saba Sebatyne and inflicted serious injuries upon her. Realizing that their daughter was unyielding, Han and Leia Solo departed, taking the injured Sebatyne and Rar, who volunteered to accompany them as a guide, with them.

Solo and Zekk continued to immerse themselves further into the Killik hive mind. One night, they fell asleep next to each other after participating in a communal Killik dance, although upon awakening, Solo insisted that nothing had transpired between them, and Zekk concurred. Shortly thereafter, they were approached by Thul, who informed them that they were being sent back to the Galactic Alliance. Solo quickly discerned that Thul was planning to destroy the next Chiss fleet dispatched against the Qoribu nests, which would provide time for a Hapan fleet that Jacen had persuaded to aid the Killiks to arrive. When they questioned him about his motivation for war and about the Dark Jedi and vicious Killiks that belonged to a secretive Dark Nest, Thul became defensive and evasive. The conversation concluded shortly thereafter.

As Thul proceeded with his war preparations, Solo's mind was touched by that of her twin brother, who reminded her of the atrocities Lomi Plo and Welk had committed against them on Myrkr. Focusing her mind and regaining near-complete control over her individuality, she convinced Zekk to accompany her to the hangar in order to prevent the war Thul was orchestrating. Their progress was hindered by streams of Killiks moving in the opposite direction, while Thul's will suppressed her concentration and focus. Recognizing the difficulty they were facing, Solo feigned surrender and returned to the barracks, encouraging Zekk to continue his efforts to reach the hangar. She then gathered her thoughts and focused on Jagged Fel, whom her parents had previously learned was with the nearest Chiss task force. She concentrated on the Force and transmitted a message to him, a taunt that alerted him to the impending Killik attack.

Despite their efforts, the arrival of a Jedi strike team and the elder Solos, determined to eliminate the Dark Nest which had established its headquarters inside a moon called Kr, was sufficient to provoke both the Hapan and Chiss fleets into exchanging fire in a display of brinkmanship. Solo's warning to Fel had thwarted the Killik ambush, yet Thul directed the swarm of Killik dartships to attack in order to rescue Lowbacca. For her part, Solo and Zekk were positioned in their StealthXs, awaiting an opportunity to liberate their Wookiee friend. While they were maneuvering into position, Solo sensed her mother battling the Dark Nest on Kr and also recognized that a seeming retreat by the Chiss was actually a deceptive Bothan fade maneuver. She cautioned Thul about the threat, and then she and Zekk infiltrated the heart of the Chiss fleet in a daring attempt to rescue Lowbacca. They were discovered and navigated through a barrage of defensive fire, which prompted the Chiss to send the warship containing Lowbacca into the safety of hyperspace.

Discouraged and defeated, they redirected their StealthXs back to Kr to assist their parents. Although surprised to discover the existence of the Dark Nest confirmed, they entered the tunnels where the Jedi strike team had landed and helped fend off Killiks that were attacking the grounded ships. By that point, they were fully Joined to the Nests and did not participate in the battle against Gorog and the duel in which Luke Skywalker slew Welk. Instead, they awaited Thul's arrival. Thul's emotionally damaged psyche could not comprehend the nature of the Dark Nest, but he accepted Han and Leia Solo's offer to relocate the Killik nests to new worlds further from Chiss space. However, this offer came with a condition: Thul insisted that Solo and Zekk were no longer welcome in the Killik nests. The Chiss and Hapans agreed to a truce, and the Chiss even released Lowbacca. Solo seized the opportunity to bid Fel farewell, and they both expressed mutual gratitude that neither had been forced to directly confront the other.

Less than a year later, Solo and Zekk resumed active duty as Jedi Knights and were assigned to investigate reports of stolen Tibanna gas on Bespin. The planet had become increasingly vulnerable to attacks by tibanna tappers, who sought to exploit the gases for their own purposes. Upon their arrival, Solo and Zekk intercepted a trio of tappers using siphoning balloons to extract Tibanna gas at a refinery and engaged them in a dogfight above BesGas Three, attempting to disable their craft with ion beams. However, during the engagement, the tappers made a hasty escape into the Change Zone. Solo and Zekk pursued them, navigating the perilous storms within the Change Zone, and eventually caught up with the thieves at an ancient refinery in the Dead Eye.

Landing at the refinery, they discovered black membrosia, a Killik food substance produced by the Dark Nest. Its presence confirmed that the Dark Nest had survived. However, while they were searching the refinery, the Tibanna tappers departed, shutting down the repulsorlifts that powered the station. Solo and Zekk quickly evacuated before the refinery crashed, though both were frustrated by their failure to apprehend the Tibanna tappers.

After learning that the Dark Nest had resurfaced and attempted to attack Luke Skywalker, Solo and Zekk endeavored to defend the Killik Colony from blame, but the fact that the Killiks were influencing pirates and corrupting insect species with black membrosia rendered their repudiations ineffective. In particular, despite their renewed service to the Jedi Order, some of the Masters remained suspicious of them, as Solo and Zekk were still Joined to each other and retained an emotional attachment to the Killiks. They were expressly forbidden from participating in any search for the location of the Dark Nest. The Jedi also discovered that the new planets, including Woteba, on which the Killiks had been resettled, were protected by a form of nanotechnology that attacked anything not native to the planet that was present in sufficient quantities.

Suspicious and resentful of outsiders, the Killiks imprisoned Han Solo and Luke Skywalker, blaming them for the defenses of Woteba, and the Galactic Alliance implemented a blockade of the Utegetu Nebula where the Killiks lived. Kyp Durron attempted to assemble a rescue team that included Solo and Zekk. However, the action was not approved by all the Masters, including acting leader Corran Horn. Horn, Hamner, and several other Jedi arrived in the hangar where the would-be rescue team was assembled, and a protracted argument ensued regarding the appropriate course of action.

During the argument, Jacen arrived and, persuaded by a Force vision he had experienced earlier that depicted the Chiss and Killiks leading the galaxy back into war, convinced Solo and four other members of the Myrkr mission survivors to board StealthXs and depart to avert the conflict. They were deceived by Jacen into attacking a Chiss base in order to provoke a war between the Chiss and the Killiks, as Jacen claimed that the Chiss were preparing to launch a surprise attack on the Killiks that would ignite a war. His rationale was that instigating a conflict before the Chiss could commence hostilities would mitigate the overall impact of the war. He was actually manipulating them for his own purposes, and the Chiss had no such strike planned. The mission was successful, with the StealthXs destroying the base's fuel supply and deploying glop bombs to damage the Chiss base without causing casualties. Solo was enraged by the deception and vowed to never fly alongside Jacen again. The Swarm War had commenced.

When Luke Skywalker summoned all the Jedi to the Conclave on Ossus, Solo and Zekk disregarded the summons, and along with the other Joiner Jedi, remained in the Unknown Regions to assist the Killiks in winning the war that had erupted against the Chiss on Tenupe, effectively utilizing their StealthXs. The Chiss invaded Tenupe, deploying thousands of troops onto the planet's surface. After an unexploded Chiss bomb landed near the Iesei nest, Solo and Zekk attempted to investigate. The Chiss responded by dispatching a demolition team in a dropship to destroy the weapon before the Killiks could dismantle it. Solo and the team of Jedi engaged the dropship and the group of Chiss commandos it deployed. Solo was also surprised to see Jagged Fel on the dropship and was momentarily distracted by his presence. This nearly proved fatal, as a laser cannon blast narrowly missed her, but Zekk pushed her aside in time. Jacen then neutralized the dropship by causing it to crash, although Fel survived due to Jacen's careful use of the Force, disabling the craft without destroying it. While the Jedi battled the commandos, Fel emerged from the ship and activated the vape charges, destroying the bomb. Solo was displeased with Jacen's actions, regardless of the fact that he had saved Fel's life. Following this skirmish, Solo and Zekk strengthened their resolve to remain with the Killiks, even though Jacen and the others did answer Skywalker's mental call and journeyed to Ossus.

The Chiss soon landed on Tenupe in force, while Solo and Zekk awaited with a massive force of Killiks placed under their command by Thul. The Killiks counterattacked by excavating tunnels beneath the Chiss dropships and ambushing the ships when the tunnels collapsed. During the battle, Jaina Solo led the ground forces of the Jooj and Rekker nests, supported by airborne squadrons of Qeeq and Aebea, led by Zekk, in a fierce battle in the wilds of Tenupe. In the melee, Solo confronted three Chiss soldiers lying in ambush, crippling two of them and killing the third. She attempted to save the lives of the two injured soldiers, but they were convinced that survival was tantamount to becoming insect food and activated a vape charge. Solo jumped clear in time and returned to the battle.

Over the ensuing weeks, Solo participated as wave after wave of Killiks attempted to wage a war of attrition on the Chiss landing force, at a devastating cost in Killik lives. Driven by the will of Thul, the insects would sacrifice themselves in assaulting Chiss positions, even as the invaders conducted a strategic withdrawal that eroded the enormous numbers of Killiks. The insects continued to advance, however, overwhelming Chiss MetaCannon artillery and infantry alike with the sheer weight of Killik numbers. When a squadron of Chiss AirStraeker gunships arrived, Solo summoned Zekk and his airborne units to assist her, but Chiss clawcraft held him off even while giant Kolosolok Killiks launched their attack on the Chiss perimeter. When Zekk did arrive, the AirStraekers were quickly neutralized, and Solo pressed the assault. Utilizing a telekinetically-hurled vape charge, Solo was able to disable the Chiss perimeter shield, allowing the Killiks to flood in and overwhelm a Chiss base.

The Chiss were able to halt the Killik advance after retreating behind their shield generators and deploying insecticide into the Killik lines. However, the Chiss were forced to withdraw once again after their shields were breached by the huge Kolosolok. The ground battle devolved into a stalemate as the massive casualties sustained by the Killiks began to take their toll.

With the Chiss force pushed back to a small group of islands, Solo found herself facing an entrenched enemy with superior firepower. Opting for a more cautious approach, she attempted to conduct some scouting on her own, only to be attacked by a pair of Squibs that had been hired to assassinate her. She deflected their assault and retreated, her position compromised to Chiss snipers. With the assistance of the Mollom nest, she captured her assailants and interrogated them, discovering that a hit on her life had been placed by the Squib Directors. She ordered them to abandon their plan, threatening their lives if they attempted to kill her again, and then released them so she could focus on dealing with the Chiss. Upon witnessing the Killiks utilizing their primitive trebuchet artillery, she conceived the idea to flood the islands they were holding.

Weeks later, Solo returned to the skies in her StealthX for the final planned Killik assault on the Chiss, who had been flooded out by a bombardment of boulders damming up the river and increasing the water level. Upon seeing a massive Chiss fleet descend into the atmosphere, Solo was surprised by their appearance, and even more surprised to receive a mental warning from her mother, who was in-system to locate her. Solo remained unperturbed, however, knowing that Thul was preparing a Killik swarm to attack the Chiss and smash them into Tenupe. At that point, she observed a heavily guarded group of defoliators and sensed danger emanating from those ships. She attempted to attack them, but the Chiss guards were vigilant and willing to sacrifice themselves against her torpedoes. Solo and Zekk found themselves in combat against Fel, although Solo warned him that while she still loved him, he should eject to avoid her having to kill him. However, Fel and the Chiss continued to protect the defoliators. At that moment, Alema Rar arrived in a StealthX to assist Solo and Zekk, knocking down some of the defoliators while they provided a diversion. Rar then vanished, but Leia, Sebatyne, and Han Solo arrived in the Millennium Falcon after having escaped Chiss custody to assist Solo and Zekk. As it turned out, the defoliators were carrying lethal parasite bombs that would eradicate all of the Killiks, and the elder Solos did not want to see the insect species wiped out. However, despite their skills, Solo and Zekk were forced to land their crippled StealthXs in the hostile jungles of Tenupe and seek refuge.

They were rescued from their shelter by the Millennium Falcon. Both were sent to the infirmary to recover, and were quite concerned about Jagged Fel's fate. During their time on Tenupe, their exposure to other nests caused their Joiner bond to the Taat nest, and to each other, to weaken, eventually leaving them almost completely un-Joined by the time of their departure from Tenupe. Their familiarity with each other due to their time as Joiners meant they retained a strong Force connection to each other. Due to this connection they remained close as of 40 ABY. Both went to great lengths to explain to family and friends that they were just friends and partners, but Solo's family saw something more than a simple friendship.

In 40 ABY, the Galactic Alliance and Corellia experienced heightened tensions, threatening to fracture her family. Driven by duty, Jacen and Jaina Solo, along with Luke and Mara Jade Skywalker, sided with the Galactic Alliance, while the elder Solos aligned with the Corellian perspective. Following the discovery of an illicit missile factory on Adumar, the Galactic Alliance initiated a punitive military strike against Corellia. Solo participated in the operation as the leader of Team Purella, comprised of fellow Jedi Zekk, Kolir Hu'lya, and Thann Mithric, tasked with abducting Prime Minister Aidel Saxan from her residence in Coronet. While trailing Aidel Saxan's convoy in traffic, Solo, Hu'lya, and Mithric were ensnared in a trap and ambushed by CorSec YVH droids. Zekk managed to land on top of the Prime Minister's convoy, but instead of finding Saxan, he encountered a decoy droid and was forced to flee as the droid self-destructed. Solo rushed to Zekk's aid, reaching him just in time to slow his descent with the Force. She was soon joined by Hu'lya and Mithric, and together they managed to destroy the remaining droids. With Zekk in tow, the group fled the scene and made their way to Behareh Spaceport, where they rendezvoused with another team led by Veila. The mission was deemed a failure, as both teams failed to capture their target, and with the Corellians alerted to their presence, they were forced to abandon Tiu Zax and execute a silent retreat. The overall operation, however, was a partial success as Jacen and Ben Skywalker managed to cripple Centerpoint Station, providing the Alliance with sufficient time for a counterattack.

