AG-37

"She pulled a blaster on you? On an assassin droid?" "I don't understand. Either you're the most tolerant sentient I've ever met, or there's more to this story."

- Sauk and Jao Assam discussing AG-37's personality and first meeting with Ania Solo

AG-37 was an IG-series assassin droid in operation in the aftermath of the Second Imperial Civil War. A regular visitor to Ania Solo's junkyard on Carreras Minor's moon, AG-37 was in operation long before and had seen empires rise and fall. He had developed a sense of individuality and goals, making a living transporting goods in his freighter. Unlike most other assassin droids, AG-37 was extremely personable and kind, helping others and dispensing advice and encouragement. At some point prior to 25 ABY, AG-37 had encountered Han Solo and Chewbacca, and made an unspecified promise to Solo. Near the end of the Second Imperial Civil War, AG-37 encountered Ania, a distant descendant of Han Solo, who had escaped from an Imperial prison camp on the planet Drash-so. Seeking to honor his promise to Han Solo, AG-37 rescued Ania and took her aboard his ship and brought her to Carreras Major, where she set up a junkyard.

Due to his friendship with Ania Solo, AG-37 was drawn into the events of the rogue Sith Darth Wredd's insurgency in 138 ABY. Following the end of the Second Imperial Civil War, the One Sith had been toppled and driven underground. The Sith began infiltrating governments and corporations across the galaxy as part of a plan to restore their former glory. However, Darth Wredd did not share the same vision as his fellow Sith and sought to restore the Rule of Two by killing all other Sith. During the Carreras Incident, Darth Wredd kidnapped and impersonated the Imperial Knight Yalta Val. Seeking to reclaim his "lightsaber", Wredd attacked Ania's junkyard. In the ensuing skirmish, Ania, along with her Mon Calamari friend Sauk, were forced to escape aboard AG-37's freighter.

After recovering the real Yalta Val's Imperial communications droid, AG-37 and his companions discovered that the real Yalta Val had been replaced by the Sith impostor they had previously encountered. Later, they joined forces with Yalta Val's friend and fellow Imperial Knight Jao Assam to rescue Yalta Val and to stop the Sith impostor. Despite succeeding in rescuing Val on the floating world of Mala, AG-37 and his companions were unable to stop Wredd from transmitting his manifesto to the galaxy and crashing the Carreras communications array onto Mala. During the fighting, AG-37 was slashed in half across the torso by Wredd's lightsaber. However, as a droid and non-living being, he was easily repaired and restored to full working capacity by Ania and Sauk.

Following the events on Carreras, AG-37's freighter was picked up by the Pellaeon-class Star Destroyer Animus. Out of gratitude for repairing his droid body, AG-37 offered Sauk a job as an engineer aboard his freighter. After receiving much-needed repairs to his ship, AG-37 and Sauk departed for hyperspace while Ania remained behind with her new-found friend Jao Assam and Master Val. While visiting an unidentified planet to take delivery of a wild beast, AG-37 and Sauk learnt about a resettlement operation on the poisoned planet of Dac, the homeworld of the Mon Calamari and Quarren species which had been destroyed by a Sith bioweapon during the last stages of the Second Imperial Civil War. Later, AG-37 and Sauk received a distress signal from Ania and Jao from Dac.

After Jao had received a Force vision warning that Darth Wredd was planning to kill the Galactic Empress Marasiah Fel, Jao and Ania had embarked on a quest to hunt down the rogue Sith. Their travels took them to Dac where they discovered a pirate ring run by another rogue Sith named Darth Luft. Darth Luft had tricked many Mon Calamari and Quarren into returning to Dac under the pretext of resettling a restored Dac. There, they were enslaved and put to work assembling pirate ships in the Mon Calamari Shipyards orbiting Dac. Jao and Ania had been captured by Darth Luft who had thrown them into an escape pod and jettisoned them into the poisoned oceans of Dac. With much difficulty, Sauk and AG-37 managed to dive their freighter into the watery depths of Dac and retrieve the escape pod containing their companions.

