Jaina Solo Fel

Biography

Childhood (9 ABY-22 ABY)

Birth

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—for the insane Dark Jedi Joruus C'baoth to corrupt and mold as he wished, in exchange for C'baoth's help in his campaign.

Following a visit to the devastated world of Honoghr and securing the allegiance of the Noghri, Leia ensured that Solo and her twin brother were born on Coruscant during the final stages of the Thrawn campaign, free from the threat of further kidnapping attempts by Noghri Death Commandos. However, Thrawn, still intending to fulfill his promise, dispatched Imperial Intelligence agents to Coruscant to kidnap the twins and their mother once more. The Solo family's living quarters were destroyed, but Thrawn's agents were once again unsuccessful, and the twins remained unharmed.

Isolation

Despite the ancient Jedi belief that a child's innocence effectively shields them from the corrupting influence of the dark side of the Force, Luke Skywalker, Solo's uncle, believed that any exposure to the dark side could permanently damage a young child's mind. Considering the twins' potential in the Force, Luke advised Solo's parents to minimize their exposure to the dark side during this critical period.

Following his advice, they sent the twins to New Alderaan, to be cared for by Leia's lifelong friend and aide, Winter. However, this arrangement offered only temporary safety. 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 lived with their parents in the space city until they fled with the rest of the New Republic forces, shortly before the city itself was destroyed by a warhead from the Galaxy Gun.

Acting on Luke's recommendation, Han and Leia hid all three Solo children on the world of 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 used a Sith oracle stone to locate them and intercept the Millennium Falcon. The Falcon was damaged in the ensuing confrontation, but Han and his Wookiee companion Chewbacca managed to guide it to Onderon, landing in the city of Iziz.

With Palpatine in pursuit, the aged Jedi Vima-Da-Boda and Chewbacca created a diversion to make Palpatine believe that Leia and the children had fled Onderon aboard the Falcon. Meanwhile, the three children embarked on a day-long journey to Fortress Kira with their parents. Palpatine saw through the deception and tracked his targets 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 fought 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.

Reunion

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 further developed their innate mental connection, often completing each other's sentences and coordinating their mischief. Because Solo's parents had only visited Anoth a few times, the twins were anxious about leaving Winter (whom they saw as their mother) to be cared for by their mother, whom they perceived as a stranger.

Leia Organa Solo, whose husband was away at the time, struggled to balance her maternal duties with her responsibilities as Minister of State of the New Republic. As a result, Leia enlisted the help of the family's protocol droid, C-3PO, who was eager to test his newly downloaded child-rearing subroutines. C-3PO accepted the job with enthusiasm but was often 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, taking pride in singing lullabies in various languages and styles. However, the twins usually preferred their father's version of The Little Lost Bantha Cub to 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. During their first time caring for the twins in their parents' absence, 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. They quickly grew bored with the museum and decided that a game of hide-and-seek with their escorts would be more entertaining.

Without informing C-3PO and Chewbacca, Solo and her brother Jacen began their game. Evading Chewbacca, the twins boarded a turbolift and rode it to floor "1." Exiting the turbolift, the twins embarked on an adventure in Coruscant's undercity, encountering many unfamiliar creatures. They eventually found 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 still ruled Coruscant—King Onibald Daykim of the refugees helped the two children return home.

Trip to the Jedi Praxeum

In 11 ABY, Solo and her twin brother accompanied their parents to the Jedi Praxeum on Yavin 4 after learning that their uncle Luke Skywalker had been found in a coma on top of the Great Temple by his students. Although the medical team couldn't revive the Jedi Master, Solo believed she could awaken him with a kiss, but she was unsuccessful. Later, the twins, along with their mother and the students, felt a powerful disturbance in the Force as 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 remained 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 they could see their uncle's disembodied spirit, unlike the adults at the Praxeum. When Kun sent a group of Sith battle hydras 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 help him.

The twins held off the creatures until help arrived. Luke's students then planned 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 often attended—and caused mischief at—important diplomatic ceremonies such as the Concert of the Winds on Vortex and the Herd Meet on Ithor.

When Solo was about four years old, she went on a trip with her father, brothers, and Chewbacca. While her father was occupied with her brothers, she wandered off, following a robotic hand. She eventually 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, piloting skills, and aptitude for mechanics, which made him proud. At five, Solo received her own multitool, which she could use on wood in the workshop only. At seven, she had one that worked on metal. Finally, at nine, Han felt Solo was responsible enough to help with simple repairs and allowed her to 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 didn't develop as close a relationship with her mother as she did with her father, creating an emotional distance between them. Although Leia Solo tried to be present in her daughter's life, her increasing duties to the New Republic constantly pulled her away from her family. Solo noticed this more as she grew older and began to resent it.

Abduction attempts

In the year 13 ABY, the offspring of the Solo family resided within the Imperial Palace, situated on Coruscant. During their stay, the three siblings clandestinely entered a Council assembly, despite explicit instructions prohibiting access to the area. This act of defiance diverted their mother's attention, much to the detriment of a diplomatic delegation. Following the conclusion of the council meeting, Leia Organa Solo summoned Nanna, their droid caretaker from whom they had previously escaped, to assume responsibility for them. Nanna escorted them away, threatening them with chores as a consequence for their misbehavior.

Not long after this incident, a team of assassins, operating under the command of a staunch ex-Imperial figure known as 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. However, the attack deeply troubled Organa Solo. A pair of Noghri then accompanied the twins to their mother, who instructed that they be safely escorted to her chamber, where she would soon join them, and diligently guarded. Subsequently, the Solo children were afforded the opportunity to communicate with their father, who was engaged in warfare elsewhere, via holocomm, assuring him of their safety following the attempted kidnapping.

The subsequent year, during a visit to the planet Munto Codru when she reached the age of five, Solo, together with her brothers, was abducted along with Codru-Ji Chamberlain Iyon's wyrwulf. The perpetrators employed the dark side of the Force to conceal their presence, and a pressure bomb to obliterate any traces of evidence, while also attempting, unsuccessfully, to eliminate Chewbacca. As they departed from Munto Codru's atmosphere, the three children left behind a trail of anguish that their mother could perceive through the Force.

Upon regaining consciousness, the Solo children were greeted by a man identifying himself as Hethrir. He asserted that their parents, uncle, and Chewbacca had perished in an earthquake, and that he, Hethrir, was now their hold-father. The twins deduced that Hethrir was being dishonest, given that their uncle and father were not present on Munto Codru at the time of their abduction. They solidified their suspicions by eliciting an incorrect statement from Hethrir regarding the twins' birth order, thereby disproving his claims of witnessing 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, typically separated when not within their cells, while Anakin remained constantly in Hethrir's presence. Despite the promise of increased privileges as an Empire Reborn Helper and eventual Proctor for compliant behavior, Solo consistently displayed rudeness and non-cooperation towards her superiors, even resorting to using the Force to contaminate their food with sand. Meanwhile, Jacen dispatched myrmin insects to torment them. Despite the monotony of their circumstances, Solo formed a friendship with Lusa, a female Chironian who had also been abducted. However, Solo soon discovered that her new friend, along with Anakin and the wyrwulf, were scheduled for removal.

An unpleasant encounter with Vram, a fully indoctrinated Empire Youth, 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 disengaged the latch on her cell door. She promptly liberated Jacen and subsequently the other children, and together they navigated their way out of the building housing their cells. With the assistance of Mistress Dragon—a sand dragon that Jacen had previously befriended—the children fled Hethrir's compound into the "wilderness" of the worldcraft, pursued by a contingent of Proctors.

As the Proctors closed in, Leia materialized in her star yacht Alderaan, accompanied by Chewbacca and a woman named Rillao, and rescued them. However, 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 ventured inside with Han. Han and Luke had also independently arrived at the station, separate from Leia and the children. Upon hearing what they perceived 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 adopt a far more protective stance towards their children, with Han steadfastly refusing to let them out of his sight. While they were shielded from any potential harm, the Solo children were also isolated from forming friendships beyond their parents, uncle, Chewbacca, Winter, C-3PO, and R2-D2. And despite having found a friend in Lusa during her imprisonment aboard the worldcraft, Solo lost contact with the Chironian after she returned to her home planet of Chiron.

In contrast to their younger brother, the twins frequently devised novel and intricate methods to test their father's patience. Jacen, however, became less inclined to engage in play with his sister, opting instead to concentrate on honing his ability to manipulate objects using the Force. Solo grew irritated by this behavior and began to disrupt his practice. Despite the vexation she caused their father, she harbored affection for him and was incensed by the prospect of losing him when she learned of his capture by the Duskhan League during the Black Fleet Crisis, despite Leia's efforts to shield the children from the news of their father's imprisonment.

Corellian Crisis

During 18 ABY, Jaina Solo accompanied her family on a holiday to the Corellian system. Following 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 exhibited a lack of enthusiasm for their new instructor.

On their inaugural excursion, the family visited Corellia's premier archaeological site, an ongoing excavation. While exploring the tunnels of the excavation site, Solo observed that Anakin had ceased following the rest of the group and had become captivated by a specific section of the tunnel floor. Accompanied by Jacen, they ventured off in a different direction, eventually stumbling upon what was later identified as Corellia's planetary repulsor, one of which was situated within each of the Five Brothers.

The children were soon discovered by Ebrihim's droid Q9-X2, who was the sole individual 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 it would be detrimental to the New Republic if the xenophobic group were to find it, 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 their accommodations to the Governor-General's residence at Corona House, where they were introduced to Governor-General Micamberlecto. There, Leia and Han were scheduled to participate in a significant trade conference aimed at reintegrating the Corellian system into the galactic community. On the opening night of the conference, the children remained awake late, eavesdropping on the adults and learning of a threat to obliterate planets issued 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 reduced to ashes 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 received by Marcha, the Duchess of Mastigophorous. The following morning, the children recounted to Marcha the events that had transpired before their forced departure from Corellia. Solo also shared with Marcha her observations from the first night of the conference, 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 as Anakin experimented, inadvertently activating the repulsor on one occasion, nearly resulting in the demise of everyone present. Although she was annoyed by Anakin's near-fatal action, 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 had arrived 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 to the Corellian system to coerce their mother into compelling the New Republic to acknowledge Corellian independence. However, this action ultimately swayed public sentiment within the system against the Human League.

The twins managed to escape from their force field prison with Anakin, reaching the Falcon undetected. Given the necessity of leaving the adults 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, eventually positioning himself in its wake. Seizing the opportunity, Solo destroyed its sublight engine array, causing the assault boat to become immobile in space. Immediately thereafter, the Falcon was ensnared in a tractor beam. Although the children initially anticipated the worst, the voice of Lando Calrissian resonated over the communications system, reassuring them that there was no cause for alarm, as the tractor beam originated from the Bakuran vessel Intruder, which had arrived to bolster the New Republic movement within 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 prevent the ancient space station from continuing its destruction of entire star systems.

Once inside the planetary repulsor once more, Solo and Jacen endeavored to assist the technicians in comprehending their younger brother, despite their own dwindling 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 propensity for disappearing unexpectedly back into the alleys, Zekk and the two Solo twins became close companions, and Zekk led the twins on numerous escapades throughout the city. Solo eventually found herself developing a romantic infatuation with him.

Caamas Document Crisis

Following the discovery of a partial copy of the Caamas Document in 19 ABY, and in anticipation of the crisis and scandal that would inevitably ensue, Jaina and her siblings were dispatched to Kashyyyk with Chewbacca and a contingent of Noghri for their protection. 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 conclusion of the Galactic Civil War. Shortly after the signing of the treaty, 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.

Jedi training (22 ABY–25 ABY)

When she reached the age of thirteen, in 22 ABY, Jaina and her brother Jacen enrolled in her uncle Luke Skywalker's Jedi Praxeum on Yavin 4. At the Praxeum, she encountered other Jedi candidates, including Hapan princess Tenel Ka, Raynar Thul and Chewbacca's nephew, Lowbacca. The Solo twins and these three individuals would forge enduring friendships with one another. Solo developed into a skilled pilot and mechanic, strengthening her bond with her father.

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

Shadow Academy

In 23 ABY, when Lowbacca returned to the Praxeum late one evening with accounts of a mysterious, shimmering object, Solo and her companions resolved to investigate it. 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 gifted to her by her father. She commenced work on the damaged fighter with the assistance of Jacen, Lowbacca, and Tenel Ka. Unfortunately for the young Jedi apprentices, the TIE's original pilot, Qorl, was still alive, having resided in Yavin 4's jungles for the past twenty-three years. After abducting Jaina and Jacen, Qorl compelled them to complete the repair of his ship so that he could finally escape his exile. The twins eventually escaped due to the arrival of the Millennium Falcon, but so did Qorl, departing the jungle moon and seeking any remnants of the Empire. Qorl would discover the Shadow Academy, a training facility 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 abducted by stormtroopers led by Tamith Kai. En route to their kidnappers' secret base, the twins and Lowbacca were escorted to the cockpit of the ship used to board GemDiver Station. Here, they were reunited with Qorl, who informed them that he had discovered "[his] Empire" and that the abduction of the young Jedi Knights was a consequence of the information he had provided to his masters. Upon reverting to realspace, Tamith Kai informed Jaina, Jacen, and Lowbacca that they would be trained to become Dark Jedi upon their arrival at their destination—the Shadow Academy.

Brakiss greeted the trio of Jedi trainees and outlined his plans for converting them. Following a particularly disastrous lecture, Solo experienced the power of Force lightning firsthand for defying Brakiss. Brakiss recognized that the new recruits were aware of his propaganda, so he resolved to attempt to turn the twins by granting them their desires.

In one training exercise, Brakiss pitted an unknowing Solo against her brother Jacen by concealing each of them with hologram devices that led them to believe that the other was Darth Vader. In another exercise, she and Jacen sustained injuries when hardballs, rocks, and knives were hurled at them. After surviving this exercise, Brakiss announced that he was so impressed with their potential that he had decided to abduct more Jedi trainees. Fortunately for Solo, she was rescued by Jacen, who had utilized a Corusca gem from the GemDiver Station to escape his cell. Employing Lowbacca's computer skills, 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 thwarted by Brakiss and Tamith Kai. During a confrontation, Luke defeated his former student while Tenel Ka injured Tamith Kai's knee. The group then fled the Academy in the stolen ship Shadow Chaser. Consequently, the Shadow Academy fled into hyperspace. After returning safely to Yavin 4, the Solo twins, Tenel Ka, and Lowbacca resumed their lives at the Praxeum.

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

The twins persuaded Zekk to attend a diplomatic banquet that was scheduled to be held in honor of the new Karnak Alphan ambassador within the next few days. Zekk accepted and appeared at the Imperial Palace at the designated time, albeit shabbily dressed. Unfamiliar with the formalities of the dinner, he inadvertently consumed the decoration in front of him. His resulting embarrassment subsequently caused him to flee.

After Peckhum described some of the places where Zekk might conceal himself, Jacen and Tenel Ka ventured into the undercity alone, while Solo assisted in repairing the Orbital Solar Energy Transfer Satellite to which Peckhum was assigned. Upon returning, Jacen contacted his sister, informing her of 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 thereafter, Solo realized that the Academy was in orbit above Coruscant, and the Second Imperium was compelled to flee once more.

The incident brought the Jedi's vacation to an end, and they returned to Yavin 4. With combat with the Dark Jedi imminent, Luke Skywalker determined that it was time for the Solo twins, Lowbacca, and Tenel Ka to construct and train with their own lightsabers. Like her uncle had done years earlier, Solo created a synthetic lightsaber crystal, which produced a purple blade when inserted into 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 recuperate. While there, Solo and her companions assisted in quelling a revolution aimed at overthrowing Tenel Ka's mother Teneniel Djo.

However, the Shadow Academy, previously inactive, resurfaced to trouble the young Jedi once more. Zekk was compelled to battle the Solo twins repeatedly, and Solo felt more than just friendship for the young man, causing her concern. She persistently attempted to guide Zekk to the light side, but initially, her efforts were unsuccessful.

After their time on Hapes, the Jedi companions journeyed to Kashyyyk, Lowbacca's home planet, where his younger sister Sirrakuk was about to participate in a Wookiee ritual. Wanting to support his sibling due to the ritual's inherent dangers, Lowbacca sought to assist. Unfortunately for the young Jedi Knights, a Second Imperium assault force, led by Zekk, launched an attack on Thikkiiana City, a major exporter of computer technology, employing holographic technology to imitate Wookiees. The four Jedi trainees managed to overcome the majority of the Imperium soldiers. During this confrontation, Solo faced Zekk, her former friend, in the perilous lower levels of the expansive jungle. However, Zekk, unwilling to harm his former allies, cautioned them to avoid the Imperium's next objective: the Jedi Praxeum itself.

Consequently, the four Jedi sped back to the Jedi Praxeum to warn the Jedi residing there. Soon after, the Shadow Academy, accompanied by a squadron of recovered Imperial warships, materialized in orbit. Large numbers of stormtroopers and Dark Jedi attacked the Praxeum. The twins, aided by their peers from the Jedi Academy, triumphed over the Second Imperium's forces. As the battle neared its end, Zekk and Solo clashed, with Solo making a final plea to her friend to return to the light. Zekk, however, appeared lost, declaring his intention to prevent anyone from entering the Jedi Praxeum. Immediately following this, a massive explosion engulfed the academy. Zekk had saved the Jedi from certain destruction, suggesting that Solo had, if not fully redeemed her friend, at least steered him away from the dark side.

Diversity Alliance

Following the Second Imperium's defeat, the Solo twins assisted in rebuilding the Academy and continued their Jedi training. While Zekk recuperated from his injuries, haunted by nightmares stemming from his involvement with the Dark Jedi, he chose to abandon the Force and departed from the Academy aboard Peckhum's freighter Lightning Rod, embarking on a career as a bounty hunter. Trouble arose when Raynar Thul, a fellow student, 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 group seeking retribution against Humans for the atrocities committed by the humanocentric Galactic Empire. Being a Twi'lek, 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 unknown.