When the Galactic Alliance decided to hold peace talks with Corellia in the Kuat system, Solo and Zekk accompanied Solo's family to Toryaz Station. On the first evening of the negotiations, the station was attacked by a group of drugged Corellian commandos hired by Solo's cousin Thrackan Sal-Solo and the Dark Lady of the Sith Lumiya to assassinate Aidel Saxan and Gilad Pellaeon. Pellaeon survived, but Saxan was killed during the attack. Solo and Zekk were then assigned to investigate Siron Tawaler, a security officer who had disappeared sometime before the attack. They caught up with Wedge Antilles and Tycho Celchu outside of the airlock Tawaler was last seen in, and exchanged information before examining the area. There, Wedge discovered a tassel, and as promised, he handed the cloth over to Solo.

Leaving Jacen to investigate the tassel, Solo and Zekk returned to the task force on Corellia and assumed command of Skywalker's Hardpoint Squadron. After conducting training drills with the pilots, Solo moved the squadron and their fighters to the outpost orbiting Tralus, where they anxiously awaited being called into the battle that was beginning to unfold over the planet. For the most part, Solo and the other Jedi remained docked at the Rellidir beachhead while VibroSword Squadron attempted to protect Tralus' shield generators from destruction. Although they failed to prevent the shield's destruction, the Alliance responded by blockading Corellia.

As the war intensified, Solo rejoined the Galactic Alliance Defense Force in order to suppress insurgents under Corellian leadership. However, Solo disapproved of Jacen's immediate promotion to colonel, which further strained their relationship. Still holding her rank of Lieutenant Colonel, Solo and her brother led Rogue Squadron into battle, but she questioned her brother's methods. During the Blockade of Corellia, Jacen ordered his sister to fire on a civilian ship, but she refused. Consequently, she was stripped of her rank and suspended. Solo began to notice Jacen's dark behavior and was the first to suggest that Ben Skywalker should be assigned a new master other than Jacen. She also admitted that Jacen was now a stranger to her in a conversation with her uncle Luke Skywalker. Solo questioned her twin brother's moral judgment and felt that Jacen would inflict deep pain upon her in the future.

Shortly after, Solo and Zekk received instructions to monitor a supposedly clandestine Corellian fleet forming. Solo's astromech droid roused them from their Force-induced slumber when it detected the Falcon departing the area, tracking it until its hyperspace jump. This revealed the ship's destination: Hapes, where her parents were headed. Upon returning from their assignment, Solo briefed Admiral Nek Bwua'tu, withholding the ship's identity. Bwua'tu then told Solo that Jacen had begun assassinating Bothans, suspecting them of poisoning the World Brain. Challenging Solo's reticence about the Falcon, Nek commanded her to find Zekk, proceed to Hapes, and alert Tenel Ka to the possibility of Corellian intervention aimed at unseating her.

After locating Zekk at the Kiris Asteroid Cluster, Solo and Zekk journeyed to Hapes, where Tenel Ka and Isolder revealed her parents' involvement in an assassination attempt. Devastated by this revelation, Solo faced a difficult choice between her family and her allegiance to the Jedi Order. Ultimately choosing the latter, Solo and Zekk accepted a mission from Tenel Ka: delivering her fleet's mobilization orders to Lady Galney's sister on Terephon. However, Miy'til starfighters belonging to the Ducha ambushed them, destroying their X-wings and leaving them stranded. After evading the Miy'tils, Ben Skywalker rescued Solo and Zekk in his skiff. Nearing Hapes with crucial intelligence, Solo, Zekk, Ben, and another crew member escaped in pods as the skiff was attacked by insurrectionist forces. The Millennium Falcon rescued them, and they boarded the ship amidst heavy fire from Jacen's flagship, the Anakin Solo, under Jacen's orders. While Solo assisted her father with repairs, Ben unexpectedly attempted to arrest Han, even drawing his lightsaber. Solo, however, had no intention of harming her parents, believing they wouldn't intentionally hurt Tenel Ka. Witnessing Ben's actions, Zekk tackled him, managing to restrain him. In the process, Ben's lightsaber accidentally slashed Zekk's abdomen. Soon after, Han asked Solo to leave the Falcon with Ben and the injured Zekk, bidding farewell to his family before they ejected in the Falcon's escape pods. Hapan vessels later rescued them and reunited them with the others on Hapes.

Upon returning to the new Jedi Temple on Coruscant, Solo unexpectedly encountered Jagged Fel. Following a strained reunion, Luke Skywalker tasked Solo, Fel, and Zekk with tracking down the deranged Dark Jedi Alema Rar, a survivor of the Swarm War. Fel led this partnership, with Solo's reluctant consent. Solo grew increasingly annoyed by the escalating tension between Fel and Zekk, stemming from their perceived interest in her. Reuniting with her parents and close friends aboard the Errant Venture, the trio helped set a trap for Rar, who was attempting to assassinate her parents. Despite being shot by Fel, the Twi'lek managed to escape.

Solo would later confess to using her conflicting feelings for Zekk and Fel as a shield, blocking out emotions and thoughts about Jacen. She believed that the entire family, not just Mara Jade Skywalker, should pursue Lumiya. Solo initially hunted Lumiya with Jade Skywalker, but departed after Jade Skywalker expressed her desire to confront Lumiya alone and instructed Solo to continue tracking Rar. Sensing Mara's death through the Force, Jaina was the first to rush to her uncle's assistance. When Luke inquired whether she wanted Zekk or Fel to accompany her, Solo declared she was finished with them and that the Sword of the Jedi was necessary.

Solo did not attend the Funeral of Mara Jade Skywalker, because she was with Zekk and Fel, hunting Alema Rar, who had obtained a Sith meditation sphere from Lumiya. Solo repeatedly told both men that she had no romantic interest in them, preferring to focus on pursuing Rar, whom she suspected in Mara Jade Skywalker's death. They tracked Rar to the Jedi academy on Ossus, where Solo discovered larger problems caused by Jacen. Zekk remained hidden with their ship while Solo and Fel entered the academy to investigate and inform Kam and Tionne Solusar. However, with most senior Jedi Masters and Knights at the funeral, Jacen, now Darth Caedus, had dispatched a Galactic Alliance Guard battalion to seize the academy and hold it hostage.

Upon arrival, Solo found Major Serpa, an emotionally unstable officer in charge of the GAG contingent, who disarmed her and Fel. Solo would have preferred a fight, but the young Jedi trainees' lives were at risk, so she complied. Shortly after, Luke Skywalker publicly broke with Caedus, abandoning the Galactic Alliance. In response, Caedus ordered the Jedi at the academy slain. The GAG attempted to incapacitate Solo with coma gas before killing her, but she awoke, purged the gas, and alerted the others. While Tionne and Kam confronted Major Serpa unarmed, Solo and Fel eliminated the sniper teams, though not before the snipers nearly killed Kam Solusar and Serpa mutilated Tionne. Solo charged in to rescue the young trainees, who had been herded together by the GAG. As the young Jedi-to-be rebelled, Solo confronted Serpa, who had taken a trainee hostage to prevent her from killing him. At that moment, Zekk emerged from hiding and severed Serpa's arm. The Jedi then subdued the GAG, but at a great cost in young lives.

Solo then joined her uncle Luke Skywalker on Kashyyyk, where he and her parents were persuading the Wookiees to resist Caedus, who soon arrived in the Anakin Solo. When Caedus, whom Solo no longer recognized as family, began bombarding Kashyyyk, Solo and Skywalker participated in a StealthX strike against the Fifth Fleet. As Skywalker made a solo run on the Anakin Solo with shadow bombs, hoping to kill Jacen, Solo provided cover. However, Caedus also entered the battle in a StealthX, attempting to thwart his uncle while maneuvering to ensure that any missed shots from Solo would hit Skywalker's vehicle. On the last of these passes, Solo's lasers struck the rear fuselage of Skywalker's StealthX, destroying it. Horrified, she returned to Kashyyyk, believing she had killed her uncle.

However, Skywalker had faked his death to disable the Anakin Solo and rescue his son from Caedus, who had taken Ben prisoner aboard the Star Destroyer. As he returned with Ben, Confederation and Hapan fleets pounded the Fifth Fleet until it retreated, and Solo followed her uncle and the other Jedi in refusing to take sides in the conflict. However, she and Leia both promised Skywalker that they would beat him severely if he ever scared them by faking his death again.

After Caedus's bombardment of Kashyyyk, Solo, Fel, and Zekk joined Solo's parents in battling the resulting forest fires. During these efforts, Solo and the others faced an attack by what appeared to be a fully present Rar. They defeated Rar, but could later find no trace of her presence. They later deduced that the attacker had been merely a Force phantom controlled by Rar.

While on Kashyyyk, Jaina Solo became consumed with training as the Sword of the Jedi, but Jagged Fel made her see otherwise when he told her that she was an excellent Sword, but was becoming a terrible Jedi. Fel defeated Solo in a sparring session using the Mandalorian crushgaunts and beskar armor plates Boba Fett had sent to Han Solo, angering the younger Solo. Upset, she used the Force to hurl Fel into a tree. If not for the armor he was wearing, he would have been killed, which startled her out of her anger. Fel also said that Solo had been preparing as if she were going to fight someone who fought like a Jedi. He said that Rar or Caedus would not do this. Therefore, he demonstrated how an opponent would use trickery to defeat her. Though she still was not pleased, Solo did see his reasoning.

Her next major mission after finishing her training on Kashyyyk was to journey with her parents on the yacht Love Commander while trying to plant a tracker on the Anakin Solo and launch a data raid on Caedus's shuttle. Solo and her father, along with Zekk and Fel, infiltrated the vessel while Leia attempted to negotiate with her son. Battling through the security on the Star Destroyer, the four were able to get through to Caedus's shuttle while placing their tracing device. Their mission completed, the saboteurs waited for Leia to return. By then, the Anakin Solo was in the middle of a pitched battle. Waiting until Luke Skywalker and the other Jedi had successfully distracted Caedus, the five infiltrators left.

Along with Zekk, her parents, and Fel, Solo resumed the hunt for the rogue Jedi Alema Rar. With Talon Karrde's organization having sent them the location of the asteroid where Rar was likely hiding, Solo, her parents, Fel, and Zekk headed out to confront the deranged Dark Jedi. Fel, Zekk, and Solo landed their craft on the asteroid and began their hunting, fighting through phantom mynocks that sometimes resembled the intruders. Solo became separated first from Fel when he went on a chase to distract their pursuit, and then from Zekk when the other Jedi attempted to deal with Rar's Sith Meditation Sphere. Confronting Rar, Solo pursued the Twi'lek and engaged her, but the planting of explosives on the asteroid by a group of mercenaries caused the depressurization of the atmosphere. Fel caught back up with her at this point, as the phantom mynocks had disappeared when Zekk had chased off the meditation sphere. Knowing that he could survive longer in vacuum than she could thanks to his customized suit, Fel told her to get clear while he dealt with Rar. Solo reluctantly complied and helped Zekk back to their fighters and the Millennium Falcon.

After linking back up with Fel, who had killed Rar and narrowly escaped the destruction of the asteroid, Solo and the others returned to the secret Jedi base on Endor. Solo then participated in the recovery mission to retrieve Tenel Ka and Jacen's daughter Allana from the control of Darth Caedus. Flying in Rakehell Squadron as Rakehell Nine (her old designation from Twin Suns Squadron), Solo flew with the others and created the deception that allowed the shuttle Reveille to land inside the Anakin Solo and deposit a boarding team of Luke and Ben Skywalker, Leia Organa Solo, Han Solo, and Saba Sebatyne inside the Star Destroyer to rescue Allana. Once again, the Corellian system was ablaze with war as the Rakehells stayed near Centerpoint Station after escorting their second shuttle, this time bearing Kyp Durron and Doctor Toval Seyah, into the station to disable it. For a time, the Rakehells were engaged by Galactic Alliance starfighters, including Rogue Squadron, and were forced to kill the other pilots in self-defense, despite having no great desire to do so. However, they gained a reprieve as Confederate forces also moved in to engage the Galactic Alliance task force. After the intrusion team aboard the Anakin Solo retrieved Allana and was extracted by Fel and Kyle Katarn aboard the Millennium Falcon, Solo and the other Rakehells flew cover for the Falcon as they escaped the battle and jumped into hyperspace, to be later rejoined by Durron and Seyah. The end result of the concurrent battle was the destruction of Centerpoint Station thanks to Durron's and Seyah's sabotage, but the Confederation fleet had also inflicted significant losses on the task force that had accompanied the Anakin Solo.

Inspired by the "gift" Boba Fett had sent to her father and something that Fel had said, Solo set out to find Fett, hoping to enlist his aid in hunting Caedus and to learn from him skills she would need to confront her twin. Before she left, she was present with Leia when her cousin Ben Skywalker confessed to investigating Caedus's role in Mara Jade Skywalker's death. Arriving on Mandalore in an X-wing, Solo found herself confronted by a group of heavily armed Mandalorians, and she was escorted to meet Boba Fett in a humble, rustic cantina that served as the Mandalore's seat of government, all too aware of the traditional Mandalorian dislike for Jedi. Fett agreed to train her, but promised to be a hard teacher. While in the cantina, she encountered a pair of Force-sensitive Mandalorians, Gotab and Venku, but had little chance to talk with them.

