Ania Solo

"Not scum. Ania. Ania Solo."

- Ania Solo

Ania Solo was a Human female who was a member of the House of Solo, a descendant of the smuggler Han Solo and the Jedi Knight Leia Organa Solo. By 138 ABY, Solo was working as a junk dealer in the Carreras system, and she accidentally discovered the lightsaber of Imperial Knight Yalta Val after an Imperial comm droid containing the lightsaber turned up in her junkyard. Enlisting the help of her Mon Calamari friend Sauk, Solo attempted to sell the weapon on Carreras Major, but was turned away by the shop owner, and she killed a guard when the man attempted to take it from her.

Early life
A Human female descendant of Han Solo and Leia Organa Solo, Ania Solo lived through the Second Imperial Civil War of 130–138 ABY, in which the Galactic Empire under the Sith Lord Darth Krayt was destroyed by the Empire-in-exile, the Jedi Order, and the Galactic Federation of Free Alliances.

Lightsaber discovery
"So we use this as our way out. One big score, then we make our own rules."

- Ania Solo, to Sauk

By 138 ABY, Solo was working as a junk dealer in the Carreras system, a star system near the Surd Nebula in the Outer Rim Territories. An individual named Tham and its partner delivered a shipment to her, and Tham became agitated when Solo refused to pay their price of ten thousand credits. The Human attempted to threaten her, but Solo summoned a large droid which she ordered to escort Tham and the man back to their starship.

While looking through the shipment of junk, Solo discovered a Imperial comm droid, which had actually been launched by the crew of Imperial Knight Yalta Val a week earlier before their ship had been attacked. Solo took the droid to an ice mining platform in the rings of Carreras Minor, where she met with her friend Sauk and showed the Mon Calamari the comm droid. However, as Sauk examined the droid, the pair discovered Val's lightsaber, and Solo urged Sauk to shut off the lightsaber almost immediately when he activated the weapon. She then convinced Sauk to help her sell the lightsaber, persuading the Mon Calamari that it was their chance at a big score.

On Carreras Major, Sauk and Solo witnessed a guard shoot an alien in the middle of the street, and she brushed aside Sauk's complaints and led him to a nearby shop. However, the owner refused to even consider buying the weapon in fear of being discovered by Governor Biala's security forces. When the shop owner insinuated that he might turn the pair in for possessing the weapon, Solo angrily confronted him, but the owner threw both Solo and Sauk out into the street. They were quickly set upon by a mounted guard, and Solo ran into an alleyway with Sauk to avoid the guard&mdash;but the two were forced to stop before they ran into a crowded intersection, allowing the guard to catch up to them. Angered by how the man called her and Sauk scum, Solo refused the guard's order to hand over the lightsaber and drew her blaster instead, shooting the man in the stomach and killing him.

Hunted by a Sith
Ania and Sauk were pursued by guards through the sewers of Carreras Major, though they managed to escape them and retreat to Ania's junkyard. Sauk set about repairing the comm droid and asked to return to the ice mining platform. Ania insisted she wouldn't abandon him but decided to get rid of the lightsaber. They were interrupted by AG-37, a droid client of Ania's looking for a linear converter. The droid warned her that she was in over her head, a prediction borne out when the Sith who had imprisoned Yalta Val and taken his identity arrived at the junk yard with a cadre of guards. The Sith demanded the return of the salvaged lightsaber but Ania stood her ground, insisting that it now belonged to her. The large droid she had used to scare off Tham earlier in the day lunged at the Sith. Summoning the lightsaber to his hand, the Sith bisected the droid and ordered his men to kill Ania and Sauk. The droid was set upon by gesaw rats, which distracted the guards long enough for Ania and Sauk to escape. The guards gave chase, eventually cornering the two. The timely intervention of AG-37 rescued them and they fled Carreras Minor aboard his ship.

AG-37 offered to take Ania as far as Bonadan. Ania blamed herself for the trouble she and Sauk were now in, especially since Sauk, who had escaped the genocide on his homeworld Dac, was once again a refugee. Sauk managed to salvage a holorecording from the comm droid, which depicted a fight between an Imperial Knight and the Sith. They soon realised that the man they thought was Yalta Val was an impostor. Before they could act on their new knowledge, however, they came across a blockade in space. AG-37, Ania and Sauk fled, but the blockade's snubfighters gave chase. Sauk directed them towards an unstable part of Carreras Minor's ice ring. The far more agile fighters quickly outpaced AG's freighter and Ania sacrificed her small ship to buy enough time for the three fugitives to escape. As the freighter took shelter amongst Carreras Minor's rocky mountains, Sauk continued to work on the comm droid while Ania became restless. AG pondered why the blockade had been in place as it couldn't have been for them alone. Suddenly, the freighter was set upon by a large, tentacled monster. Ania and AG fought off the beast, though only the arrival of Imperial Knight Jao Assam freed the freighter.