Simultaneously, the Solo twins journeyed to the Alderaan system to explore the asteroid field that was once Alderaan. Landing on a desolate asteroid, they retrieved 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, driving the Fett impersonator away. Despite rescuing them, Zekk declined to return to the Academy, though he committed to joining the search for Bornan Thul.

During their search, Raynar Thul, Tenel Ka, and Lowbacca joined the Solo twins. They investigated Thul's last known locations, ranging from ancient, ruined worlds to the droid foundry planet of Mechis III. Meanwhile, Nolaa Tarkona embarked on a campaign to rally support among the galaxy's alien species, particularly the Chromans of Chroma Zed. The Jedi faced a setback when Lowbacca, misguidedly influenced by fellow Wookiee Raabakyysh, joined the Diversity Alliance and traveled to their headquarters on Ryloth to learn more about them.

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

Realizing 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 dangerous ryll mines. However, Lowbacca soon discovered the fate of his Human companions. Enraged, the Wookiee turned against the Diversity Alliance, aiding his friends in escaping the planet's harsh terrain and the zealous Diversity Alliance troops. The Jedi also uncovered evidence that the Diversity Alliance was amassing weapons for an impending war against Humans. Eventually, Zekk, Luke Skywalker, and Lusa, who had been searching for them, rescued the group and transported them off-planet.

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, intending 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 ruptured, including 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. 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 neutralized another threat to the New Jedi Order and the New Republic. Following the demise of the Diversity Alliance, Zekk also rejoined the Jedi Praxeum.

Black Sun

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 in the past. However, Czethros now claimed to be an "honest" businessman, and they avoided any altercation. Unexpectedly, the group was ambushed by several Chameleon creatures at their hangar bay. They were rescued by Anja Gallandro, a young woman wielding a lightsaber, despite not being a Jedi. Gallandro relied on doses of spice to enhance her senses and safely wield a lightsaber.

Gallandro blamed Han Solo for the death of her father, but Solo denied the accusation, stating that the elder Gallandro had perished in a trap while searching for treasure. Unbeknownst to the Solos, Anja Gallandro was actually an undercover agent for Czethros, who was a leader of Black Sun. The notorious galactic crime syndicate had maintained a low profile since the death of its leader Prince Xizor during a battle above Coruscant in 3 ABY. Since then, Black Sun had been attempting to seize control of 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 convinced Gallandro of his good intentions by resolving a 25-year-long civil war on her remote homeworld of Anobis. There, Solo met with the two opposing factions and brokered a truce. 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.

Subsequently, 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, events 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 plot 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, hoping to retrieve a hidden stash of andris spice from beneath the planet's frozen ice cap.

Meanwhile, on Kessel, Calrissian's longtime Sullustan mate Nien Nunb was nearly killed in a suspicious accident in the carbon-freezing sections of a processing facility. Black Sun had planted cells there, and the Sullustan knew he was in danger. His workers were turning against him and he called for help. Solo and Lowbacca went 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 of Black Sun's infiltration of the New Republic and their 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 free the prisoners and defeated the Black Sun mercenaries. Rather than be captured, Czethros threw himself into a vat of carbonite and was flash-frozen instantly. However, the criminal was retrieved and placed in New Republic custody. Chief of State Leia Organa Solo oversaw his thawing and interrogation. As a result, the names of Black Sun moles in strategic positions of power were discovered, 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 short 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 coupled with a newer starfighter caused Solo to feel outclassed. However, Solo used the Force to become attuned to her new vessel in combat, then made fast work of the pilot and his ship, and continued her course to Mon Calamari.

Yuuzhan Vong War (25 ABY–29 ABY)

Early strikes

At the age of sixteen, Solo accompanied her mother and her mentor, Mara Jade Skywalker, aboard Jade Skywalker's shuttle Jade Sabre to Rhommamool for a diplomatic 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 their pursuit, which she attempted by piloting the Jade Sabre through a series of daring maneuvers. When a Jedi-flown X-wing arrived and repelled the pursuers, the remaining fighters withdrew, allowing Solo to pilot the Jade Sabre into the hangar of a New Republic battlecruiser, Mediator, which was attempting to maintain peace between the rival worlds of Rhommamool and Osarian. Their Jedi rescuer was revealed to be Wurth Skidder, a Jedi known for his impulsive nature. Leia Organa Solo immediately reprimanded him for opening fire, which cost her any diplomatic leverage she might have had against the Osarians in negotiations over their attempt to surround and force the Jade Sabre to land on Osarian. Undeterred, the three proceeded with their planned negotiations to resolve the hostilities between Rhommamool and Osarian.

The three women met with Anor, who had dressed in a manner similar to Darth Vader as an insult to Leia. Anor displayed little 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 irritated. As they departed, Anor ensured they overflew a scene of mass droid destruction, solely to offend C-3PO, who had accompanied the delegation.

Solo flew the others back to Coruscant, as her mother was exhausted and Jade Skywalker needed rest. However, she didn't 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 incorrect coordinates to Solo, requiring her to use the Force to locate her family and correct her flight path to meet them. They met with an enthusiastic Calrissian, who eagerly showed them around his extensive operation on Dubrillion.

The three Solo children were particularly interested in 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 in the modified TIEs, which had shield protection, the flight was relatively safe. Jaina Solo flew last, and despite encountering a particularly challenging section of asteroids, she used the Force to guide her hands. With piloting that impressed her viewers, she achieved a new record time, surpassing the previous winner, Jedi Knight Kyp Durron. The three Solo children met with Durron later, who congratulated Solo on her victory and then departed with his squadron to battle smugglers and pirates in the Outer Rim. They then watched Han Solo and Chewbacca tackle the asteroid field in a two-seat craft. Despite a serious equipment malfunction that disabled their shields, they managed to complete the course, and Solo congratulated her father on his accomplishment.

Following that, Calrissian asked Han Solo to make 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 trying to save Anakin and perished. The loss devastated the Solo family, particularly Han. Upon the return of her father and Anakin, Solo tried to comfort her brother, but both he and Han were inconsolable. The Solos and Skywalkers also soon learned of an alien menace that had all but destroyed Durron's squadron, was invading the galaxy, and had instigated the destruction of Sernpidal. After reports were received regarding 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, fighting from Calrissian's modified TIEs. After picking up pursuit, they headed into 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 in order to escape. However, he returned safely and they were hailed as heroes by the populace of Dubrillion.

However, after Luke and Mara Jade Skywalker found evidence of a massive Yuuzhan Vong base on Helska IV, with prisoners trapped inside, the Solo twins slipped away and took one of Lando's iceborers to puncture the ice planet and rescue them. After Solo loaded Jacen, clad in a Yuuzhan Vong skirt and equipped with an ooglith masquer for disguise, into the iceborer, she flew the iceborer Merry Miner to Helska IV, but was quickly detected by coralskippers. Fortunately for them, 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, dodging 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 the from Helska IV with the loss of the Star Destroyer Rejuvenator, the Solos, Skywalkers, and Calrissian realized how serious the Yuuzhan Vong threat was, particularly after Quee told them of the yammosk war coordinator buried beneath the planet that 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 needed help herself as she tried to alter the ship's present 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.

Missions with Galfridian

When the Yuuzhan Vong took control of Artorias, Luke Skywalker aided the New Republic in extracting some of the planet's inhabitants. Following this, he journeyed with Prince Finn Galfridian to the Jedi Academy situated on Yavin IV. At the Academy, Galfridian commenced his Jedi training, encountering Solo, her two brothers, and Lowbacca. Solo and Galfridian engaged in lightsaber training together, during which the young prince showed a certain fondness for her. She, in turn, spoke with him about the ongoing conflict, expressing sympathy for his loss of both his family and his home world. However, a short time later, the Solo twins, Galfridian, and Lowbacca found themselves in a dangerous situation involving a tuk'ata eager to attack. The Solos and Lowbacca, due to their progressing Jedi abilities, responded fearlessly, while Galfridian was paralyzed by terror. Jacen managed to drive the creature away. Shortly after this event, a disheartened Galfridian departed Yavin IV, traveling with Solo's uncle to Rychel.

Later, Solo, along with her mother, brothers, Lowbacca, and Galfridian, journeyed to Nar Shaddaa aboard the Millennium Falcon, a vessel that Han Solo had permitted his wife and children to use. Their mission was to locate a smuggler who possessed information regarding clandestine Yuuzhan Vong operatives, but their initial efforts yielded limited results. 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, lest he face the consequences of being shot. Meanwhile, Jacen and Lowbacca sought out the criminal Dahal, who had pilfered Jacen's credit pouch, while Solo and the others observed the meeting with Prowl's assistance. In the hope that Dahal would lead them to the smuggler they sought, Galfridian, accompanied by Prowl, shadowed Dahal, declining assistance from Solo and the others. Ultimately, through Galfridian's surveillance, they managed to confront the Vratix smuggler Spraug. From Spraug, after preventing his escape, Solo and her companions obtained a Jedi holocron detailing the identity of a Yuuzhan Vong agent—Dulac, an advisor to Galfridian's father.

Solo, her brother, Galfridian, and Luke Skywalker were on Yavin IV together, examining the holocron that had been recovered from Nar Shaddaa, when Galfridian declared his intention to leave in search of his missing father. After Galfridian revealed his plan to journey to Artorias with only Prowl as his 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 attempting to secretly acquire a ship in the middle of the night, they chose to accompany them rather than prevent them, despite the absence of a well-defined plan. They secured Master Skywalker's reluctant approval to travel to Artorias and subsequently departed.

Solo, acting as the pilot of their vessel, intentionally brought them out of hyperspace prematurely to assess the Yuuzhan Vong's defensive capabilities. During a discussion about how to reach the surface of Artorias, Galfridian proposed crash-landing the ship and seeking refuge in an underwater sanctuary that his people had established for emergencies. Solo concurred with this plan and steered the ship closer to Artorias, only to discover a minimal Yuuzhan Vong presence in orbit. The Yuuzhan Vong then launched grutchin insects at their ship, which began to bore through the hull. In response, Solo pointed out that if the hull were breached before they cleared Artorias's atmosphere, their lives would be in danger. Galfridian ventured into space and eliminated the grutchins that had already infested the ship using his and Solo's lightsabers, while Jacen operated the turret to destroy other incoming insects. Solo skillfully guided their damaged ship into the atmosphere for a water landing, enabling Galfridian to direct the ship to his people's refuge. Upon disembarking, they learned that Galfridian's father was still alive, but in the company of Dulac.

Rushing to the chamber where Dulac and the elder Galfridian were engaged in combat, the Solos assisted in defeating Dulac. However, before succumbing to their lightsabers, Dulac utilized an ocular implant to release poison at the Artorian king. Solo and her brother employed their Jedi healing abilities to delay the king's death and ease his suffering, but they were unable to completely counteract the effects of the Yuuzhan Vong poison. Before the elder Galfridian passed away, Solo advised Finn Galfridian to bid his father farewell.

The Solo twins were present at the funeral of the elder Galfridian, where Finn Galfridian pledged that the Artorian refugees would eventually return to reclaim their planet from the Yuuzhan Vong. While most of the refugees were headed elsewhere, Galfridian had received instructions from his holocron to travel to Nar Shaddaa. The Solos decided to return to the Jedi Praxeum instead, although Jacen assured Galfridian that he and Solo were always available if needed. They parted ways on Nar Shaddaa, despite Solo's suggestion that Galfridian return to Yavin IV. She also cautioned him to avoid getting killed, stating that it would be difficult to justify leaving him on Nar Shaddaa if he were to perish. Solo concluded their farewell with a kiss on Galfridian's cheek, which caught the attention of her twin, although she dismissed it as a purely platonic gesture.

Rogue Squadron

Upon Solo's subsequent 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's assignment was to retrieve Danni Quee and accompany her mother to Agamar to address their leaders, persuading them to support the effort against the Yuuzhan Vong. Their arguments resonated with the Agamarian leaders, who agreed to provide sanctuary for refugees. Solo found her assignment monotonous, as she had little to do beyond teaching Quee some Force techniques and supporting her mother. She also felt uncertain about her own identity and harbored some resentment towards being around Leia Solo, whom she felt overshadowed her. Solo shared her feelings with Quee, who advised her that it was natural to seek 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 oversee the evacuation of a significant portion of the population, accompanied by Admiral Traest Kre'fey and a small New Republic fleet. Following their arrival on Dubrillion, Solo was inducted into the renowned X-wing unit Rogue Squadron due to her mother's persistence and her own proficiency in piloting an X-wing, although Solo was unaware of Leia's role in her acceptance into Rogue Squadron. Solo was assigned the designation Rogue Eleven and quickly earned the nickname "Sticks" due to the shape of her lightsaber and the fact that her X-Wing had a joystick. She also formed a friendship with her wingman, a female Human named Anni Capstan. Solo's first mission involved providing cover for the transports evacuating civilians as the Yuuzhan Vong launched an attack on the convoy. Most of the ships managed to escape, and Solo contributed to the defeat of a Yuuzhan Vong warship by firing proton torpedoes at its weapons immediately after they fired and before the triskele valve protecting them could reseal.

With the convoy's exit route to Agamar blocked by the Yuuzhan Vong, Solo, Leia, and Danni redirected the refugees to Dantooine, where they assisted in establishing a camp with the assistance of Kre'fey's ship, the Ralroost. However, the Yuuzhan Vong were not far behind and soon initiated a large-scale air and ground assault on the refugee camp. During pre-battle planning, Solo devised a tactic involving the premature detonation of proton torpedoes before they could be consumed by a dovin basal shielding creature, with the aim of causing collateral damage and overloading the dovin basal. Her commanding officer, Colonel Gavin Darklighter, approved of the tactic. During the Battle of Dantooine, Solo aided refugees in escaping offworld before the Vong could seize Dantooine. She and the other Rogue Squadron pilots engaged coralskippers that were harassing the camp and also participated in strafing runs against Yuuzhan Vong ground forces. To counter two Yuuzhan Vong rakamat walkers, Solo and three other Rogue pilots were tasked with firing torpedoes at them while Luke Skywalker redirected the defensive dovin basals to target the rakamat, consuming it. The destruction of the walkers allowed the remaining refugees—half of whom had perished at the hands of the 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 the young Rogue Eleven soon found herself assisting in the recruitment of new pilots and training under experienced pilots Tycho Celchu and Wedge Antilles. Simultaneously, she and her brothers had to cope with their father's descent into depression and alcoholism following Chewbacca's death. When not training, Solo participated in missions such as providing cover for the Battle of Garqi. This event involved the insertion of her brother Jacen and a commando/Jedi team onto Garqi to conduct reconnaissance of the planet. Solo encouraged her brother to not only prepare but also to dedicate time to focusing on the mission and learning from his companions, Jedi Corran Horn and Ganner Rhysode. During this operation, Solo, along with nearly everyone else in the New Republic task force led by Traest Kre'fey, was deceived into believing that Jacen and the ground team had been killed during insertion. Understandably, she was initially distraught, believing her brother to be dead. After being informed of the truth later by Darklighter, she was relieved to learn that this was not the case, but she did not appreciate the deception, even though it was necessary for operational security. This event humbled her, as Solo realized that she did not have a right to special information regarding the mission and that she was not entitled to any undue privileges due to her heritage.

Their subsequent mission involved a reconnaissance run through the ruins of Sernpidal, another emotionally challenging experience for Solo due to Chewbacca's death during the planet's destruction. They discovered that the Yuuzhan Vong were cultivating a worldship and immediately reported back to their flagship, Ralroost, to relay their findings. Solo and Ralroost returned to Garqi and once again provided cover for the commando team, this time during their extraction from the planet. The presence of a Yuuzhan Vong fleet nearly spelled their doom, 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 the renowned Imperial ace Baron Soontir Fel and nephew of New Republic ace Wedge Antilles. He and a group of his pilots condescendingly escorted Solo and her wingman Capstan back to Ralroost, much to her annoyance. 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 bafforr trees grew. However, the Yuuzhan Vong had also learned of this discovery and planned a full-scale assault.

As the defense of Ithor was being planned, Solo received an invitation to attend a formal ceremony on Ithor, which was attended by Imperial, Chiss, and New Republic military representatives, as well as a few New Republic and Imperial politicians. Solo was particularly interested in meeting the leader of the Chiss unit, who had defeated her several times in simulations. To her surprise, she learned that their leader was a Human, Jagged Fel, who took the time to introduce himself to her and offered a backhanded compliment on her flying skills.

When a shuttle arrived from the Yuuzhan Vong carrying the remains of the Caamasi Senator Elegos A'Kla, Solo and Capstan were dispatched to retrieve it. While observing the decontamination procedures, she was joined by Fel, who suggested that they should simply take the risk and open the shuttle. Solo retorted that his comments seemed very mature, to which Fel implied that she was not sufficiently hardened or mature enough to handle battle. Solo took offense at his remarks but simultaneously felt a certain attraction to the stoic pilot. In any case, the remains of A'Kla also included 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, an event that deeply affected Solo emotionally. Nevertheless, the New Republic forces managed to stall the space advance. However, the battle as a whole was a defeat for the New Republic, as 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, which had been arranged 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, although two of the Chiss squadrons and Fel remained with the New Republic. Furthermore, Ithor's destruction significantly contributed to the Anti-Jedi sentiment among the galactic public. For her part, Solo grieved over the loss of her wingmate, and Anakin attempted to provide her with support.

Jaina Solo accompanied her family to Chewbacca's funeral on Kashyyyk, where she stood by her grieving father, offering him emotional support. Overwhelmed by grief at the loss of his longtime friend, Han lashed out and abandoned his family on Kashyyyk, instructing Solo to take the family back to Coruscant in the Millennium Falcon. This ultimately led to a stronger bond between Solo and her mother, whom she had previously criticized for her emotional distance. In her father's absence, Solo continued her career as a Rogue, although she took a brief leave to visit Yavin IV, where she learned of a plan proposed by Talon Karrde to meet with the Hutts for intelligence-gathering purposes. Solo offered to assist Talon Karrde on his mission, but Ganner Rhysode and Kyp Durron volunteered and were selected instead.

Wounded in combat

In 26 ABY, Lieutenant Solo, along with Rogue Squadron and their Chiss allies, engaged the Yuuzhan Vong fleet at Kalarba. The battle proved disastrous for the New Republic because the extragalactic aliens had employed their Yo'gand's Core tactic, which 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 battling coralskippers.

