Sauk

During the period of the Second Imperial Civil War, Sauk was a Mon Calamari who spent his childhood on the world of Dac. Despite the fact that he had received engineering training, he was looking for some offworld adventure and became an apprentice to an unnamed employer. Sauk had every intention of going back once he had finished his education; however, the One Sith's genocide against the Mon Calamari people and the subsequent contamination of Dac's oceans with viral spores rendered this aspiration untenable. Sauk was unable to get in touch with his family on Dac. Sauk became unemployed at some point and ended up living on the streets of Carreras Minor, which is a planet in the Carreras system. The native Shifala, a species of simians, treated him with contempt because they did not like the influx of Mon Calamari and Quarren refugees and referred to them as "refugee scum," "flotsam," and "beggars." However, a young Human woman by the name of Ania Solo vouched for him and found him a job at an ice mining platform in the rings that surround Carreras Minor.

In the year 138 ABY, Ania, who was Sauk's friend, discovered a damaged Imperial communications droid at her junkyard on Carreras Minor's moon. This droid belonged to Yalta Val, an Imperial Knight who had been ambushed and taken hostage by the rogue Sith Darth Wredd while on a mission to the Carreras system to oversee the construction of the local communications array, which was a component of the galactic G51 communications array system. Sauk discovered Yalta Val's lightsaber while he was examining the droid. The droid had retrieved the lightsaber after the ambush on the floating world of Mala. Ania saw the lightsaber as a way to "get rich" and persuaded Sauk to take it to a pawn shop. Sauk was not optimistic about their chances of success, but he did agree to assist Ania in selling the lightsaber.

They went to Carreras Major, which is the home planet of the Shifala and the capital of Carreras Major. The indigenous Shifala had a xenophobic attitude toward outsiders, and Sauk and Ania saw a Shifala security officer shoot and kill an alien refugee. They brought the lightsaber to a pawn shop, but the Shifala shopkeeper, who was a woman, refused to accept any questionable transactions until the Carreras array was finished. Because the authorities were keeping a close eye on transactions, the Shifala shopkeeper instructed them to leave. When Ania made an attempt to negotiate a deal with the Shifala shopkeeper, the woman threatened to report her to the authorities. The shopkeeper then made use of a trapdoor device of some kind to expel Ania and Sauk from her business, and they were pursued by a number of Shifala security officers. During a confrontation with a security officer who was xenophobic, Ania shot and killed the man for referring to them as "immigrant scum."

Ania and Sauk made their escape in their shuttle, which led the Shifala authorities on a chase through the sewers of Carreras Major. Sauk was unable to return fire on their pursuers, who were riding swoop bikes, so he used his lightsaber to breach a number of pipers, which caused a torrent of fog to be released and caused the Shifala security officers to crash into a wall. After that, Ania and Sauk went back to their base on Carreras Minor's moon. Sauk started fixing the Imperial comm droid back at Ania's junkyard with the intention of selling it so that he could buy Ania a ticket offworld. When Sauk questioned Ania about whether or not it was dangerous for her to drop him off at the mining platform, Ania responded that she was not going to leave him there but that she had made a commitment to get rid of the lightsaber. At that point, the assassin droid AG-37, who was a longtime acquaintance of Ania, showed up and caught Ania and Sauk off guard. AG-37 had just landed his freighter in Ania's shipyard in order to purchase some linear converters. AG-37 also gave Ania the advice to get rid of her lightsaber.

However, the Sith impostor Darth Wredd, who was posing as Yalta Val, caught up to them and landed in Ania's junk yard with a force of security troops. When Ania refused to "return" his lightsaber, the Sith impostor used the Force to retrieve and destroy SD, Ania's droid bouncer. After that, he gave the order for his men to kill Ania and Sauk. While the guards were being distracted by a number of gesaw rats, Ania and Sauk took advantage of the opportunity to flee through the junk yard. Ania and Sauk were cornered near an engine cowling on the north side after a lengthy chase. On the other hand, AG-37 came to their rescue and started machine-gunning the Shifala security officers. AG-37 had gone to the north side earlier to pick up linear converters. After that, they made their escape offworld on AG-37's freighter.

While they were traveling offworld, Sauk was able to begin repairs on the damaged Imperial comm droid. While he was tinkering with the droid, he came across a holographic recording of an Imperial Knight engaging in combat with a Sith. Sauk and AG-37 were quick to realize that the Imperial Knight's lightsaber was the same blue-bladed one that Ania had picked up earlier. In addition to this, they came to the realization that the lightsaber's owner was not the same Knight that they had encountered at Ania's junkyard. The three companions came to the rapid conclusion that the real Yalta Val had been replaced by a Sith impostor. They came across a naval blockade consisting of Shifala ships. AG-37's freighter was successful in evading the pursuing Shifala starfighters by flying through the ice rings that surrounded Carreras Minor. During the pursuit, Ania was successful in destroying the starfighters by shoving her shuttle out of the starship's hangar bay, which sent it on a collision course with the starfighters.