In her first lesson, Fett started by dueling her with a lightsaber, only to eventually relax and discuss Caedus's strengths as other Mandalorians gathered to watch. Her guard lowered, Fett delivered a tremendous punch to her midsection, catching her completely by surprise and humiliating her. It was not to be her only defeat at the hands of the warrior people. There was significant tension between Solo and Fett, but she put up with it in her quest to find a way to defeat Caedus. Another Mandalorian, Goran Beviin, also managed some of her training, and defeated her in combat with Mandalorian iron beskad sabers. Beviin taught her the importance of being able to wage a total war, an all-or-nothing combat against one's opponent. However, Beviin also allowed her to stay at his farm, and there Solo met Mirta Gev, Fett's granddaughter, who eventually came to regard her as a comrade in arms. Solo realized that the harsh savagery of the Mandalorians contrasted with the familial bonds they seemed to share.

Even as she trained under Fett, she was required to help with mechanical work and other fairly menial tasks around the Mandalorian settlement, and in doing so, learned about the Mandalorian culture and Fett's personal history. Fett himself told her that he particularly reserved Caedus for her to deal with, because it was the fault of the Skywalker and Solo families that the Sith had been allowed to wreak such havoc. In addition to her standard training, Solo accompanied Fett and other Mandalorians to Fondor, hired out as a contract force to accompany Admiral Natasi Daala's ragtag Maw Irregular Fleet. After Gilad Pellaeon was murdered by Caedus's new Sith apprentice, Tahiri Veila, on his flagship, the Bloodfin, Solo and the Mandalorians boarded the ship, with Solo expecting Caedus to rescue his new apprentice. The Mandalorians stormed Bloodfin, killing any Imperials who dared to resist them and also dealing with the renegade Moffs who had planned on seizing power after Pellaeon's death and had been aiding Caedus. Solo and Gev set out after Veila and chased her down the escape shafts. Gev charged Veila and engaged her in melee combat, using a vibroblade to slice Veila's femoral artery while Solo held off other Imperials. However, Caedus arrived and began Force-choking Gev until Solo broke his grip, which allowed the Sith and his apprentice to make their escape. While the Sith Lord suffered further injury from a group of Mandalorians, he and Veila were able to escape to regroup and consolidate on Coruscant.

Following the battle, Solo returned to Mandalore to continue her training. She also was brought into the secret that Fett's wife, Sintas Vel, long believed dead, was actually alive and had recently been unfrozen from carbonite. Solo visited Vel and suggested that a Jedi healer might be able to heal some of the mental damage that Vel had sustained while in hibernation. She sensed that one of the Force-sensitive Mandalorians, Gotab, had skill in the healing arts, and recruited him to apply Force-induced therapy on Vel. Solo took part in the two-hour process, lending her considerable Force strength to Gotab, and Vel began making a much more complete recovery. During this time, Solo also received Ben Skywalker's presentation of evidence that Jacen Solo had killed Mara Jade Skywalker, via holocomm, which only stiffened her resolve to learn how to deal with Caedus.

A month into her training with Fett, Solo, increasingly aware of the Mandalorian predilection for adopting others into their culture, was invited to Mirta Gev's wedding, where, to the delight of Mandalorians, she opened numerous bottles of ale with the Force simultaneously. After learning of her own sordid family history shortly before her wedding, Gev approached Solo virtually in tears and revealed what she had discovered. Solo tried her best to assuage her fears and encouraged her to enjoy the day. While Beviin, Gev, and some of the other Mandalorians no longer saw her as a menace and a complete outsider, Fett himself remained as hard-edged and ruthless as always, and Solo overheard a conversation between him and Natasi Daala on Bloodfin about their mutual desire to be rid of both Jedi and Sith. Fett's trainings did develop a capability for total war in Solo, and she learned to not show compassion nor weakness in front of him or Beviin, who in particular advised her that a confrontation between her and Caedus needed to happen as she was the only one willing to handle the necessary job of killing him, though Solo preferred to capture him. Also, through discussion with former Jedi-turned-Mandalorian Gotab, Solo also came to the realization that because Caedus had lost everything that mattered in his life, he was now driven by the only things he had left to hold on to, his anger and hate. As a result, Solo's own hate for her brother was replaced with pity, and cemented her resolve to bring him down in order to end his miserable existence.

She later aided Fett and the Mandalorians in defending the Roche asteroid field from Imperial forces allied with Caedus, though there remained tension between her and Fett, and Solo resolved not to let on that she knew about his conversation with Daala. The battle saw the Roche asteroids overrun by Remnant forces and, after a brief clash with a group of stormtroopers, Solo was ordered to escape in a Mandalorian Bes'uliik starfighter by Fett, who said that she was prepared to face Caedus.

Jaina Solo made her way back to a temporary Jedi base on Shedu Maad, where she was re-united with her parents and Jedi comrades. There, in a meeting with the Masters' Council where her parents and Jagged Fel were also present, she proposed that she go after Caedus to bring him down. To her surprise, the Masters relented after making sure she was willing to kill Caedus and that her actions were motivated by a sense of need and justice, not vengeance. For his part, Luke Skywalker explained that he could not hunt down Caedus himself, though he wanted to, as he would all-too-easily be carried away by his personal desire for vengeance for the death of his wife. Instead, Skywalker was seeing into Caedus's visions so that the Sith Lord saw Skywalker as the lone impediment to his achievements. Furthermore, Han and Leia agreed to accompany Solo to Coruscant on a mission to pursue Caedus, along with Ben Skywalker.

While Ben was meeting with Lon Shevu, a captain in the Galactic Alliance Guard, at Monument Plaza, Solo and her mother shadowed him discreetly. Unbeknownst to them, Shevu was being tracked by Caedus's agents, including his apprentice Tahiri Veila. After Shevu's capture, Ben fled, attempting to prevent the two Solos from being detected. Despite this, Leia and Solo pursued Veila after she captured Ben, but they were compelled to abandon the pursuit when Veila began leading them into an obvious trap that would result in their capture. Devastated, they returned to their ship and went back to Shedu Maad to inform Luke Skywalker of his son's loss. As they delivered the news, Skywalker revealed that he had already foreseen this potential future and allowed it to unfold, all for the purpose of defeating Caedus.

Later, Ben managed to escape and reported that Caedus was aboard Nickel One in the Roche system. Consequently, Luke Skywalker directed the Jedi Order to initiate an assault on the system using their StealthXs and newly developed Skipray 24r Blastboats. Solo, equipped with a dropsuit, was transported into battle aboard a blastboat crewed by her parents, Luke Skywalker, R2-D2, C-3PO, and Saba Sebatyne. As the Jedi launched their attack, Boba Fett's Mandalorians also arrived and began engaging the occupying forces, fulfilling Fett's promise to the Verpine. The Jedi strategically allowed Fett's forces to absorb the brunt of the enemy fire, and Solo was launched toward Nickel One. Before landing, she destroyed two Starhunter fighters targeting her parents' blastboat and neutralized an anti-fighter gun. However, she was saddened to witness a Mandalorian landing party being decimated by cluster mines before they could disembark. Solo swiftly entered the hangar, eliminated the guards, and allowed the surviving Mandalorians, including Mirta Gev, to enter. Gev insisted that their target was the Moffs and demanded Solo's assistance, primarily to aid them against Caedus. Using Nickel One's surveillance system, which Boba Fett had commandeered, the Mandalorian party quickly located the Moffs and launched an attack, despite Solo's reservations, as the Jedi were still unaware of Caedus's location.

The Mandalorians engaged the Moffs and their bodyguards, but Caedus intervened before the bodyguards were defeated, shifting the battle's momentum against the Mandalorians. Caedus personally killed several Mandalorians, and while Solo attempted to assassinate him with a sniper rifle, she only managed to wound him in the shoulder. After he defeated the last commando, she descended from her vantage point to confront him. During their duel, Solo sustained multiple injuries, including a head wound, but managed to sever Caedus's arm. Moreover, due to Skywalker's manipulations, Caedus mistakenly believed her to be Luke Skywalker. However, as the duel turned against her, she reluctantly decided to retreat, escaping to the blastboat where her parents, Fel, and Skywalker were waiting. Due to her head injury, she was nearly delirious, uttering incoherent words as she was carried aboard the blastboat.

With Solo safely extracted, the Jedi forces returned to Shedu Maad to regroup. Solo spent her time recuperating, while also continuing her hand-to-hand combat training and learning the shatterpoint skill from Luke Skywalker, which she had observed Caedus use against a Mandalorian. Soon after, Skywalker realized that she had been marked with a Nightsister blood trail, enabling Caedus to locate her using the Force due to his blood that had splattered on her. Recognizing that their safe house had been compromised, Skywalker prepared the Jedi for a final defense and assault on Caedus. The Jedi were reinforced by the arrival of Tenel Ka's Hapan fleet, although the Queen Mother informed the Jedi that Prince Isolder had been captured by Caedus.

As she was marked with the blood trail, Solo flew as Zekk's wingman in a StealthX, drawing Caedus and his fleet into the Transitory Mists near Shedu Maad. Once they were within range, Skywalker launched his forces against the fleet as a diversion, while Solo and Zekk targeted the Anakin Solo. They endured heavy defensive fire during their initial run, but after Skywalker's StealthXs diverted the hostile batteries, Solo and Zekk made their attack on the Anakin Solo. Both of their ships were hit, and Solo was forced to eject, successfully landing on the Anakin Solo and quickly making her way inside.

With a Jedi raid to rescue Isolder aborted, Solo proceeded to the detention block and, while she didn't find the Hapan prince, she discovered Mirta Gev, a survivor of the Battle on Roche One who was being held prisoner with a damaged spinal column. Despite being tortured by Caedus, she remained defiant. Recognizing that she couldn't free her comrade immediately due to Caedus's presence, Jaina deactivated the restraints, provided Gev with a blaster rifle, and continued her mission. She found Caedus in the bio-disposal chamber of the Anakin Solo, attempting to dispose of Isolder's body after murdering him.

Solo surprised him, stabbing him in the abdomen, but Caedus didn't appear significantly hindered by the wound. The twins fought, both employing Force powers and unarmed combat techniques to inflict damage on each other as they vied for an advantage. During the duel, Caedus revealed that he needed to warn Tenel Ka about a nanovirus targeting her and Allana. Solo dismissed this as a trap and attacked him relentlessly, disregarding her own survival in her determination to end the Sith threat. Their lightsabers finally clashed when Caedus slashed her across her stomach, while she severed his Achilles tendon. With only one arm and one functional leg, Caedus could no longer prevent his demise. Realizing that he would die regardless, even if he ended the duel in a draw, Caedus ceased fighting, disengaged his lightsaber, and reached out through the Force to warn Tenel Ka, sacrificing his life in the process. By this point, Solo had already slashed through his torso and heart, killing him. Through their twin bond, she felt Jacen die, not Caedus. Solo then tearfully embraced his lifeless body and pleaded for her family's forgiveness. She was then extracted by Jagged Fel, who arrived with a substantial Jedi team that had boarded the Anakin Solo to capture the Moffs and end the battle. Before being carried away, she informed Fel of Gev's situation. Her parents also arrived, discovering their daughter cradling the body of the brother she had just killed.

Solo was transported from the Anakin Solo to a medical facility on a Hapan Battle Dragon to recover from the numerous injuries she had sustained during the duel. Her parents visited her and informed her that the war had ended, with Admiral Daala selected as the new Head of State following Luke Skywalker's successful conclusion of the larger battle and Caedus's death. She also learned that Jagged Fel had been chosen to administer the Moff Council, replacing the assassinated Grand Admiral Gilad Pellaeon. While Tenel Ka had survived the nanovirus attack, Allana was reported dead. However, her parents introduced her to "Amelia"—actually Allana—whom they had adopted at Tenel Ka's request to ensure her safety and train her in the Jedi ways. Afterward, Solo contemplated that Jacen might have succeeded in his mission, bringing peace to the galaxy by sacrificing his name and life.

In 43.5 ABY, Jaina Solo was present when the Gilad Pellaeon made its arrival above Coruscant as part of an Imperial presence at a reunification summit. She was aboard a diplomatic shuttle accompanied by a Galactic Alliance delegation, but while Imperial head of state Jagged Fel's time was largely preoccupied with diplomatic matters, she was able to carve out some time to spend with him. He brought up the prospect of establishing some form of Jedi presence within the Empire, citing various reasons, but Solo was hesitant to endorse his idea.

Later on, Solo was also in attendance at another unification summit meeting held on Coruscant, which Fel also attended. She was also present shortly afterward when Luke Skywalker was taken into custody by Galactic Alliance Security personnel. Despite her anger when Skywalker was arrested for criminal negligence that contributed to Jacen's fall, the elder Jedi accepted his fate calmly and without resistance, and Solo followed suit by refraining from any hostile actions. Skywalker was released after an arraignment on his own recognizance, yet all the Jedi were cognizant of the fact that public sentiment was rapidly turning against them.