While AG-37 and Ania wanted to wait for Galactic Federation Triumvirate reinforcements to arrive, Jao Assam wanted to take the fight to Darth Luft. Unable to resolve their differences, AG-37, along with Ania, Sauk, and a Mon Calamari refugee Luen departed on AG-37's freighter. Their freighter was pursued by several pirate starfighters. However, AG-37 and his companions were saved by the arrival of a combined Galactic Alliance and Fel Empire force which liberated the shipyards and apprehended the pirates. During the fighting, Jao succeeded in killing Darth Luft but was unable to find any trace of Darth Wredd, who had deliberately led them to Dac with the intent of using them to fulfill his goal of destroying the One Sith. Following the events on Dac, AG-37 and Sauk joined Ania and Jao's quest to hunt down Darth Wredd.

In 139 ABY, Ania Solo was falsely accused of the murder of the Imperial Knight Teemen Alton. Before Ania could clear her name, she was kidnapped by her former lover Ramid, who wanted to collect the bounty on her head. While Jao Assam had his doubts, AG-37 and Sauk believed in Ania's innocence and vouched for her character. After revealing his connection with Ania to Jao and Sauk, the three embarked on a mission to rescue Ania. Their journey took them to a barren world which rained glass shards and acid. Due to his mechanical body, AG-37 was able to withstand the inhospitable weather conditions and went to search for Ania, while Jao and Sauk waited for the weather to clear. AG-37 eventually tracked Ania and Ramid to a remote settlement.

After Ania Solo escaped an ambush by a mysterious bounty hunter, who wanted to frame her for the murder of Teemen Alton, AG-37 rescued her from the acidic rain and brought her to shelter. However, AG-37's internal systems sustained extensive damage from the acidic rain. Fearing a loss of his memories, AG-37 requested that Ania shut down his systems, a request which she reluctantly accepted. While AG-37 was incapacitated, Jao and Ania succeeded in killing the bounty hunter and foiling her plot to frame Ania. However, Imperial stormtroopers then apprehended Ania and brought her to the galactic capital Coruscant to face trial for her alleged crime. Jao and Sauk were unable to stop them but they succeeded in recovering and repairing the damaged AG-37. In the end, Jao Assam and his fellow Imperial Knight Yalta Val succeeded in clearing Ania's name. Following Ania's acquittal, a fully-repaired AG-37 was present at their reunion on Coruscant.

AG-37 later took part in a mission to rescue Jao Assam, who had been kidnapped by Darth Wredd with the intention of recruiting a new Sith apprentice and luring Empress Fel to Mala. Their travels took them to the remote planet of Mala where they succeeded in rescuing Jao. However, they were then caught in a three-way battle involving the Fel Empire, Darth Wredd, and a large army of One Sith, who were also hunting for Darth Wredd. During the battle, AG-37 fought and killed many Sith. Following the defeat of Darth Wredd and the One Sith, AG-37 would join Ania, Jao, and Sauk on their travels across the galaxy.

Early life
Little is known about AG-37's creation and early life prior to the events of insurgency in 138 ABY–139 ABY. However, he is known to have predated the One Sith and the Galactic Alliance. At some point, AG-37 encountered the smuggler Han Solo and the Wookiee Chewbacca and made an unspecified promise to Han. More than a century later, AG-37 honored this historical promise by sheltering Ania Solo, a distant descendant of Han Solo who had escaped from an Imperial prison camp on Drash-so. Seeking to escaping offworld but lacking the money to do so, she pulled a blaster on AG-37. Admiring her courage, AG-37 took pity on Ania Solo and gave her a ride offworld on his freighter. Memories of this first encounter were preserved in his memory banks, which had not been wiped for more than a century.

The stolen lightsaber
By 138 ABY, Ania Solo had established a junkyard on Carreras Minor's moon. That year, she and her Mon Calamari friend Sauk discovered a damaged Imperial comm droid and a lightsaber, which belonged to the Imperial Knight Yalta Val. While traveling to the Carreras system to supervise work on the local station of the galactic G51 communications array system, Master Val had been ambushed and kidnapped by the rogue Sith Darth Wredd, who stole his armor and impersonated Val. Wredd then proceeded to take control of the Carreras communications array and Governor Biala's security forces under the pretext of a Sith presence in the system.