AG-37's freighter was able to make a safe landing on Carreras Minor, which is a desolate desert planet. Sauk was able to get the Imperial communication droid's power source back up and running. All of a sudden, the freighter was attacked by a massive tentacled monster that was trying to eat the ship and everyone on board. The Imperial Knight Jao Assam, who was a friend of Master Val and had traveled to the Carreras system to look into his disappearance, came to the rescue of the freighter's crew. After a struggle, AG-37's freighter was able to escape by firing its exhaust engines into the monster's face. On the other hand, Ania did not trust Jao because of her bad experience with the Sith impostor. During the verbal confrontation, Sauk emerged with a blaster rifle, but Ania convinced Sauk that Jao was not a threat. Sauk was relieved because he had no idea how to fire the blaster. Sauk was also trailed by the Imperial comm droid, who had recently been repaired. After getting the comm droid to replay the holographic recording of Yalta Val fighting the Sith, Sauk and his companions quickly realized that Yalta Val had been replaced by a Sith impostor. In the end, Jao and Ania's companions came to an agreement to search for the floating world in the hopes of rescuing Master Val.

While they were traveling into the Surd Nebula, they were pursued by a number of Carreras starfighters. They arrived at the coordinates of the floating world only to discover that the space was empty. At that point, AG-37's freighter's port thruster was struck by a laser cannon, and they were trapped in the tractor beam projector of a Shifala warship. AG-37's freighter was dragged into the warship's hangar bay, where it was boarded by a number of droids, who chewed a hole through the hull of the freighter. Ania and her companions fled down the gang plank only to be captured by armed Shifala guards, who placed them under arrest. Sauk, along with Ania and AG-37, were confined to detention cells of Imperial design. In addition, AG-37 was rendered incapacitated by a restraining bolt. Ania was determined to get out of her cells, but Sauk was not optimistic about their chances of escaping. In the end, Governor Biala released Sauk and his companions and sent Jao and his companions to deal with the Sith impostor. After observing a conversation between the false "Yalta Val" and Jao, Biala quickly deduced that the former was an impostor.

Sauk and his companions, who had just been freed, made their way to the hangar bay to confront the Sith impostor. Jao was not confident in his ability to handle Darth Wredd on his own, but Ania was of the opinion that the four of them would be able to defeat the impostor. While Jao advised caution and suggested tracking the Sith from their starship, Ania wanted to take out the rogue Sith immediately. Despite the objections of Sauk and Jao, she fired on Darth Wredd's shuttle, but he survived the explosion and attacked the four opponents with ruthless ferocity. Darth Wredd cleaved AG-37 with his lightsaber during the fighting on the Carreras communications array. He also managed to wound Sauk, leaving him unconscious on the floor of the hangar bay. Despite Jao and Ania's best efforts, Darth Wredd was able to escape, but not before impaling Jao and sending him hurtling through the zero gravity of space.

Ania survived the skirmish and pursued Darth Wredd to his base on the floating world of Mala. Darth Wredd took control of the Carreras communications array and broadcasted his manifesto to the wider galaxy, deriding the Galactic Triumvirate and presenting his captive Yalta Val. Wredd made an attempt to execute Val in front of a live galactic audience, but Ania stopped him by freeing Master Val. While the two were preoccupied, Ania flew back to the Carreras communications array in Jao's starfighter and rescued Sauk and AG-37, dragging them aboard AG-37's freighter. By this point, the Carreras communications array was on a collision course with Mala, and Governor Biala had ordered a general evacuation. While they were unable to prevent Darth Wredd from escaping, Ania was able to rescue Master Val. While AG-37 piloted the ship, Ania tended to the wounded Sauk, and Jao was retrieved by the Imperial comm droid, who had rescued the young Knight because it had believed that he had come all this way to rescue it and Val. Following their rescue, Ania apologized to Sauk for putting them in danger. However, Sauk assured her that she had in fact saved them all.

Despite the fact that Sauk and his companions had managed to escape the destruction of the Carreras array, they were stranded on the wrong side of the Surd Nebula. Val's comm droid had started broadcasting a distress signal due to the fact that Jao's condition was getting worse. Sauk made the observation that they ought to have gone back to Carreras rather than attempting to pursue Darth Wredd, who had vanished into parts unknown. The Pellaeon-class Star Destroyer Animus, which had received the freighter's distress signal, picked up AG-37's freighter. Empress Marasiah Fel had dispatched the Animus to pick up Ania after learning of her involvement in the Carreras Incident. Sauk and his companions were treated as guests by the Imperials once they were on board. A pair of Imperial Navy engineers also repaired the damaged AG-37, and one of them praised Sauk's improvised workmanship.

Following their rest and recuperation, Sauk landed a job as an engineer on board AG-37's freighter. While the pay wasn't great, he thought that working on AG-37's freighter was preferable to his previous job as an ice miner. Sauk shared the news with Ania, who assured him that things would always work out in the end. AG-37 extended an invitation to Ania to join them, but she turned down the offer, citing the fact that the Imperials had promised to provide her with a good job and a nice apartment on Coruscant, the galactic capital. After giving Sauk a hug, Ania instructed the Mon Calamari engineer to take care of the grumpy old droid. After that, Sauk and AG-37 set off into space. Their travels brought them to an unidentified spaceport, where Sauk ran into another Mon Calamari refugee who told him about a plan to rebuild and resettle Dac. He made an attempt to invite Sauk along, but Sauk declined because he was employed on AG-37's freighter.