Following the escape of fellow Jedi Valin Horn, who had apparently gone insane and required protective custody, from the Jedi Temple, Solo joined the pursuit effort. She was partnered with Master Kyle Katarn for the mission and trailed Horn, who had commandeered an X-wing, in an airspeeder. At one point, Horn was compelled to eject from his craft and landed another vehicle manned by a group of bounty hunters. Solo followed him down, landing near Horn, who fled upon seeing her. Solo attempted to pursue but was struck by a weapon fired by Quarren bounty hunter Dhidal Nyz, which ensnared her in an electrified net. This caused her to lose her footing and fall off, but she was caught by Master Katarn, who freed her from the net. They received fire from the bounty hunters, but Solo's mother defended them with the quad lasers on the Millennium Falcon. Eventually, Horn was subdued by Luke Skywalker.

However, this incident only served to exacerbate public animosity towards the Jedi. While serving, at her own request, as the official Jedi liaison to the Galactic Empire, Solo was subjected to jeers and pelted with filth. After the Galactic Alliance and Luke Skywalker negotiated a deal that entailed Skywalker's exile for ten years or until he could demonstrate his understanding of Jacen's fall, Solo was present at his farewell and later at the inaugural meeting convened by interim Grand Master Kenth Hamner. Hamner informed the Jedi that they would be accompanied by government observers, an idea that Solo found unappealing. She was even more incensed when she learned that her observer would be Dab Hantaq, an old acquaintance from the Yuuzhan Vong War who also bore a resemblance to her deceased brother Anakin. Solo voiced her displeasure about her observer to Hamner, who advised her to address the matter with the Galactic Alliance while also inquiring about the whereabouts of her parents; Solo evaded his questions. During this period, she was also tasked with studying Nyz and the other bounty hunters who had pursued Valin Horn, and she managed to slip away to spend more time with Fel, who once again tried to persuade her to establish a Jedi school in the Empire. She declined once more, asserting that serving as the Sword of the Jedi was her responsibility. While with Fel, she also visited Tahiri Veila, who was living in seclusion, away from the Jedi, and questioned her about Jacen, though Veila had little to offer.

Jaina Solo was present when Valin Horn was handed over to the Galactic Alliance and later at a court hearing when it was announced that he would be frozen in [carbonite](/article/carbonite-legends], a decision she did not receive well. Refusing to be constrained by the Galactic Alliance observers, she organized a group of individuals into an informal organization called Darkmeld, which included fellow Jedi Tekli, former Intelligence agent and Solo's former babysitter Winter Celchu, Fel, and Veila. Their mission was to monitor another renegade Jedi, Seff Hellin, who had also been sighted near the Temple and was suspected of suffering from the same condition as Horn.

One night, Tekli informed her that Hellin had been spotted attempting to infiltrate the Armand Isard Correctional Facility, where Horn was being held. From that point forward, the Darkmeld members maintained constant surveillance on Hellin. On one occasion, Solo was nearly caught sneaking out of the Temple by her observer, Hantaq, but Fel intervened by pretending to be with her when she answered the comlink, and Hantaq backed down. Later, when Hellin prepared to breach the prison through a tunnel, Solo, accompanied by Hantaq, took a speeder to a nearby park to provide assistance. Managing to evade Hantaq, she was able to assist in capturing Hellin after Veila, Fel, and Celchu flushed out their quarry.

While pursuing the fugitive Hellin, Solo once again encountered the bounty hunters they had faced previously, including Nyz, who ensnared Hellin with his net weapon. However, Solo severed the line on the net, allowing Hellin to fall to the ground and providing the Jedi with time to retrieve Hellin. The Darkmeld team then managed to evade pursuit and returned to the Temple discreetly, bringing a sedated Hellin with them. Although a Galactic Alliance delegation, led by Captain Oric Harfard arrived the next day, Master Hamner denied any knowledge of Hellin's whereabouts, as Solo had kept her organization a secret from the Masters. However, she was eventually discovered by Mon Calamari Master Cilghal, who confronted Solo and insisted that the other Darkmeld members keep her involved in their plans from that point forward, to which Solo agreed.

As Solo and Fel continued their relationship openly, the couple faced increasing harassment from the press, particularly journalist Javis Tyrr. This made Solo's activities with Darkmeld more challenging due to the necessity of remaining incognito. Although the observers from the Galactic Alliance were withdrawn thanks to legal action by Twi'lek attorney Nawara Ven, Tyrr persistently harassed Solo.

Jaina Solo, accompanied by her mother, attended a meeting of the Masters' Council shortly after Jedi Jysella Horn was afflicted by the same ailment that had seized Valin Horn and Hellin. She was displeased to learn that Jysella had been taken by the Galactic Alliance and frozen in carbonite, but there was little she could do. Afterward, she took her parents to the Jedi Temple detention center where Darkmeld had stashed Hellin, who was still raving mad.

To evade scrutiny, Solo and Fel used a romantic date at the luxurious Indigo Tower restaurant as a guise to make contact with Hellin and observe him further. One evening, Solo headed to the fancy establishment to meet with Fel, only to employ a set of doubles whom they left inside the private rooms of the restaurant. In this way, they were able to elude Tyrr. However, the persistent journalist eventually caught up with them and made his story public after an altercation at the Coruscant Livestock Exchange and Exhibition. Solo had been there, along with Han, Leia, Allana, and two other Jedi, Natua Wan and Radd Minker, as part of a pet-shopping trip for Allana. While there, Wan experienced the same insanity as the younger Horns and Hellin and seized the control center, releasing all of the caged animals and sparking pandemonium. Solo calmed some of the beasts and then searched for Wan. Encountering Tyrr, she made him divulge Wan's location. Working with Radd and Leia, Solo was able to subdue Wan and bring her back to the Jedi Temple.

However, Tyrr revealed her concealment of Hellin to the public shortly afterward, as he had successfully managed to follow her. This led to an angry confrontation between Hamner and Daala. Solo was present at their meeting, as were Leia and Han. The outcome was that Solo was confined to the Jedi Temple for two weeks, forced to issue a public apology for her actions, and subjected to interviews by reporters of Daala's choosing. Her punishment also included a day's worth of manual labor, which she endured stoically, knowing that at least the Jedi had managed to retain both Hellin and Wan. After a day of hard work, Solo was publicly humiliated and exhausted. She returned to her quarters to find Fel there with a gourmet dinner. He comforted her over the meal, empathizing with her hardship, and at its conclusion, he proposed marriage. Initially, she was astonished, but then she embraced him in response.

While her relationship with Fel was flourishing, relations between the Jedi Order and Daala's government continued to deteriorate. When Solo attempted to contact Tahiri Veila, she received no response. She dispatched Jedi Knights Yaqeel Saav'etu and Bazel Warv to investigate, but they were unable to reach the former Jedi. Solo was also alerted to the possibility that Saav'etu and Warv were susceptible to the same psychological affliction, given their background at Shelter during the Yuuzhan Vong War. Consequently, she and Fel were positioned to intercept both of the Jedi when the insanity struck. While her parents were able to tranquilize Saav'etu, the initially compliant Warv proved more difficult to subdue and struck her. However, they returned both victims to the Jedi Temple, but not before a Galactic Alliance Security squad arrived and attempted to detain both Saav'etu and Warv. The Jedi locked the Galactic Alliance out of the Temple, and Solo attempted to leave with Fel in his limousine. Although the GAS leader, Captain Atar was initially insistent that Solo be arrested, Fel reminded him that his vehicle had diplomatic immunity, and they were allowed to pass unchallenged.

During their ride, Solo sensed that Fel was concealing something from her and inquired about it. Fel agreed to tell her, but only after she promised to keep it a secret. Solo agreed, and he revealed that he had learned that Daala was planning to hire Mandalorian warriors as a contingency plan to help restrain the Jedi. Around this time, Solo discovered that a spy droid had been planted inside the hoverlimo. She quickly seized it, preventing it from returning to its owner, the holojournalist Javis Tyrr.

Later, inside her own quarters, Solo dismantled the droid and found the recording it had collected. She immediately commed Fel to discuss what she had found, but her parents arrived first. They told her that they too had learned about Daala's plan to hire the Mandalorians, but Solo inadvertently revealed that she had already known about the deal from Fel. Her parents were immediately disgusted and infuriated that she had chosen not to disclose that to the rest of the Jedi and left just as Fel arrived. Solo then turned over the recording to Fel so his people could analyze it after telling him that Moff Drikl Lecersen had arranged for the recording, but she also told him that she wanted the evidence presented to Daala. Fel agreed and then departed. However, the Jedi Council, when informed about her prior knowledge of the Mandalorian arrangement, was less than pleased. They barred Fel from the Jedi Temple and strongly suggested she reconsider where her priorities were.

Solo later orchestrated a plan that involved herself, along with several leading Jedi Masters and Mirax Horn, appearing near the Palem Graser Office Tower at a Galactic Alliance Security blockhouse, the facility where Valin and Jysella Horn were held after being frozen in carbonite. Solo arrived and demanded to see the prisoners. As the facility was masquerading as a storage facility, the two attendants, Weeze and Rosii, tried to play innocent, but eventually raised an alarm, and the arrival of a GAS response squad exposed their deception. Furthermore, as Solo had arranged a legal writ allowing the Jedi visitation, they were granted access to the younger Horns, along with numerous journalists, including Tyrr. The Jedi and their journalist entourage discovered that the Horn children were being displayed in the executive suites in an offensive manner. This prompted Mirax Horn to strike the facility commander, Colonel Wruq Retk. To divert the attention of the holocams from Horn's assault, Solo displayed the writ to the assembled journalists while encouraging Tyrr to ask if the Galactic Alliance was going to press charges against a bereaved mother. As Tyrr posed the question, Daala herself appeared and answered in the negative. Daala affirmed her position that she was in favor of equal justice and no abuses of power tolerated. She promised that the Horn children would be attended to properly, and the Jedi departed. The entire mission had been a diversion, allowing the elder Solos to leave Coruscant with the other Jedi victims of the mysterious illness, removing them from Daala's reach.

Not long afterward, Solo visited Fel, during which time there was a Javis Tyrr exclusive on the conversation overheard during the limo ride. Fel ordered it to be turned off, saying that it wasn't important and that nothing would come between them. Solo soon learned of a message from her uncle and cousin from Master Cilghal. The contents of the message warned of a large number of Sith who had fought with the Skywalkers. Solo insisted that she attend the subsequent Masters' meeting to discuss the discovery, to which Cilghal agreed. She also met with Fel after hearing about a kidnapping attempt that he had single-handedly thwarted. She was relieved that he had escaped and pointed out that his image would improve on account of him fending off the attack without her assistance, adding some legitimacy and machismo to his reputation, as well as quelling some of the rumors about her being his secret bodyguard.

At a meeting of the Jedi Masters that Jaina Solo attended, Master Hamner stressed the need for patience before the Jedi could mount a significant response to the Sith threat, arguing that more information was necessary. Nevertheless, he took steps to gather as many active StealthX pilots as possible on Coruscant, preparing for a potential rapid deployment. Furthermore, Durron personally informed Solo that he wanted her assigned to a StealthX should a strike force be launched.

After Sothais Saar, another Jedi, experienced similar symptoms to the Horns and was restrained by Master Cilghal, Solo received the assignment to transport him to the Transitory Mists, the location where other Jedi-held victims were being kept. This was done to prevent Saar from being seized by the Galactic Alliance. Solo proceeded to the shuttle bay, where she encountered Jedi Knight Tyria Sarkin Tainer working on a Lambda-class shuttle. During their brief conversation, which touched on mechanical repairs and the current news broadcast, Tainer noticed that the news feed was repeating. Drawing on her intelligence background, she deduced that an attack on the Jedi Temple was imminent.

Her suspicions proved accurate when Mandalorians stormed into the Temple through breaches created by shaped charges. Solo and Tainer successfully defended against the intense assault, although Tainer was rendered unconscious. Solo managed to defeat four Mandalorians and escaped without injury. The remaining Jedi also repelled the other Mandalorian attackers, suffering no fatalities and killing several Mandalorians. However, the incident led to the Jedi Temple being surrounded by military forces, preventing any secret StealthX launch.

Solo was present when her parents returned from assisting her uncle on Dathomir and picked up Allana and her injured nexu pet Anji, while her parents attended a meeting with Chief of State Daala. Following this meeting, Solo learned that Daala had proposed a reconciliation of sorts between the Jedi Order and the Galactic Alliance, but the terms were far from advantageous for the Jedi. She also witnessed acting Grand Master Hamner hearing Daala's proposition from the elder Solos. Despite his initial reservations, Hamner decided to trust Daala, partly to assess the extent of her goodwill.

Shortly thereafter, Solo, Fel, the elder Solos, and Allana had dinner at the Pangalactus Restaurant, decorated with images of galactic locations and historical events. During their meal, they were attacked by a lone assailant, Kester Tolann, who breached the wall with an explosion. He was quickly killed by gunfire, but the attack was followed by two Yuuzhan Vong Hunter droids. Solo reacted swiftly, using her lightsaber to destroy one droid, while her mother deflected the other's fire and used the Force to detonate its ordnance near its launchers, disabling the second YVH droid. The assassination attempt failed, leaving Fel and the Solos enraged. Soon after, Solo discreetly observed a meeting between Fel and Imperial Moff Lecersen, whom Fel suspected of involvement in the attack. Although Lecersen showed no signs of guilt, he and a group of conspirators were actually behind the assassination attempt.