Subsequently, the Yuuzhan Vong launched an assault on 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 devastated her X-wing, although she managed to eject into space. Before being rescued, she experienced hallucinations due to low oxygen levels, during which she spent several hours conversing with Yoda, but she was unable to understand him because he was speaking Gamorrean the entire time. Unfortunately for her, Solo also sustained injuries that resulted in temporary blindness. She was granted a medical leave and transferred to Duro, which had been designated as a SELCORE haven for refugees from conquered worlds and was also where her father and brother Jacen were located.

Solo was not pleased to be removed from active duty, but she endeavored to rest and recover as quickly as possible, knowing that the Yuuzhan Vong were continuing their advance, conquering Druckenwell and Rodia. She attempted to send a message to her mother through Senator Viqi Shesh, but her efforts were unsuccessful, which frustrated her. One night, Jacen awakened her, leading her to investigate a peculiar insect infestation. They soon realized that the insects were naotebe winglings, a Yuuzhan Vong creation intended to destroy the refugee camps on Duro. They evacuated their colony, but the decontamination procedures required to prevent the spread of the winglings necessitated that Solo undergo the same quarantine as all the other evacuees, which involved being immersed in a chemical bath and having 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 displeased to see her mother, blaming her for being absent during her daughter's most difficult times. Leia responded that she had been unaware of Solo's injuries and further stated that she would undergo the same decontamination procedures as Solo and the rest of the refugees, including having her head shaved. This garnered some respect from Solo towards her mother, although Solo continued to resent her mother's perceived lack of attention to her children.

As she recuperated and her sight gradually returned, her father requested that she address a troublesome Hutt, Randa Besadii Diori. She approached him to reprimand him for crashing into the communications shed when he suddenly handed her a Yuuzhan Vong villip communication device, informing 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.

Subsequently, Mara Jade Skywalker asked her to assist in investigating 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, in fact, the Yuuzhan Vong Nom Anor. Solo used the Force to unmask him, but he fled before they could subdue him. Anor attempted to collapse a tunnel on them, but Jade Skywalker managed to prevent the rockfall from crushing them until help arrived.

Knowledge of Anor's presence came too late, as he had already sabotaged several operations, including releasing the naotebe winglings that had destroyed a refugee encampment. As the refugees were frantically preparing for evacuation once again, Solo assisted Mara, Anakin, and Luke Skywalker in locating her brother Jacen, who had gone missing. While Anakin and Skywalker staged a diversion, Solo discovered the building where her brother was unknowingly awaiting a meeting with a collaborationist who intended to turn him over to the Yuuzhan Vong. She helped him escape, but they still lacked a means 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, as well as 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 attempted to dig their way further 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 eliminating their guards, but Leia was not finished. She attempted to use a mining laser to inflict further damage, only to be captured by a Yuuzhan Vong party. She closed a door, separating her children from her, while urging them to flee before she did so. Her choice allowed the twins to escape, but their mother was captured. Jacen immediately went back for her, and while Solo hesitated somewhat, expressing more resentment towards her mother for abandoning them again, she too eventually returned as well. 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 instructed her to warn the others about her captor—Warmaster Tsavong Lah—and his threat to destroy Duro's orbital cities and the millions of people within them. Solo complied with the request and relayed the message, although she was exasperated by her mother running her off yet again. She then returned just in time to witness Jacen finishing off the Yuuzhan Vong who had been torturing her mother. With Jacen carrying a wounded Leia, Solo led the way back through the tunnels on Duro to the Millennium Falcon, where Han Solo was waiting for them. They then departed Duro together. The incident on Duro prompted 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 made arrangements for Leia to receive medical attention. Once her mother had returned, Solo was requested to accompany her to a Senate session where Senator Viqi Shesh was accused of corruption. Despite Leia's ongoing leg injuries, she asked her daughter to employ the Force to assist her in walking, and Solo obliged. The accusations Leia presented against Shesh were grave, leading to the Appeasement Vote—a piece of legislation that could have outlawed the Jedi—failing by a margin of two to one, as Shesh faced the corruption charges.

Following that session, Solo attended a gathering of Jedi on Coruscant. There, Kyp Durron voiced his anger at what he saw as Luke Skywalker's and other Jedi's lack of action. Solo and her siblings defended their uncle, though they shared Durron's view that action was needed against the invaders. After Durron stormed out, Solo and her brother Anakin caught up with him, attempting to convince him to stay, but he remained stubborn. Subsequently, Solo and her brothers sought 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 the situation, but while he acknowledged the danger, he stated he needed them for other assignments. Anakin disregarded these instructions, however, and traveled to Yavin 4 independently, arriving shortly before the Peace Brigade's assault.

News of a Yuuzhan Vong fleet appearing above the system led Skywalker and Solo to approach New Republic Chief of State Borsk Fey'lya, seeking military support in the Yavin system, but Fey'lya declined. Solo suggested gathering as many Jedi and ships as possible, independent of official assistance or authorization, but Skywalker advocated for patience. Amidst their deliberations, Solo and Jacen realized that Mara was expecting a child and offered their congratulations. Mara thanked them and proposed they use the Jade Shadow to locate Booster Terrik and his Star Destroyer Errant Venture, seeking his assistance in rescuing the students from Yavin Four. They accepted the task and departed. Eventually, they successfully located Terrik and aided 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 flight in their X-wings, the Solo twins prevented Yuuzhan Vong ships from attacking the salvaged transport Anakin had acquired to transport the Jedi students not retrieved by Talon Karrde, buying 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 anti-Jedi political pressures. When an arrest warrant was issued for Luke and Mara Jade Skywalker, the two senior Jedi fled in the Jade Shadow, signaling Solo to provide cover for them. She assisted them in warding off a squadron of interceptors, disabling their ships rather than destroying them. Rogue Squadron arrived to support the Skywalkers as a demonstration of solidarity, though Master Skywalker cautioned them against endangering themselves and their future with the New Republic. Colonel Darklighter informed Solo that she was still considered a Rogue, which she appreciated, even if she couldn't fly with them at the moment. At that point, the Skywalkers prepared to jump to hyperspace. Before doing so, however, Luke requested that Solo locate Kyp Durron and arrange a meeting with him. He also provided her with the means to locate Durron—a tracking device aboard 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 she also informed Durron that Master Skywalker wished to meet with him. Durron agreed to meet with the Jedi Master, but requested Solo's assistance in exchange. He informed her of a massive Yuuzhan Vong vessel being cultivated in the ruins of Sernpidal, which he described as a planet-destroying weapon. Convinced of the threat, Solo reported the existence of a Yuuzhan Vong gravitic superweapon to her superiors, though she harbored distrust for Durron, and disliked his aggressive and manipulative manner. 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 impending attack on Sernpidal, which she declined in favor of remaining with Rogue Squadron. He then asked her to become his apprentice, to which she responded pessimistically that she would consider it, though she struggled to decipher 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 casualties even as the capital ships arrived. To bolster their numbers, General Antilles himself took to an X-wing, flying alongside Solo, which thrilled 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, and the explosion 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 caused a deep rift between her and Kyp Durron, as she declared that she would never trust him again. The destruction of the worldship also brought the pretense of the Yuuzhan Vong truce to an end.

Mission to Myrkr

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. Solo located the Rar sisters on the freighter Nebula Chaser 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 were unable to assist the unfortunate refugees and crew aboard the ship, they managed 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 fell victim to them, including Solo's brother's old 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. Faced with this dual threat to the Jedi, Solo and Jade Skywalker returned to Coruscant to devise a strategy to counter this new menace. While there, Solo, still unable to fly with Rogue Squadron, contented herself with watching over baby Ben.

While the Mon Calamari Jedi Master Cilghal spearheaded 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 gathering more voxyn corpses for study. Based on her experience in Rogue Squadron, Solo was placed in charge of tactical planning for the mission, though her brother Anakin was in command. Leading a team of young Jedi who had grown up and trained together, they conducted a stake-out 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 fell outside their mission parameters. Durron's squadron, which had also been lying in wait on a separate mission, had no hesitation in flying in 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 heavy damage on a Yuuzhan Vong frigate analog. That engagement also provided 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 deduced 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 handed over 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 quickly developed, with the agreement that Lando Calrissian would act as 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 aided in the strenuous tactical planning for the Jedi strike team. To further their plan, the Jedi also devised a plan 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 turn over the seventeen Jedi. Calrissian's wife and crew entered with blasters and "captured" the Jedi, forcing them to dispose of their lightsabers down a waste chute. When they were handed over to Yaght, Anakin made a show of attempting to spring a weapons locker and stage a revolt to further the illusion that they were unwilling captives. The blasters inside the locker were stored without their power packs, though, and the Yuuzhan Vong quickly suppressed the escape attempt. Unfortunately for the strike team, the Bith Jedi Ulaha Kore was stabbed by a coufee knife in the struggle and sustained a severe, albeit 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 didn't confirm the existence of a Jedi base, Solo screamed that it did exist, despite the disapproval of the other Jedi. Yaght then released Kore from the torture, only to give Solo 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 harm Kore further if she did not choose. She was then forced to watch as he used a voxyn to gash Anakin repeatedly, until Solo revealed another tidbit of information.

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

After they were deep into Yuuzhan Vong space, Anakin triggered the escape plan. Two YVH droids that had been riding the ship's hull broke free and burst 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 clamped to the ship. Solo helped subdue the rest of the 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 found a Yuuzhan Vong worldship Baanu Rass which orbited Myrkr while serving as the voxyn-cloning facility. Solo helped fly the ship even as Anakin used a baradium missile to destroy a Yuuzhan Vong matalok cruiser that attempted to stop them. Kore then volunteered to fly 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 discreetly 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 saved 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 added more voxyn to their hunting parties in response. Solo and the strike team set an ambush that slew 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 started to grow 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, he began 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 completion, rapidly diminished with every 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 received a heavy amphistaff blow and went down, prompting Anakin to battle his way to her rescue. He was stabbed by an amphistaff in the process, and two more Jedi, Drark and Eryl Besa, were slain by the Yuuzhan Vong. Anakin did save her, though she immediately chided him for doing something so rash. Her youngest brother then ordered the team to press on despite the severity of his injury.

Anakin's wound eventually forced them to come to a halt 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 battle 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, 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 the body of her brother. 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, slaying 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 mean time, 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 couldn't 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 the Gallinore. While en route, she used that time to heal and begin thinking about a mission to rescue Jacen.

Hapan intrigue

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 abducted onto a large Hapan vessel. Pursuing it, the instant Solo steered the frigate toward the enemy, she experienced a Force-induced sensation akin to Jacen's death. The intense emotional impact briefly incapacitated her, but she rapidly regained composure, prioritizing Tenel Ka's rescue. Solo then boarded the ship, and with the aid of several Jedi, Tenel Ka subdued the pirates who had tried to abduct her. Maintaining control, Solo dispatched Zekk and Tenel Ka ahead in the captured Hapan ship. Her commanding nature and lack of hesitation toward violence and retribution caused concern among the others, yet they tolerated her actions while vigilantly observing her. Accompanied by escorts Jagged Fel and Kyp Durron, who had just arrived, both ships achieved a secure landing.

While arranging transport for Anakin's body, she encountered her parents at a refugee camp. Solo apologized to her mother for failing to recover Jacen, but Leia insisted on her other son's survival. Solo disagreed, but her father cautioned her against judging her mother. Solo then departed, seeking solitude to grieve. She journeyed to the gardens of Ta'a Chume, only to be discovered by Ta'a Chume herself. The former Queen Mother extended an invitation to a diplomatic dinner, suggesting that—once properly adorned—Solo could leverage her beauty 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 declining health. Solo discerned that Chume was maneuvering to request her assistance in arranging a marriage between her mother and Djo's husband, Prince Isolder. She promptly rejected the proposal and departed. Unbeknownst to her, Chume intended to pair herself with Isolder and resolved to manipulate them both into marriage.

Later at the dinner, she encountered Kyp Durron, who insisted she don Jedi robes and accompany him to her brother's funeral. Despite her anger, Solo complied. She attended the funeral, listening as friends and family shared memories of Anakin before his cremation. Solo kept her distance from Zekk, who informed her of his imminent departure, and from Durron, whom she still resented.

The following day, she and Lowbacca were repairing the Trickster. Fel visited, seeking her assistance in scouting Hapan space for Yuuzhan Vong. Solo retorted rudely, mentioning she had her own ship, her irritation partly stemming from her unkempt appearance. Fel departed as Solo continued her work in a huff. Her mother visited and inquired why she was so difficult to sense in the Force. Solo explained she was suppressing herself and her emotional burden, rejecting Leia's offers of support. Leia then shifted the topic, asking about Solo's work. Solo detailed the modifications she was making to the Trickster to transmit misinformation to the Yuuzhan Vong during battle. Fel later returned, seeking an apology for her earlier behavior. Solo rebuffed him and denied rumors of her joining his squadron as Durron had. She then resumed working on the frigate with Lowbacca.

Once her work was complete for the day, Solo requested an audience with Chume, seeking to interrogate some of the pirates captured after attempting to kidnap Tenel Ka. Chume granted her permission to take some of the pirates to the bio-engineers on Gallinore for experimentation with Yuuzhan Vong slave implant devices and suggested she bring someone with her. Given 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, stipulating that he keep it secret. He agreed to her terms. 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, took a pirate—one of three who had attacked the group of Jedi upon entering Hapan space—to Khal for "experimentation" to discern the nature of the Yuuzhan Vong biots. Solo only revealed her true purpose to Durron, knowing the others wouldn't comprehend her methods. Tenel Ka questioned her association with Durron after the events at Sernpidal earlier in the war, and Solo explained she needed to learn specific skills from him.

With Lowbacca's unwitting assistance, she and Durron secretly delivered the prisoner to Khal for his experimentation. Although the man attempted to escape en route, 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 quickly incapacitated the guards, allowing them to transport their cargo to Khal. Solo also learned to wipe memories from Durron, and wiped 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.

After Khal promised results the next day, Solo spent time training with Lowbacca and Tenel Ka in Gallinore's wilds. Upon obtaining the altered slave seeds from Khal, she returned to Hapes to complete her modifications to the captured Yuuzhan Vong frigate. While there, she secured further promises of support from Ta'a Chume, although Tenel Ka cautioned her against trusting the old woman. She also spoke with Fel again, who conveyed a message from her parents, who had left after Han was injured in a brawl. Fel also echoed Tenel Ka's warning against Ta'a Chume.

Through meticulous examination of Trickster, Solo, aided by Lowbacca, discerned a core principle of Yuuzhan Vong space travel—objects in space were identified by their unique gravitic signature. She began devising strategies to exploit this knowledge against the Yuuzhan Vong. Solo noticed the dovin basal bore markings symbolizing the Trickster. She replicated these markings and applied them to Hapan ships, imbuing them with the Trickster's gravitic signature. Her tests proved successful, albeit at the cost of Hapan pilots. Her 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 refinement.

When Durron discovered her actions, he was enraged. She countered that she was merely 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 intended to test her theories. The conflict ended when Durron volunteered to fly the mission himself. Solo relented, and as Durron departed, Fel arrived and cautioned her against marrying Prince Isolder. Solo feigned offense at his every word, twisting them into insults, and dismissed him quickly as she prepared to launch her frigate for the next test of her deceptive tactics. As it turned out, the Yuuzhan Vong had amassed a sizable fleet, intending to capture her.

During the Battle of Hapes, the Trickster battled the Yuuzhan Vong fleet, employing decoy dovin basal signatures to induce the Yuuzhan Vong vessels to attack one another. With their numbers depleted, the Yuuzhan Vong retreated, and Solo and her companions were hailed as heroes upon their return. Solo was then directly asked by Ta'a Chume to marry Isolder. Solo avoided an outright rejection—as that would have been unwise. Instead, she sought out Fel to inquire about the fight that had caused her parents to leave. Unable to find him, she attempted to locate him through the Force, only to experience a vision of herself killing her brother Jacen while he was clad in Darth Vader's armor. Durron intervened, pulling her out of the vision and expressing his understanding of her ordeal, the vision of the darkness within her. Solo realized she had already crossed too many moral boundaries and resolved to continue fighting the Yuuzhan Vong, but this time ethically. She also recognized her attraction to Jag Fel and used that attraction to find him via her nascent Force connection with him. He had been detained on Ta'a Chume's orders, but Solo and Durron freed him. He informed them that an attempt on Teneniel Djo's life was imminent. They rushed to the Queen Mother, only to find her dead from poisoning.

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, which she placed under Fel's command. Solo then launched her frigate into space. Durron attempted to dissuade her, fearing she would sacrifice her life, but Solo outmaneuvered him, leaving him on the ground as she flew Trickster into combat. Solo fought valiantly, but her ship was outgunned. During the battle, she experienced another Force vision of herself battling someone in Darth Vader's armor, this time Kyp Durron. In reality, the Jedi Master had flown to her aid and been forced to eject from his fighter. Realizing she could 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, Solo was approached by Ta'a Chume, who lamented Solo's refusal to become Queen of Hapes. Solo scorned the old woman, who was promptly arrested, and asked Durron where they were headed next. He replied he was going to meet with Luke Skywalker to reconcile their differences, and she agreed to accompany him.

Following her success with deceptive tactics at Hapes, Solo's reputation began to spread due to cunning disinformation disseminated 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.

Trickster goddess

Following the loss of Coruscant, the remnants of the New Republic Advisory Council convened at Borleias in 27 ABY. The New Republic forces there, under Wedge Antilles, attempted to regroup and began formulating plans to counter the Yuuzhan Vong threat, beginning with defending Borleias. On one occasion, they employed the "Starlancer" to fire a laser beam through hyperspace at Warmaster Tsavong Lah's flagship as a lure for the Yuuzhan Vong. During this period, Solo arrived from Hapes, accompanied by several other Myrkr strike team survivors, Durron, and Jag Fel. After discussing her role on Borleias with her uncle, Antilles, and her parents, she was placed in command of an elite fighter unit known as Twin Suns Squadron, originally founded 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 sizable 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 protected them from vacuum, the Yuuzhan Vong intended for the hostages to burn up when they re-entered Borleias's atmosphere. Based on an idea of Fel's, Solo's flight managed to save them from this fate by vectoring their fighters into their paths; the resulting low-speed collisions altered the hostages' trajectories, allowing them to be rescued. The arrival of the Yuuzhan Vong fleet, however, signaled an escalation of the invaders' campaign against Borleias.

