Solan Solo

Solan Solo was the eldest child of Jaina Solo and Zekk, and the younger brother of Shmi Solo and older brother to and Alona. Even before he and his sister were born, their parents, Jaina and Zekk, could sense something special about the both of them and the two shared an inseparable mental bond.

Solan showed immaculate Force powers as an toddler when he helped his mother defeat a group of mynocks immersed in darkside energy. As he grew older he eventually developed an affinity and sensitivity towards the Living Force. At the age of thirteeen he started his formal Jedi training at his cousin's Jedi Praxeum on Ossus. He excelled as one of the best students, getting into many adventures with his friends Tira Qinn, Allana, Connor and his sister Shmi.

As one of the pivotal players of Tenloss Hyperspace War, Solan participated in major battles and developed various tactics against the enemy. Due to his actions, Solan was hailed as a galactic hero.

Early Life (42 ABY–54 ABY)


"I have a feeling these two are going to do special things."

- Jaina Solo

Solan and his older twin sister Shmi were born in 42 ABY on Maw to Jaina and Zekk soon after the rise of Jacen's Sith Empire. However after their birth, Jaina and Zekk sent twins sent them along the Great River where the other Jedi refugee children were in order to protect them from their uncle. The children were taken care off by her mother's friend, Winter and thier father will Jaina went off to find missing Jedi on Belsavis. As time went by Solan and Shmi gained a special mental bond.

Abduction
A year later the Empire discovered the Jedi safehouse on Maw. Imperial stroomtroopers surrounded the place, although most of the Jedi managed to escape to the rendevous point, Zekk and the twins. Solan and Shmi, were trapped. Zekk did his best to protect the infant twins but he was shot by a stormtrooper with stun blaster, knocking him out. The twins watched in horror as their home was being destroyed. Jaina came to the station as quick as she could but it was too late, Solan and his sister were kidnapped. Fortunately they left behind a trail of pain and grief that was easily sensed by their parents.

When Shmi and Solan awoke they were greeted by none other than Jacen's right hand man Mal-Kri Torlon. The aged man explained to them that their parents died in the raid and that he was their guardian. The twins, especially Solan, did not adapt well to the luxuries of the Empire and would use their powers to anger the guards.

Soon after a mysterious man rescued them and reunited them with their parents. Later the mysery man was revealed to be Ben Skywalker, son of Luke Skywalker, a relative of his. After the raid on Maw, their parents and the rogue Jedi moved their operations to New Aldeeran. As a result of the kidnap attempt the twins were sent to Yannibar to live with their grandparents and C-3PO, who were also hiding from Jacen.



Reunion
"Solan, get down from that tree or else I'll come after you!" "You can't get me!"

- Zekk and Solan

When they were two-and-a-half years old, Solan and Shmi returned to New Aldeeran to live with their parents. By this time, Solan and Shmi demonstrated an ability to move objects with their minds from time to time and an ability known as orbing. They had also further developed the mental bond that they had been born with and had a tendency to use it to complete each other's sentences or get into mischief. It was during this time that his younger sister Alona was born.

As Solan grew older he and his mother grew very close. He gained his mother's cockiness and knack for fighting which caused him to get in trouble with his father. Unlike Shmi and Alona Solan would find ways to test his father's patience, though Solan loved him very much.

Final Battle
Taking Ben's advice, Zekk and Jaina went to Polis Mossa while Alona was sent to Osssus. While en route to Polis Mossa they encountered Jacen's ship but managed to evade it long enough to land the Falcon on the asteroid planet. Jacen, hot on their trail, managed to catch up with them thus starting a battle between Ben and Jacen while Jaina and Zekk fled with the twins. However they became seperated were greeted by Jacen's deadly Sith mynocks. Using their mental bond Shmi and Solan were able to destroy the mynocks using the Force. After the mynocks were dealt with, Solan and Shmi sensed that their mother was in danger and quickly ran to her rescue only to find her knocked out and wounded.