Later, Solo visited Fel during Tahiri Veila's trial, requesting his assistance in finding competent legal representation for Veila. He agreed, securing the services of Bothan lawyer Eramuth Bwua'tu to defend Veila. Solo attended portions of the trial but was later summoned to an emergency meeting of the Jedi Masters by Master Hamner, who informed them of a threat made by Daala against the families of the Jedi. Solo advocated for a swift and decisive response, but the Jedi Temple was still under close surveillance by the Galactic Alliance, which soon dispatched a contingent of Mandalorian mercenaries to encircle the Temple. Solo then sought Fel's help in either diverting Daala from the siege or providing ships to assist Luke Skywalker, who was traveling with a group of Sith to confront Abeloth, the being believed to be responsible for the insanity affecting Hellin, the younger Horns, and others. Fel acknowledged that aiding her would compromise his duty to the Remnant and agreed to speak with Daala in hopes of ending the siege, but could not promise more. At that point, Solo concluded that their conflicting obligations made their relationship untenable and returned the engagement ring to him.

She then departed alone in a StealthX, arriving above Klatooine, where she expected to find her uncle and cousin. Instead, she encountered Lando Calrissian in the asteroid tug Rockhound, escorted by a Sith frigate. Solo would have preferred to immediately pursue her uncle into the Maw Cluster, but a dispute on Klatooine drew their attention. A Sith ship had apparently attempted to desecrate the Fountain of Ancients on Klatooine, and the Hutts' failure to prevent this intrusion potentially violated the Treaty of Vontor. As neutral offworlders, Solo and Calrissian were asked to mediate between the Sith who had violated the Fountain of the Ancients and the Hutts who were supposed to protect it. They traveled to Klatooine, though Solo was frustrated by the delay. At the hearing, the Sith leader claimed that the captain of the offending ship had acted independently and readily offered him up for judgment, even execution. Solo and Calrissian reviewed the evidence and concluded that the Hutts had attempted to uphold their end of the Treaty, declaring the allegedly rogue Sith captain and his crew guilty. While neither Solo nor Calrissian believed that Holpur had acted alone, they lacked the evidence to confirm their suspicions.

With that issue resolved, she departed and followed her uncle into the Maw, accompanied by Calrissian and the remaining Sith vessel. After learning about the destruction of Sinkhole Station, they managed to reach Abeloth's planet, where the Skywalkers and a significant Sith force had arrived to confront Abeloth. Solo remained in orbit and battled the meditation sphere that Abeloth had been using. Solo attempted to engage it in her StealthX, but her ship sustained severe damage, while the meditation sphere departed after crippling her craft. Meanwhile, Skywalker successfully defeated Abeloth on the surface but decided to investigate its origins further. He sent Solo and Calrissian back to Coruscant with their report in Rockhound, which concerned Solo, as three Sith warriors remained with the two Skywalkers.

However, upon their return, Calrissian and Solo discovered that Rockhound had been sabotaged by a droid that had boarded on Klatooine. The droid had then impersonated Calrissian and issued numerous commands to the ship's droid crew that undermined their mission. These setbacks caused Rockhound to emerge from the Maw Cluster at the wrong location, near Ashteri's Cloud. Upon realizing their predicament, Solo ordered Calrissian to locate and neutralize the saboteur droid while she took off in her damaged StealthX, despite his objections, as the craft's weapon systems had been weakened in addition to its existing damage. She thanked him for his concern but was determined in her plan and departed in the damaged StealthX. Solo was not surprised to see several pirate-filled modified BDY crew skiffs approaching Rockhound. She engaged them after issuing a warning, using her four remaining shadow bombs to destroy several ships. To her surprise, the pirates were able to pinpoint her location each time she used the Force to launch the shadow bombs, leading Solo to conclude that they were not ordinary pirates but Lost Tribe Sith. After inflicting significant casualties and preventing the pirates from boarding Rockhound, Solo landed back on the asteroid tug once Calrissian was ready to jump to hyperspace, completing their escape.

Upon returning to Coruscant, Solo and Calrissian alerted the Jedi Council to the current situation involving the Sith and the Skywalkers, as well as their discovery that the Sith were posing as pirates. Further investigation by Solo and Calrissian revealed that the Sith piratical activities also accounted for several previous raids, which were aimed at developing a war fleet.

Solo, Calrissian, and her parents then visited Luewet Wuul, a Sullustan senator sympathetic to the Jedi, seeking his assistance in drafting a bill that would legitimize the Jedi Order and ensure financial and military support from the Galactic Alliance. Wuul agreed to help but, to distract Daala from his efforts, asked Solo to encourage Jagged Fel to divert Daala's attention by complicating negotiations to integrate the Empire into the Galactic Alliance. Solo did not immediately respond, as her breakup with Fel was not public knowledge, but her mother explained on her behalf, although Wuul was confident she could rekindle her relationship with Fel.

Although the Jedi Order had managed to pressure Daala into lifting the siege of the Jedi Temple by demonstrating the recovery of the deranged Jedi patients, tensions remained high, especially since Valin and Jysella Horn remained in Galactic Alliance custody and the Jedi were prohibited from launching their StealthXs to support the Skywalkers. Jedi violence against Mandalorians sent to suppress a slave revolt on Blaudu Sextus did little to ease the hostility between the government and the Jedi Order. As a strong advocate for a more assertive approach to the situation, Solo quickly became involved in a plan to free the Horn children.

While Solo and her parents were conducting surveillance at Galactic Alliance Security Detention Center 81, where the Horn children were being held, they were discovered by Fel. Solo was concerned that he had found them, but Fel insisted on an explanation from her, stating that he had little time to waste on his irritation at finding them. He inquired why the Jedi—specifically the Skywalkers and Solo on Klatooine—had been collaborating with the newly discovered Sith. Solo explained that they needed to work with them temporarily to defeat Abeloth, whom the Skywalkers had revealed was not dead, and he accepted her explanation. He then advised them to proceed with their planned action immediately, informing them that he had just rejected Daala's request for Imperial assistance and that she intended to publicly disclose Jedi cooperation with the Sith. Solo thanked him for the information, and he also mentioned that he was leaving, as the Empire had ultimately decided not to join the Galactic Alliance. Fel and Solo then spent a few minutes alone, which led to a resolution of some of their issues, including an apology from Solo for demanding so much of him. Afterward, Solo resumed wearing the engagement ring that Fel had given her, although their engagement was not officially reinstated.

Solo participated in the mission to liberate the Horn children, joining a two-part intrusion team that included herself, her parents, R2-D2, C-3PO, Zekk and his fiancée Taryn Zel, and several other Jedi. Disguised as pest exterminators, they gained access to the exterior of the building and launched a direct assault, blasting their way inside with thermal detonators. Solo and the others neutralized all resistance from the guards, effectively using stun grenades and blasters set to stun. Solo, her parents, and Zekk defeated over fifty guards and entered the secure bunker where the frozen Jedi were located. After locating the Horn children, they extracted them as GAS reinforcements arrived. Solo and Zekk escaped in a waiting news van piloted by two other Jedi, while her parents and the Horn children, still frozen in carbonite, were extracted by another speeder through a hole blasted in the roof of the facility with a thermal detonator. They then returned to the Jedi Temple.

Simultaneously with the rescue, many Jedi also piloted StealthXs out of Coruscant, thanks to an orbital diversion by the Errant Venture, which was firing on orbital facilities while hosting one hundred of Coruscant's politicians in a sabacc tournament so that the orbiting Galactic Alliance ships could not fire on it. Based on a message from the Skywalkers, the StealthX pilots, accompanied by the Venture, arrived above Pydyr as Abeloth fled the moon, and they joined Luke and Ben Skywalker in battle against a Lost Tribe assault force. While the Sith were defeated, Abeloth once again managed to escape. Back on Coruscant, Solo and the remaining Jedi prepared for a confrontation with Daala. Following the death of Kenth Hamner in a power struggle, Saba Sebatyne assumed temporary leadership of the Jedi Order and prepared to defend against the retribution they anticipated from Daala. Sebatyne requested that Solo suggest to Fel that he remain on Coruscant longer.

Sebatyne quickly determined that the best course of action was to remove Daala from power before she could strike at the Jedi. Solo agreed and participated in a meeting at the Jedi Temple where plans to remove the Chief of State from power were discussed. Methods of distracting Daala's attention from the infiltration of Jedi Masters Octa Ramis and Kyp Durron into close proximity to Daala were among the topics covered, and Solo contributed her input. One idea involved using Jedi Knight Seha Dorvald, falsely accused of poisoning, as a decoy to distract the Chief of State while Ramis and Durron attempted to get close enough to Daala to subdue her. Solo later met with Fel to discuss recent events, but the conversation was largely unproductive due to their respective needs for secrecy regarding many of the topics under discussion. However, they agreed to accept their mutual need for secrecy and to not allow that issue to jeopardize their relationship.

Solo then assisted with the planning for the coup and was informed by the Jedi Masters that an option involving the maximum use of non-Jedi assets was likely. She was also informed that Dorvald and a simulated attack on the Senate Building were being used as diversions for Daala. When the Jedi learned that Daala was planning a punitive strike on Klatooine using Mandalorians, they decided to depose Daala before the bloodthirsty order could be carried out. Solo, Horn, and Sebatyne infiltrated the Senate Building via the Millennium Falcon's concealed compartments. Fighting off guards, they used a turbolift shaft to access the Senate chamber by jumping onto the top of an ascending car to ride most of the way to their destination, leaping the remaining distance. Solo, Horn, and Sebatyne reached the Senate chamber, where the Senate was in session. Sebatyne then negotiated a power-sharing agreement with Senator Haydnat Treen and the heads of the armed forces for a temporary power-sharing arrangement in place of Daala's capture by Solo's parents, Durron, and Ramis. The Jedi, military, and Senate heads formed a Triumvirate that held temporary power until a suitable replacement for the deposed executive could be named.

Following the successful coup, Solo attended Kenth Hamner's funeral. While there, she consoled Corran Horn, whose children had been unfrozen but had subsequently been revealed to still be under Abeloth's influence and had fled. Solo later met with Fel again after he delivered a pro-Jedi speech in response to the coup. She gently criticized him for drawing the ire of Imperial public opinion upon himself, and he replied that he was doing his job, just as she had done hers by removing Daala. He also assured her that he was not angry with her, even though she had obviously concealed knowledge of the Jedi-led coup from him. His response reassured her, but she was compelled to inform him of a new imminent offworld assignment about which she could reveal few details. They shared dinner, and then she departed to rejoin a sizable Jedi StealthX force that Luke Skywalker had summoned to Nam Chorios.

The StealthXs were used to ambush a Sith strike force that arrived above the planet, attempting to extract Abeloth from the world. Solo answered a call from Skywalker requesting extraction for his party from the surface of the world and, along with Zekk and Tyria Sarkin Tainer, escorted a shuttle down to retrieve them. Skywalker borrowed Tainer's starfighter and pursued Abeloth's meditation sphere. His craft was fired upon by the orbital stations protecting Nam Chorios and sustained severe damage. In response, Solo and Zekk drew their fire so that Skywalker's ship could be recovered safely. Meeting Skywalker after he recovered from numerous injuries, she informed him that both the Sith task force and Abeloth had escaped, after sustaining varying degrees of damage. He was initially displeased that she had saved him instead of destroying Abeloth, but she explained that the Force had guided her to do so. She also informed him that both of the Horn children, who had traveled to Nam Chorios, had recovered from Abeloth's influence and that the local Force-using Theran Listeners who had also been subverted by Abeloth had also been freed from Abeloth's control.

Solo communicated with the Skywalkers and Khai via hologram as they attempted to track down Abeloth. Suspecting that Abeloth would seek refuge among the Lost Tribe, Luke attempted to extract the location of their homeworld from Khai, who refused to divulge it, fearing that the discovery of her homeworld would lead to the genocide of her people. However, she revealed the Tribe's plan for Abeloth, which was to enslave and use her to achieve their goals—though she was unsure of what those goals were. Unable to obtain any further information from Khai, the group dismissed the topic, and Solo suggested finding Ship instead, theorizing that locating the ancient Sith vessel would also lead them to Abeloth. The group agreed with Solo's theory, and she arranged for Jedi Knight Natua Wan to research Ship and possible Sith worlds that could be destinations for Ship.

With Wan's assistance, Solo, the Skywalkers, and Khai compiled a list of planets that were considered potential locations for Ship. After organizing the information, the Jedi fleet split up to search the planets. Solo rejoined Khai and the Skywalkers aboard the Jade Shadow, and they traveled first to Korriban, the original homeworld of the Sith. Solo—despite her suspicions of Khai—invited the young Sith to join them planetside, much to Luke's chagrin. Although Solo convinced Luke that Khai's presence was a logical necessity, the older Jedi remained reluctant and insisted that they watch her closely.

Upon arriving in Korriban's orbit, they sensed an abundance of dark side energy. While it unnerved the Jedi, it simultaneously awed and excited Khai, who was eager to explore its origin. They landed in the Valley of the Dark Lords and immediately began their search at a nearby citadel, which they found to be long deserted. The four came up empty in their search. As they voiced their disappointment, they were approached by a group of tuk'ata Sith hounds. However, before the hounds could attack, Khai stepped forward to engage them. Conversing with them in Sith, Khai ordered the hounds not to harm the group, and the hounds obeyed, leaving the group alone. Their behavior toward Khai heightened Solo's suspicion, causing her to question the young Sith. Unsurprised by Solo's barrage of inquiries, Khai revealed the details of her conversation with the hounds. According to Khai, the hounds were unable to locate any Sith on the planet—a fact that Solo and the Skywalkers had already suspected. The four then decided to continue their search elsewhere.

