Jaina Solo is the older of the Solo twins born to Han Solo and Leia Organa Solo approximately 5 years after the Battle of Endor. Jaina is their only daughter. She found early on that being a child of the Skywalker Solo lineage has its disadvantages. Like Anakin Skywalker, the moment people knew she existed and was strong in the Force they wanted to use her for their own ends.
Jaina Solo has brown eyes and hair, usually worn in straight plain style. Unlike her Mom, she just doesn’t want to spend time styling it when she could be fiddling with machines.
Jaina’s personality lent toward enjoyment of flying and mechanics, like both her father and her mother’s biological father, Anakin Skywalker. She attended the Jedi Academy as one of the first of the new generation, after her uncle had gotten it established by training adults as Jedi.
During her short life, Jaina Solo has had to fend off numerous attempts at her capture. Thrawn tried when she was newborn. Hethrir succeeded, but she and Jacen used their skills to escape. No one expected the small girl with a micro tool to use it to break out, which she promptly did on Hethrir leaving. When she was visiting Calrissian’s Gem Diver station, she, her brother Jacen and friend Lowbacca were captured by agents of the Shadow Academy. Once more they escaped even as their uncle and friend Tenel Ka came seeking them.
As of graduating basic training, she was taken as apprentice by Mara Jade Skywalker. She built her own lightsaber with a synthetic violet crystal she grew herself. She also had received her own ship, a Z-95 headhunter.
Jaina Solo went on to earn the prophetic name ‘Sword of the Jedi’ in the war with the Yuuzhan Vong. She became a member for a time of the famed Rogue Squadron, which her Uncle had founded back in the Alliance to Restore the Republic years. Later she was a leader of Twin Suns Squadron, an all Jedi squadron.
Jaina Solo’s Relationships:
As a teen she and Zekk were very close. She first knew him as a street orphan on Coruscant but later as a fellow student at the academy. But as a young adult, she fell hard in love for Jag Fel, nephew of Wedge Antillies. The relationship was awkward due to them working for different governments, Jag the Chiss and Empire and Jaina the Jedi and the New Republic. Eventually they would marry. It is believed that her descendants founded the Fel Empire. This includes the Imperial Knights, who wore sworn to uphold it as the Jedi did the Republic, but only on condition the Fel in charge served the light.
She was very close with her twin, Jacen. She was closer with her Dad than her Mom and the fact that her Mom had to work so much, leaving her and her brothers in the care of Chewbacca bothered her though she rarely let it show. She also gets on well with her cousin, Ben Skywalker.
Jaina Solo’s first personal master was Mara Jade Skywalker.
See more under the spoiler warnings on her relationships and accomplishments.
Spoiler warning: Young Jedi Knights
Jaina was instrumental in taking down the Shadow Academy, the Diversity Alliance and the attempted resurrection of Black Sun. All this even before she graduated her basic training at the Jedi Academy.
Spoiler warning New Jedi Order
The young warrior suffered greatly during the Yuuzhan Vong War, losing friends and family and nearly falling to the dark side. Yet she persevered. During the war Luke Skywalker prophetically named her Sword of the Jedi. Jaina Solo was compared to the Yuuzhan Vong’s trickster goddess Yun Harla after her actions against them in the war.
Spoiler warning Dark Nest trilogy
Jaina Solo fell under the influence of the Killiks, nearly becoming a Joiner or at least sympathizer. This in part was due to the involvement of her friend Raynar Thul, who had been lost on a mission during the Yuuzhan Vong War, terribly wounded, and nursed back to health by the Killiks, becoming Un Thul, a leader among them.
Spoiler warning Legacy of the Force
During this era she knew she was losing her twin, who was badly affected by the outcome of the wars. He came under dark influences and at long last, fell to the dark side. As his actions became increasingly ruthless toward innocents and his fellow Jedi, he crossed a line and only Jaina could stop him. She even trained with Boba Fett and the Mandaloreans to gain an edge. Cruelly, she was forced to kill him.
Spoiler warning Fate of the Jedi
In the struggle with Abeloth, Jaina was officially confirmed as a Jedi Master by Luke Skywalker. Jaina Solo married Jag Fel.
Jaina Solo References and Stories
(Note: this list is not exclusive. These are the primary stories, however, as opposed to ones they just are there as background characters).
- The Thrawn trilogy (The Last Command, birth) by Timothy Zahn (birth)
- The Crystal Star by Vonda McIntyre
- Jedi Academy Trilogy by Kevin J. Anderson
- The Corellian Trilogy (Ambush at Corellia, Assault on Selonia, Showdown at Centerpoint) by Roger Allen McBride
- Young Jedi Knights (focused primarily on Jaina Solo, her brother Jacen and friends) by Rebecca Moesta and Kevin J. Anderson
- The Crystal (short story) by Elaine Cunningham
- New Jedi Order (series, several books. Dark Journey by Elaine Cunningham is especially about her)
- Dark Nest Trilogy by Troy Denning
- Legacy of the Force (series)
- Fate of the Jedi (series)
- The Essential Guide to Characters
- The New Essential Guide to Characters
- The Essential Chronology
- The New Essential Chronology
- Jedi VS Sith the Essential Guide to the Force
- There are 2 short stories I don’t think I’ve gotten as of yet: Getaway by Christie Golden from Star Wars Insider 134 and Good Hunting, also by Christie Golden, from Star Wars Insider 142.
Merch: Jaina Solo has had 2 action figures. A 3.75 inch scale and the Black Series 6″ fan choice poll winner as well as a ARTFX Kotubikiya figure.
She’s also been on Topps trading cards, a few t-shirts, and pins from Punch It Chewie Press.
Fan Films: A short film featuring events in Legacy of the Force stars Jaina Solo played by Jaci Twiss.
Lightsabers: While I see no one currently making custom lightsabers specifically named after Jaina Solo, there is more than one company that lets you create your own custom one, which may be similar. This includes places like Neosabers which has a nice post about it, Ultrasabers and formerly Geocustoms, which is now shut down. While the last is now shut down, it does have a post about a custom-built Jaina saber that may help people build their own.