Following that, 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 ascertain whether 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 obsession with twins if Jacen was 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 was correct.

Also while on Borleias, Antilles encouraged her to exploit 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, assisted Solo in developing her "Goddess" 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 accepted that it was necessary to mimic the Yuuzhan Vong goddess Yun-Harla as part of a prolonged psychological warfare operation against the Yuuzhan Vong. She was also addressed by similar titles, including "Great One."

In the meantime, Solo and her Twin Suns participated in the Starlancer Project by covering the starfighters that composed the plan. However, when the Yuuzhan Vong attempted to attack the fighters, Antilles and his staff were unprepared for the object of their assault to be Solo, not the Starlancer vehicles. Battling through numerous coralskippers, Solo and her squadron were nevertheless surrounded by a wave of Yuuzhan Vong craft. Fel devised a novel tactic wherein he would fly back through the Yuuzhan Vong ships while Solo and Durron kept two Jedi shadow bombs behind him until the last minut, when they would hurtle them into the interdictors pinning the squadron in place. Fel's maneuver was successful in destroying one of the Yuuzhan Vong interdictors, but a gravitic singularity sent him off-course and he was pursued by numerous coralskippers. While the rest of her squadron jumped to safety, Solo refused to leave Fel and Durron in turn refused to leave her. Disobeying direct orders from Colonel Celchu, she and Durron returned to the fray and Durron employed an exhausting Force technique to turn the second interdictor's gravity wells against it, crushing it. The surviving coralskippers tried to pursue them, but Fel, Durron, and Solo were able to escape to the safety of the frigate Lunar Tide and Rogue Squadron.

Upon her return to the base, Solo was immediately called to see General Antilles. She expected a stern debriefing from the officer, but before she met with Antilles, she was confronted by Fel. Solo expected him to chide her as well, but he instead asked her 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 crying, at which point Fel embraced her, assured her that he wasn't going anywhere and kissed her. He then met with Antilles in her stead and was able to avert any disciplinary action towards Solo.

Not long afterward, Solo made amends with her mother after Leia returned from a mission ferrying young trainees to a Jedi facility hidden in the Maw Cluster. Between that reconciliation and the sparking of a relationship with Fel, she became more emotionally stable. Shortly thereafter, 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.

Sword of the Jedi

Following their triumph at Borleias, Solo's Twin Suns Squadron underwent multiple staffing changes. The New Republic sought to integrate inexperienced pilots with seasoned veterans, hoping to foster more experienced fighters and increase their chances of survival. Consequently, renowned pilots such as Kyp Durron and Jagged Fel were transferred out of Twin Suns. However, as a form of recognition, Solo was promoted to the honorary rank of Major.

As part of her expanded responsibilities, Solo played a key role in strategizing the Second Battle of Obroa-skai. The goal was to eliminate the Yuuzhan Vong Supreme Overlord, with assistance from the Hapans and General Keyan Farlander's fleet. Solo took command of her captured Yuuzhan Vong frigate, the Trickster, during this engagement. She entered the system with a New Republic fleet trailing behind, creating the illusion of pursuit. By doing so, Solo exploited the Yuuzhan Vong's aggressive nature, leaving their flagship exposed to attack. Simultaneously, the New Republic deployed innovative weaponry, such as a yammosk jammer, to disrupt the Yuuzhan Vong war coordinators. When the initial yammosk jamming proved ineffective, Solo astutely realized that a second yammosk was coordinating the Yuuzhan Vong forces after the first one was disrupted. This second yammosk was swiftly jammed, granting the New Republic fleet a superior level of synchronization over their Yuuzhan Vong adversaries. Meanwhile, Solo maneuvered her frigate to the rear of the enemy formation, deploying decoy dovin basals that tricked Yuuzhan Vong ships into targeting each other. She then launched an assault on the flagship just as Hapan reinforcements arrived, completing the destruction of the weakened rear of the Yuuzhan Vong fleet. The battle concluded successfully, bordering on a complete rout. However, Supreme Overlord Shimrra Jamaane was not among the casualties, leaving Solo frustrated by what she perceived as a failure, although she was happy to see Tenel Ka again.

Subsequently, Solo, along with Farlander, followed orders to return to Kashyyyk, where they met with Admiral Traest Kre'fey, Farlander's commanding officer. Kre'fey commended them on their victory before informing them that the Bothans had declared ar'krai, a state of total war, against the Yuuzhan Vong. Kre'fey also shared the news of Solo's brother's survival and return to Mon Calamari. While delighted to hear of Jacen's survival, she also pondered how to explain her dark-side-influenced actions during his absence.

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

Concurrently, the loss of Borleias compelled the New Republic to seek refuge on the aquatic planet of Dac in the Outer Rim Territories. It was on this world that Kre'fey granted Solo temporary leave, allowing her to reunite with her brother Jacen. She was also tasked with requesting additional Jedi from her uncle to aid in fleet coordination. However, Solo found little enjoyment in her break from active duty, longing to rejoin Kre'fey's fleet on Kashyyyk and continue the war effort. During her meditations with her brother, she found no solace in anything that did not prepare her for future confrontations 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. Solo was bestowed the title of "the Sword of the Jedi" by her uncle, a role she embraced with utmost seriousness. In granting her this title, Skywalker emphasized that she would always be at the forefront, focused, and resolute; restless, yet dedicated to protecting others. However, this role occasionally caused her distress, as she sometimes felt destined to avoid love or close relationships, particularly after enduring the loss of numerous friends and comrades during the Yuuzhan Vong War. Having gathered more Jedi to support Kre'fey and acquired new strategies, she curtailed her leave and returned to Kashyyyk to resume her participation in the war.

Over the following months, Solo fought alongside 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 dismantle the Vong war fleet. This campaign reached its climax in the Battle of Ebaq. Solo and some of the other Jedi were rumored to be on the moon defending the newly established government, although it was actually a strategic deception to lure the Yuuzhan Vong into a trap, as Ebaq 9 was a hyperspace dead end with no escape route. While a massive Yuuzhan Vong fleet assaulted the base, New Republic forces executed flanking maneuvers, encircling and dismantling their vessels while guiding them through minefields as part of a carefully laid trap. Solo and her squadron initially supported Farlander's fleet stationed above the moon, but after prolonged combat against the Yuuzhan Vong and suffering casualties, they were ordered to withdraw.

As the battle raged on, Solo and the other Twin Suns, including Tesar Sebatyne and Lowbacca, retreated to the moon and awaited further instructions. While the combined fleets of Kre'fey, Farlander, Han Solo, and Garm Bel Iblis relentlessly attacked the Yuuzhan Vong in space, Tsavong Lah landed on the world with ten thousand warriors, intent on either killing or capturing all the Jedi. Solo and her pilots engaged in a delaying action, employing mines, blasters, and the Force to weaken the Yuuzhan Vong and their voxyn. Retreating into a mine shaft, Solo, Tesar, and Lowbacca found themselves cornered, but remained determined to fight on. 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 ensnared by blorash jelly, Solo engaged Tsavong Lah in a one-on-one duel, ultimately killing him by plunging her purple lightsaber blade through his throat.

With the battle concluded, the Yuuzhan Vong had lost Lah and the majority of their fleet. Solo and the remaining Jedi emerged unscathed, and she was transported off the moon along with her companions to proceed to the next theater of war. Following the New Republic victory, the 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. Governmental changes between the New Republic and the Galactic Alliance included a new constitution, a stronger judicial branch, and a more robust system of checks and balances that curtailed the power that had been almost exclusively concentrated in the hands of the Senate under the New Republic.

In 28 ABY, Major Solo participated in several follow-up raids after the Battle of Ebaq 9 as part of the Ralroost's fleet. Teaming up with her brother Jacen, Saba Sebatyne, and other Jedi, Solo was pleased with the success of the raids, but desired to escalate the conflict against the Yuuzhan Vong further. Kre'fey announced that their destination was the Peace Brigade capital of Ylesia. While the Bothan admiral intended to strike from orbit, the Jedi advocated for capturing and putting the Peace Brigade leaders on trial to maximize the propaganda victory and minimize civilian casualties. While planning the mission and training her pilots, Solo was surprised by Fel, who had arrived with his squadron to have repairs done at Kre'fey's fleet. Having sensed some ambiguity in Solo's messages to him, Fel decided to gauge her feelings for him. He snuck into her cabin and kissed her upon her arrival, which Solo momentarily enjoyed before resisting and using the Force to hurl him across the room. However, she was pleased to see him, spending time with him and relieving him of substantial amounts of his money in sabacc. He also agreed to assist with the assault on Ylesia.

Solo volunteered to command the ground forces during the assault on Ylesia, overseeing the Jedi forces, while Tigran Jamiro led the Galactic Alliance's conventional military forces. First, however, Kre'fey's fleet had to eliminate the Yuuzhan Vong and Peace Brigade naval forces. Solo led her Twin Suns squadron into battle against the Peace Brigade flotilla, which proved to be no match for the disciplined and well-equipped Galactic Alliance Fleet. Twin Suns Squadron was then assigned the task of clearing the spaceport, but diverted to engage a Yuuzhan Vong coralskipper force attempting to attack the ground troops. After destroying the coralskippers, Solo and her squadron moved in to provide cover for the landing.

As the ground troops landed, Solo quickly joined them. She discovered that her second cousin, Thrackan Sal-Solo, the leader of the Peace Brigade, had already been captured after attempting to disguise himself as a civilian. Since Sal-Solo claimed that he was not a willing participant in Peace Brigade activities, Solo decided to compel his assistance as a guide to capture the remaining Peace Brigade leadership. En route, she helped subdue Peace Brigade defenders, who were no match for her and Lowbacca, along 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. When they refused to comply, the Galactic Alliance forces breached the door and stormed the shelter. Solo and Lowbacca led the way, suppressing all resistance by capturing the Peace Brigade government, including the renegade Senator Pwoe.

The arrival of a Yuuzhan Vong fleet forced a hasty retreat back to the landing zone for departure to Kre'fey's fleet, but the remaining Yuuzhan Vong ground forces ambushed the speeder convoy upon arrival. Solo fought to defend the convoy in the ensuing chaotic skirmish, and the arrival of Fel and Twin Suns Squadron as close air support enabled the landing force to escape back to their ships. Kre'fey's fleet retreated after inflicting damage on the Yuuzhan Vong ships in space, securing a victory. However, Solo was dissatisfied with the outcome of the operations on Ylesia, particularly the Yuuzhan Vong ambush, but calmed down when Jacen and Fel explained that the Peace Brigade had been crippled.

Unification mission

Following the Battle of Ebaq, Solo attained the rank of Lieutenant Colonel and returned to Mon Calamari, where she encountered Kyp Durron. Solo also inquired about Tahiri Veila, who had previously left her a message requesting a meeting. Durron informed her that Veila had not attended a recent Jedi gathering. Solo met with her parents and Fel, listening to their mission planning with minimal interest while Durron departed to investigate Veila's whereabouts. To her surprise, she was assigned to escort her parents on diplomatic missions for the Galactic Alliance. While she preferred to be on the front lines, she did look forward to spending more time with Jagged Fel, who was also accompanying Twin Suns, the Pride of Selonia, and the Millennium Falcon.

As the meeting concluded, Solo received a call from Veila, who seemed frantic and claimed that Anakin Solo wanted her dead. Solo requested that an intelligence officer, Belindi Kalenda, trace Veila's comlink. With the coordinates obtained, Solo located Veila in the care of a medical team, unconscious and suffering from self-inflicted wounds. At the medcenter where Veila was taken, Solo explained what she had heard from Veila and assisted Jacen in observing her until she regained consciousness. Meanwhile, while awaiting the mission's departure, she sparred with Fel, enjoying his company even as she grappled with her frustration at not being on combat duty. She also bid farewell to her brother, Luke and Mara Skywalker, and Danni Quee, who were embarking 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 attack on the Imperial Remnant and listened to her parents debate the mission's first destination, the Koornacht Cluster. Their initial stop was at Galantos, where the mission re-established contact with the native Fia and sought information on the status of the Yevetha in the nearby Koornacht Cluster. Solo grew increasingly concerned about Veila, who had begun to wander aimlessly or collapse suddenly, in addition to being frail and unwell. Solo also observed a holo of Veila eluding her escorts on Galantos and discovering some kind of object. Veila's reaction to it was startling, eliciting a wild lightsaber defense against anyone who approached her before she fainted. 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.

Based on information gathered by Solo's parents from a Ryn informant, the diplomatic mission's next destination was Bakura. Upon arriving 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 contain. Before Solo could use her lightsaber, he landed a blow with his augmented strength and fled once more. Her parents discovered her on the ground, suffering from the impact. While Leia stayed to care for her injured daughter, Han and a group of P'w'ecks pursued Cundertol. Meanwhile, Fel and his squadron of fighters had compelled the Ssi-ruuk to surrender, and the P'w'eck uprising had successfully dealt with the reptilian invaders on the planet's surface, thus ending the conflict.

Solo was transported back to the Pride of Selonia for medical attention, but she was more concerned to find Veila in the same catatonic state she had been in since the bombing. Although Cundertol had managed to get away for the moment—he would later meet his end at the hands of Yuuzhan Vong infiltrators within the Ssi-ruuvi Imperium—Solo was gladdened to learn of the treaty signed between the P'w'ecks and Bakurans. Furthermore, Goure confirmed that Veila's Yuuzhan Vong personality was battling her Human one. The Ryn suggested ending Veila's life to resolve the conflict, a suggestion Solo immediately dismissed. A local Kurtzen healer named Arrizza attempted a healing ritual to alleviate Veila's internal strife, but no immediate changes were observed. Instead, Solo and Fel took turns keeping watch over her.

Based on information from the Ryn, the expedition then proceeded to Onadax. Solo and her father conducted separate investigations throughout the town, seeking information or another contact within the Ryn informant network. Solo also sought out the engineers responsible for converting Cundertol into a human replica droid, eventually finding their fortified complex on Onadax. Using the Force, she bypassed the outer security measures with relative ease. Upon reaching the manufacturing hub, she was greeted by Stanton Rendar, the leader of the collective that produced the HRDs. Rendar, who had also been transferred into an HRD, made no attempt to fight her and denied any responsibility for Cundertol's actions. He then attempted to persuade her to accept an HRD body, but she refused. Declaring her intent to shut down his facility, she was attacked by ten security droids while Rendar escaped. 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 her wake. Separated from the Millennium Falcon, Solo made her way to the Pride of Selonia instead, reaching the ship just moments before the mob arrived. After lifting off, Solo's parents revealed that they had rescued the Ryn leader Droma on Onadax, who requested that they check in at Esfandia, where the Yuuzhan Vong were attacking the communications relay. As the Pride of Selonia made its way to Esfandia, Solo assisted in monitoring the comatose Veila, whose condition continued to deteriorate.

Upon arriving at Esfandia, the crew discovered a Yuuzhan Vong fleet engaged in an assault on the planet. Severely outmatched by the Yuuzhan Vong forces, they were unsure of their next move when an Imperial fleet under the command of Gilad Pellaeon arrived and initiated an engagement. The Pride of Selonia moved to provide assistance, but Solo was not involved in the initial confrontation—she had entered a mind meld with Veila before the battle commenced. Solo observed Veila's personality clashing with her implanted Yuuzhan Vong personality, Riina Kwaad, but any injury Veila inflicted on Kwaad was mirrored on herself. In the end, Solo aided Veila in merging the two fragmented aspects of her personality while both women remained unconscious. During Solo's unconsciousness, Fel stayed by her side and confessed his love for her, urging her to return, a declaration Solo later acknowledged.

Once Veila had reintegrated her fractured mind, Solo regained consciousness, with Veila following shortly thereafter. Fel quickly brought her up to date, explaining that they were in a standoff with the Yuuzhan Vong fleet, while the Millennium Falcon had landed to locate the mobile relay base on Esfandia's surface. Veila proposed a scheme to pose as a traitor, offering Han and Leia Solo to the Yuuzhan Vong commander, and Solo endorsed her plan, lending it credibility. Solo also secured Imperial support from Pellaeon for the plan, as she was effectively in charge of executing Veila's idea. She, Fel, Veila, and a small team boarded a wrecked Yuuzhan Vong ship equipped with a functional set of villips. Veila successfully deceived the Yuuzhan Vong into allowing their derelict vessel to descend to Esfandia, where she claimed she would hand over the Jedi and the relay base. After landing the hulk on the planet's surface, they departed in speeder bikes to locate the relay base.

She rendezvoused with her father and Droma, who had also arrived on speeder bikes to install a transponder set to explode and repair a transmitter for Veila to send a message to 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 attacked the Yuuzhan Vong landing party, but Solo's speeder was shot down, causing a breach in her enviro-suit. Veila, Fel, and Droma reached her, and Droma transported her back to the Millennium Falcon as she lost consciousness. She awoke during the journey to find that they were being 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 cut away the netting beetles they launched at her.

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

Due to the injuries she sustained on Esfandia, Solo was unable to resume flying duties and spent her time recovering. Veila visited her, apologizing for the problems she had caused during her period of conflict and explaining that she had sought Solo's help because Solo reminded her of her lost love, Anakin Solo. Solo assured her that she was happy to have helped.

The Conclusion of Hostilities

Upon her return from the Pride of Selonia missions, Solo and Twins Suns Squadron rejoined the Galactic Alliance fleet and participated in the strike on Fondor. The planet and its shipyards were lightly defended due to a feint on Duro, enabling the Galactic Alliance to take control of the planet. Solo was particularly pleased that her squadron emerged from the battle unscathed. However, at a subsequent celebration, a Duros pilot named Lensi from Rogue Squadron attempted to resign, claiming that his people had been manipulated and deceived into believing they were liberating Duro. Solo calmed him down and explained that the decision was made to ensure operational security and was the correct choice to achieve the larger objective of liberating Fondor. While Lensi was not entirely satisfied with her explanation, he reconsidered his resignation.