The group journeyed to the next world in question, Dromund Kaas. The planet's history shared numerous similarities to Khai's homeworld, which caused Luke to reconsider his original decision to allow her to accompany the Jedi on their search. Khai argued that they had three choices: they could kill her, leave a member behind to guard her while the other two completed the mission, or they could take her with them. Luke agreed to let Khai join them, recognizing it as the most sensible option. They landed on the planet's surface and made their way to a temple that was surrounded by a powerful dark-side Force nexus. They split up into groups of two—with Solo and Luke in the first group and Ben and Khai in the second—and explored various areas of the temple. As with their search on Korriban, their search on Dromund Kaas initially turned up nothing, leaving the group disappointed once again. As they prepared to leave, however, they were ambushed by ten Sith Sabers under the command of Khai's father, Gavar Khai.

Solo immediately brandished her lightsaber and readied herself for battle. In accordance with Luke and Ben, she instantly suspected that Khai had betrayed them, and her distrust of Khai flared up once more. To everyone's surprise, however, Khai decided to stand with the Jedi, raising her own lightsaber against the Sith. Khai engaged her father in a duel while Solo and the Skywalkers each dueled three members of Gavar's strike team. The three Jedi and Khai slew their assailants, but Khai was forced to kill her own father. Solo and Ben rushed to comfort Khai, and Solo sympathized with her emotional turmoil. She revealed that she had also been forced to kill her own kin—Darth Caedus. Solo told Khai that she would always miss her brother but knew that she had made the right decision. Meanwhile, Skywalker took note of the Sith team's small numbers and deduced that the Sith had caught on to the Jedi plan and had sent the team to ambush them near the temple while leaving their main fleet elsewhere. Khai revealed that she had sensed that the members of the Lost Tribe that had attacked them had fallen under Abeloth's will. Afterward, Luke decided that they should return to Coruscant to recuperate. Shortly thereafter, Solo contacted Wan, who was still conducting research at the Jedi Temple on Coruscant, and learned that she had found a new lead on Ship. Wan decided not to divulge the piece of news right away, as she wanted to verify it first, but Solo was eager to inform Luke of what she had learned.

Solo and Luke were later contacted by Solo's mother, who brought them up to speed on the events occurring on Coruscant. Leia touched briefly on the subject of Daala, telling the pair that she had discovered a lead on the former Chief of State's whereabouts. Solo and Luke ended their discussion shortly after, and Solo told him about Wan's new lead on Ship. Although Luke was pleased, he found his mind wandering to Khai, who was now considering taking up the Jedi path and was forming a budding relationship with Ben. He sought advice from Solo, inquiring about her parents and how they dealt with her relationships with both Fel and Zekk. According to Solo's own account of that period, the problems that her parents initially had with the two men stemmed from their inability to handle her maturity into adulthood, as they were absent during much of her early childhood years. As Solo advised Luke, he grew more at ease with the relationship and even joked about the possibility of grandchildren.

Upon returning to the Jedi temple, Solo, accompanied by Ben and Khai, sought out Wan and thanked her for her help. Solo's gratitude was warmly received by Wan, who also told the group that she had found another lead on Ship. After conducting more research, Wan believed that Ship was on the planet Upekzar. Solo, already aware of Wan's lead, feigned surprise. Wan gave them a quick briefing on the planet and its history, revealing that the Sith who resided there had based their culture on their contact with the rhak-skuri, a bug in the diplura family that secreted pheromones with hallucinogenic properties. Wan went on to report that many of their dark side rituals and rites were performed—without protection from the hallucinations—in the volcanic caves where the rhak-skuri resided. The group then decided to search into the planet's volcanic caves, where they hoped to find Ship's nesting area. When their impromptu meeting was over, Solo invited Wan to join the Jedi fleet on their search, feeling that the Falleen Jedi had rightfully earned the opportunity to participate.

After informing Luke about the events that unfolded, she spent time with Fel. Their time together was briefly interrupted by a transmission from her parents, who contacted Fel to let him know about their offworld journey. Later, Solo and Fel watched the daily show, The Perre Needmo Newshour, hosted by reporter Perre Needmo, where Luke announced his decision to withdraw the Order from Coruscant and end its political connections with the Galactic Alliance. Although the Jedi would no longer be an official part of the government, they would still help the Alliance when needed. This new situation created another challenge for Solo and Fel's relationship, as her commitment to the Jedi required her to support Luke's decision, which meant being away from Fel. They decided to postpone the discussion, not wanting to let it spoil their happy reunion.

The following day, before leaving for the elder Solos' safe house, Solo and Fel discussed the potential negative effects of Luke's decision and how it would impact their relationship. Fel, although saddened by the thought of being separated from her again, understood her need to be with the Jedi. He also revealed that he planned to return to Imperial Space after their meeting with the Solos to deal with political matters. Soon after, Solo and Fel joined her parents for an unexpected dinner, where they discovered that Tahiri Veila—who had escaped execution—had sought refuge with the Solos. Veila had turned herself in, hoping they would help her make amends for her actions as Caedus' apprentice, particularly the assassination of Gilad Pellaeon, which had earned her Fel's anger. Since her crime against Pellaeon fell under the Imperial Remnant's jurisdiction, the Solos hoped Fel would grant Veila another trial in an Imperial court. However, Fel decided to hear about the elder Solos' trip into Imperial Space before making his decision.

Following Fel's request, they recounted to Solo, Fel, and Veila their meeting with the Squibs Emala, Grees, and Sligh—old friends of the Solos—on the planet Roonadan. The Squibs, according to them, had been working with an Imperial Remnant faction loyal to Fel to discredit Daala, and had obtained a recording of the former Chief of State. In the recording, Daala detailed her plan to assassinate Fel and take his place as the Imperial Head of State, and revealed her co-conspirators, including Moff Porrak Vansyn. Han and Leia's story surprised Fel, who was unaware that the Squibs were conducting missions for the Imperial Remnant. After careful consideration, Fel decided to speak with the Squibs, who were being cared for by some of the Solos' friends. He then announced his return to Imperial Space to confront Daala, and chose to bring Veila with him as his guard.

The next day, Solo went back to the Jedi Temple to prepare her ship for departure. Avoiding the crowds of beings gathered outside, she said her final goodbyes to her family and Fel before departing for Upekzar with the Jedi fleet. Shortly after their departure, Solo received news that her mother had been captured by the Sith, who had taken advantage of the opportunity to invade the planet. Enraged, Solo confronted Luke, demanding to know why he had allowed it to happen. When Luke explained his plan to lure the Sith into a trap, her anger subsided, although she remained concerned for her mother's safety.

The Jedi fleet landed on Upekzar, near the main city. Luke tasked Wan, Ben, and Khai with exploring a group of caves, while he and his team—consisting of over one hundred Jedi, including Solo—searched for Ship. The team began their search in the city's tunnels, where they sensed several dark side presences. Jedi Master Kyle Katarn suggested that the souls of deceased Sith were trapped on the planet, an idea that Solo strongly rejected. The team tracked the source of a strong dark side energy to a gated area in the city center. After Luke used the Force to open the gates, he ordered the Jedi to activate their lightsabers and follow him. Solo complied and followed the others into the open area, where they found Tola Annax, a Keshiri Sith Saber who had once served under Gavar Khai. Annax pleaded with the Jedi to free her from her imprisonment, which had been forced upon her by Abeloth. Annax revealed that Abeloth had stripped her of her powers and turned her body into a container for the planet's massive dark side energy. Although Luke felt sympathy for the Keshiri Sith, he realized it was a trap and ordered the Jedi to retreat. As Solo and the Jedi fled, Annax's body exploded, releasing the energy and triggering a nearby volcano to erupt. The unstable environment forced the Jedi to retreat to their transports. They rescued Ben and Khai shortly after—although Wan had died in the caves—and fled the planet.

While the Jedi Order was away on the Upekzar mission, the Lost Tribe of Sith, led by Abeloth who had recently possessed Senator Rokari Kem and arranged her own appointment as Chief of State, seized control of Coruscant and the Galactic Alliance government. In response, Luke Skywalker devised a plan to infiltrate Coruscant with numerous Jedi while the Sith attempted to manage the power transfer and consolidate their control while maintaining normalcy in the galactic capital. Luke planned to exploit the fact that the Sith takeover was covert and minimally disruptive—most of the population was unaware of the true nature of the new rulers—by smuggling numerous Jedi onto Coruscant. Solo was with a large group of Jedi on the starship Plain Lady, disguised to avoid Sith inspectors. Once the Jedi arrived on Coruscant, Luke assigned Jedi teams to target Sith occupying key public positions, with the goal of simultaneously striking as many Sith as possible. Solo and Jysella Horn were tasked with eliminating Tela Rovas, a Sith who had been appointed as the Chief Justice of the Court of Justice. However, when the attacks began, Rovas used other judges as shields. Under strict orders not to harm civilians, Solo and Horn retreated. Across Coruscant, many Sith were killed in the surprise attack, setting the stage for the next phase of Luke's plan.

Unable to effectively defend themselves against the sudden assault, the Sith retreated into the Jedi Temple and fortified it. Luke then ordered an infiltration to shut down the shield generators protecting the temple while friendly military units under Admiral Nek Bwua'tu attacked from the outside. Solo led Ben Skywalker and Vestara Khai to a pumping station where they used a maintenance capsule to travel through the water lines and access the temple, where her droid Rowdy would use an interface panel to disable the shields. Khai protested her lack of a weapon, but Solo reminded her that as a former Sith, she had yet to fully earn the trust of the Jedi Order. When Ben and Khai were ambushed by a group of Sith, Solo arrived to help and killed several Sith. She defended her cousin in the fight, but while she killed a Sith attacking her from above, his body crushed her, breaking ribs. Solo continued to fight and defeat more attackers, but sustained further injuries from Force lightning. Meanwhile, Khai was captured. While Ben wanted to immediately pursue her, Solo convinced him not to act rashly. The entire Jedi Temple seemed prepared for their attack, and the Jedi force encountered strong resistance.

The strike team then tried to override the lockdown controls in the Jedi Temple, but were attacked again by the Sith. Solo used a jet of water to disrupt the attackers, killing their leader, but suffered a leg wound from a grenade blast. Receiving fire from a Sith sniper, she and Ben retreated at Luke Skywalker's direction. The Jedi Grand Master led her and the pursuing Sith into an ambush. Luke Skywalker, Corran, Valin, and Jysella Horn ambushed the Sith force and easily defeated them. At this point, Rowdy informed them that the control interface had been disabled and had them cut their way towards another interface via a cargo chute. Solo was assigned to a rearguard action as they plunged through the cargo chute, fending off numerous Sith en route and once she arrived in the repair bay where the chute ended. A single blast hit her in the side, hampering her breathing, but she continued to fight as the Sith spilled out of the cargo chute after them until its portal was destroyed by Jysella, killing any remaining pursuers. Ben attempted to negotiate with one of the remaining Sith in the repair bay to trade for Khai, but the Sith used his diversion to stab the young Jedi in the leg with a shikkar knife before he was slain. Solo chastised Ben for his inattentiveness and treated the wound. Learning that all the interfaces had been disabled from Rowdy, the Jedi team realized they would need to fight their way to the central computer core if they were to successfully use that avenue disable the shields.

The Jedi faced a difficult path to their objective. Luke and Ben Skywalker, Corran Horn, and Solo endured two days of constant evasion, combat, and forced healing trances before they were in position to reach not the heavily-defended core but instead one of the shield generators. During this time, Solo managed to communicate long-distance with Fel, arranging the use of a StealthX and shadow bombs for him. Fel loaned the vehicle and weaponry to Tahiri Veila, who was with him at the time. The weapons were used in an attempt to wipe out an incarnation of Abeloth that was now working with Daala, whom Fel was pitted against in a political and military struggle. Solo also said her goodbyes to Fel, knowing that she was not likely to survive the prolonged combat inside the temple.

As the most injured member of the quartet, Solo was drawing heavily on the Force to enhance her stamina in combat and was suffering from Force euphoria as her cells were slowly consumed by overuse of the Force to sustain herself. The party faced a group of Sith led by the Sith Lady Korelei, who had been possessed by Abeloth. Solo volunteered to be the first one to assault the position, knowing that her severely injured state made her most useful as a diversion for the others since she was not likely not to survive. Just before she embarked on her attempt, Luke Skywalker promoted her to Jedi Master. Solo fought her way to the shield generator through the Sith, followed by Corran Horn, but Solo collapsed from sheer exhaustion and injury-induced weakness while Abeloth attacked Horn with Force lightning. Mustering her last vestiges of strength, Solo rose to confront Abeloth before the entity could slay Horn. She was prepared to die to delay Abeloth, but suddenly Abeloth fled unexpectedly due to Veila destroying the other incarnation of Abeloth light years away on Hagamoor III. This sudden lapse in the defense allowed the Jedi team to destroy the shield generators, permitting the allied Void Jumper soldiers to begin their assault on the Jedi Temple. However, Ben was captured by Abeloth.