Sauk and AG-37 were in the process of transporting a large beast with sharp jaws to Iego. Because of the dangerous nature of the cargo, the creature was housed in a repulsor cage. Sauk had connected the cage to the shipboard power supply under AG-37's instructions. Sauk realized that Iego was close to his home planet of Dac and asked AG-37 if they could go there. AG-37, on the other hand, advised against it due to the fact that Dac was a failed and lawless system. After that, Sauk recounted his earlier meeting with the Mon Cal, who had mentioned a resettlement program in the Calamari system. AG-37, on the other hand, was skeptical and described the Mon Calamari as an idealist. After that, Sauk recounted how he had left Dac to work as an apprentice engineer before to the Sith-inspired Genocide and admitted that he missed his home planet and the family members he had lost. When Sauk mentioned that Mon Calamari Shipyards had been destroyed, AG-37 corrected him by informing him that the ring had only been broken but not totally destroyed.

In the meantime, Jao Assam and Ania went on a quest to track down Darth Wredd after receiving a Force vision that the rogue Sith had planned to assassinate Empress Marasiah Fel. Their hunt brought them to the lawless Calamari system, where they learned that another Sith, Darth Luft, and his pirate accomplices had launched a scam to entice Mon Calamari and Quarren refugees back to Dac. There, these unfortunate Mon Calamari and Quarren were enslaved and forced to construct starships for the pirates. Jao and Ania, along with two local guides, the Mon Calamari Luen and the Quarren Tikin, were dumped into an escape pod, which was jettisoned into Dac's poisoned oceans. Jao's Imperial comm droid sent out a distress signal, which was picked up by AG-37's freighter. Sauk and AG-37 traveled to Dac and dived the freighter into Dac's oceans with the intention of picking up Jao and Ania's escape pod. Sauk was successful in using the freighter's gun turret to fire a harpoon that caught the escape pod, but it was not an easy task.

After that, Sauk and AG-37 towed the escape pod into an abandoned section of the Mon Calamari Shipyards. Sauk and AG-37 got to know Luen and Tikin during their reunion. The four companions then talked about what they planned to do next. While Jao Assam wanted to take out Darth Luft in the hopes of finding Darth Wredd, Ania and AG-37 advised returning to AG-37's freighter and waiting for reinforcements to arrive. Tikin abandoned the group and went back to the shipyards out of concern that Jao's operation would put his young son Tilin in danger. In the end, Sauk, along with Ania, AG-37, and Luen, departed on AG-37's freighter, while Jao went to confront Darth Luft. In the meantime, AG-37's freighter was pursued by pirate starfighters, but their pursuers were destroyed by a Galactic Federation Triumvirate task force that had arrived to deal with the pirates. Master Val and Admiral Gar Stazi had intercepted Jao's transmission and decided to put an end to the plight of the Mon Calamari and Quarren slaves.

During the Liberation of the Mon Calamari Shipyards, Stazi's forces flooded the Ring with water, overwhelming the pirates and allowing the Mon Calamari and Quarren slaves to regain the upper hand. Meanwhile, Jao Assam hunted down and killed Darth Luft. During the uprising, the pirates opened the holding cells holding the slaves' families to zero-gravity vacuum, intending to punish the slaves for rebelling. The torrent of water formed a wall of ice, which saved many Mon Calamari and Quarren from certain death. Sauk and his companions witnessed this atrocity and attempted to shut the space doors but were unable to because the controls were covered in ice. Ania was unable to shut the exits manually, so she sent Jao's comm droid to hot-wire the controls and shut the doors, which saved a lot of lives. Following the defeat of Luft and the pirates, the newly-liberated slaves were allowed to settle in the flooded shipyards.

Prior to his departure from the Ring, Sauk met up with Aunt Luen, who had adopted the late Tikin's young son Tilin. Tikin had been killed by Darth Luft, and his death had sparked the slave uprising. Luen made an attempt to encourage Sauk to remain with the refugees in their new home. Despite the fact that Sauk felt at home within the flooded shipyards, he was still loyal to his friends and kindly declared Luen's offer. On the other hand, he praised Luen for taking Tilin into her family. AG-37's freighter departed into hyperspace. While they were traveling, Jao received a message from Darth Wredd, the Sith they had been hunting. The Sith Lord gloatingly informed Jao that he had been playing into the latter's hands by following his trail and killing Darth Luft. This brought the rogue Sith closer to completing his final plan. He even offered Jao a place in his new Sith Order, which would be based on the Rule of Two. Sauk was present during this transmission. Despite Jao's despondency, Ania assures him that he has done good by liberating slaves. If they could free slaves, she reasoned that they could also take down an "arrogant" Sith.

A year had passed since the Carreras Incident, and Sauk, along with his allies, faced a dwindling supply of credits. Due to Sauk's suggestion, AG-37 undertook a delivery mission to Lasgo Port, a spaceport situated on a far-off planet, which was encompassed by an orbital minefield, a relic of the Second Imperial Civil War. AG-37's ship, after a treacherous navigation through the minefield, successfully made landfall at Lasgo Port. During a tour of the settlement, Ania made an attempt to domesticate a yarthul, a sizable four-legged creature indigenous to the planet, with hopes of earning additional credits. This endeavor proved unsuccessful, leading to the loss of her comlink as a forfeit. While they were exploring Lasgo Port, Jao discovered that Ania was being sought after for the murder of an Imperial Knight named Teemen Alton. Upon confronting Ania with this information, she refuted the accusation, asserting that she had never encountered an Imperial Knight prior to that moment. Jao, remaining unconvinced, questioned her presence in the remote Carreras system around the period when the murder was alleged to have occurred.