Guided by the spirit of his great grandfather, Anakin Skywalker, Solan went into a trance like state and used his mother's lightsaber to cut the rest of the mynocks while Shmi healed Jaina. Soon after they mother awoke and reunited with Zekk. The battle ended ended after Ben subdued Jacen ending his reign of terror on the galaxy. After the ordeal Solan acted like nothing ever happened and couldn't remember anything of what just happened.

New Rebellion
"This is intense! Way better than the videogames!"

- Solan

After his uncle's defeat at Polis Mossa the New Alliance was formed and Ben Skywalker rebuilt the New Jedi Order once again bringing peace and justice to the galaxy. However peace would not last, seven years later a criminal organization called the Imperial Alliance, headed by Admiral Niathal Nebulax, started to make trouble in the galaxy.

In 51 ABY Solan and his siblings accompanied their mother on a diplomatic mission to Coruscant while their father stayed to run the new Jedi Praxeum with Ben on Ossus. Once there they moved into Senator Pooja's Naberrie's house, who Solan nor his family knew that she was actually related to them thorugh his great grandmother. The children were the left in the care of Threepio and R2 while Jaina went to the conference with Senator Naberrie. While they were there Solan and his siblings befriended the Queen of Naboo. During the first night of the trade summit, while their parents were away, the three children overheard a conversation between their mother with Pooja Naberrie and one other senator. They learned of a plot which involved the destruction of entire star systems.

Solan, Shmi, and Alona would end up cooped up in "Aunt Pooja's House with R2, 3PO and the tutor. They watched from the apartment as enclaves within Coruscant burned to the ground and bodies piled up in the streets in the first stages of what would come to be known as the Imperial Rebellion.

The house came under fire and Threepio decided that at this point it was time to leave. The children, and the droids piled into the Millennium Falcon. With an old hyperdrive, the decision was made to visit the Queen on Naboo. By the time that they reached Naboo, the Falcon's old hyperdrive became absolete.

Solan, Shmi, and Alona were happy to accept the hospitality of the Queen and received a lesson about Nubian traditions as well. The following morning after breakfast, Solan and his siblings related to the Queen their experience at Coruscant and the conversation and recording that they had seen and heard.

Right after they told the Queen their findings, Solan and his siblings were kidnapped by Admiral Nebulax. After they effected some repairs with the help of the droids, Shmi piloted the Millennium Falcon out of the mouth of the ship with the Admiral in hot pursuit. Though they didn't have much knowledge about flying ships, Shmi managed to evade the Admiral while Solan used his gunnery skills to destroy Nebulax's lasers. While they were busy Alona contacted her father at the Praxuem and informed them of the attack on Coruscant.

Soon after Zekk arrived and rescued Jaina on Coruscant. With their help Jaina and Zekk were able to capture Admiral Nebulax and end the Imperial Rebellion.



Jedi Training (55 ABY–59 ABY)
"I prefer straight forward methods."

- Solan Solo to Ben Skywalker

In 55 ABY, at the age of thirteen, Solan and his sister were allowed to attend Ben's Jedi Praxeum on Ossus to begin their training. At the academy he and sister gained many friends including Hapan princess Allana, Tira, and Connor. While his sister gained an affinity for ships, Solan wanted to gain knowledge about the force. Like his uncle, Anakin Solo, Solan believed that the force was a tool to be used at a Jedi's disposal. In addition to that Solan adapted the view of the Living force.

At the academy Solan honed his impressive talents in the Force, and became one of the academy's most powerful students. However, this would later add to his ego making extremely arrogrant. It was also during this time that Solan, Shmi, and their friends were tasked with building their first lightsabers. Solan created a green lightsaber using a green gem he found near a river during one of his travels. During his time at the academy Solan, Shmi, Tira, Allana, and Connor would go on exciting adventures while learning valuable lessons that would hardly prepare him for the events ahead.

Brush with the Darkside
During their training Solan, Shmi, and their friends would encounter the remnants of the old Sith Order, The order of Darth Bane. On a field trip to Illum, the twins, Connor, and Tira were kidnapped by a man in dark robes. After reversion to realspace, a Sith soldier told Solan, Shmi and their friends that they would be trained to become Dark Jedi once they arrived at their destination—the Sith temple.