Solo was rescued by friendly military forces and taken to a field medcenter where her wounds were treated and she was immersed in bacta for four days while the battle for the Jedi Temple continued to rage. Though not fully healed when she emerged, she was called to a Jedi Council meeting as its newest member. Solo was informed that Abeloth was also living in the computer core while using the Force to cause massive seismic disturbances on Coruscant and also had captured Ben. Learning the history of Abeloth and The Ones, a family of powerful Force wielders who embodied different characteristics of the Force who had once lived with her, Solo realized that Abeloth was trying to recreate her old family, who had perished years ago. In Abeloth's mind, Ben would become the next embodiment of the light side of the Force. Solo also learned that Vestara Khai had betrayed the Jedi Order by attacking Solo's parents and niece, having allied herself temporarily with Abeloth. Shortly thereafter, Abeloth's Lady Korelei incarnation fled the Jedi Temple to her homeworld with Ben and Khai in Ship. Luke and Jaina headed for the Maw in the frigate Redstar and then gave chase in a pinnace infiltrator called Rude Awakening. Solo flew Rude Awakening into the Maw Cluster, where she engaged Ship in a narrow corridor of space bounded by black holes. Meanwhile, Luke Skywalker had an out of body experience, going Beyond shadows, where he and a Sith Lord combined their powers, along with those of Ben and Khai, to defeat Abeloth. Both Ship and Rude Awakening took heavy damage during the fight, but the space combat was inconclusive.

With Abeloth defeated, Ship fled, allowing Solo to fly Rude Awakening down to the planet where Ben and Khai were. Since Luke Skywalker was comatose from his struggle against Abeloth, it was left to Solo to find Ben and Khai. She found them and was able to speak to Ben in private, warning him of Khai's treachery. This revelation deeply grieved Ben, as he was in love with Khai, but he also knew that there was little recourse but to subdue Khai to prevent her from escaping or attacking them again. Solo and Ben attempted to sedate Khai, but she fled on the suddenly-reappearing Ship. As both Skywalkers were heavily injured, Solo took them back to rendezvous with Redstar whereupon they returned to Coruscant. The battle for the Jedi Temple had been won at heavy cost and the majority of the Lost Tribe of Sith hunted down, while a new government formed under Wynn Dorvan's leadership. However, the devastation caused by the conflict caused the Jedi to relocate from Coruscant to their secret base at Shedu Maad. Meanwhile, Fel had defeated Daala both politically and in battle, but abdicated in favor of Imperial Admiral Vitor Reige.

Shortly thereafter, Jaina Solo married Jagged Fel on the Hapan flagship Dragon Queen II, surrounded by her friends and family. For their honeymoon, Solo took Fel to the remote world of Sakuub in a SoroSuub Horizon-class star yacht on what was ostensibly a hiking trip, while their doubles maintained the charade that they were on Hapes. Fel was unconvinced and eventually forced her to reveal that the motivation behind her trip was to investigate the Sky Temple of Karsol, a ruin which Solo thought could either have Jedi origins or contain information on Abeloth. Fel reluctantly acquiesced after she promised him they'd spend the rest of their honeymoon on Hapes after a few days on Sakuub. They arrived at Sakuub and the married couple met up with their local guide, Pharika, in the local market using assumed names. Solo sensed trouble but not immediate danger, so she continued onward. A glimpse of a Hutt trying to avoid being seen also disturbed her, but she and Fel tried to enjoy Pharika's tour of the market. They spent the evening in a hotel that Solo had arranged after checking it for listening devices.

The next day, they departed on their four-day hiking trip into the mountains to see the Sky Temple, enjoying the scenery along the way. On the third day, they caught sight of the temple and reached it on their fourth day. Solo felt a strong concentration of Force energy from the temple, which led her to discover a Jedi holocron. At that point, Pharika turned on them, pointing a blaster at them, and revealing that she knew their true identities. Solo was nonplussed even as Pharika was reinforced by a small transatmospheric ship. Pharika fired at Fel's leg, wounding him, but Solo threw the holocron to him and attacked Pharika even as the ship opened fire on her. She struck the ship a glancing blow with a levitated chunk of rock, which bought her time to deflect one of Pharika's blasts into her leg. Fel broke from cover and subdued Pharika, but the ship disintegrated her rather than risk her revealing information to them. The marauding ship then tried to bury them under rubble by blasting ruins and a piece of debris grazed her shoulder. However, a second ship arrived, destroyed their attacker, and then landed to reveal a Hutt. Upon her inquiry, the Hutt revealed that he had intervened on their behalf to repay the debt incurred when Solo and Calrissian had upheld the Treaty of Vontor. Solo was grateful to the Hutt, who informed them that the debt was paid and left. Solo treated Fel's injury and he pointed out that he couldn't climb all the way down. Solo was undeterred and began jumping down the steep slopes that led up to the Sky Temple, then stopping to levitate Fel down from boulder to boulder.

Jaina Solo, an adult Human female, stood at 1.49 meters tall and possessed brown eyes, dark brown hair, and fair skin. She was often compared to her father, exhibiting a natural talent for mechanics and piloting, along with some of Han's more impulsive and stubborn tendencies. Solo struggled to understand the emotional distance between herself and her mother during her upbringing. However, during the Yuuzhan Vong War, Solo discovered shared traits with her mother, leading to a stronger bond between them. As Solo matured, many observed her ability to act like Leia instantly. She shared a close bond with her twin brother Jacen, due to their similar connection in the Force, much like her uncle and mother. Easily frustrated, she possessed excellent problem-solving skills and a strong commitment to completing tasks.

By the time of the Yuuzhan Vong War, Solo had become both skilled in the Force and an exceptional pilot. In the early stages, she was criticized by Jagged Fel for lacking the necessary "grim" or mature mindset for war, which irritated her. However, the loss of friends and family during the war hardened her, and in her grief and anger following her brother's death, she was nearly consumed by her emotions as she sought revenge on the Yuuzhan Vong by any means. Although she was saved from fully succumbing to the dark side, she continued to fight against the invaders fiercely, leading her uncle to name her the "Sword of the Jedi" during her knighting ceremony. Her brother described her lightsaber technique as cool and calculated, avoiding any wasted effort. Solo was known for her daring actions, often exceeding the "official" Jedi stance in her pursuit of the war, and sometimes deviating from traditional Jedi doctrines, though not as much as Kyp Durron. Throughout the war, she was recognized as a dedicated and hardworking individual who pushed those around her to excel. Leia acknowledged that Solo inherited her work ethic. The loss of comrades deeply affected her, and she confided that she expected to die in the war. Her armored exterior and intentional distancing from others served to conceal the emotional wounds, grief, and scars she carried.

The Joining process she experienced in the Dark Nest Crisis and subsequent Swarm War further altered Jaina Solo's personality. She temporarily lost her individuality, sharing the thoughts of the other Jedi Joiners and the Killik hives. She lost some portion of her individual will to the collective mind of the Killiks, dominated by Raynar Thul, but was eventually un-Joined and regained her full personality. At the start of the Second Galactic Civil War, Solo became increasingly worried, fearful, and resentful of her twin, a significant change from their childhood camaraderie. She was particularly annoyed over his instant promotion to colonel, a rank she worked years to achieve.

The continued loss of family, friends, and comrades took a toll on Solo, despite the joy she found in the company of her family and close friends such as Kyp Durron, Jagged Fel, and Zekk. She remained determined to complete her missions, whether it was hunting down renegade Dark Jedi Alema Rar or training for a fight against Caedus. At one point, she pushed herself so hard that Jagged Fel thought she was overdoing her preparations, exhausting herself. Still, Solo saw herself as the Sword of the Jedi, a lone warrior and the embodiment of the Jedi Order, which led her to maintain an intense workload and avoid too many close relationships. By the latter stages of the Second Galactic Civil War, Solo was determined to oppose her brother, who now called himself Darth Caedus. Though reluctant to admit it, she eventually realized that the Jacen she had known was gone. While she valued the company of her friends, family, and comrades, Solo felt she had to deal with Caedus herself, even seeking out her father's nemesis Boba Fett for training in how to defeat the Sith Lord.

Her brief time with the Mandalorians taught her to be relentless in her pursuit of her brother, although she refused to fully accept Fett's view that compassion and other emotions were weaknesses. As willful and headstrong as ever, Jaina presented a plan to the Masters' Council for her to challenge Caedus alone, but she was willing to accept their judgment regardless. She knew that the only way she could defeat Caedus properly was for her mission to be a sanctioned one against a threat to the galaxy, not out of personal vengeance. Solo ultimately confronted and killed the Sith Lord her brother had become, but she still felt his loss deeply. Having to kill Jacen not only resulted in substantial physical injury for Solo, but also emotional and psychological trauma from slaying her twin. In the days that followed, she looked to her surviving family and friends for comfort, though several of her comrades had been injured or killed during the war. Solo was willing to sacrifice herself to stop the dark side entity Abeloth. She also remained pragmatic and focused in combat, emphasizing the importance of duty over rescuing a loved one to Ben Skywalker. However, internally Solo knew that she would attempt something reckless if it had been Fel who was in danger or captured.

Solo was known to immerse herself in starship, machinery, or droid modifications or repair during difficult times. After the mission to Myrkr, she spent much of her time working on modifications to her stolen Yuuzhan Vong frigate. Following her break-up with Fel in 43 ABY, Solo turned to her mechanical interests as a distraction from her emotional turmoil. In one diversion, she added a new humor routine to her R9, Rowdy, though she later decided that it left much to be desired, considering it reminiscent of Jacen's "lame" childhood jokes. Her relationship with Jagged Fel was both a source of comfort and frustration for her, as Solo also had a strong commitment to the Jedi Order that sometimes conflicted with her love for Fel. This became easier once Fel abdicated rule of the Empire and they were married shortly thereafter.

As an adult, Jaina Solo was known for her unwavering loyalty to the Jedi Order, as well as her pragmatic and straightforward approach to problems. She had no problem with circumventing rules she saw as hindering her true duty. She was also known for having a considerable temper, but was generally reserved about discussing her family or romantic relationships in public. Though Solo was known for speaking her mind, she could also endure hardship without complaint, particularly when the greater good of her actions was explained. In private, among her friends and loved ones, she was more open about voicing her opinion. As Solo deeply cared about both her friends and family and her commitment to the Jedi Order, her most severe internal conflicts arose when she was forced to choose between the two.

When Solo first encountered the resourceful youth on the planet Coruscant, she was instantly captivated by him. Their shared experiences forged a strong friendship as they embarked on numerous adventures together. Solo often found herself contemplating Zekk, particularly after his enrollment in the Shadow Academy. It was through their burgeoning bond that Solo managed to rescue Zekk from the clutches of the dark side. As their paths continued to intertwine, they developed a mutual attraction, although neither dared to express their true emotions. Despite their profound connection, Zekk was powerless to prevent her descent into darkness following the Mission to Myrkr, where Solo tragically lost both of her brothers. Shortly thereafter, they went their separate ways, only to reunite during the Dark Nest Crisis. However, by this juncture, Solo's affections for Zekk had evolved into a purely platonic sentiment, rendering any romantic relationship between them impossible. The more Zekk attempted to win her heart, the more firmly Solo insisted that she would never be romantically involved with him.

Upon becoming Joiners, Solo and Zekk experienced each other's feelings and perceived each other's thoughts. Regardless, Solo still declined to pursue a romantic relationship with Zekk, regretting the dissolution of her relationship with Jagged Fel. Throughout the Second Galactic Civil War, Solo and Zekk remained inseparable, collaborating on various missions. Solo's family began to suspect that Solo and Zekk were romantically involved, although both denied that their relationship was anything more than platonic. After Zekk confessed to Solo that he had moved on from her, Solo felt relieved. However, a sequence of events prompted Solo to reconsider the possibility of a romance between them. Despite this, both Solo and Zekk maintained that they were merely friends, although her family sensed a shift in their dynamic. During a mission to apprehend Rar, Zekk and Solo were compelled to collaborate with Jagged Fel. Despite Solo's altered perspective on Zekk, Fel's presence rekindled old emotions, and she found herself drawn to both of them.

Following a head injury sustained in a lightsaber duel with Darth Caedus, Solo was evacuated back to a blastboat in a delirious state. While in this condition, she expressed a desire to share quarters with both Zekk and Fel, though she later had no recollection of making this statement. Shortly before her final confrontation with Caedus, during an attack run against the Anakin Solo, Solo sensed Zekk's sudden disappearance in the Force as his ship was destroyed. She did not believe Zekk was dead because there was no sort of last reaction from him in the Force, but afterward she was disappointed to learn that Zekk still had yet to be found. Zekk was later discovered to be alive and resurfaced sometime later, but by that time he was involved with a Hapan woman named Taryn Zel and working on other assignments. Upon learning of Zekk and Taryn's engagement, Solo felt genuinely happy for her longtime friend.

After her encounter with the dark side, Solo became an apprentice to Kyp Durron, a rebellious Jedi Master within the New Jedi Order. Initially, she was drawn to Durron's aggressive stance in the war, but gradually, Solo found herself developing romantic feelings for the much older Jedi–feelings that were also reciprocated and initiated by Durron. However, after Durron manipulated her into assisting in the destruction of a Yuuzhan Vong warship, their relationship soured, leading Solo to leave the Jedi Master for Fel and Knighthood. Although her father, Han, was infuriated with Durron for exploiting his daughter, he conceded that he much preferred him as Jaina's suitor, rather than Fel, whom he had initially disliked. Solo eventually reconciled with Durron, and the two remained friends throughout the Second Galactic Civil War, although she no longer harbored any romantic interest in him.