As AG-37's freighter was leaving the planet near Lasgo Port, it was forced to traverse the minefield once more. While navigating the minefield, the freighter's fuel injection bay sustained damage from what appeared to be small blaster fire, initially mistaken for debris from an asteroid. The ship's crew deployed their Imperial communications droid to address the damage. In the process of repairing the fuel bay, the communications droid detected a damaged starship in close proximity, with its crew still alive but in distress. AG-37's freighter connected with the crippled starship, and Jao, Ania, and their comrades established communication with the crew. It was during this encounter that Ania was reunited with her former romantic partner, Ramid, who stated that a mine had damaged his ship's net isolator, causing the shield systems to fail. The starship, with its shields rendered useless, was unable to safely navigate through space.

Given his proficiency in engineering, Sauk volunteered to attempt to repair Ramid's disabled starship. On his way back to AG-37's freighter to retrieve the necessary repair tools, Sauk voiced his doubts concerning the damage their freighter had sustained, which was supposedly caused by a meteor. Jao concurred that the damage to their ship was unlikely to be accidental and proposed that Ramid had intentionally targeted their freighter. Employing deception, Ramid led Ania further into his starship under the pretense of engaging in a private conversation. However, this was merely a ploy. Ramid then sealed the blast doors and disconnected from AG-37's freighter. Once Ania was isolated from her allies, Ramid and his crew seized her.

Ramid's starship then launched an assault on AG-37's freighter, with the intention of destroying it within the minefields. Jao managed to avert the destruction of their ship by a narrow margin. Taking advantage of the chaos caused by the explosion, Ramid and his crew initiated a jump into hyperspace, taking Ania with them as their captive. Sauk, along with Jao and AG-37, promptly came to the realization that Ania had been abducted. Following Ania's capture, AG-37 attempted to track the communications of Ramid's starship but instead received a signal originating from her comlink, which was traced back to Port Lasgo. Given that Ania had forfeited her comlink as collateral during her unsuccessful attempt to tame a yarthul, Jao expressed skepticism about the signal's authenticity and speculated that she might not want to be located.

Upon hearing Jao Assam's reservations regarding the coincidental timing of Ania's lost comlink and her subsequent abduction by her former associates, Sauk stepped forward to defend her, firmly asserting that Ania was not responsible for the Imperial Knight's death. Jao posited that Ania and her captors could potentially be anywhere in the galaxy at that point. However, Sauk countered by emphasizing that Ramid's starship had executed a cold jump into hyperspace, deducing that they could not have ventured beyond two star systems before depleting their fuel reserves. AG-37 then added that this situation would make their task much harder to guess their next destination. Sauk then commented that if Ania had secretly been a Sith, AG-37 would have known about it. To allay Jao's suspicions regarding Ania, Sauk recounted how Ania had vouched for him when he had been homeless and hungry on the streets of Carreras Minor even though he was a total stranger.

Seeking a different perspective, Jao turned to AG-37, who possessed a long-standing acquaintance with Ania. AG-37 recounted his initial encounter with Ania near the conclusion of the Second Imperial Civil War in the Selvatas system. Ania had managed to escape from an Imperial prison camp located on Drash-so and had brandished a weapon at AG-37, who was engaged in business within the system at the time. Nevertheless, AG-37 felt compassion for her and offered her complimentary transportation to the Carreras system, where she subsequently established a junkyard. Sauk expressed surprise upon learning that Ania had drawn a weapon on AG-37, an assassin droid. AG-37 responded that Ania had never lacked courage of luck. When Jao inquired as to why he had shown her pity, AG-37 explained that he had made an unspecified promise to Ania's ancestor, the smuggler Han Solo more than a century prior.

The three companions then continued their search to uncover Ania's whereabouts and to ascertain the truth surrounding her past. After Sauk and AG-37 eliminated the majority of the galaxy as potential locations, the two speculated that Ania's captors were heading towards a remote planet characterized by a few small settlements, where they could replenish their fuel without raising suspicion. Jao was uncertain that Ania's captors were bounty hunters and wondered whether they would have gone to the nearest Triumvirate official. Still questioning Ania's innocence, Jao suggested that she had deliberately disappeared due to the seriousness of her alleged crime and the hefty bounty on her head. However, Sauk refused to believe that she was guilty until they heard her side of the story. He told Jao that nothing they had seen in AG's memory had convinced him to change his mind.

When Jao suggested that AG-37's memories put things in a different light, Sauk questioned the Knight why he was so unwound by the murder of the Imperial Knight since he had left the Order behind. In response, Jao explained that while the Force was leading him in unexpected directions, he still had not forgotten his vows. He reiterated that Teemen Alton was a Knight he had looked up to and respected and would not take his murder lightly. AG-37 explained that what the three of them had seen in his memory records were circumstantial. He added that extreme positions would often lead people to carry out extreme decisions that produced extreme outcomes. Sauk and AG-37 then proceeded to narrow down Ania and her captor's possible locations.