As Sauk gunned the engines and fled, Assam and Ania were thrown clear. Ania held the Imperial Knight at blasterpoint, despite his protestations that he had just saved her life. Suspicious, thanks to her experiences with the false Yalta Val, Ania was prevented from taking any rash actions when AG and Sauk returned. AG convinced Ania to trust Assam, despite his connection with Val. Assam revealed that he had followed the locator signal on the comm droid. Sauk, armed with a blaster rifle, attempted to threaten Assam before AG calmed him and the Mon Cal played back the holorecording of the duel between Val and the Sith. Realising that his mentor was not the Imperial Knight that had been menacing Ania, Sauk and AG, Assam agreed to join them in the search for the real Yalta Val. In space, the four were pursued once again, and though AG's freighter was damaged the following ships broke off their pursuit as they entered the nebula. Arriving at the coordinates stored in the comm droid, they discovered that the planet they were expecting had disappeared. Ania said that she'd never heard of a planet there but before she could expound further on her theory the freighter was caught in a tractor beam and hauled aboard a starship.

Once they'd been brought aboard the starship, dozens of small droids burnt a hole in the hull and boarded. Overwhelmed, Ania, Sauk, AG and Assam were forced to flee. Finding herself surrounded by Shifala guards, Ania was rendered unconscious. She, Sauk and AG, who had been deactivated, were imprisoned aboard the Carreras communications array, which Sauk recognised because of its Imperial engineering. Ania began looking for a way out, insisting that despite the apparent hopelessness of their situation, all they needed was a plan. As they languished in the holding cells, Ania and Sauk discussed what had become of the planet they were searching for. Unbeknownst to them, the array was approaching the rogue planet. Freed by Governor Biala, Assam let Ania and Sauk out, reactivated AG and led them off to find Val. Ania insisted that, since they knew the impostor was on the array, that they should act against him now. Assam advised against this course of action but Ania saw the Sith and blasted his shuttle as it took off. The shuttle was destroyed but the Sith survived. Using the Force to lift Ania and strangle her, he was approached by the others. He engaged them in combat, cutting AG in half, throwing Sauk against a wall and holding Assam off despite suffering a bad injury to his face. Impaling Assam with debris, the Sith escaped aboard another shuttle. Ania could only watch helplessly as the Sith fled and Assam was exposed to the vacuum of space.

Personality and traits
"Maybe this junk dealer's a pushover.''" "''Don't count on it."

- A customer and Ania Solo

A Human female, Ania Solo had black hair, fair skin, and brown eyes. She was independent and stood up for herself, and she leaped at the chance to move onto something bigger after she and Sauk discovered the lightsaber of Imperial Knight Yalta Val.

Behind the scenes
"The idea of a female lead was pitched to us, and that was a big, big thing that drew us to this project. It's fundamentally the opportunity to do something different in the "Star Wars" universe. It's a female character driving things so it gives you a new perspective on the universe but it's also a new way to tell classic "Star Wars" stories&mdash;or a classic type of "Star Wars" story&mdash;just from a fresh perspective."

- Gabriel Hardman

Ania Solo is the protagonist of the comic series Star Wars: Legacy Volume 2, a sequel to the original and similarly-named Star Wars: Legacy. The series is being written by Corinna Bechko and Gabriel Hardman, and additionally penciled by Hardman. The idea of a female lead originated outside of the writing team, but it played a significant role in drawing them to the project&mdash;both Bechko and Hardman believe it will allow them to write Star Wars from a fresh perspective. They have described her as a character who relies on her wits and does not take a lot of guff, but is nevertheless not a traditional badass female. Hardman hopes she will be "an inspiring but very down-to-Earth human sort of character, as well."

Solo was first revealed to the public on December 3, 2012, in a solicitation for the series released on Comic Book Resources. She was identified as Han and Leia Organa Solo's great-granddaughter, but Dark Horse Comics' solicitation for Legacy first issue later named her as their great-great-granddaughter. Bechko and Hardman have stated that how exactly she is related to them is a mystery that will not be revealed soon.

Appearances

 * Star Wars: Legacy 1: Prisoner of the Floating World, Part 1
 * Star Wars: Legacy 2: Prisoner of the Floating World, Part 2
 * Star Wars: Legacy 3: Prisoner of the Floating World, Part 3
 * Star Wars: Legacy 4: Prisoner of the Floating World, Part 4