Solo's initial encounter with the Chiss-trained pilot occurred during the Yuuzhan Vong War. Following their first meeting, Solo felt a spark ignite within her, sensing that Fel was her equal in every aspect. As they worked together, their feelings for one another deepened. Although their relationship was frequently disrupted by their respective duties, Solo and Fel found ways to maintain communication. Solo first confessed her feelings to him after disobeying direct orders in order to save his life during a battle against the Yuuzhan Vong. Subsequently, Fel confronted her, questioning why she had risked her life to save him, to which she replied that she couldn't bear the thought of losing him as she had lost others. At that moment, he kissed her, and their relationship blossomed thereafter. However, during the latter part of the war, Solo's preoccupation with her mission caused her messages to Fel to become more ambivalent, prompting Fel to sneak into her quarters and kiss her unexpectedly to gauge whether she was still attracted to him. She savored the kiss momentarily before pushing him away, which he interpreted as a rekindling of their relationship.

Solo's decision to accompany her parents on a diplomatic mission following the Battle of Ebaq 9 was partly motivated by Fel's presence on the mission, where he provided her with emotional support. When she lapsed into a prolonged coma while attempting to aid Tahiri Veila, Fel remained by her bedside, professing his love for her and urging her to return. The war eventually placed a strain on their relationship, as Solo declined his offer to return to Csilla with him, feeling that her duty superseded her personal desires. She also came to realize that the lingering effects of the Jedi meld employed by the Myrkr strike team had left her emotionally detached from others, including Fel, and they were unable to reconnect when they met again shortly after the Yuuzhan Vong War. The two reunited during the Swarm War, where Fel was leading Chiss forces against the Killik nests on Tenupe, and Solo initially claimed that she was over him, despite her lingering feelings for Fel. Before Leia shot him down, Solo confessed that she would always love him.

By the time of the Second Galactic Civil War, Solo had convinced herself that she was no longer in love with Fel, even contemplating whether she was destined to be unloved. After reuniting with Fel on Coruscant, Solo and Fel's tumultuous relationship grew even more strained, as Fel revealed to both Solo and Zekk that he was jealous of the latter. This complication fueled a growing rivalry between Fel and Zekk for Solo's affection. Solo would later express a desire to share quarters with both Zekk and Jag after being extracted from a lightsaber duel against Caedus. As she had suffered a head injury in the duel, she was delirious and did not later recall making that statement. Later, after her final duel with Caedus, she was glad that Fel had been the first one to reach her and help her back to a friendly ship.

In the years following the Second Galactic Civil War, Solo and Fel continued to nurture their relationship, with Fel even declaring that Solo was the woman he loved, although their relationship was kept somewhat secret because of Fel's new position as the head of the Imperial Remnant and their fear of angering the Moffs. By 43 ABY, though, the attraction between the two was common knowledge. That same year, Jagged Fel asked Jaina Solo to marry him. Their relationship did come with the added stress of dividing her loyalties. When Fel shared confidential information pertaining to the Jedi Order and the Galactic Alliance, Solo was compelled to conceal it from the Jedi Council, despite her desire to do otherwise, as she had pledged to keep it a secret. When word of this eventually reached the Council, they barred Fel from the Jedi Temple and suggested she re-evaluate her priorities. Solo persisted in her engagement with Fel nonetheless.

However, after their duties continued to conflict and a Mandalorian siege and the Lost Tribe of Sith threatened the Order, Solo decided that their relationship would not work. She returned her engagement ring to a stunned Fel and took off to aid her uncle against the Sith. However, Fel did not believe that her reasons were strong enough to break off their marriage. After warning the Solos about Daala's plans, he reconciled with Solo, and she wore her engagement ring again, though she and Fel believed that it was a temporary reconciliation and that they would take the time to discuss their issues. One of their resolutions was to accept their mutual needs to keep secrets from each other due to their occupations, and to not grow angry when that was necessary. Solo also chided Fel for taking a vocally pro-Jedi stance in response to the Jedi coup, but he told her that he only needed to do so in order to do his job. When Luke Skywalker revealed that he was removing the Jedi Order from Coruscant, Solo was once again torn between her desire to be with Fel and her duty to the Jedi Order. Fel was understanding, though, accepting that she wanted to be with the Jedi and telling her to follow her wishes—he assured her that their relationship would survive. After the defeat of Abeloth and the Lost Tribe of Sith, along with the removal of Daala from power, Fel abdicated rule of the Empire. He and Solo were married on the Hapan flagship Dragon Queen II as the Jedi Order prepared to relocate to Shedu Maad.

As a descendant of the Skywalker lineage through her mother, Solo possessed a strong connection to the Force. She demonstrated a particular aptitude for mechanical devices, although not to the same extent as her younger brother Anakin. Jaina's immense Force potential was nurtured and refined throughout her life. Even as a child, Solo displayed a natural talent for the Force, instinctively employing telekinesis to irritate her captors during their imprisonment by the Empire Reborn. She also utilized the Force to facilitate her and Jacen's eventual escape from captivity and was capable of generating light by telekinetically manipulating air molecules. At some point she could break the grip of a Force choke. Solo also possessed proficiency in the use of projectile firearms, at one point employing a sniper rifle against her Sith brother.

As a teenager, Solo underwent training at Luke Skywalker's Jedi Praxeum, where she received instruction in the ways of the Jedi, including the construction and use of a lightsaber. Her closest confidant was her brother Jacen Solo, and the two developed a strong twin bond that linked them together intimately. Solo also possessed considerable skills as a mechanic and pilot, having learned from her father and Chewbacca in her youth. Even as a teenager, Solo possessed the expertise to install a hyperdrive in a starfighter. By the onset of the Yuuzhan Vong War, Solo had already established herself as an experienced warrior, having engaged in combat both in space and on the ground. At the age of sixteen, Solo achieved a record time course through the asteroid field Lando's Folly near Dubrillion, surpassing the previous record held by Jedi Master Kyp Durron. Solo was skilled enough to join Rogue Squadron at a young age and flew numerous missions throughout the Yuuzhan Vong War against the alien invaders, scoring countless kills. Solo continued to fly in the Second Galactic Civil War, at first as part of the Galactic Alliance over Corellia and later as a Jedi at the Battle of Centerpoint Station, among other engagements. During the fight against the Lost Tribe of the Sith, Solo was able to successfully fend off a Sith meditation sphere on multiple occasions and a fleet of Sith pirates in another with minimal assistance aside from her StealthX.

She was trained in the use of a Jedi healing trance, which she employed on the mission to Myrkr to help heal the torture she suffered during a brief period of Yuuzhan Vong captivity. During her tutelage under Kyp Durron, Solo learned how to erase and alter memories from her master, which she learned while in the Hapes Cluster. On one occasion, Solo joined minds with a comatose Tahiri Veila to help her unite her fragmented personality. Solo was a skilled enough lightsaber combatant to personally slay Yuuzhan Vong Warmaster Tsavong Lah even with her legs pinioned and she stood her own against Supreme Overlord Shimrra's slayer bodyguards in the final battle of the Yuuzhan Vong war. While dueling her brother for the first time, he described her fighting style as conservative, brutal, ruthless, designed to deal damage without suffering any in return. Her considerable skill with a lightsaber was such that in 40 ABY, she was able to slay her twin brother and in 43 ABY, she was able to defeat four Mandalorian warriors attacking the Jedi Temple. Solo was comfortable fighting both in teams or by herself. In an example of the former, she and several other Jedi and their allies broke into a high-security Galactic Alliance prison in 43 ABY. They retrieved the two prisoners they had come for and escaped with minimal casualties on either side, as Solo had no difficulty in deflecting blaster fire from multiple assailants while lobbing stun grenades in return. While on Dromund Kaas, Solo fought and killed three Sith assailants from the Lost Tribe of the Sith without sustaining serious injury to herself. She later slew multiple Sith on Coruscant during the Lost Tribe of Sith resurgence, often despite severe injuries.

Furthermore, during the Yuuzhan Vong War, she and her brothers were able to re-create the Jedi battle meld, focusing a unit of Jedi together into one cohesive group. This ability was vital to the mission to Myrkr and was also used in several other battles as the Solo twins taught other Jedi the ability. Another Force technique which Solo had at her disposal was telekinesis. Solo could also use the Force to control her breathing and clear toxins from her body and was adept in the use of the mind trick. Jaina Solo used black Force lightning against the Yuuzhan Vong and soldiers of the Hapes Consortium, though Kyp Duron was more adept at this power and even could dispel her attacks by touching her or the lightning. She became enraged upon the death of her brother and the mutilation of the corpse, and also used the dark side to use her empty hand to slap aside a dagger.

Solo also acquired infiltration techniques, enabling her to evade pursuers on numerous occasions. Her use of deception during the Yuuzhan Vong War sowed considerable consternation into the ranks of the Yuuzhan Vong, such as when she employed gravitic beacons to cause Yuuzhan Vong ships to fire on each other. While imitating a Yuuzhan Vong goddess, Solo learned psychological warfare from Wraith Squadron and was able to employ it to good effect in order to direct Yuuzhan Vong war efforts; her capture was considered a strategic objective of the Yuuzhan Vong. She also learned to wipe memories during the Yuuzhan Vong War from Kyp Durron.

During the Dark Nest Crisis and the Swarm War, Solo and Zekk became Joiners, allowing them to share in the Killik hive mind. Her particular talents were more in the way of starfighter combat, though she also participated in ground battles. Though she was eventually unjoined, Solo would retain some of the shared-mind bond with Zekk for some time afterward. Solo retained her capabilities as a warrior into the Second Galactic Civil War and her own intense training, combined with a short period of tutelage under Mandalorian commandos, only served to hone the edge of the Sword of the Jedi. Though she felt she wasn't the equal of Jacen in terms of Force powers due to his prolonged study, she thought she could surprise him, and proved herself able to match even his impressive skills when the time came. Also during the war, Solo learned the shatterpoint technique from Luke Skywalker, which she had long thought lost. She also learned how to shut down in the Force, so as to be undetectable, from her cousin Ben. Later, Solo demonstrated an affinity for the Beast Control power, being able to bend a large number of different animals to her will at the same time. However, despite her skill as a Jedi Knight, pilot, and combatant, Solo had yet to develop the use of her womanly charms for persuasion; her mother, at age sixty, was better at such subtleties than Jaina Solo was, to the astonishment of the younger Solo. Due to their shared heratige as decendents of Anakin Skywalker, Solo and Luke Skywalker were able to coordinate their attacks with ease when fighting in lightsaber combat.

Jaina Solo's genesis can be attributed to author Timothy Zahn, who introduced her in his 1993 novel, The Last Command. In this installment, Solo's mother, who had been pregnant with Jaina and Jacen throughout the preceding two novels of Zahn's trilogy, gives birth to the twins on Coruscant. Zahn encountered difficulties in naming the character, eventually settling on "Jaina" after having already named Jacen after a friend of his son's and wanting the twins' names to be alliterative like Luke and Leia's. Throughout the first decade of the characters' in-universe lives, the three Solo children played both minor and supporting roles in various novels, but the Solo twins took center stage in the fourteen-book young adult series Young Jedi Knights, beginning with 1995's Heirs of the Force. The series chronicled the twins' adventures as students at Luke Skywalker's Jedi Academy. On the covers for the series painted by Dave Dorman, Jaina's appearance was loosely based on reference model Kristin Marshall.

When representatives from Lucas Licensing and Del Rey books were planning out the nineteen-book The New Jedi Order series, they made the decision to develop a new generation of characters in tandem with the heroes of the original Star Wars movies. Solo and her brothers thus became principal protagonists of the series, which ran from 1999 to 2003. Still a teenager, Solo was on the front lines of the Yuuzhan Vong War as a Jedi Knight and a pilot with Rogue Squadron, and was the star of the novel The New Jedi Order: Dark Journey, which told of her brush with the dark side of the Force and development into a full Jedi Knight. Following the conclusion of The New Jedi Order, Solo played a major role in the latter half of the nine-book Star Wars: Legacy of the Force series that ran from 2006 to 2008, a series that saw her brother Jacen become a Sith Lord and concluded with his death at Solo's hands. When discussing how the series would end, the Legacy of the Force planning team considered redeeming Jacen's character, but, influenced by the desire to see Solo fulfill the prophecy which named her the Sword of the Jedi, ultimately decided that she would kill him. In the time since the conclusion of Legacy of the Force, Solo has played a large role in its followup series, Fate of the Jedi, which culminated in her marriage to Jagged Fel.

In 2009, a 3 ¾ inch action figure of Jaina Solo was released by Hasbro as part of its Legacy Collection. The figure correctly depicts Solo with a violet-hued lightsaber, while an earlier miniature of her had given the weapon a blue blade, a mistake that has appeared elsewhere.

In 2016, it was announced that Jaina Solo had won a fan vote and would be released as a figure in Hasbro's Black Series line despite being part of the Star Wars Legends line for which little new merchandise is being released.

Young Jedi Knights authors Kevin J. Anderson and Rebecca Moesta opted to portray Jaina Solo as a logical and mechanically inclined tomboy, emulating her father, rather than a "typical girl" character. Anderson believed that it was essential to treat Solo and her friends as adults in order to maintain a Star Wars atmosphere in the young-adult novels. Elaine Cunningham, the author of Dark Journey, found Jaina's impulsive nature and resemblance to her father key in reconciling differing characterizations of Solo, and upon focusing on her identification with Han Solo, felt that the character began to come alive to her. Troy Denning, who has written a number of books that prominently feature Solo, has identified her as his favorite character from the younger generation of heroes.