When Sauk made the oft-hand comment that they needed someone who could see the future and magically locate friends, Jao commented that non-Force sensitive individuals did not full understand the limitations of the Force. AG-37 then entered the conversation by commenting that while he had no sensors that could tap into the Force, he understand something that both Jao and Sauk did not: that circumstances and sentients changed. He argued that while a vision could show someone a sliver of the future, it could never tell you what role the actors were playing. He argued that Ania's past may have informed her but did not define who she was. In the end, AG-37 reasoned that seeing into Ania's future would be unhelpful without fully understanding her past.

Sauk then entered into a lengthy philosophical discussion with Jao about the Force. Jao explained that a Force vision was a powerful phenomenon and that ignoring it could lead to unforeseen circumstances. Jao also argued that the past did define some people and that was the key to unlocking their motives. Sauk disagreed and pointed out that he had consigned himself to the life of a lowly miner following the destruction of Dac until Ania had set him right. He recalled the sense of despair and hopelessness he had sunk into following the Sith Genocide of Dac. He was only able to return to his homeworld to confront his fears solely because Ania needed help. After Jao commended Sauk's bravery during the liberation of the Mon Calamari Shipyards, Sauk concluded that his life experiences showed that the past did not always define a person's character. Getting back to business, Sauk suggested checking out the star system that they were entering for any signs of Ania. Jao concurred and the two committed themselves to finding Ania so that she could tell her side of the story.

Running dangerously low on fuel reserves, Sauk and his companions set course for the nearest planet accessible via hyperspace: a desolate world plagued by acidic rain and shards of glass falling from the sky. Upon landing, they discovered the wreckage of Ramid's starship but found no indication of Ania's or Ramid's whereabouts. However, Sauk noticed a faint trail of blood leading away from the ship's boarding ramp. Jao inferred that Ania and Ramid could not have traveled far on foot, particularly if either of them had sustained injuries. Sauk located a storage compartment for a speeder bike aboard the starship but realized that the vehicle was missing. AG-37 deduced that Ania and Ramid had likely covered a significant distance and proposed conducting an aerial scan of the terrain. Before they could initiate their search, the skies unleashed a torrent of glass, and Sauk suffered a cut on his head. Due to the extremely hostile environment, the three companions were compelled to seek refuge within AG-37's freighter. Given that Jao and Sauk's skin could not withstand the glass, AG-37 continued the rescue mission alone. His metallic frame provided protection against the sharp glass. AG-37 instructed them to prepare for immediate departure once the storm had subsided.

While awaiting the cessation of the "glass storm," Sauk and Jao received a holographic message from Master Yalta Val. Master Val had recently accessed the medical records at the Triumvirate archives on Coruscant and discovered that Teemen Alton's true killer possessed a prosthetic arm. Given that Ania was entirely biological and lacked any artificial limbs, she was deemed innocent. After the storm had abated, Jao and Sauk received a transmission from AG-37, indicating that he had spotted Ania and Ramid traveling on a speeder bike towards a remote settlement. Now convinced of Ania's innocence and aware of her location, the two piloted AG-37's freighter to the settlement. Jao arrived at the settlement just in time to prevent Ania from being attacked by a mysterious bounty hunter, who had already murdered Ramid. This bounty hunter was Teemen Alton's true murderer and wanted to frame Ania for a crime she had never committed.

Jao's arrival allowed Ania to escape through a window into an acid rainstorm. Fortunately, she was rescued by AG-37 who at a great risk to his droid body carried Ania to safety in a cave. The bounty hunter managed to disorientate Jao with a thermal detonator and recapture Ania. She then attempted to frame Ania for the murder of Teemen Alton by severing a left hand and implanting her own prosthetic hand. However, the bounty hunter was stopped by Jao and was killed following a lengthy confrontation. During this confrontation, Sauk remained aboard AG-37's freighter manning the cockpit. While flying above the settlement, he tried to contact AG-37, Jao, and Ania but received no response since they were preoccupied with other matters. At that moment, Sauk was contacted by an Imperial shuttle which had arrived on the barren planet to arrest Ania for her alleged crime.

By the time that Sauk had landed his freighter at the ruined settlement, a squad of Trandoshan stormtroopers had already arrested Ania Solo. Sauk confronted Jao for allowing the Imperials to apprehend Ania but Jao replied that there was little he could do. When Sauk asked Jao why the Imperials had not arrested him for deserting the Imperial Knights, he explained that the troopers were merely grunts who had not been searching for him. Sauk then advocated following Ania and rescuing her. Jao then told Sauk that he had found evidence that would exonerate Ania: the severed hand of the bounty hunter who had been stalking her. After recovering the damaged AG-37, the three companions traveled on AG-37's freight to Coruscant, the galactic capital. Using this new evidence, Jao was able to secure Ania's exoneration and release.