Solan training at the Shadow Academy began with exercises in which he had to defend himself from holo-remotes. Solan was later put in a variety of sadistic scenarios which involved him unknowingly dueling his sister and another where he was forced to disable one the Sith soldiers.

After Solan survived the latter scenario and learned how visualize objects in the Force in the process, he, his sister, Connor, and Tira were informed by the Sith Lord of his plans to kidnap more "recruits" from the Praxeum. Solan decided that it was time to attempt escape. After their training exercise Solan escaped his cell using a stolen lightsaber and rescued his sister and friends. Soon after Ben and Alona arrived to rescue the group. They escaped to Ossus using the Imperial ship, Night Stalker. Solan and his friends then went to Coruscant for a month long vacation.

After his experience with the dark side, Solan would question his own beliefs about the Force.

Skirmish on Ennth


"I have a bad feeling about this guy, he's up to no good." "I hate to say it Solan but I agree with you."

- Solan and Shmi

A year later, Zekk took the twins and Alona to his homeworld of Ennth on a mission to locate a very rare stone. On Ennth they encountered Draco, a childhood friend of Zekk's and ex-bounty hunter, he claimed to be an honest businessman though Solan became suspicious of him and couldn't help but think that he was danger. After speaking with Draco, the twins, Alona, and their father went to a cave where it was rumored to have held the rare stone they were looking for. The eventually found the stone with Alona's help and headed for the Lightning Rod, their father's most prized possession.

En route to the Lightning Rod, Solan and the others were attacked by super battle droids and were saved by the intervention of Connor. Along with his father, Alona. and Shmi, Solan followed Connor to a ruined building in which they chose to hide in from the attackers. However, Solan and the others were seperated from Zekk as they were attacked by super battle droids. After destroying the the droids Solan, Shmi and Alona along with Connor searched for their father.

Using Alona's special ability to talk to droids, they discovered that Draco was behind the assassainantion attempt on their lives and that he was head of his own criminal organization. They eventally found him but they also found Draco. Draco put up a fight but in the end the kids won, destroying his criminal organization. As Draco was about to tell them who he was working for Connor killed him, saying that he was too dangerous to be left alive. As a result, the names of Draco's moles in strategic positions of power were discovered, defeating the crime syndicate.

Following the Skirmish on Ennth, Solan and the other students in his year were promoted to Jedi Apprentices. Solan was then chosen to become Valin Horn's apprentice. Later that night Solan was told by Shmi tha t Connor had left. Though sad that he was losing a friend, he knew that Connor was going to come back and that there was nothing to worry about.

Tenloss Hyperspace War


"Don't get too cocky Solan!"

- Jaina Solo to her son

His greatest test would come during the devastating Tenloss Hyperspace War in 58 ABY. On a mission to Fondor, Solan and his master discovered the remnants of the Tenloss Criminal Syndicate, a criminal organization thought to be destroyed in the Clone Wars. Soon after Solan learned that their leader, Crion Exel, was in league with the Sith. After escaping death Solan and his Jedi Master Valin Horn raced back to Coruscant to warned the New Republic of incoming danger.

Following the discovery Solan joined his sister in the Rogue Squadron, participating in the Battle of Fondor under the command of his mother. Using a force meld with his sister and mother, Solan managed to destroy ten Sith ships. During the battle Solan attempted to defend the flagship of the Galactic Alliance fleet, Skywalker's Legacy, though the enemy succeeded in destroying it. The explosion destroyed Solan Solo's X-wing, though he managed to eject herself into space and was later retrieved. Unfortunately, Solan was suffered minor burns to his body.

Solan soon recovered and was made into a Jedi Knight, the ceremony being performed by his own father. However, tradegy struck when Shmi was missing in an explosion during the Battle of Kalabra thw next year. The whole family was devestated by the news but Solan assured himself that his sister was alive somewhere. To make things worse Alona chose not to fight, a decision frowned upon by Solan. This solidified his cause against the Sith and The Tenloss Criminal Syndicate.