Her next significant engagement was Operation Trinity, where she and the Twins Suns once again served under the command of General Antilles. However, when the HoloNet relays in the area were disrupted, Antilles' command was left isolated and surrounded by Yuuzhan Vong forces. When Yuuzhan Vong coralskippers penetrated the Galactic Alliance fleet, deploying grutchins to attack the capital ships, Solo and her pilots were tasked with flying extremely close to the large warships to burn them off with their thrusters.

Following this, General Antilles personally assigned her squadron to investigate, retrieve, and reactivate a derelict Golan II battle station. After dealing with 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 encountered Erli Prann, the station's commander, and discovered that it had evaded Yuuzhan Vong detection 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 brought in the rest of her squadron, disabling their X-wings with ion beams, dragging them into the station with tractor beams, 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 was setting the course to take the Golan Two out of the system, Solo used the Force to cloud his mind and alter the trajectory, directing the station towards a Yuuzhan Vong interdictor that was pinning down the Galactic Alliance fleet. They emerged from hyperspace in front of it, forcing an enraged Prann to fight for his life. They succeeded in taking down the interdictor, allowing Antilles' beleaguered fleet to escape. After the interdictor was destroyed, Prann attempted to kill her, but Solo tried to dissuade him. However, just as Prann was about to pull the trigger on his blaster, her parents, who had been acting as couriers to determine what had happened to Antilles, arrived 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, warning him that he would be killed if he ever touched her 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.

After these missions, in 29 ABY, Solo returned to Mon Calamari, where she spent her free time strolling 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 convoy over Selvaris. The Yuuzhan Vong and their Peace Brigade allies suffered heavy losses as Solo and her squadron destroyed numerous coralskippers. The majority of the prisoner ships were seized by the Alliance, preventing the Yuuzhan Vong from transporting 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. The enhanced coralskippers, known as "stingcrawlers," penetrated the Galactic Alliance transports and fighter screen, 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 find out what had happened to them. She remained on Ralroost, maintaining a constant watch for their return. With the Skywalkers and Jacen still in the Unknown Regions and her parents missing, she became worried and despondent. Fel and Durron both attempted to provide her with emotional support, but she was inconsolable, questioning how much people meant to her and whether she could cope with losing them. Summoned to a Jedi meeting concerning the missing team in the Unknown Regions, the Jedi decided to wait one more week for Master Skywalker to respond before assembling a strike team to pursue them. Solo agreed that the missing Jedi seemed further away than before but 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 assembling 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. Navigating through intense fire, she managed to survive the chaos, withdrawing from the massive armada as soon as the order to retreat was given. She and her surviving pilots regrouped as the Yuuzhan Vong continued their advance. Half of the enemy fleet withdrew, and while the remaining ships continued their assault 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 destroyed 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. Realizing that Yuuzhan'tar was more important, Choka ordered the fleet to withdraw 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 form living ships to defend the planet, but Solo was not chosen for this honor. 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 was encouraged to wait a little longer by Mara before leaving. Eventually, she was recommended for a strike team including her parents, Luke Skywalker, and Jacen that would attempt to stop 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 rapport with the dhuryam during his captivity. As such, the strike team hoped to neutralize Shimrra and rein in the dhuryam after they penetrated 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 began 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 in retreat thanks to the "Jeedai"-worshiping Shamed Ones, who sought to overthrow their oppressors. Solo was surprised to see Fel on the ground, providing assistance after being shot down. She bid him farewell and 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. 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 used his empathy over Yuuzhan Vong creatures to enable them to breach 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 battled their way through layers of Yuuzhan Vong warriors, but none could withstand Luke Skywalker's command of the Force and combat skills. They confronted the Supreme Overlord and his elite bodyguards, the Slayers, engaging them in intense hand-to-hand combat. Seven of the fifteen slayers attacked Solo, perceiving her as the weakest combatant. The shifting of Shimrra's bunker due to Jacen's successful manipulation of the dhuryam complicated the duel, making it difficult for the combatants to maintain their footing.

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 all along. He took Solo captive, believing she was the Trickster and intending to sacrifice her after escaping in Shimrra's private escape vessel. However, her brother came to her aid and killed Onimi. As the ship deteriorated from exposure to Onimi's array of toxins, Solo's parents, guided by the turncoat Nom Anor, reached the ship and rescued them. Anor attempted to betray them but was quickly neutralized by Jacen and, at his own request, left 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 an end to the Yuuzhan Vong War. 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 introspect and determine where the Force would lead them next. Solo 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 time to settle down before committing to marriage. Fel was disappointed but promised to visit 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, where Han Solo left 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.

The Crisis of the Dark Nest (35 ABY–36 ABY)

A Plea for Assistance

As the war concluded, Solo remained dedicated to the Jedi Order, successfully apprehending thirty-seven warlords and dismantling over a hundred smuggling operations while the Galactic Alliance endeavored to reconstruct itself. Six years following the war's end, she, along with Lowbacca and Tesar, successfully subdued the pirate Redstar and his crew aboard his vessel, the Night Lady. However, shortly thereafter, she faced interrogation at MaxSec Eight by a Reconstruction Authority inquisitor. During this interrogation, she perceived a strong sense of distress through the Force originating from the Unknown Regions. Acting on this Force signal, she abandoned her assignment, pinpointing the source to an area within one hundred light years of Chiss territory. Several other Jedi who had survived the Myrkr mission joined her, including Tahiri Veila, Alema Rar, Lowbacca, Zekk, Tesar Sebatyne, and Tekli.

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

Operating from a moon orbiting the planet Qoribu, Solo and six fellow survivors from the Myrkr strike team aided the Taat nest against Chiss encroachments. As a result, their minds, already connected through extensive use of the Jedi battle meld during the Yuuzhan Vong War, became even more deeply entwined with the subtle biochemical influences of the Killik nest. They were soon joined by Jacen, who arrived shortly after. Jacen had received the coordinates of the Killik nests from his sister, but on his way, he also paused to examine the wreckage of the Tachyon Flier, the spacecraft that had carried Thul and the Dark Jedi to the Unknown Regions. Using a combination of StealthXs, Jacen's ChaseX, and Tahiri's Sekotan ship, they collaborated with Killik dartships to disable Chiss defoliators that were attempting to deprive the Killiks of food and natural resources they were attempting to gather.

However, during one particular mission, as they fought through a squadron of clawcraft to disable four more 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. It was at this point that Alema Rar chose to employ lethal force, something the Jedi had previously avoided. The battle escalated into a large-scale conflict, and Solo, despite her anger, realized that even with the destruction of several Chiss starfighters, four more Jedi vessels had been ensnared in the Star Destroyer's tractor beams. Then, another Killik nest, the Mueum, launched thousands of its rudimentary rocket-powered dartships to collide with the Star Destroyer. Although Lowbacca was forced to eject, the Jedi avoided immediate casualties, but at the cost of Chiss lives and an escalation of hostilities.

Unknown to her and the others, her parents, along with Masters Skywalker and Saba Sebatyne, had embarked on a journey to the Unknown Regions to meet Raynar Thul, who now identified as "UnuThul" as his fully integrated persona within the Killik nest. Having discovered the location of the seven Jedi 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 soon 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 encountered the seven rogue Jedi.

After the initial greetings, the Masters Skywalker demanded explanations for Solo's and the others' behavior. While Solo would have preferred to be rescuing Lowbacca, Luke Skywalker insisted on answers. Solo and the other Jedi who had traveled to Qoribu gave them a tour of the nest, highlighting different aspects of Killik life. However, when questioned about the Killiks that had attacked the Solos and Skywalkers en route to Qoribu, all seven of the Joiner Jedi denied any knowledge of the attackers and claimed that such an attack was impossible. At that point, Master Skywalker requested that all seven of them return to Coruscant. Solo and the others were indignant, but when she asked her mother for her opinion, Leia responded that the seven Jedi were making the situation worse. Solo agreed to leave at that point, but only after Lowbacca was rescued. Her parents and Saba Sebatyne did help search for Lowbacca even in the midst of a Chiss search cordon, but the Chiss were able to recover the Wookiee Jedi before the elder Solos could, much to Solo's annoyance.

While the Masters Skywalker departed with four of the strike team members, Solo, Zekk, and Rar remained, refusing to return to Coruscant until Lowbacca was recovered, despite entreaties by Solo's parents. Instead, the three young Jedi decided to stay on Qoribu and delay the Chiss, while also promising to look into 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 injured her badly. Realizing that their daughter was unmoved, Han and Leia Solo departed, conveying the injured Sebatyne and Rar, who volunteered to accompany them as a guide, with them.

Solo and Zekk became increasingly absorbed into the Killik hive mind. One night, they fell asleep next to each other after participating in a communal Killik dance, though when she awoke, Solo insisted that nothing had happened between them and Zekk agreed. Shortly after, Thul approached them, informing them that they were being sent back to the Galactic Alliance. Solo quickly realized that Thul intended to destroy the next Chiss fleet sent against the Qoribu nests, which would allow time for a Hapan fleet, which Jacen had convinced to aid the Killiks, to arrive. When they inquired about his motivation for war and the Dark Jedi and vicious Killiks belonging to a secretive Dark Nest, Thul became defensive and evasive. The conversation ended soon after.

As Thul continued his preparations for war, Solo's mind was touched by that of her twin brother's, who reminded her of what Lomi Plo and Welk had done to them on Myrkr. Gathering her mind and thoughts so she regained almost full control over her individuality, she persuaded Zekk to accompany her to the hangar and stop the war that Thul was planning. Their progress was impeded by streams of Killiks all headed the other way, while Thul's will damped down on her concentration and focus. Seeing the difficulty they were having, Solo pretended to give up and returned to the barracks while encouraging Zekk to keep trying to reach the hangar. She then collected 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 sent him a message, a taunt that tipped him off to the impending Killik attack.

Despite their efforts, the arrival of a Jedi strike team and the elder Solos bent on eliminating the Dark Nest, which had headquartered itself inside a moon called Kr, was enough to bring both the Hapan and Chiss fleets into trading blows in a show of brinkmanship. The Killik ambush had been ruined by Solo's warning of Fel, and yet Thul drove the swarm of Killik dartships to attack, in order to rescue Lowbacca. For her part, Solo and Zekk were in their StealthXs waiting for an opportunity to free 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 tactic. She warned Thul of the threat and then she and Zekk sneaked into the heart of the Chiss fleet in a brazen attempt to infiltrate it and rescue Lowbacca. They were discovered and flew through a barrage of defensive fire, which caused the Chiss to send the warship containing Lowbacca into the safety of hyperspace.

Discouraged and defeated, they turned their StealthXs back to Kr to assist their parents. Though surprised to see the Dark Nest's existence confirmed, they entered the tunnels where the Jedi strike team had landed and helped fend off Killiks that were attacking the grounded ships. They were fully Joined to the Nests by that point and so did not participate in the fight against Gorog and the duel where Luke Skywalker slew Welk. Instead, they waited for Thul to arrive. Thul's emotionally damaged psyche could not comprehend the nature of the Dark Nest, but he did accept Han and Leia Solo's offer of conveying the Killik nests to new worlds farther from Chiss space. This came at one condition, though; 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 took the opportunity to bid Fel goodbye and they both expressed mutual sentiments of gratitude that neither had had to directly fight the other.

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

Upon landing at the refinery, they discovered black membrosia, a Killik food substance produced by the Dark Nest. Its presence confirmed the Dark Nest's continued existence. However, while they were inspecting the refinery, the Tibanna tappers departed, shutting down the repulsorlifts that powered the station. Solo and Zekk quickly evacuated before the refinery crashed, frustrated by their inability to capture the Tibanna tappers.

After learning that the Dark Nest had resurfaced and attempted to attack Luke Skywalker, Solo and Zekk tried to defend the Killik Colony from blame, but the fact that the Killiks were influencing pirates and corrupting insect species with black membrosia meant that their repudiations fell on deaf ears. Despite their renewed commitment to the Jedi Order, some of the Masters remained wary of them, as Solo and Zekk were still Joined to each other and maintained an emotional connection to the Killiks. They were explicitly prohibited from participating in any search for the Dark Nest's location. The Jedi also learned that the new planets, including Woteba, where the Killiks had been resettled, were protected by a form of nanotechnology that attacked anything not native to the planet that was in sufficient quantities.

Swarm War

Harboring suspicion and resentment towards outsiders, the Killiks imprisoned Han Solo and Luke Skywalker, blaming them for the defenses of Woteba, and the Galactic Alliance imposed a blockade on the Utegetu Nebula where the Killiks resided. Kyp Durron attempted to assemble a rescue team that included Solo and Zekk. However, the action was not endorsed by all the Masters, including acting leader Corran Horn. Horn, Hamner, and several other Jedi arrived at the hangar where the prospective rescue team was gathered, leading to a protracted debate over the appropriate course of action.

During the argument, Jacen arrived and, influenced 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 take StealthXs and prevent the war. They were deceived by Jacen into attacking a Chiss base to incite conflict between the Chiss and the Killiks, as Jacen claimed that the Chiss were planning a surprise attack on the Killiks that would trigger a war. His reasoning was that initiating a conflict before the Chiss could launch their attack would lessen the overall impact of the war. He was actually manipulating them for his own purposes, and the Chiss had no such plans. 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 never to fly with Jacen again. The Swarm War had begun.

When Luke Skywalker summoned all the Jedi to the Conclave on Ossus, Solo and Zekk ignored the call, remaining in the Unknown Regions with the other Joiner Jedi to assist the Killiks in winning the war against the Chiss on Tenupe, utilizing their StealthXs effectively. 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 sending in 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 released. Solo was also surprised to see Jagged Fel on the dropship and was momentarily distracted by seeing him again. This almost proved fatal as a laser cannon blast nearly struck her, but Zekk pushed her aside in time. Jacen then dealt with the dropship by causing it to crash, though Fel survived due to Jacen's careful use of the Force that disabled the craft without destroying it. While the Jedi fought the commandos, Fel emerged from the ship and activated the vape charges, destroying the bomb. Solo was displeased with Jacen's actions, despite the fact that he had saved Fel's life. After this skirmish, Solo and Zekk strengthened their resolve to stay 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 waited with a massive force of Killiks placed under their command by Thul. The Killiks counterattacked by digging tunnels underneath the Chiss drop ships 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 dealt with three Chiss soldiers waiting in ambush, crippling two of them and killing the third. She attempted to save the lives of the two injured, but they were convinced that survival was the same as being insect food and activated a vape charge. Solo jumped free in time and returned to the battle.

Over the next weeks, Solo participated as wave after wave of Killiks attempted to wage a war of attrition on the Chiss landing force, at a terrible cost in Killik lives. Compelled by the will of Thul, the insects would sacrifice themselves in storming Chiss positions even as the invaders conducted a strategic withdrawal that whittled away at the enormous numbers of Killiks. The insects continued to push forward, though, overwhelming Chiss MetaCannon artillery and infantry alike with sheer weight of Killik numbers. When a squadron of Chiss AirStraeker gunships arrived, Solo called for Zekk and his airborne units to assist her, but Chiss clawcraft held him off even while giant Kolosolok Killiks made their attack on the Chiss perimeter. When Zekk did arrive, the AirStraekers were quickly dealt with and Solo pressed the assault. Using 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 launching 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 became 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 confronting an entrenched enemy with superiority in firepower. Deciding to take a more cautious approach, she attempted to do some scouting on her own, only to be attacked by a pair of Squibs that had been hired to kill her. She deflected their assault and retreated, her position compromised to Chiss snipers. With the help of the Mollom nest, she captured her assailants and interrogated them, learning 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 turned them loose so she could focus on dealing with the Chiss. Upon seeing the Killiks use their primitive trebuchet artillery, she came up with the idea to flood the islands they were holding.

Weeks later, Solo soon 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 look for her. Solo was unperturbed, though, knowing that Thul was readying a Killik swarm to attack the Chiss and smash them into Tenupe. At that point, she saw a heavily guarded group of defoliators and sensed danger on 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, though Solo warned him that while she still loved him, he should eject to avoid her having to kill him. However, Fel and Chiss continued to protect the defoliators. At that point, 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 destroy 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 hide.

They were rescued by the Millennium Falcon from the shelter they were holed up in. Both of them were sent to recover in the infirmary, and were quite worried about Jagged Fel's fate. During their time on Tenupe their exposure to other nests caused their Joiner bond to the Taat nest, and each other to deteriorate, eventually leaving them almost completely un-Joined by the time of their departure from Tenupe. Their familiarity with each other because of 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.

Second Galactic Civil War (40 ABY–41 ABY)

Rising tensions

During the year 40 ABY, heightened tensions between the Galactic Alliance and Corellia threatened to fracture her familial bonds. Driven by their sense of duty, Jacen and Jaina Solo, alongside Luke and Mara Jade Skywalker, aligned themselves with the Galactic Alliance, while the elder Solos sympathized with the Corellian perspective. Following the discovery of an illicit missile manufacturing facility on Adumar, the Galactic Alliance launched a punitive military strike against Corellia. Solo played a role in this operation as the leader of Team Purella, which included fellow Jedi Zekk, Kolir Hu'lya, and Thann Mithric. Their objective was to abduct Prime Minister Aidel Saxan from her residence in Coronet. While tailing Aidel Saxan's motorcade amidst traffic, Solo, Hu'lya, and Mithric were ensnared in a trap and ambushed by CorSec YVH droids. Zekk successfully landed atop the Prime Minister's convoy, but instead of finding Saxan, he encountered a decoy droid and was forced to flee as the droid initiated a self-destruction sequence. Solo swiftly came to Zekk's aid, managing to decelerate his descent using the Force. She was soon joined by Hu'lya and Mithric, and together they managed to neutralize the remaining droids. With Zekk in tow, the group fled the scene and headed towards Behareh Spaceport, where they rendezvoused with another team led by Veila. The mission was deemed a failure, as both teams were unable to capture their target, and with Corellians alerted to their presence, they were compelled to abandon Tiu Zax and execute a silent retreat. However, the overall operation achieved partial success, as Jacen and Ben Skywalker managed to disable Centerpoint Station, providing the Alliance with sufficient time for a counteroffensive.