While visiting Ania's junkyard to purchase some linear converters for his freighter, he advised Ania to get rid of her lightsaber since it entailed problems beyond her depths. AG-37 then proceeded to the north side of the junkyard, where the linear converters were stored with the engine casings. Shortly later, the Sith impostor Wredd arrived with a force of Carreras security guards and demanded that Ania "return" his lightsaber. When Ania refused, he used the Force to retrieve his lightsaber and ordered his men to gun down Ania and Sauk. However, AG-37 came to his friends' rescue by dispatching the guards with two blaster rifles, killing them. They then fled offworld on AG-37's freighter.

While exiting the moon's atmosphere, AG-37 offered to take Ania as far as Bonadan, his last stop at a major port. His freighter was loaded with a shipment of ice. When Ania asked why he was risking his life to save them, AG-37 merely replied that he always paid his debts. AG-37 was disturbed by the behavior of the Imperial Knight Yalta Val, which he felt was out of character for an Imperial Knight. Ania replied that she had pushed the Knight too far but concurred with AG-37 that Imperial Knights did not usually behave like that. While Ania had high hopes for the new Galactic Triumvirate, she was now less certain. AG-37 then commented that the galaxy had been at its most harmonious time under the Jedi. He commented that the Triumvirate had the potential to recapture this high point. However, Ania retorted that it made little difference who was in charge since they were all corrupt.

Meanwhile, Sauk managed to repair the damaged Imperial communications droid and discovered a holographic recording of a skirmish between an Imperial Knight and a Sith. Ania, Sauk, and AG-37 witnessed the recording and quickly recognized the Imperial Knight's lightsaber as the same blue-bladed one which Ania had encountered. They quickly deduced that the Imperial Knight whom they had encountered at Ania's junk yard was an impostor. Shortly later, the proximity alarm on AG-37's rang. AG-37 and his companions returned to the cockpit only to encounter a Shifala blockade. AG-37 led the Shifala snubfighters on a pursuit through the ice ring about Carreras Minor. The freighter was struggling to evade the nimble and agile snubfighters. Ania managed to lose the pursuing starfighters by pushing her shuttle out of the freighter's hangar bay, destroying the pursuers.

Rescuing Master Val
In the end, AG-37 managed to land his freighter on the desolate planet of Carreras Minor. While hiding there, Sauk managed to repair the damaged Imperial communications droid. Shortly later, AG-37's freighter was attacked by a gigantic tentacled monster which attempted to devour the freighter and its crew. However, Ania and her companions were rescued by the Imperial Knight Jao Assam, who had come to the Carreras system to investigate the disappearance of Master Val. With Jao's help, they managed to escape the monster by firing the freighter's engines into the monster's face, killing it. However, Ania Solo distrusted Jao and pointed a blaster pistol at him. When AG-37 intervened after landing the starship safely, Jao explained the purpose of his mission which prompted Ania to express her desire to shoot him.

AG-37 managed to defuse the situation by pointing out that Jao Assam would have killed them if he had actually wanted them dead. In response, Jao remarked that this was the first time that he had ever hear an assassin droid counsel restraint. He explained that he had followed the locator signal on Master Val's comm droid to Carreras Minor. During the verbal confrontation, Sauk surfaced with a blaster rifle but Ania convinced Sauk that Jao was not a threat. Sauk was also followed by the newly-repaired Imperial comm droid. 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 agreed to search for the floating world in the hope of rescuing Master Val. While traveling into the Surd Nebula, they were pursued by several Shifala snub fighters. They arrived at the coordinates of the floating world only to find empty space. At that point, AG-37's freighter's port thruster was hit by laser cannon. Shortly later, they were trapped in the tractor beam projector of a Shifala warship. AG-37's freighter was dragged into the hangar bay of the warship and was boarded by several droids which chewed a hole through the hull of the freighter. Ania and her companions fled down the gang plank only to fall into the hands of armed Shifala guards, who arrested them. AG-37 was immobilized by a restraining bolt while Ania and Sauk were thrown into holding cells. In the end, Sauk and his companions were released by Governor Biala who 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.

