Darth Caedus

Jacen Solo (9 ABY &mdash; ?) was the eldest son of Han Solo and Leia Organa Solo, and the younger twin of Jaina Solo. Even before he and his sister were born, their uncle Luke Skywalker could sense their strong presence in the Force and the two shared an inseparable mental bond. Jacen had always been an empathetic person, forming close bonds with humans and animals alike

Childhood
Besides his older sister, Jaina, Jacen had a younger brother, Anakin Solo. Jacen lived a happy, adventure-filled childhood of privilege, being the son of the Chief of State of the New Republic. He was born to Leia Organa and Han Solo on Coruscant during the end of the Thrawn Crisis. Grand Admiral Thrawn had promised the twins to Joruus C'Baoth in return for his help. As an infant, the young Jacen Solo was strong in the Force, and had an inseparable mental bond with his sister Jaina.

During the earlier years of his life, Jacen was sequestered with his sister on safe worlds, to protect them from the Empire, including New Alderaan during the resurrection of Emperor Palpatine. Ultimately, Han and Leia decided it would be safest to keep the family together. He and his sister were safeguarded and babysat by Chewbacca, C-3PO and their nanny, Winter. When the twins were a year-and-a-half old, they were joined by a younger brother, Anakin Solo, also strong in the Force. Even before the tender age of three, Jacen and his sister managed to toddle into adventure. Sneaking away from C-3PO, the duo took a decommissioned turbolift into the scary depths of Coruscant. Luckily, they were rescued before any harm befell them.

A short time later, Jacen came to the defense of his uncle Luke Skywalker who had been rendered unconscious by the actions of the dark spirit of Exar Kun. None of Luke's students could see the disembodied spirit of their Master, but the young Jacen could. Luke guided Jacen to defend his uncle's body from attacking predators, and the two-year old even wielded Luke's lightsaber.

Jedi training
When in their early teens, Jacen and Jaina joined Luke's Jedi Praxeum on Yavin IV. There, they became friends with fellow students Lowbacca, and Tenel Ka. As Jacen grew, he developed an affinity and sensitivity towards nature and the living Force. He could instinctively communicate with animals, and kept a large menagerie of small critters in his quarters in the Massassi temple. When he built his lightsaber, he accidently severed Tenel Ka's arm during a training exercise. Though Tenel Ka bore Jason no ill will, the accident changed their relationship, especially in light of the fact that, prior to the accident, Jason hoped they would become more than friends. During this time, he and his friends weathered many a crisis, from attacks by Dark Jedi agents of the Second Imperium, to the anti-human activists of the Diversity Alliance. While Jacen learned much from these experiences, they could hardly prepare him for the carnage that would follow shortly thereafter.

The Yuuzhan Vong and Vergere
The Yuuzhan Vong invasion came as a shock to the galaxy. This new menace was inexplicably removed from the Force, and seemingly beyond all efforts of negotiation. While the aliens loathed the inorganic technology of the galaxy, they fostered a special hatred to the Jedi and their supernatural powers in particular. As the war escalated, the Yuuzhan Vong called for the delivery of the Jedi as prisoners in exchange for a cease in hostilities. A battered and beleaguered galaxy was all too ready to listen.

With the New Jedi Order challenged from all fronts, Jacen was torn. He believed the Force was more than just a weapon wielded against a foe. He was concerned that many of the Jedi, including his younger brother Anakin, had adopted a much too aggressive stance. In the thick of war, Jacen turned his back on his powers. Rather than using them offensively, he instead abandoned his talents to contemplate on his inner connection to the Force, to seek out answers to put his mind at ease. That changed at the Battle of Duro, when, to save his mother, Jacen used the Force to create a whirlwind of loose objects to protect her, knocking Warmaster Tsavong Lah out a window and costing him his foot. The event brought Jacen back to the war--and caused Lah to demand the heads of every Jedi alive.

Jacen applied his more passive talents in the Force in a daring mission to Myrkr. A Jedi strike force, led by his brother Anakin, was to infiltrate a Yuuzhan Vong cloning facility where the Yuuzhan Vong crafted deadly Jedi-hunting beasts called voxyn. Jacen would use the Force to bind the team together into a cohesive fighting unit. The mission ended disastrously. Anakin effectively disintegrated himself providing cover for the others to escape; Jaina reacted by touching the dark side of the Force; and Jacen was captured by enemy troops led by Vergere and Nom Anor.

