Allana Solo

Amelia (or Amelia Solo), originally Allana, was a war orphan, found in the last throes of the Second Galactic Civil War of 40 ABY. "Found" and "adopted" by captain Han Solo and Princess Leia Organa Solo, Amelia was known to be Force-sensitive, and as such, was intended to be trained at the Jedi Academy.

In actuality, Amelia was the new name given to Allana, the daughter of Jacen Solo and Tenel Ka Djo. As the Chume'da of the Hapes Consortium, Allana was expected to ascend to the Hapan throne in succession to her mother, Tenel Ka. She "died" 40 ABY however, during the Battle of Shedu Maad, after the Moff Council sanctioned the use of a nanokiller designed to target the royal Hapan bloodline, of which Allana was a member of. In reality, Tenel Ka placed Allana in the custody of her paternal grandparents, with hopes that the child would remain safe while learning the Jedi arts under the alias of Amelia.

Birth and Dark Nest Crisis (36 ABY)
When Jacen talked with Tenel Ka about borrowing a Hapan fleet to help the Killiks in their battle against the Chiss, she agreed, on the condition that he spend one night with her. That time they spent together resulted in Tenel Ka becoming pregnant.

Tenel Ka carried and concealed the baby for twelve months by using the Force, but after Allana was born, Jacen was forced into saving her from an unhappy Ta'a Chume. Due to this assassination attempt, the couple decided to keep the identity of the baby's father a secret to protect her from angered Hapan nobles. Ben Skywalker, who was still joined to the Gorog nest, accidentally discovered Allana's paternity; all mention of Allana and the visit to Hapes was wiped from his mind by Jacen.

Even during the Jedi convocation at Ossus, Jacen and Tenel Ka would not reveal that Jacen was Allana's father to Han and Leia Solo, Allana's paternal grandparents. Leia surmised her son knew who the father was, but did not suspect Jacen. Luke Skywalker speculated that Tenel Ka's reluctance to talk about Allana meant that she was blemished in someway&mdash;a fate the Hapans considered to be worse than death.

Assassination attempts
"Jedi are supposed to be strong!"

- Allana to Jacen

During the Confederation-Galactic Alliance War, Allana and her mother were marked for death&mdash;first by Jacen Solo, as a sacrifice for his Sith training, although he later chose his parents for that role instead, and then by Corellian leaders, as part of a plot to remove Tenel Ka and her heir from the Hapan throne in order to let a pro-Corellian relative take control. Her Solo grandparents, who still didn't know about their blood ties to Allana, could not stand by and watch the Corellians attempt to murder her and her mother. Allana served as the primary motivation for Jacen's extreme actions since he loved her far more than any other person. After a nearly successful assassination attempt on Allana's and Tenel Ka's lives by the assassin Aurra Sing whom went under the alias Nashtah, Tenel Ka decided to leave Allana with her father on the Anakin Solo until it was safe enough for her to return to Hapes.

However, even as battle raged over Hapes, the Star Destroyer's security was not enough to deter Sing, who easily infiltrated the ship and defeated Allana's security droid. Only the personal intervention of her father Jacen saved the young Chume'da, as he kept the assassin from reaching Allana despite many personal injuries. When Sing was knocked down temporarily, Allana approached her and injected her with a sleep stick, knocking her out. She was later reunited with her mother on Hapes, although she again had to be hidden from the Skywalkers and Solos.

During a private moment, Jacen discovered he actually cared more about Allana than Tenel Ka as he thought of his daughter's welfare on a daily basis. Jacen considered Allana's life to be above either Tenel Ka's or his own. Shortly after leaving Coruscant after becoming co-Chief of State, Jacen visited Allana to determine if Allana and Tenel Ka were meant to be his sacrifice. He gave Allana a stuffed tauntaun, which she named "Jacen," and he left shortly thereafter, only to kill Mara Skywalker and take the name Caedus.

Kidnap and reunion
Later after Tenel Ka turned against Caedus by withdrawing all Hapan military support from the Galactic Alliance, Caedus vowed to kill Tenel Ka if she stood between him and his daughter. Caedus then kidnapped Allana from Tenel Ka in an effort to blackmail her into again pledging Hapan support to the GA. Caedus told Allana that people were trying to kill her to get her to not complain about being taken away from her mother. After she got tired of being on the run, Caedus told her he was her father to get her to calm down and promised to reveal that he is her daddy to the galaxy once the war was over.

Tenel Ka went to Luke Skywalker for help, and Luke agreed to rescue Allana from Caedus. He led a strike team to the Anakin Solo, where he, Ben, and Saba Sebatyne distracted Caedus while Han and Leia rescued Allana. While returning Allana to Hapes, Han and Leia Solo finally discovered their blood relationship to her. Caedus, angered that he had lost his daughter, took his anger out on Tebut, Force-choking her until her neck snapped.

After the Jedi Order abandoned Endor as their base of operations to Shedu Maad in the Transitory Mists, Leia Solo commented on how the proximity to Hapes would make visiting Allana much easier and more convienient.

"Death"
"Jedi Jacen likes hurting people. He scares me."

- Allana, 40 ABY

During the last stages of the war, Allana was kept close to her mother at all times as a security precaution. When the nanokiller designed by the Moff Council targeting all those with Hapan royal blood was released onto the Dragon Queen, Tenel Ka's flagship, most of the crew died, including Allana.

However, Allana's "death" was actually a cover story concocted by Tenel Ka. In order to provide a safer environment for her daughter, Tenel Ka had faked Allana's death, sending out message over the Holonet that Allana was one of the nanokiller's victims. In reality, she released Allana into the care of her grandparents, the Solos, and began training at the Jedi Academy under the guise of a war orphan named Amelia.

Behind the scenes

 * For a long time when rumors came out that there would be a new birth during the Dark Nest Trilogy, it was assumed that Jaina Solo would be the character having a child. After Dark Nest I: The Joiner King came out, many started to speculate that Jacen Solo and Tenel Ka would be the characters having a child.


 * During Dark Nest II: The Unseen Queen, when the character of Allana was first introduced, the baby remained nameless. Many fans started speculating what the child would be named. Some even wondered if Allana would be named Padmé, after her paternal great-grandmother, Padmé Amidala, because Luke Skywalker and Leia Organa Solo had just discovered the identity of their mother.


 * According to Troy Denning (a.k.a. TailOne), in his official thread on TheForce.Net forums, Allana was named after the founder of the Force-sensitive Witches of Dathomir, Allya, and the brother of Jacen Solo, Anakin Solo (All + Ana=Allana). She was not named in The Unseen Queen because Tenel Ka wanted Jacen to be a part of choosing her name.

Appearances

 * Dark Nest II: The Unseen Queen
 * Dark Nest III: The Swarm War
 * Bloodlines
 * Tempest
 * Exile
 * Sacrifice
 * Inferno
 * Fury
 * Revelation
 * Invincible
 * Millennium Falcon