Newly-freed, AG-37 and his companions headed to the hangar bay to confront the Sith impostor. Jao was not confident of his ability to handle Darth Wredd alone but Ania believed that the four of them would be able to defeat the impostor. AG-37 agreed with Jao that the impostor was a Sith Lord and expressed his concern that he and his companions would not be able to help him. While Jao advised caution and suggested tracking the Sith from their starship, Ania wanted to take out the rogue Sith immediately. She fired on Darth Wredd's shuttle but he survived the explosion and attacked the four opponents with ruthless ferocity. During the fighting on the Carreras communications array, Darth Wredd cleaved AG-37 across his waste and shoulder with a lightsaber, temporarily disabling the droid. However, since AG-37 was not a living being, he did not die. Despite Jao and Ania's best efforts, Darth Wredd managed to escape, but not before impaling Jao and sending him hurtling through the zero gravity of space.

Following Darth Wredd's escape, Ania attended to the unconscious Sauk and the damaged AG-37. With his faculty still intact, AG-37 urged Ania to go and rescue Master Val and stop the Sith impostor. While Ania expressed her lack of confidence because she was merely a junk dealer, AG-37 reminded her that her famous ancestor Han Solo had done great things even though he was a lowly smuggler. He explained that Han Solo did what he had done because he knew that it was the right thing to do and because his friends needed him. Galvanized by AG-37's words, Ania flew Jao Assam's starfighter to Darth Wredd's secret hideout on Mala. Taking control of the Carreras communications array, Darth Wredd broadcasted his manifesto to the wider galaxy, deriding the Galactic Triumvirate and presenting his captive Yalta Val. Before a live galactic audience, Wredd attempted to execute Val but was stopped by Ania, who managed to free 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. Despite AG-37's pleas that she save Sauk and leave him behind, Ania was determined not to leave without both her friends. By this stage, the Carreras communications array was a on a collision course with Mala and had Governor Biala had ordered a general evacuation. While they were unable to prevent Darth Wredd from escaping, Ania managed to rescue Master Val mere moments before the communications array collided with Mala. While AG-37 piloted the ship, Ania tended to the wounded Sauk. When Ania asked AG-37 whether he needed help to take the ship through the Surd Nebula, the latter, who had been hastily reassembled, politely declined her offer and explained that they should no problems as long as Ania had sealed that hull breach. Shortly later, the wounded Jao was retrieved by the Imperial comm droid. Master Val was amazed to see a droid save someone and described it as unusual behavior. AG-37 explained that the comm droid rescued Jao because it believed that Jao ad come all this way to rescue it. AG-37 explained that a debt of gratitude could sometimes weigh heavily on a droid. Following Jao's rescue, they tended to his wounds and he recovered. .

Separate paths
Despite escaping the destruction of the Carreras array, AG-37's freighter was stranded on the wrong side of the Surd Nebula. Due to Jao's deteriorating condition, Val's comm droid had begun broadcasting a distress signal. Fortunately, AG-37's freighter was picked up by the Pellaeon-class Star Destroyer Animus, which had received the freighter's distress signal. Empress Marasiah Fel had sent the Animus to pick up Ania after learning of her involvement in the Carreras Incident. Once aboard, AG-37 and his companions were treated as guests by the Imperials. A pair of Imperial Navy engineers also repaired the damaged AG-37 and managed to restore him to full working condition. The Imperials also praised Sauk's workmanship which led the grateful AG-37 to offer Sauk a job as an engineer aboard his freighter.

While the money was not great, Sauk accepted AG-37's job offer because he regarded working on AG-37's freighter as preferable to his old 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 invited Ania to join them but she declined the offer, citing that the Imperials had promised to provide her with a good job and nice apartment on Coruscant, the galactic capital. While happy at Ania's turn of fortunes, AG-37 counselled her to stay alert since he reasoned that nothing came free. After hugging Sauk, Ania told the Mon Calamari engineer to take care of the grumpy old droid. AG-37 and Sauk then departed into space and their travels took them to an unidentified spaceport. While loading some supplies, Sauk encountered another Mon Calamari refugee who told him of a new scheme to rebuild and resettle Dac's shipyards. He attempted to invite Sauk along but the latter declined due to his job aboard AG-37's freighter. AG-37 then reappeared and informed Sauk that they were about to depart offworld.