Following Ania's release, Sauk and AG-37 met her outside the courtroom. After Sauk and Ania embraced, Ania recounted how the bounty hunter's prosthetic hand matched the evidence that Master Yalta Val had found in the Triumvirate archives. During the proceedings, Val had represented her until Jao arrived with the crucial piece of evidence. The real murderer of Teemen Alton had been Ania's former prison guard who had assumed the persona of a bounty hunter. When Sauk asked Ania why she had been sent to Drash-so in the first place, she admitted murdering a particularly unsavory man. However, the jubilation surrounding Ania's release was cut short by news that Jao had just been arrested and imprisoned for deserting the Imperial Knights, a crime which carried the death penalty. By returning to Coruscant, Master Val explained that Jao had effectively given himself up to the authorities.

On the subsequent day, Ania Solo's attempt to secure an audience with Empress Marasiah Fel, with the aim of obtaining clemency for Jao Assam, proved unsuccessful. Having been turned away, she returned to the hangar bay where AG-37's freighter was docked. While in conversation with Sauk and Ania, Ania firmly declared that they would not abandon Jao and expressed her indignation at Empress Fel's refusal to grant her an audience. When Sauk attempted to rationalize the Empress' actions by suggesting that she was preoccupied with other matters due to her governance over a third of the galaxy, Ania revealed to Sauk and AG-37 that she was a distant relative of Empress Fel. At that precise moment, AG-37 received information over the network indicating that Jao had escaped. Before the three companions had an opportunity to fully process this news, a contingent of stormtroopers arrived and escorted Ania away for a private meeting with Empress Fel. During this meeting, AG-37 and Sauk remained on board AG-37's freighter.

During the Solo-Fel meeting, the Empress confided in Ania that she was certain that Jao Assam had not fallen to the dark side of the Force but was rather following his vows as he saw fit. However, the Empress was unwilling to break the law by showing favoritism to Jao, who had deserted the Order to hunt down the rogue Sith. Despite this predicament, the Empress saw a solution to Jao's legal situation. If Ania were to find Jao and bring him back, she would be willing to consider finding a loophole around the desertion charges. Empress Fel assigned Ania and her companions with a platoon of Trandoshan stormtroopers and sent them to rescue Jao. Ania agreed to lead the mission provided the Empress allowed her to use AG-37's freighter instead of the Triumvirate's ships. After Ania briefed the stormtroopers, AG-37's freighter departed into hyperspace to find Jao. They had no clue to his destination so they decided to wait for Jao to transmit a signal to them.

In the meantime, Jao and Wredd landed on the floating world of Mala. On Mala, Wredd tricked Jao into transmitting Mala's coordinates to Ania and her companions, intending to lure both the One Sith and Empress Fel into a trap. As planned, Jao's Imperial comm droid, which was stationed aboard AG-37's freighter, received the transmission. Ania intended to change their course as soon as the comm droid had finished feeding the coordinates to the freighter's navigation computer. AG-37 was skeptical of finding anything at their location since it was far from any star system or any current hyperspace route. However, Ania was adamant that there was something on the other side of that hyperspace jump since that was where Jao's message had originated from. Sauk was afraid that it was a trap but Ania insisted on going there since they had no other leads on Jao. In the end, AG-37 and Sauk complied with Ania's suggestion and changed the freighter's course.

While Ania went to the passenger compartment to brief the Trandoshan stormtroopers about their change of plans, Sauk and Ania manned the cockpit. By the time Ania had finished her briefing, AG-37's freighter was entering the orbit of the floating world of Mala. AG-37 reasoned that this rogue planet was not listed on the official star charts. Sauk was checking the trajectory and was dumbfounded to find that their destination was no other that the rogue planet which they had encountered earlier during the Carreras Incident.

As AG-37's freighter began its descent into Mala's atmosphere, Sauk inquired of Ania regarding the specific region of the planet where they would commence their search for Jao and Darth Wredd. Ania then caught sight of the wrecked Carreras G51 communications array and urged AG-37 and Sauk to land their freighter near the site. Sauk then took part in the search party which explored the cave near the wrecked communications array. Ania ordered her stormtroopers not to send any offworld communications but the commanding officer, Blue Two, hung back from the rest of the group and sent Ania's coordinates to Empress Fel. They quickly found that Jao had been left strung up in the cave and Ania freed him. However, Jao quickly revealed that Darth Wredd had tricked him into sending the coordinates to Ania's rescue mission in order to lure the Imperials to Mala. There was also no sign of the elusive Darth Wredd.

A large fleet of civilian ships landed on Mala's surface. This turned out to be a large army of One Sith acolytes led by the Twi'lek diplomat Fanoste, who demanded that Ania and her companions hand over Darth Wredd. The One Sith sought to kill and hunt down Darth Wredd since his insurgency sabotaged their plans to infiltrate governments and corporations across the galaxy in order to restore their "golden age." Fueled by blood lust and hatred, the One Sith horde advanced on Ania's party. During the ensuing fighting, Sauk and AG-37 opened fire on the advancing One Sith. Darth Wredd soon resurfaced and helped Ania's party to fight off the One Sith; even handing Jao a Sith lightsaber. Outnumbered, Sauk and his companions retreated into a defensible position within the wrecked communications array. Meanwhile, Darth Wredd and Jao kept the One Sith preoccupied by using their combined Force powers to bring down a large piece of the communication array's wreckage on the advancing Sith horde, delaying them.