When the Galactic Alliance decided to hold peace talks with Corellia within 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 tasked with investigating Siron Tawaler, a security officer who had disappeared sometime before the attack. They encountered Wedge Antilles and Tycho Celchu outside the airlock where Tawaler was last seen, and exchanged information before examining the area. There, Wedge discovered a tassel and, as promised, 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 exercises with the pilots, Solo relocated the squadron and their fighters to the outpost orbiting Tralus, where they anxiously awaited deployment into the battle unfolding over the planet. For the most part, Solo and the other Jedi remained docked at the Rellidir beachhead while VibroSword Squadron attempted to safeguard Tralus' shield generators from destruction. Although they failed to prevent the shield's destruction, the Alliance responded by blockading Corellia.

Schism between siblings

As the war intensified, Solo rejoined the Galactic Alliance Defense Force to suppress insurgents under Corellian leadership. However, Solo disapproved of Jacen's rapid 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 darkening behavior and was the first to suggest that Ben Skywalker be assigned a new master other than Jacen. She also admitted that Jacen had become 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 these events, Solo and Zekk received instructions to monitor a supposedly clandestine Corellian fleet as it gathered. Their Force-induced slumber was interrupted when Solo's astromech droid detected the Falcon departing the area. The droid tracked the Falcon until it entered hyperspace, revealing that Solo's parents were headed for Hapes. Upon returning from their assignment, Solo reported to Admiral Nek Bwua'tu, but she withheld the ship's identity. Bwua'tu then informed Solo that Jacen had begun assassinating Bothans, suspecting them of poisoning the World Brain and holding them responsible. Accusing her of concealing the Falcon's identity, Nek instructed Jaina Solo to find Zekk and travel to Hapes. Their mission was to warn Tenel Ka about the potential for Corellia to intervene and depose her.

After locating Zekk at the Kiris Asteroid Cluster, Solo and Zekk journeyed to Hapes. There, Tenel Ka and Isolder revealed her parents' involvement in a failed assassination attempt. Overwhelmed by this revelation, Solo faced a difficult choice between loyalty to her family and her duty to the Jedi Order. Ultimately choosing the latter, Solo and Zekk accepted a mission from Tenel Ka. They were tasked with delivering fleet 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. Approaching Hapes with crucial intelligence, Solo, Zekk, Ben, and another crew member escaped in pods as insurrectionist forces attacked the skiff. The Millennium Falcon rescued them, and they boarded the ship amidst heavy fire from Jacen's flagship, the Anakin Solo, on 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. Seeing Ben's actions, Zekk tackled him from behind and restrained him, inadvertently getting slashed in the abdomen by Ben's lightsaber. Shortly thereafter, Han asked Solo to leave the Falcon with Ben and the injured Zekk, bidding farewell before they ejected in the Falcon's escape pods. Hapan vessels later rescued them, and they reunited 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 partnered Solo with Fel and Zekk to track down the insane Dark Jedi Alema Rar, who had also survived the Swarm War. Fel led this partnership, with Solo's reluctant consent. Solo grew increasingly annoyed by the growing tension between Fel and Zekk, fueled by their perceived interest in her. Reuniting with her parents and close friends on 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.

The Hunt for Alema Rar

Solo later admitted to using her conflicting feelings for Zekk and Fel to suppress her emotions and thoughts about Jacen. She believed that the entire family, not just Mara Jade Skywalker, should pursue Lumiya. Solo initially joined Jade Skywalker in hunting Lumiya, but left 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 aid. 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 needed.

Jaina Solo was absent from the Funeral of Mara Jade Skywalker, as she, Zekk, and Fel were actively hunting Alema Rar, who had obtained a Sith meditation sphere from Lumiya. Solo repeatedly emphasized to both men that she had no romantic interest in them, preferring to focus on pursuing Rar, a suspect in Mara Jade Skywalker's murder. Their pursuit led them to the Jedi academy on Ossus, where Solo discovered larger problems stemming from Jacen's actions. Zekk remained concealed with their ship while Solo and Fel entered the academy to investigate and inform Kam and Tionne Solusar. However, with most of the senior Jedi Masters and Knights attending the funeral, Jacen, now known as Darth Caedus, dispatched a Galactic Alliance Guard battalion to seize the academy and hold it hostage.

Upon arrival, Solo encountered an emotionally unstable Major Serpa commanding the GAG contingent, who disarmed her and Fel. Solo would have preferred to fight, but she knew the lives of the young Jedi trainees were at risk, so she complied. Shortly thereafter, Luke Skywalker openly broke with Caedus, abandoning the Galactic Alliance. In response, Caedus ordered the Jedi at the academy to be slain. The GAG attempted to incapacitate Solo with coma gas before killing her, but she awoke, cleared the gas, and alerted the others. While Tionne and Kam attempted to confront Major Serpa unarmed, Solo and Fel eliminated the sniper teams, though not before the snipers nearly killed Kam Solusar and Serpa mutilated Tionne. Solo rushed to rescue the young trainees, who had been herded into one area by the GAG. As the young Jedi-to-be rebelled, Solo confronted Serpa, who had taken a trainee hostage to stop her. At that moment, Zekk emerged from hiding and severed Serpa's arm. Meanwhile, the Jedi subdued the GAG, but at a significant cost in young lives.

Solo then met with her uncle Luke Skywalker on Kashyyyk, where he and her parents had been persuading the Wookiees to resist Caedus, who arrived soon after in the Anakin Solo. When Caedus 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 foil his uncle while maneuvering to ensure that any missed shots from Solo would hit Skywalker's vehicle. During 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 bombarded the Fifth Fleet until it retreated, and Solo joined 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.

The Forging of the Sword

Following 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 encountered an attack by a seemingly complete Rar. They defeated Rar, but later found no trace of her presence, eventually deducing that the attacker had been a Force phantom controlled by Rar.

While on Kashyyyk, Jaina Solo became consumed with training as the Sword of the Jedi, but Jagged Fel intervened, pointing out that while she was an excellent Sword, she was becoming a terrible Jedi. Fel defeated Solo in a sparring match 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. Had he not been wearing the armor, he would have been killed, shocking her out of her anger. Fel also noted that Solo was preparing as if she were going to fight someone who fought like a Jedi, which Rar or Caedus would not do. He then demonstrated how an opponent would use trickery to defeat her. Though still displeased, Solo understood his reasoning.

Her next major mission after completing her training on Kashyyyk was to accompany her parents on the yacht Love Commander while attempting 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 Star Destroyer's security, the four reached Caedus's shuttle and placed their tracing device. With their mission accomplished, the saboteurs waited for Leia to return. By then, the Anakin Solo was engaged in a fierce battle. Waiting until Luke Skywalker and the other Jedi had successfully distracted Caedus, the five infiltrators departed.

Along with Zekk, her parents, and Fel, Solo resumed the hunt for the rogue Jedi Alema Rar. After Talon Karrde's organization provided them with the location of the asteroid where Rar was likely hiding, Solo, her parents, Fel, and Zekk set out to confront the deranged Dark Jedi. Fel, Zekk, and Solo landed their craft on the asteroid and began their search, fighting through phantom mynocks that sometimes resembled the intruders. Solo became separated first from Fel when he pursued a distraction, 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 atmosphere to depressurize. Fel rejoined 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 reuniting with Fel, who had killed Rar and narrowly escaped the asteroid's destruction, 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 Darth Caedus's control. 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.

Training Under Boba Fett

Inspired by Boba Fett's "gift" to her father and a comment from Fel, Solo decided to seek out Fett, hoping to gain his assistance in hunting Caedus and learn the skills necessary to confront her twin. Before leaving, 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 was met by a group of heavily armed Mandalorians and escorted to a humble, rustic cantina that served as the Mandalore's seat of government, acutely aware of the Mandalorians' traditional dislike for Jedi. Fett agreed to train her, but warned that he would be a demanding teacher. While in the cantina, she encountered two Force-sensitive Mandalorians, Gotab and Venku, but had little opportunity to speak with them.

Fett's first lesson involved dueling her with a lightsaber, which eventually transitioned into a discussion of Caedus's strengths as other Mandalorians gathered to observe. With her guard lowered, Fett delivered a powerful punch to her midsection, catching her completely off guard and humiliating her. This was not her only defeat at the hands of the warrior people. There was considerable tension between Solo and Fett, but she endured it in her quest to find a way to defeat Caedus. Another Mandalorian, Goran Beviin, also contributed to her training, defeating her in combat with Mandalorian iron beskad sabers. Beviin emphasized the importance of total war, an all-or-nothing combat against one's opponent. However, Beviin also allowed her to stay at his farm, where Solo met Mirta Gev, Fett's granddaughter, who eventually came to see her as a comrade in arms. Solo realized the stark contrast between the Mandalorians' harsh savagery and their strong familial bonds.

Even while training under Fett, she was required to assist with mechanical work and other menial tasks around the Mandalorian settlement, learning about Mandalorian culture and Fett's personal history. Fett himself told her that he was reserving Caedus for her to deal with, as the Skywalker and Solo families were to blame for the Sith's havoc. In addition to her standard training, Solo accompanied Fett and other Mandalorians to Fondor, hired as a contract force to support 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 resisted and dealing with the renegade Moffs who had planned to seize power after Pellaeon's death and had been aiding Caedus. Solo and Gev pursued 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, allowing the Sith and his apprentice to 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 was also informed of 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 Vel had sustained while in hibernation. Sensing that one of the Force-sensitive Mandalorians, Gotab, possessed healing skills, she recruited him to administer Force-induced therapy to Vel. Solo participated in the two-hour process, lending her considerable Force strength to Gotab, and Vel began to recover more completely. During this time, Solo also received Ben Skywalker's holocomm presentation of evidence that Jacen Solo had killed Mara Jade Skywalker, which only strengthened her resolve to learn how to deal with Caedus.

A month into her training with Fett, Solo, increasingly aware of the Mandalorian tendency to adopt others into their culture, was invited to Mirta Gev's wedding, where, to the delight of the Mandalorians, she simultaneously opened numerous bottles of ale with the Force. 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 tension remained between her and Fett, and Solo resolved not to reveal her knowledge of his conversation with Daala. During the battle, the Roche asteroids were 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 declared her ready to face Caedus.

The End of Caedus

Jaina Solo returned to a temporary Jedi base on Shedu Maad, where she reunited with her parents and Jedi comrades. There, in a meeting with the Masters' Council, also attended by her parents and Jagged Fel, she proposed to pursue and defeat Caedus. To her surprise, the Masters relented after ensuring she was willing to kill Caedus and that her actions were driven by a sense of need and justice, not vengeance. Luke Skywalker explained that he couldn't hunt down Caedus himself, despite his desire, as he would be consumed by his personal desire for vengeance for his wife's death. Instead, Skywalker was manipulating Caedus's visions so that the Sith Lord saw Skywalker as the sole obstacle to his goals. Furthermore, Han and Leia agreed to accompany Solo to Coruscant on a mission to pursue Caedus, along with Ben Skywalker.

Solo and her mother quietly trailed Ben to Monument Plaza, where he was scheduled to meet with his Galactic Alliance Guard contact, Captain Lon Shevu. Unbeknownst to them, Caedus's agents, including his apprentice Tahiri Veila, were tailing Shevu. After Shevu's capture, Ben eluded the two Solos, attempting to prevent their discovery. Despite this, Leia and Solo initiated a pursuit after Veila apprehended Ben. However, they were compelled to abandon the chase when Veila began leading them into an obvious trap designed for their capture. Devastated, they returned to their ship and journeyed back to Shedu Maad to deliver the grim news of his son's loss to Luke Skywalker. Upon hearing their report, Skywalker revealed that he had already foreseen this potential future and permitted it to unfold, all in the service of dismantling Caedus's power.

Later, Ben managed to escape and relay information that Caedus was aboard Nickel One, located within the Roche system. In response, Luke Skywalker directed the Jedi Order to launch an assault on the system, utilizing their StealthXs and the 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. Simultaneously, Boba Fett's Mandalorians arrived, commencing an attack on 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 successfully destroyed two Starhunter fighters targeting her parents' blastboat and neutralized an anti-fighter gun. However, she was saddened to witness a Mandalorian landing party decimated by cluster mines before they could establish a foothold. Solo swiftly breached the hangar, subdued the guards, and permitted the surviving Mandalorians, including Mirta Gev, to enter. Gev asserted that their objective was the Moffs, and they insisted that Solo accompany them, primarily to aid them against Caedus. Utilizing Nickel One's surveillance system, which Boba Fett had commandeered, the Mandalorian party promptly located the Moffs and initiated 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 directly. During their duel, Solo sustained multiple injuries, including a head wound, but managed to sever Caedus's arm. Moreover, thanks to Skywalker's manipulations, Caedus mistook her for Luke Skywalker. As the duel turned against her, she reluctantly decided to retreat, escaping to the blastboat where her parents, Fel, and Skywalker awaited. Due to her head injury, she was nearly delirious, uttering incoherent phrases as she was carried aboard the blastboat.

With Solo extracted, the Jedi forces returned to Shedu Maad to regroup. Solo underwent a period of recuperation, during which she continued her hand-to-hand combat training and received instruction from Luke Skywalker in the shatterpoint technique, which she had observed Caedus employ against a Mandalorian. Shortly thereafter, Skywalker discerned that she had been marked with a Nightsister blood trail, enabling Caedus to pinpoint her location through the Force, due to his blood having splattered upon her. Recognizing that their safe house had been compromised, Skywalker prepared the Jedi for a final defense and assault on Caedus. The Jedi received reinforcements in the form of Tenel Ka's Hapan fleet, although the Queen Mother informed them that Prince Isolder had been captured by Caedus.

Bearing the blood trail mark, Solo served 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 damage from 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 craft were hit, forcing Solo to eject, although she successfully landed on the Anakin Solo and hastily made her way inside.

With a Jedi raid to liberate Isolder having been aborted, Solo proceeded to the detention block. While she did not find the Hapan prince, she discovered Mirta Gev, a survivor of the Battle on Roche One, imprisoned with a damaged spinal column. Caedus had subjected her to torture, but she remained defiant. Recognizing that she could not free her comrade immediately, as Caedus was still at large, Jaina deactivated the restraints, provided Gev with a blaster rifle, and continued her search. She located Caedus in the bio-disposal chamber of the Anakin Solo, attempting to dispose of Isolder's body after having murdered him.

Solo surprised him, stabbing him in the abdomen, but Caedus appeared unfazed by the wound. The twins engaged in combat, employing both Force powers and unarmed combat techniques to inflict damage upon each other as they vied for an advantage. During the duel, Caedus revealed that he needed to warn Tenel Ka of a nanovirus targeting her and Allana. Solo dismissed this as a deception and attacked him relentlessly, disregarding her own safety in her determination to eliminate 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. Recognizing that he would die regardless, Caedus ceased fighting, deactivated his lightsaber, and reached out through the Force, sacrificing his life to warn Tenel Ka. 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. Jagged Fel arrived with a sizable Jedi team that had boarded the Anakin Solo to capture the Moffs and end the battle, extracting her from the scene. Before allowing herself to be 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 slain.

Solo was transported from the Anakin Solo to a medical facility on a Hapan Battle Dragon to recover from the numerous injuries sustained during the duel. Her parents visited her and informed her that the war had concluded, with Admiral Daala selected as the new Head of State following Luke Skywalker's successful resolution of the larger conflict and the death of Caedus. 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 provide Jedi training. Solo later reflected that perhaps Jacen had achieved his objective, bringing peace to the galaxy by sacrificing his name and life.

Picking up the pieces (43 ABY—45 ABY)

Threats to stability

In 43.5 ABY, Jaina Solo was present on Coruscant when the Gilad Pellaeon arrived as part of an Imperial presence at a reunification summit. She was aboard a diplomatic shuttle with a Galactic Alliance delegation. While Imperial head of state Jagged Fel was occupied with diplomatic duties, she spent time with him, discussing the possibility of establishing a Jedi presence in the Empire, though Solo was hesitant.

Later, Solo attended another unification summit on Coruscant with Fel, and was present when Luke Skywalker was taken into custody by Galactic Alliance Security personnel. She was angry when Skywalker was arrested for criminal negligence leading to Jacen's fall, but the elder Jedi accepted his fate quietly, and Solo made no hostile move. Skywalker was released after an arraignment, but the Jedi knew public opinion was shifting against them.

After fellow Jedi Valin Horn, who had gone seemingly insane and was placed in protective custody, escaped from the Jedi Temple, Solo helped pursue him. She paired with Master Kyle Katarn and followed Horn, who had stolen an X-wing, in an airspeeder. Horn ejected from his craft and landed another vehicle manned by a group of bounty hunters. Solo followed him down, landing nearby. Solo attempted to follow but was hit by a weapon fired by Quarren bounty hunter Dhidal Nyz, which ensnared her in an electrified net. This caused her to lose her balance 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.

The incident intensified public opinion against the Jedi. Assigned as the official Jedi liaison to the Galactic Empire, Solo faced harassment. After the Galactic Alliance and Luke Skywalker negotiated a deal where Skywalker would be exiled for ten years or until he could prove he knew how Jacen had fallen, Solo was present at his send-off, and later at the first meeting held by interim Grand Master Kenth Hamner. Hamner informed the Jedi that they would be accompanied by government observers, an idea which Solo disliked. She was angrier when she learned that her observer would be Dab Hantaq, an old acquaintance from the Yuuzhan Vong War who also resembled her deceased brother Anakin. Solo complained about her observer to Hamner, who advised her to take it up with the Galactic Alliance while also asking her about the whereabouts of her parents; Solo evaded his questions. During this time, she was assigned to study Nyz and the other bounty hunters who had pursued Valin Horn, and managed to sneak away to spend some more time with Fel, who again tried to convince her to open a Jedi school in the Empire. She rebuffed him, telling him that serving as the Sword of the Jedi was her responsibility. While with Fel, she also visited Tahiri Veila, who was living alone, away from the Jedi, and asked her about Jacen, though Veila had little to offer.