Jacen disappeared, and with that, his presence in the Force had seemingly vanished. Many in the New Republic considered him dead, though his mother never lost faith that he was alive, somehow, somewhere. Jacen awoke to find himself in the Embrace of Pain, a rack-like torture device favored by the Yuuzhan Vong. His captor was the enigmatic and mysterious Vergere, who puzzled him with queries and riddles as Jacen drowned in his pain and sorrow. Yet his inner strength of character staved off madness or total collapse.

Aboard a Sh'rip Sh'pa -- a vessel used to terraform captured worlds to suit the Yuuzhan Vong-- Jacen was put to work at the Nursery, a chamber where the organic tools of were nurtured. Jacen's natural empathy for living creatures forged a strong bond with the Dhuryam, a sort of larval form of a World Brain. Using the implanted slave seed beneath his flesh as a conduit, Jacen was able to communicate with the living instruments of Yuuzhan Vong technology. He used this connection to stage a daring escape from captivity, commanding Yuuzhan Vong Amphistaffs to surround him like a living armor. The Dhuryam, protective of Jacen, aided his efforts of escape, thoguh Vergere foiled his larger plans of sabotage.

Jacen and Vergere fled to a Vongformed Coruscant. The city planet's entire surface was undergoing a radical transformation. Yuuzhan Vong organic growths covered the once gleaming metropolis, remaking the planet into a Yuuzhan Vong paradise. Vergere removed the slave seed from Jacen, but he found he could still sense the Yuuzhan Vong. Once again surrounded by Yuuzhan Vong captors, he surrendered and agreed to join their cause. He became the "khattazz al'Yun," or Avatar of God. Nom Anor intended to use Jacen to sacrifice his twin sister, Jaina, thus fulfilling an ancient Yuuzhan Vong prophecy.



The Wars End
But young Solo's true allegiance was his own. During a test of Jacen's faith, the Yuuzhan Vong ordered him to sacrifice a captured Jedi, Ganner Rhysode. Instead, the two Jedi turned against their captors. As Ganner valiantly held of the Yuuzhan Vong, Jacen confronted the World Brain controlling the transformation of Coruscant. The World Brain remembered the bond that Jacen had forged earlier, and Jacen suggested to it to work against the Yuuzhan Vong. Ganner perished that day, though Jacen escaped with Vergere. He returned to the dwindling New Republic territories, haggard, thin and hardened. He was given a much needed vacation, but soon returned to frontline combat. Although he did not ever officially join the military, he eventually served on Admiral Kre'fey's flagship, the Ralroost, to help coordinate fleet actions by joining fellow Jedi in a Force-Meld. He exceeded in this post with help from his "Vongsense", the rare ability among Jedi to sense the Yuuzhan Vong.

As the newly formed Galactic Federation of Free Alliance emerged, Jacen accompanied his uncle Luke Skywalker into the Unknown Regions to seek a solution to the Yuuzhan Vong menace. There he help thwart a Yuuzhan Vong invasion of the Imperial Remnant, visited Csilla (homeworld of the Chiss Ascendancy), thwarted a Ssi-Ruuvi invasion of Bakura and discovered the living planet Zonama Sekot.

In last months of the war, Jacen helped recapture Coruscant, where he killed Onimi, the real Supreme Overlord of the Yuuzhan Vong, in a battle of strength in the Force. During the battle, Jacen reached a higher lavel of the Force than ever before, causing him to age physically and dissolve Onimi. After the war, Jacen decided to travel the Galaxy and spend time among other Force-users.

The Swarm War
Five years later, Jacen Solo, along with his sister and a group of Jedi returned to the Unknown Regions after being called by the Force. There they discovered that Raynar Thul had survived, and had been joined to a Killik hive. The Killiks were having a border dispute with the Chiss (the race of Thrawn) and there was no way the Killiks could defend themselves. Jacen convinced Tenel Ka to send a fleet to protect the Killiks. As a result, Tenel Ka and Jacen's relationship once again began to blossom, with Tenel Ka becoming pregnant. She gave birth to their daughter in 35 ABY. The Dark Nest, however, immediately attempted to assassinate the child at the request of Ta'a Chume, Tenel's grandmother. The baby was saved, and Jacen caused a hemorrhage in Ta'a Chume, rendering her comatose. Jacen then had a vision of endless war, and concluded that there was only one way to preserve his new found family--wipe out the Killiks.

Appearances

 * ''The Last Command
 * ''Young Jedi Knights
 * ''New Jedi Order
 * The Joiner King
 * The Unseen Queen