AG-37 and Sauk were transporting a large beast with sharp jaws to Iego. Due to the dangerous nature of the cargo, the creature was housed in a repulsor cage. Under AG-37's orders, Sauk attached had connected the cage to the shipboard power supply. Realizing that Iego was near his homeworld of Dac, Sauk asked AG-37 whether they could visit his homeworld. However, AG-37 advised against it since Dac was a failed and lawless system. Sauk then related his earlier meeting with the Mon Cal who mentioned a resettlement program in the Calamari system. However, AG-37 was skeptical and described the Mon Calamari as an idealist. Sauk then related how he had left Dac to work as an apprentice engineer prior to the Sith-inspired Genocide and admitted that he missed his homeworld and his long-lost family. 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.

Liberating Dac
Meanwhile, Jao Assam and Ania embarked on a quest to hunt down Darth Wredd, after receiving a Force vision that the rogue Sith had planned to kill Empress Marasiah Fel. Their hunt took them to the lawless Calamari system where they discovered that another Sith Darth Luft and his pirate associates had started a scam to lure Mon Calamari and Quarren refugees back to Dac. There, these unfortunate Mon Calamari and Quarren were enslaved and forced to build 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 transmitted 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 intent of picking up Jao and Ania's escape pod. With much difficulty, Sauk succeeded in using the freighter's gun turret to fire a harpoon which caught the escape pod.

AG-37 and Sauk then towed the escape pod into an abandoned section of the Mon Calamari Shipyards. During their reunification, the two also met Luen and Tikin. AG-37 commented that their circle of friends seemed to be multiplying as fast as their enemies. The four companions then discussed their next plans. While Jao Assam wanted to take out Darth Luft in the hope of finding Darth Wredd, Ania and AG-37 advised returning to AG-37's freighter and waiting for reinforcements to arrive since they were outnumbered by the pirates. Fearing that Jao's operation would endanger his young son Tilin, Tikin abandoned the group and returned to the shipyards. In the end, Sauk along with Ania, AG-37 and Luen departed on AG-37's freighter while Jao went to confront Darth Luft. Shortly later, AG-37's freighter was pursued by pirate starfighters but its pursuers were destroyed by a Galactic Federation Triumvirate task force which had arrived to deal with the pirates. Master Val and Admiral Gar Stazi had intercepted Jao's transmission and decided to end 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. AG-37 and his companions witnessed this atrocity and attempted to shut the space doors but were unable to because the controls were covered in ice. Unable to shut the exits manually, Ania sent Jao's comm droid to hot-wire the controls and shut the doors, saving many lives. Following the defeat of Luft and the pirates, the newly-liberated slaves were allowed to settle in the shipyards.

After their departure, AG-37 confided in Ania Solo that pursuing Darth Wredd was the right thing to do and praised her for encouraging him. When AG-37 noted that they were short on Galactic Standard Credits, Ania suggested that they could take up some paying work. At that point, Jao received an incoming 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. 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.

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 Volume 2 3
 * Star Wars: Legacy Volume 2 4
 * Star Wars: Legacy Volume 2 5
 * Star Wars: Legacy Volume 2 6
 * Star Wars: Legacy Volume 2 7
 * Star Wars: Legacy Volume 2 9
 * Star Wars: Legacy Volume 2 10
 * Star Wars: Legacy Volume 2 11
 * Star Wars: Legacy Volume 2 12
 * Star Wars: Legacy Volume 2 13
 * Star Wars: Legacy Volume 2 14
 * Star Wars: Legacy Volume 2 15
 * Star Wars: Legacy Volume 2 16
 * Star Wars: Legacy Volume 2 17
 * Star Wars: Legacy Volume 2 18