Jaina Solo was present when Valin Horn was turned over to the Galactic Alliance and later at a court hearing when it was announced that he would be frozen in carbonite, which she did not take well to. Refusing to be shackled by the Galactic Alliance observers, she organized a group of people into an informal organization called Darkmeld, including fellow Jedi Tekli, former Intelligence agent and also Solo's former babysitter Winter Celchu, Fel, and Veila. Their job was to watch out for another renegade Jedi, Seff Hellin, who had also been spotted near the Temple and was suspected of having the same condition that Horn had.

One night, Tekli told her that Hellin had been spotted trying to get into the Armand Isard Correctional Facility, where Horn was being held. From then on, the Darkmeld members constantly observed Hellin. On one occasion, Solo was nearly caught sneaking out of the Temple by her observer, Hantaq, but Fel pretended to be with her when she answered the comlink, and Hantaq backed down. Later, when Hellin was prepared to break into the prison via a tunnel, Solo, accompanied by Hantaq, took a speeder to a nearby park to provide assistance. Managing to escape Hantaq, she was able to assist in capturing Hellin after Veila, Fel, and Celchu flushed their quarry.

While pursuing the fugitive Hellin, Solo again encountered the bounty hunters they had encountered earlier, including Nyz, who snared Hellin with his net weapon. However, Solo cut the line on the net, allowing Hellin to drop to the ground and furthermore give time for the Jedi to retrieve Hellin. The Darkmeld team was then able to elude pursuit and returned to the Temple discreetly, bringing a sedated Hellin with them. Though a Galactic Alliance delegation, led by Captain Oric Harfard arrived the next day, Master Hamner denied knowledge of Hellin's whereabouts, as Solo had kept her organization secret from the Masters. However, she was eventually found out by Mon Calamari Master Cilghal, who confronted Solo and insisted that the other Darkmeld members keep her involved in their plans from then on, to which Solo agreed.

Engagement

As Solo and Fel openly continued their relationship, the couple were increasingly harassed by the press, especially journalist Javis Tyrr. This also meant that Solo's activities with Darkmeld were made more difficult by the need to remain incognito. Though the observers from the Galactic Alliance were withdrawn thanks to legal action by Twi'lek attorney Nawara Ven, Tyrr incessantly harangued Solo.

Jaina Solo, along with her mother, attended a meeting of the Masters' Council shortly after Jedi Jysella Horn was affected by the same malady that had seized Valin Horn and Hellin. She was not pleased 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.

In order to escape scrutiny, Solo and Fel used a romantic date at the luxurious Indigo Tower restaurant as a pretense to make contact with Hellin and observe him one further. One evening, Solo headed to the fancy establishment to meet with Fel, only to use a set of doubles whom they left inside the private rooms of the restaurant. In this manner, they were able to elude Tyrr. However, the persistent journalist eventually caught up with them and went public with his story 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, unleashing 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 went public with her hiding of Hellin not long afterward, as he'd 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 end result was that Solo was confined to the Jedi Temple for two weeks, forced to apologize publicly for her role, and subjected to interviews by any reporters of Daala's choosing. Her punishment also included a day's worth of manual labor, and she bore it 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 tired. 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. At first, she was astonished, but then leaped into his arms in response.

While her relationship with Fel was at a high, relations between the Jedi Order and Daala's government continued to deteriorate. When Solo attempted to call Tahiri Veila, she did not receive an answer. She sent Jedi Knights Yaqeel Saav'etu and Bazel Warv to investigate, but they were unable to reach the former Jedi. Solo was furthermore alerted to the possibility that Saav'etu and Warv were susceptible to the same psychological affliction also by virtue of their background at Shelter during the Yuuzhan Vong War. As such, she and Fel were in position to intercept both of the Jedi when the insanity struck. While her parents were able to tranquilize Saav'etu, the initially compliant Warv proved harder to subdue and he 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 depart with Fel in his limousine. While the GAS leader, Captain Atar was initially insistent that Solo be arrested, Fel reminded him that his vehicle had diplomatic immunity, and so they were allowed to pass unchallenged.

During their ride, Solo sensed that something was being hidden from her by Fel and asked about it. Fel agreed to tell her, but only after she promised to keep it secret. Solo agreed, and he revealed that he'd learned that Daala was planning on hiring Mandalorian warriors as a contingency plan to help restrain the Jedi. About 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 in 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 let on that she had already known about the deal from Fel. Her parents were immediately disgusted and infuriated that she had chosen not to reveal 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 masterminded a plan that involved herself, along with several leading Jedi Masters and Mirax Horn showing up 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 proved them wrong. 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 found that the Horn children were being displayed in the executive suites in an offensive manner. This preempted 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 asked 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 in fact a diversion, allowing the elder Solos to leave Coruscant with the other Jedi victims of the mysterious illness, getting them out of 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 to turn it 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 defeated. 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 help, adding some legitimacy and machismo to his reputation, as well as quelling some of the rumors about her being his secret bodyguard.

At a gathering of the Jedi Masters attended by Jaina Solo, Master Hamner stressed the necessity of delaying any significant action against the Sith threat, emphasizing the need for more data. However, he did set in motion a plan to assemble all available StealthX pilots, or as many as could be reached, on Coruscant for potential rapid deployment. Furthermore, Master Durron personally informed Solo that he wanted her assigned to a StealthX should a strike force be launched.

Following a similar experience by another Jedi, Sothais Saar, as the Horns, which resulted in his capture by Master Cilghal, Jaina Solo received orders to transport him to the Transitory Mists, the location of other Jedi-held victims. This action aimed to prevent Saar's seizure by the Galactic Alliance. Solo proceeded to the shuttle bay, where she encountered Jedi Knight Tyria Sarkin Tainer performing maintenance on a Lambda-class shuttle. Their brief conversation covered topics ranging from mechanical repairs to the ongoing news broadcast. It was then that Tainer noticed the news feed was looping. Drawing upon her intelligence background, she deduced an imminent attack on the Jedi Temple.

Her suspicions were confirmed when Mandalorians stormed the Temple through breaches created by shaped charges. Solo and Tainer fought back against the intense assault, though Tainer was rendered unconscious. Solo successfully subdued four Mandalorians and emerged unscathed. The remaining Jedi successfully repelled the remaining intruders, resulting in several Mandalorian deaths and no Jedi casualties. However, the Jedi Temple was subsequently surrounded by military forces, preventing any discreet StealthX launches.

Solo was present when her parents returned from assisting her uncle on Dathomir, collecting Allana and her injured nexu pet Anji, while her parents attended a meeting with Chief of State Daala. Following the meeting, Solo learned that Daala had proposed a form of reconciliation between the Jedi Order and the Galactic Alliance, although the terms were unfavorable to the Jedi. She also witnessed acting Grand Master Hamner's reaction to Daala's proposal as relayed by the elder Solos. Despite initial reservations, Hamner chose to trust Daala, partially to assess the limits of her goodwill.

Shortly thereafter, Solo, Fel, the elder Solos, and Allana dined at the Pangalactus Restaurant, decorated with images of galactic locations and historical events. During their meal, they were attacked by a lone assassin, Kester Tolann, who breached the wall with an explosion. He was swiftly neutralized, but the assault continued with the arrival of two Yuuzhan Vong Hunter droids. Solo reacted quickly, destroying one with her lightsaber, 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, enraging Fel and the Solos. Soon after, Solo discreetly observed a meeting between Fel and Imperial Moff Lecersen, whom Fel suspected of involvement in the attack. While Lecersen showed no outward signs of complicity, he and a group of conspirators were, in fact, behind the attempt.

The Search for Sith

Later, Solo visited Fel during Tahiri Veila's trial, requesting his assistance in securing competent legal representation for Veila. He agreed, arranging for 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 swift and decisive action, but the Jedi Temple remained under close Galactic Alliance surveillance, which soon deployed Mandalorian mercenaries to encircle the Temple. Solo then sought Fel's help in either diverting Daala's attention from the siege or providing ships to assist Luke Skywalker, who was traveling with a group of Sith to confront Abeloth, believed to be the source of the insanity affecting Hellin, the younger Horns, and others. Fel acknowledged that aiding her would compromise his responsibilities to the Remnant, but agreed to speak with Daala in hopes of ending the siege, without promising further assistance. At that point, Solo concluded that their conflicting loyalties 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 aboard the asteroid tug Rockhound, escorted by a Sith frigate. Solo initially wanted 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 responsible for guarding it. They traveled to Klatooine, though Solo was impatient due to the delay. At the hearing, the Sith leader claimed that the captain of the offending ship had acted independently and offered him for judgment, even execution. Solo and Calrissian reviewed the evidence and determined that the Hutts had attempted to fulfill their treaty obligations, declaring the allegedly rogue Sith captain and his crew guilty. While neither Solo nor Calrissian believed Holpur had acted alone, they lacked the evidence to prove it.

With that issue resolved, she departed and followed her uncle into the Maw, accompanied by Calrissian and the remaining Sith vessel. After learning of the destruction of Sinkhole Station, they reached Abeloth's planet, where the Skywalkers and a significant Sith force were preparing to confront Abeloth. Solo remained in orbit, battling the meditation sphere Abeloth was using. Her attempt to fight it in her StealthX resulted in severe damage to her ship, while the meditation sphere withdrew 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 aboard Rockhound, which concerned Solo, as three Sith warriors remained with the two Skywalkers.

Upon their return journey, Calrissian and Solo discovered that Rockhound had been sabotaged by a droid that had boarded on Klatooine. The droid had impersonated Calrissian and issued numerous commands to the ship's droid crew that were detrimental to their mission. As a result, Rockhound emerged 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, against his protests, took off in her damaged StealthX, its weapon systems further weakened. She thanked him for his concern but was determined in her plan and departed in the damaged StealthX. Solo was not surprised to find 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 aboard the asteroid tug once Calrissian was ready to jump to hyperspace, completing their escape.

Upon their return 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 explained a number of 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 to legitimize the Jedi Order and secure 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 for her, though Wuul was confident she could recover her relationship with Fel.

Although the Jedi Order had pressured 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 hostility between the government and Jedi Order. As a vocal advocate for a more aggressive approach, Solo quickly became involved in a plan to free the Horn children.

Reconciliation and Retribution

While Solo and her parents were conducting surveillance near Galactic Alliance Security Detention Center 81, where the Horn children were held, they were discovered by Fel. Solo was concerned by his presence, but Fel demanded an explanation, stating that he had little time for irritation. He questioned the Jedi—specifically the Skywalkers and Solo on Klatooine—working with the newly discovered Sith. Solo explained the temporary alliance to defeat Abeloth, whom the Skywalkers had revealed was not dead, and he accepted her explanation. He then advised them to proceed with their plan immediately, informing them that he had rejected Daala's request for Imperial aid and that she intended to publicly reveal Jedi cooperation with the Sith. Solo thanked him for the information, and he also told her that he was leaving, as the Empire had ultimately decided not to join the Galactic Alliance. Fel and Solo then shared a few moments, leading to a partial reconciliation, including an apology from Solo for asking too much of him. Afterward, Solo resumed wearing the engagement ring Fel had given her, though their engagement was not officially reinstated.

Solo participated in the mission to liberate the Horn children, joining a two-pronged 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 building's exterior 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 facility's roof with a thermal detonator. They then returned to the Jedi Temple.

Simultaneously with the rescue, many Jedi piloted StealthXs out of Coruscant, thanks to an orbital diversion by the Errant Venture, which fired on orbital facilities while hosting one hundred of Coruscant's politicians in a sabacc tournament to prevent orbiting Galactic Alliance ships from firing on it. Following a message from the Skywalkers, the StealthX pilots, accompanied by the Venture, arrived over 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 escaped. Back on Coruscant, Solo and the remaining Jedi prepared for a confrontation with Daala. Following Kenth Hamner's death in a power struggle, Saba Sebatyne assumed temporary leadership of the Jedi Order and prepared to defend against the anticipated retribution from Daala. Sebatyne asked Solo to 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 to discuss plans to unseat the Chief of State. Topics included ways to divert Daala's attention from the infiltration of Jedi Masters Octa Ramis and Kyp Durron into close proximity of Daala, and Solo provided 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 need for secrecy regarding many subjects. However, they resolved to accept their mutual need for secrecy and not allow it to compromise their relationship.

Solo then assisted with the planning for the coup and was informed by the Jedi Masters that an option involving the maximal use of non-Jedi assets was likely. She was also told 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 rest of the way. Solo, Horn, and Sebatyne reached the Senate chamber, where the Senate was in session. Sebatyne then negotiated a power-sharing arrangement with Senator Haydnat Treen and the heads of the armed forces for a temporary power-sharing arrangement in lieu 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. There, she comforted Corran Horn, whose children had been unfrozen but had subsequently shown 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 teased him for attracting the ire of Imperial public opinion and he told her that he was doing his job, just as she had done her own by removing Daala. He also stated 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 over the planet, attempting to extract Abeloth from the world. Solo answered a call from Skywalker requesting extraction for his party from the surface 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 drew fire from the orbital stations protecting Nam Chorios and was severely damaged. In response, Solo and Zekk drew their fire so 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 amounts of damage. He was initially displeased that she had saved him instead of destroying Abeloth, but she told him that the Force had guided her to do so. She also told him that both of the Horn children, who had journeyed 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 additionally been freed from being under Abeloth's sway.

The Pursuit of Abeloth

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, fearing that its discovery 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 more 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 Sith worlds that would be possible destinations for Ship.

With Wan's help, Solo, the Skywalkers, and Khai compiled a list of planets that were considered potential locations for Ship. After evaluating 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 dismay. Although Solo convinced Luke that Khai's presence was a logical necessity, the older Jedi remained reluctant, and he insisted that they watch her closely.

Upon their arrival in Korriban's orbit, they sensed a strong presence of dark side energy. While it unnerved the Jedi, it simultaneously awed and excited Khai, who had been 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 she 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.

Conflicting Desires

Solo and Luke were later contacted by Solo's mother, who updated them on the events occurring on Coruscant. Leia briefly mentioned Daala, telling them 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 notifying Luke about the events that had unfolded, she dedicated some time to Fel. A communication from her parents briefly interrupted them, as they contacted Fel to update him on their offworld journey. Later, Solo and Fel tuned into reporter Perre Needmo's broadcast, The Perre Needmo Newshour, where Luke announced his choice to withdraw the Order from Coruscant, thereby ending its formal political association with the Galactic Alliance. While the Jedi would no longer be an official governmental arm, they would still offer assistance to the Alliance when needed. This new situation presented a challenge to Solo and Fel's relationship; her position within the Jedi required her to support Luke's decision, which would mean spending time away from Fel. They opted to postpone this discussion, determined not to let it spoil their happy reunion.

The following day, Solo and Fel engaged in a conversation before leaving for the elder Solos' secure location, discussing the potential adverse effects of Luke's decision and its implications for their relationship. Despite his sadness at the prospect of another separation, Fel expressed understanding for her commitment to the Jedi. He also shared his plans to return to Imperial Space after their meeting with the Solos to address political matters. Shortly after, Solo and Fel joined her parents for an unexpected dinner, where they discovered that Tahiri Veila—who had escaped her scheduled execution—had sought refuge with the Solos. Veila had surrendered herself to them, hoping they could help her atone for her actions as Caedus' apprentice, notably the assassination of Gilad Pellaeon, which had incurred Fel's wrath. Given that her crime against Pellaeon fell under the jurisdiction of the Imperial Remnant, the Solos hoped Fel would grant Veila a retrial in an Imperial court. However, Fel preferred to hear the details of the elder Solos' trip into Imperial Space before making any decisions.

Following Fel's request, they recounted to Solo, Fel, and Veila their encounter with the Squibs Emala, Grees, and Sligh—longtime friends of the Solos—on the planet Roonadan. They explained that the Squibs had been collaborating with an Imperial Remnant faction loyal to Fel to discredit Daala, and had successfully obtained a recording of the former Chief of State. In the recording, Daala outlined her scheme to assassinate Fel and seize his position as the Imperial Head of State, also revealing her accomplices, including Moff Porrak Vansyn. Han and Leia's narration of the event surprised Fel, who was previously unaware of the Squibs' covert operations on behalf of the Imperial Remnant. After careful consideration, Fel decided he would speak with the Squibs, who were currently under the care of some of the Solos' associates. He then declared his intention to return to Imperial Space to confront Daala, choosing to take Veila with him as a guard.

The subsequent day, Solo made her way back to the Jedi Temple, where she readied her ship for departure. Avoiding the crowds of beings gathered outside, she gave her family and Fel a final farewell 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 exploited the opportunity to invade the planet. Enraged, Solo confronted Luke, demanding to know why he had allowed this to happen. Luke explained his plan to trap the Sith, which, while not completely eliminating her anger, did ease her worries about her mother's safety.

The Jedi fleet landed on Upekzar near the main city. Luke tasked Wan, Ben, and Khai with exploring a series of caves while he, along with a team of over one hundred Jedi including Solo, began the search for Ship. They initiated their search in the city's underground tunnels, where they detected several dark side signatures. Jedi Master Kyle Katarn speculated that the spirits of deceased Sith were trapped on the planet, an opinion that Solo vehemently opposed. The team traced the source of a strong dark side energy to a gated area in the city's center. After Luke used the Force to open the gates, he instructed the Jedi to ignite their lightsabers and follow him. Solo complied, joining the others in the open area where they encountered Tola Annax, a Keshiri Sith Saber who had previously served Gavar Khai. Annax pleaded with the Jedi to release her from her imprisonment by Abeloth, who had stripped her of her powers and transformed her body into a vessel for the planet's dark side energy. Despite feeling a hint of sympathy for the Keshiri Sith, Luke recognized it as a trap and ordered a retreat. As Solo and the Jedi fled, Annax's body, unable to contain the energy, exploded, triggering a dormant volcano. The resulting unstable environment forced the Jedi to evacuate to their transports. They rescued Ben and Khai shortly after—Wan had died in the caves—and escaped the planet.