While setting up their positions within the wrecked structure of the Carreras communications array, Blue Two suggested that this place was a good place to make a stand since it was quite defensible. However, Sauk quickly recognized Blue Two as the stormtrooper who had held back while they were exploring the cave. Distrusting the stormtrooper, Sauk accused him of sending their coordinates. The Trandoshan stormtrooper vehemently denied the charge, and reiterated that he would never betray his Empress. Darth Wredd and Jao arrived, and Wredd confirmed that the stormtrooper was telling the truth by revealing that the One Sith were actually after him. He claimed that the One Sith had discovered his presence on Mala since he had been sloppy. In reality, Darth Wredd had intended to lure the One Sith to Mala in order to destroy them for the harm that they had wrecked on him, his family, and his homeworld.

Sauk was present when an argument broke out between Darth Wredd and the Imperial Knight Jao Assam. Wredd tried to rationalize his actions by claiming that he was doing the Triumvirate a service by rooting out Sith infiltrators. Wredd also tried to recruit Jao into his new Sith Order, which would be based on the Rule of Two, but was rebuffed by the young Knight. While they were temporary allies since they were fighting against the One Sith, Jao insisted that he was loyal to the Empress and would never join the dark side. At that point, Sauk sounded the alarm that the One Sith had caught up with them. Despite fighting back, they were soon outnumbered by the One Sith. During the fighting, a One Sith attempted to stab Sauk from behind but the attacker was incinerated by a laser cannon fired by an Imperial Predator-class starfighter, the standard starfighter of the Fel Empire.

Sauk and his companions quickly realized that Empress Marasiah Fel had arrived with a fleet of starships and an an army of Imperial Knights. After the One Sith rejected an ultimatum that they surrender, the Imperial Knights launched a ground assault on Mala. This led to a bloody and violent battle known as the Battle of the Floating World. During the fighting, Sauk and his companions helped to deliver insect bites against the One Sith. While AG-37 fired his twin blaster rifles at the Sith, Ania and Jao rescued Antares Draco, the head of the Imperial Knights and Empress Fel's lover, who had been wounded by a One Sith acolyte. This earned them both the good will of Draco and the Empress herself, who had entered the battlefield in response to Draco's plight.

After Ania recovered a heavy repeating blaster from a fallen stormtrooper, she convinced Sauk to help her blow up a Chadra-Fan Lander that was occupied by the One Sith. While Sauk used Draco's comlink to get the Imperial Knights to evacuate Sector Two-Point-Four, Ania fired her blaster rifle at the enemy starship, causing it to explode and kill or maim many One Sith in the process. Darth Wredd also aided the Imperial Knights by killing numerous Sith. Despite his help, the Imperials distrusted him because they knew that a Sith was only motivated by hatred. Darth Wredd's actions were fueled by his desire for vengeance against the One Sith, who had killed his family and destroyed his homeworld of Mala. He intended to destroy the One Sith completely.

By dusk, the Imperial Knights had gained the upper hand over the One Sith and slaughtered most of their opponents. The battlefield was littered with thousands of corpses. Sauk was present when the Empress ordered her forces to evacuate all their wounded and to hunt down for any Sith survivors. AG-37 commented that the number of dead Sith was astonishing and pondered whether these were the last One Sith acolytes left in hiding. While Empress Fel was busy tending to the wounded Imperial Knights, she was attacked and stabbed in the chest by Darth Wredd. Before he could finish off his work, he was attacked and pursued by Jao Assam, who succeeded in slicing off both his hands. Despite severely incapacitating his opponent, Jao refused to kill the rogue Sith, knowing that Wredd wanted to trick him into slaying him in anger in order to lead him down to the dark side. In the end, Ania resolved this dilemma by shooting Darth Wredd with a heavy repeating blaster, sending him to his death and destroying the last known Sith.

Following the battle, Empress Fel received medical treatment and survived her wounds. AG-37, Ania, and Sauk were also present when Jao gave a postmortem of the battle. When Sauk expressed his bemusement at why Wredd would turn on the Empress at the last minute and pondered whether Wredd had suddenly remembered that he was a Sith, Jao explained that Darth Wredd had completely given himself over to the dark side. However, Wredd still hated the Sith for what they had done to him, his family, and his homeworld of Mala. He wanted to destroy them and thus he engineered the Battle of the Floating World. However, despite the success of his plan, there was still only one Sith left: himself. Having delved too deeply into the dark side to believe in redemption, he had deliberately committed suicide by goading Jao into attacking him. Wredd thus almost succeeded in creating a new Sith in the process. When Ania assured Jao that he was not "dark side material", Sauk tried to comment but was interjected by Ania. Ania then dismissed the need for the Force when a sentient being owned a good blaster. When Sauk asked whether she was the source of that quote, Ania replied that she was sure that she had said it before.

Following the events that unfolded on Mala, Sauk and his fellow travelers made their way back to Coruscant. Ania managed to get a meeting with Empress Marasiah Fel, who was confined to her bed while recovering from her injuries. Antares Draco, expressing his gratitude to the junk dealer for saving his life on Mala, granted Ania access to Empress Fel's medical bay. As a token of her appreciation for Ania's assistance and courage, Empress Fel proposed making her the commander of her personal guard. However, Ania turned down the offer, but she did succeed in persuading the Empress to drop the desertion charges against Jao Assam. Jao was also permitted to resign from the Imperial Knights and accompany Ania and her friends on their galactic adventures. Ania then rejoined her companions at the hangar bay where AG-37's freighter was located, where she was greeted by Sauk and Jao, who were overjoyed by the success of her audience.