Hero to the Galactic Alliance
As the war continued Solan became a hero to the Galactic Alliance and the galaxy at large. Many regarded Solan as the Hero With No Fear, a title previously given to his great-great grandfather during the Clone Wars. Once his sister returned to Coruscant, Solo was charged with orchestrating the ground assault on planet of Neimodia, a pivotal member of the Tenloss Criminal Syndicate and the newly revived Trade Federation. With the help of Mandalore Merc Gev and his Mandalorian soldiers coupled with his leadership of a group of Jedi, the Galactic Alliance was victorious.

Solan also participated in the Battle of Hapes. It was his idea to use his starfighter to place concussion charges on critical weak points of the Trade Federation Dreadnaught-class cruisers. His plan was a success, and helped achieve a G.A victory. After the battle, Solan returned to Coruscant, where he was ambushed by a Sith in one of Galactic City's industrial sectors. Solan managed to defeat him and gain information about the mysterious pilot Shmi was talking about. According to the Sith he went by the name "Reaper" and like him, this Reaper was also a Sith. But before he tell Solan his true identity the Sith was killed by a blowdart to the neck.

Attack on the Temple


This war was becoming the most devasting war the galaxy ever faced. Each day hundreds were dying. Worse, many people were beginning to lose faith in the Jedi. In 61 ABY the Jedi Temple on Coruscant fell under attack by Darth Krayt and his Sith forces. During teh battle Solan hijacked a TIE fighter and took on the Sith fighters. Along with Artoo and Tira Solan faced off against the Trade Federation and Sith armies.

Sensing his sisters in trouble, Solan exited the battle and headed for the planet. He arrived to the Jedi temple lit up in flames and the sounds of buzzing lightsabers. As he made his way down the burning halls Solo was confronted by two Sith, each holding two lightsabers. Solan drew his ice green lightsaber and the three commenced in a duel. Solan managed to kill one and overpower the other but before he could finish the battle a detonator was set off. Solo managed to jump out of the temple in time.

Solan regrouped with the others on Ossus where he and his family learned of Darth Krayt's kidnapping of Shmi. To make things worst he learned that the "Reaper" was actually Connor, his best friend. Enraged at this revelation he vowed that the Sith and Connor were going pay for kidnapping his sister.

War's end
Though enraged that Connor was welcomed back into the Jedi Order, Solan nevertheless joined in the attack against the Tenloss Syndicate and Trade Federation in hopes of rescuing his sister. Gaining the rank of Commander, Solo participated in Operation Jedi Strike leading Team Wompa on the Trade Federation planet of                            Geonosis.

Once they arrived on Geonosis where the remains of the Trade Federation was believed to be located the group split up hoping to catch Haako Rendir, leader of the Techno army. A heated but short battle followed, during which Solan and his Team destroyed the Trade Fedration Base, killing Haako. Eventually, Alona and Ben were able to destroy the Techno army's starships, causing the droids to shut down.

Once again the tides of battle seem to shift in their favor. Shortly afterwards, Solan and his family were reunited with Shmi. After their sucessful win on Geonosis and Neimodia, Galactic Alliance Intelligence discovered that Darth Krayt had another Sith temple on the planet of Dantooine. In 62 ABY, the Battle of Dantooine broke out. The Solo kids along with Ben Skywalker and Connor fought through the legions of stormtroopers and Sith knights, and the team entered the temple with Shmi's help. The Solo kids, along with Ben and Connor, fought their way through the legions of Sith and made it to Darth Krayt's chamber. During the final battle Solan dueled Krayt but was knocked out trying to save Alona from his Vong armor. He eventually awoke, using telekinisis to pull heis lightsaber to him, and manage to throw it to Alona. Using his lightsaber, she managed to damaged Krayt's right eye, catching him off guard. Shortly afterwards, Solan witnessed his sister encase Krayt in his armor by using the force, ending the battle.

Solan and the others were later congratulated by Chief of State Leida Mothma and the Galactic Alliance. Shortly after the signing of the Treaty of Ten, Solan, Tira, and the family attended Shmi's and Connor's wedding at the Jedi Praxeum.

Cry for help
In 66 ABY, Solan along with his family and the other Jedi received a distress call from Zonama Sekot.

Behind the Scenes
This article was created by Jaina Solo.