The fight for Coruscant

While the Jedi Order was away from Coruscant on the Upekzar mission, the Lost Tribe of Sith, under the control of Abeloth who had recently possessed Senator Rokari Kem and engineered her appointment as Chief of State, seized control of Coruscant and the Galactic Alliance government. In response, Luke Skywalker devised a strategy to infiltrate Coruscant with numerous Jedi, taking advantage of the Sith's covert takeover and minimal disruption. Most of the population was unaware of the Sith's true nature, so Luke planned to slip Jedi onto Coruscant. Solo was part of a large group of Jedi aboard the starship Plain Lady, disguised to avoid Sith inspectors. Once on Coruscant, Luke assigned Jedi teams to target Sith occupying key public positions, launching simultaneous strikes against 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, Rovas shielded herself with other judges, forcing Solo and Horn to withdraw under strict orders not to harm civilians. Across Coruscant, many Sith were killed in the surprise attacks, setting the stage for the next phase of Luke's plan.

Unable to effectively defend against the sudden assault, the Sith retreated into the Jedi Temple and fortified it. Luke then ordered an infiltration to disable the shield generators protecting the temple, while allied military units under Admiral Nek Bwua'tu attacked from the outside. Solo escorted 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. Her droid Rowdy would then 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 Jedi Order's trust. When Ben and Khai were ambushed by a group of Sith, Solo intervened, killing several Sith. She helped defend her cousin, but was crushed by the body of a Sith she had slain, breaking her ribs. Despite her injuries, Solo continued to fight, defeating more attackers but sustaining further injuries from Force lightning. Meanwhile, Khai was captured. While Ben wanted to immediately pursue her, Solo convinced him not to act rashly. The Jedi Temple was clearly prepared for their attack, and the Jedi force faced heavy resistance.

The strike team then attempted to override the lockdown controls in the Jedi Temple, but were again attacked by the Sith. Solo used a jet of water to disrupt the attackers, killing their leader, but was wounded in the leg by a grenade blast. Under Luke Skywalker's mental direction, she and Ben retreated from a Sith sniper, leading the pursuing Sith into an ambush set by Luke. Luke Skywalker, Corran, Valin, and Jysella Horn ambushed the Sith force, easily defeating them. At this point, Rowdy informed them that the control interface had been disabled and instructed them to cut their way to another interface via a cargo chute. Solo was assigned to the rearguard as they plunged through the cargo chute, fending off numerous Sith until she arrived in the repair bay where the chute ended. A blast hit her in the side, hindering her breathing, but she continued to fight as the Sith poured out of the cargo chute until Jysella destroyed the portal, killing any remaining pursuers. Ben attempted to trade for Khai with one of the remaining Sith in the repair bay, but the Sith used the distraction to stab Ben in the leg with a shikkar knife before being killed. Solo scolded Ben for his inattentiveness and treated his wound. Learning that all the interfaces had been disabled by Rowdy, the Jedi team realized they would need to fight their way to the central computer core to disable the shields.

Reaching their objective would not be easy. Luke and Ben Skywalker, Corran Horn, and Solo spent two days in constant evasion, combat, and forced healing trances before they could reach one of the shield generators, rather than the heavily-defended core. During this time, Solo managed to contact Fel, arranging for him to provide a StealthX and shadow bombs. Fel loaned the vehicle and weaponry to Tahiri Veila, who was with him. The weapons were used in an attempt to eliminate an incarnation of Abeloth who was working with Daala, against whom Fel was engaged in a political and military struggle. Solo also said her goodbyes to Fel, anticipating that she would not survive the prolonged combat inside the temple.

As the most injured member of the group, Solo relied heavily on the Force to enhance her stamina, suffering from Force euphoria as her cells were gradually consumed by the overuse of the Force. The group encountered a group of Sith led by the Sith Lady Korelei, who had been possessed by Abeloth. Solo volunteered to lead the assault, knowing that her injured state made her most useful as a diversion since she was unlikely to survive. Just before her attempt, Luke Skywalker promoted her to Jedi Master. Solo fought her way through the Sith to the shield generator, followed by Corran Horn, but collapsed from exhaustion and weakness while Abeloth attacked Horn with Force lightning. Gathering her last strength, Solo confronted Abeloth before she could kill Horn. She was prepared to die to delay Abeloth, but Abeloth suddenly fled due to Veila destroying the other incarnation of Abeloth light years away on Hagamoor III. This lapse in defense allowed the Jedi team to destroy the shield generators, enabling 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 as the battle for the Jedi Temple continued. Though not fully healed, she was summoned to a Jedi Council meeting as its newest member. Solo learned that Abeloth was also living in the computer core, using the Force to cause massive seismic disturbances on Coruscant and had captured Ben. Learning the history of Abeloth and The Ones, a family of powerful Force wielders who embodied different aspects of the Force and had once lived with her, Solo realized that Abeloth was trying to recreate her old family, who had died 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 temporarily allied herself 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 sustained 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, Solo was left to find Ben and Khai. She found them and warned Ben in private about Khai's treachery. This revelation deeply saddened Ben, who was in love with Khai, but he knew that they had 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 a great cost, and the majority of the Lost Tribe of Sith were hunted down, while a new government formed under Wynn Dorvan's leadership. However, the devastation caused by the conflict led 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.

Wedding and honeymoon

Shortly afterward, 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 skeptical and eventually persuaded her to reveal that the real reason for the trip was to investigate the Sky Temple of Karsol, a ruin which Solo believed might have Jedi origins or contain information about Abeloth. Fel reluctantly agreed after she promised they would spend the rest of their honeymoon on Hapes after a few days on Sakuub. They arrived at Sakuub and met 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 embarked 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 spotted 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 unfazed even as Pharika was reinforced by a small transatmospheric ship. Pharika shot Fel in the 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, buying 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.

Personality and traits

As an adult, Jaina Solo, a Human female, stood at a height of 1.49 meters. She possessed brown eyes, dark brown hair, and fair skin. She was often recognized for sharing more traits with her father than her other siblings, including a natural talent for mechanics and piloting, along with some of Han's more impulsive and stubborn tendencies. Solo struggled to comprehend the emotional distance between herself and her mother during her early years. However, during the Yuuzhan Vong War, Solo realized she had more in common with her mother than she initially believed, which led to a much stronger bond between them. As Solo matured, many observed that she could act like Leia instantly. She shared a particularly close relationship with her twin brother Jacen, as they had a Force bond similar to that between her uncle and mother. She was easily frustrated but adept at thinking quickly and committed to completing her tasks.

By the time of the Yuuzhan Vong War, Solo had become both proficient in the Force and an exceptional pilot. In the beginning, Jagged Fel criticized her for lacking the "grim" or mature attitude needed for war, which bothered 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 overwhelmed 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 lightsaber technique was described by her brother as composed and efficient, never wasting energy. Solo was known for her bold actions, often pushing her prosecution of the war beyond the "official" Jedi stance, and sometimes deviating from orthodox Jedi doctrines, though not to the extent of Kyp Durron. Throughout the war, she was regarded as a dedicated and hardworking individual who pushed those around her to excel. Leia acknowledged that Solo had inherited her work ethic. The losses of comrades affected her deeply, and she confessed that she expected to die in the war. Her armored exterior and purposeful distancing from others served to conceal her emotional wounds, grief, and scars.

Jaina Solo's personality was further altered by the Joining process she underwent during the Dark Nest Crisis and subsequent Swarm War. She temporarily lost her individuality, sharing the thoughts of the other Jedi Joiners and the Killik hives. She lost some 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 close relationship in childhood. She was particularly annoyed by his rapid promotion to colonel, a rank she had worked years to achieve.

The continuous 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 like Kyp Durron, Jagged Fel, and Zekk. She remained as determined as ever to complete her missions, whether it was hunting down the 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 close relationships. By the later stages of the Second Galactic Civil War, Solo was resolved to stand against her brother, who had become Darth Caedus. Though she was hesitant 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, though she refused to fully accept Fett's belief that compassion and other emotions were weaknesses. As headstrong as ever, Jaina presented a plan to the Masters' Council to challenge Caedus alone, but she was prepared to accept their decision. She knew that the only way she could properly defeat Caedus was for her mission to be sanctioned against a threat to the galaxy, not driven by 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 significant physical injury for Solo but also emotional and psychological trauma. In the days that followed, she sought comfort from her surviving family and friends, 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, Solo knew internally that she would act recklessly if Fel were in danger or captured.

Solo often immersed herself in starship, machinery, or droid modifications or repairs during times of stress. After the mission to Myrkr, she spent much of her time modifying her stolen Yuuzhan Vong frigate. Following her break-up with Fel in 43 ABY, Solo turned to her mechanical inclinations to distract herself from her emotional turmoil. In one instance, she added a new humor routine to her R9 astromech droid, Rowdy, though she later found it lacking, reminiscent of Jacen's "lame" childhood jokes. Her relationship with Jagged Fel was both a source of comfort and frustration, as Solo also had a deep commitment to the Jedi Order that sometimes conflicted with her love for Fel. This became easier once Fel abdicated his rule of the Empire, and they married shortly thereafter.

As an adult, Jaina Solo was known for her unwavering loyalty to the Jedi Order and her pragmatic, straightforward approach to problems. She had no qualms about circumventing rules she deemed obstructive to her true duty. She was also known for having a considerable temper, but was generally reserved about discussing her family or romantic relationships publicly. Though Solo was known for speaking her mind, she could also endure hardship without complaint, especially when the greater good of her actions was explained. In private, among her friends and loved ones, she was more open about expressing her opinions. As Solo deeply cared about both her friends and family and her commitment to the Jedi Order, her most significant internal conflicts arose when she had to choose between the two.

Relationships

Zekk

When Solo first encountered the savvy young individual on Coruscant, she was immediately captivated. Their shared experiences led to a rapid and strong friendship. Solo frequently pondered Zekk, particularly after his enrollment in the Shadow Academy. Their burgeoning connection played a crucial role in Solo's success in rescuing Zekk from the influence of the dark side. As their paths continued to cross, a reciprocal attraction developed, although neither openly acknowledged their true sentiments. Despite their deep connection, Zekk was unable to prevent her descent toward the dark side following the Mission to Myrkr, during which Solo suffered the loss of both her brothers. They subsequently separated, only to reunite during the Dark Nest Crisis. However, by this point, Solo's affections for Zekk had evolved into a purely fraternal bond, precluding any possibility of a romantic relationship. The more Zekk attempted to win her affection, the more firmly Solo asserted that she would never engage in a romantic relationship with him.

Upon becoming Joiners, Solo and Zekk experienced a shared emotional and mental connection. Nevertheless, Solo remained unwilling to pursue a romantic relationship with Zekk, lamenting the dissolution of her relationship with Jagged Fel. Throughout the Second Galactic Civil War, Solo and Zekk maintained a constant presence in each other's lives, collaborating on numerous missions. Solo's family began to suspect a romantic involvement between Solo and Zekk, although both consistently denied any relationship beyond friendship. After Zekk confessed to Solo that he had moved on from her, Solo felt a sense of relief. However, a sequence of events prompted Solo to re-evaluate their potential for romance. Despite this, both Solo and Zekk maintained their stance as mere friends, although her family perceived 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 evoked lingering emotions, as she felt drawn to both men.

Following a head injury sustained in a lightsaber duel with Darth Caedus, Solo was evacuated to a blastboat in a state of delirium. While in this condition, she expressed a desire to share quarters with both Zekk and Fel, although she later had no recollection of making this statement. Shortly before her final confrontation with Caedus, during an assault on the Anakin Solo, Solo sensed Zekk's sudden disappearance from the Force as his ship was destroyed. Although she did not believe Zekk had perished due to the absence of any final reaction from him in the Force, she was later disheartened to learn that Zekk remained missing. Zekk was eventually discovered alive and resurfaced at a later time, but by then he was involved with a Hapan woman named Taryn Zel and engaged in other assignments. Upon receiving news of Zekk and Taryn's engagement, Solo expressed happiness for her longtime friend.

Kyp Durron

Following her encounter with the dark side, Solo became an apprentice to Kyp Durron, a renegade Jedi Master within the New Jedi Order. Initially, she was drawn to Durron's aggressive approach to the war, but gradually, Solo found herself developing romantic feelings for the significantly older Jedi—feelings that were reciprocated and initiated by Durron. However, after Durron manipulated her into assisting in the destruction of a Yuuzhan Vong warship, their relationship deteriorated, leading Solo to abandon the Jedi Master in favor of Fel and Knighthood. Although her father, Han, was enraged by Durron's exploitation of his daughter, he admitted that he greatly preferred him as Jaina's suitor over Fel, whom he had initially disliked. Solo eventually reconciled with Durron, and the two maintained a friendly relationship throughout the Second Galactic Civil War, although she no longer harbored romantic feelings for him.

Jagged Fel

Solo's initial meeting with the Chiss-trained pilot occurred during the Yuuzhan Vong War. Following their first encounter, Solo experienced a sense of connection, perceiving Fel as her equal in every aspect. As they collaborated, their feelings for each other grew. Despite their relationship being frequently interrupted by their duties, Solo and Fel found ways to maintain communication. Solo first confessed her feelings to him after disobeying direct orders to save his life during a battle against the Yuuzhan Vong. Subsequently, Fel confronted her, questioning her motives for saving him, and she revealed that she did not want him to leave her life as others had. At that moment, he kissed her, and their relationship progressed from that point forward. However, during the latter stages of the war, Solo's preoccupation with her mission led to her messages to Fel becoming more ambivalent, prompting Fel to enter her quarters unannounced and kiss her to gauge her continued attraction to him. She briefly enjoyed the kiss 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, and he provided her with emotional support. When she was in a coma for an extended period while attempting to assist Tahiri Veila, Fel remained by her bedside, expressing his love for her and his desire for her recovery. The war eventually strained their relationship, as Solo declined his invitation to return to Csilla with him, believing that her duty took precedence over her personal needs. She also recognized that the lingering effects of the Jedi meld used 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 had moved on from 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, and even entertained the idea that she was not destined to be loved. After reuniting with Fel on Coruscant, Solo and Fel's turbulent relationship became more strained, as Fel revealed to both Solo and Zekk that he was jealous of the latter. This complication led to a growing rivalry between Fel and Zekk for Solo's attention. 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 sustained 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 develop their relationship, with Fel even declaring that Solo was the woman he loved, although their relationship was kept somewhat secret due to Fel's new position as the head of the Imperial Remnant and their fear of angering the Moffs. By 43 ABY, however, the attraction between the two was common knowledge. In that same year, Jagged Fel proposed marriage to Jaina Solo. Their relationship was further complicated by the division of her loyalties. When Fel provided her with confidential information pertaining to the Jedi Order and the Galactic Alliance, Solo was compelled to withhold it from the Jedi Council, despite her desire to do otherwise, as she had given her word to maintain secrecy. 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.

Powers and abilities

As a descendant of the Skywalker lineage through her mother, Solo possessed a strong connection to the Force. She exhibited a particular aptitude for mechanical devices, although not to the same extent as her younger brother Anakin. Jaina's significant Force potential was cultivated and refined throughout her life. Even in her childhood, Solo demonstrated a natural talent with the Force, instinctively employing telekinesis during their captivity by the Empire Reborn to irritate their captors. She also utilized the Force to facilitate her and Jacen's eventual escape from imprisonment 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 was instructed in the ways of the Jedi, including the construction and use of a lightsaber. Her closest companion was her brother Jacen Solo, and the two developed a twin bond that created a strong connection between them. Solo was also a skilled mechanic and pilot, having acquired knowledge from her father and Chewbacca during her youth. Even as a teenager, Solo possessed the skill to install a hyperdrive in a starfighter. By the onset of the Yuuzhan Vong War, Solo had already gained experience as a warrior, having fought both in space and on the ground. At the age of sixteen, Solo achieved a record time through the asteroid field Lando's Folly near Dubrillion, surpassing the previous record held by Jedi Master Kyp Durron. Solo's skill allowed her to join Rogue Squadron at a young age and participate in numerous missions throughout the Yuuzhan Vong War against the alien invaders, achieving numerous victories. Solo continued to fly in the Second Galactic Civil War, initially as part of the Galactic Alliance over Corellia and later as a Jedi at the Battle of Centerpoint Station, among other engagements. During the conflict against the Lost Tribe of the Sith, Solo successfully defended against a Sith meditation sphere on multiple occasions and a fleet of Sith pirates in another with minimal assistance aside from her StealthX.

She received instruction in the use of a Jedi healing trance, which she employed on the mission to Myrkr to aid in healing the torture she endured during a brief period of Yuuzhan Vong captivity. During her apprenticeship under Kyp Durron, Solo acquired the ability to erase and alter memories from her master, which she learned while in the Hapes Cluster. On one occasion, Solo merged minds with a comatose Tahiri Veila to assist in uniting 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.

Additionally, during the Yuuzhan Vong War, she and her brothers were able to recreate 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 caused considerable disarray within the ranks of the Yuuzhan Vong, such as when she employed gravitic beacons to induce Yuuzhan Vong ships to fire upon each other. While impersonating a Yuuzhan Vong goddess, Solo learned psychological warfare from Wraith Squadron and was able to employ it effectively 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, enabling them to share in the Killik hive mind. Her particular strengths lay in the realm of starfighter combat, although she also participated in ground battles. Although she was eventually unjoined, Solo retained some of the shared-mind bond with Zekk for some time afterward. Solo maintained her capabilities as a warrior into the Second Galactic Civil War, and her intensive training, combined with a brief period of instruction under Mandalorian commandos, only served to sharpen her skills as the Sword of the Jedi. Although 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.

Behind the scenes

Origins and development

Jaina Solo's genesis is attributed to author Timothy Zahn, who introduced her in his 1993 novel The Last Command. In this narrative, her 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 deciding on "Jaina" after naming Jacen after a friend of his son's and wanting the twins' names to be alliterative like Luke and Leia's. Throughout the first ten years 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.

Author comments

Young Jedi Knights authors Kevin J. Anderson and Rebecca Moesta opted to portray Jaina Solo as a logically inclined and mechanically adept tomboy, mirroring her father's characteristics, rather than a "typical girl" character. Anderson felt that it was necessary to treat Solo and her friends as adults in order to maintain a Star Wars feel 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.