Sauk was also present for a farewell meeting between Jao Assam and Master Val. With the apparent end of the Sith, Empress Fel announced her intentions to reform the Order by abolishing the requirement that the Knights pledge absolute allegiance to the Empress. Jao also made a promise to his Master that he would never deviate from the light side of the Force. Jao's Imperial comm droid was also given permission to join Ania's group. After a final embrace with Val, Jao embarked on a journey into space with Ania's companions. Before their departure, Sauk inquired of Ania about the Empress's intentions toward him. Ania revealed that the Empress had extended an offer for her to become the head of her personal guard, a highly rewarding and prestigious position. However, Ania confessed that she had declined the offer solely because she couldn't bear Coruscant.

By the time the following year rolled around, Sauk and his companions were traversing the galaxy. At one point, the stabilizing core on AG-37's freighter malfunctioned, prompting Sauk to venture into a cantina in search of a replacement. There, he successfully acquired a retrofitted stabilizing coil from Jariah Syn and his associates Cade Skywalker and Deliah Blue. Although Sauk was displeased with having to spend a significant amount of credits to purchase the coil, he reluctantly agreed to the transaction after Jariah emphasized the difficulty of obtaining a new coil in that particular star system. Sauk's acquisition of the starship component proved to be timely. Subsequently, Sauk, Ania, Jao, and AG-37 found themselves under attack.

During his younger years, Sauk possessed an adventurous spirit and yearned to explore the vast expanse of the galaxy. This aspiration led him to seek an apprenticeship off-world as an engineering trainee, a decision he later regretted as he lost contact with his family following the Sith Genocide on Dac. The loss of his family during the Sith Genocide on Dac instilled in Sauk a pessimistic outlook, often overwhelmed by moments of sorrow and remorse. Consequently, Sauk harbored a deep-seated desire to return to Dac and find closure with his past. In 138 ABY, Sauk recognized a perfect opportunity to fulfill this desire when he and his traveling companion, AG-37, received a distress signal from their comrades, Ania Solo and Jao Assam. By returning to the ring to rescue his companions and the enslaved Mon Calamari and Quarren there, Sauk managed to rediscover a sense of purpose in his life and grew to cherish his friends. Throughout the conflict, he aided Ania in rescuing countless Mon Calamari and Quarren captives from being exposed to the vacuum of space by the pirates. Ultimately, Sauk's unwavering loyalty to his friends prompted him to decline an offer from his liberated compatriots to settle in the flooded interiors of the Mon Calamari Shipyards.

Sauk also shared a close bond of friendship with Ania Solo, which traced back to the time when she took him under her wing while he was living on the streets of Carreras Minor. Despite being complete strangers, Ania displayed remarkable compassion by vouching for him, enabling him to secure shelter and a meal. This small act of kindness left a lasting impression on Sauk, who always held Ania in high esteem and was quick to defend her when she was falsely accused of murdering the Imperial Knight Teemen Alton. Despite their differences in species, Sauk held Ania in such affection that he would embrace her. As a Mon Calamari refugee navigating the aftermath of the Second Imperial Civil War, Sauk endured constant racial slurs while working at a Shifala mine in Carreras Minor's ice ring. While Sauk harbored justifiable skepticism regarding the success of Ania's "get-rich-quick" scheme after she discovered Imperial Knight Yalta Val's lightsaber, he eagerly seized the opportunity to leave the planet, dissatisfied with his unfavorable work environment. When a more promising opportunity arose, Sauk readily accepted AG-37's offer to serve as his engineer.

Sauk possessed exceptional engineering skills, enabling him to repair a wide range of objects, including starships and droids. The assassin droid AG-37 was so impressed with his inventive craftsmanship that he offered him a position as an engineer aboard his freighter. Sauk accepted the offer despite its meager pay, as he considered AG-37 a good friend and preferred working with him over enduring the conditions of a Shifala ice mine. While Sauk was a poor combatant and sustained injuries during a skirmish with Darth Wredd, he demonstrated strong teamwork skills, notably when he collaborated with Ania to destroy a Sith Chadra-Fan Lander during the Battle of the Floating World.

Sauk made his debut as a protagonist in Corinna Bechko and Gabriel Hardman's Star Wars: Legacy Volume 2 comic series, a spin-off of Dark Horse Comics' popular Star Wars: Legacy comic series. According to Bechko, she and her co-writer decided to include a Mon Calamari protagonist in their story because the Mon Calamari species played a significant role in the original Star Wars: Legacy series, which ran from 2006 to 2010. They sought to explore the species' plight through the perspective of a member of that species. Both Hardman and Bechko also admired the fish-like design of the Mon Calamari species. According to Hardman, Sauk's engineering skills were crucial to the survival of Ania's company throughout the series. The scriptwriter also mentioned that he had a fondness for the Mon Calamari species, as Admiral Gial Ackbar was one of his favorite characters from the Original trilogy.