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'''Jaina Solo''' is a ] from the '']'' ], the eldest child of ] and ]. She is also the elder twin of ] by five minutes and the sister of ]. She has appeared in various novels and the '']'' set for the '']''.<ref>Sterling Hershey and Gary M. Sarli, "," ''Wizards of the Coast'' (Thursday, June 8, 2006).</ref> |
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==Creation and development== |
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The characters of Jaina Solo and her twin brother Jacen were created by ] for the novel '']'' (1994). The twins played a small role in ]'s '']'' trilogy, and a larger supporting role in Vonda McIntyre's '']''. Not until the '']'' (1995) do Jaina Solo and her friends become major characters.<ref> on Star Wars: Databank</ref> |
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], author of ''Dark Journey'', commented that the story is a personal one focusing on a difficult time in Jaina's life.<ref></ref> ], author of ''Destiny's Way'', commented that the plot concerning Jaina Solo's love-life caused some frantic rewrites.<ref></ref> |
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==Depiction== |
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'''Birth''' |
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Even before they were born, Jaina and her twin brother Jacen, along with their mother, were subject to no less than three kidnapping attempts by Grand Admiral Thrawn's Noghri Death Commandos. In order to entice the mad Dark Jedi Joruus C'baoth into helping him with his campaign, Thrawn had made a promise to apprehend Luke Skywalker, Leia Organa Solo, and her as yet unborn children—Force-sensitive individuals that C'baoth would corrupt and mold in any way that he saw fit once he got his hands on them. |
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After a visit to the blighted world of Honoghr, Leia ensured that Jaina and Jacen were born on Coruscant during the final days of the Thrawn campaign without the threat of any more kidnapping attempts by Noghri Death Commandos hanging over their heads. Thrawn, however, still trying to keep his end of the bargain, sent Imperial Intelligence agents to Coruscant to kidnap the twins and their mother once again. The quarters in which the Solo family lived were destroyed, but Thrawn's agents once again were foiled and the twins were unharmed. |
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Despite the reassurances of ancient Jedi lore that held that childish innocence was an effective obstacle to the corrupting influence of the dark side of the Force, Jaina and Jacen's uncle Luke believed that any contact with the dark side could warp the mind of a young child for the rest of his or her life. Given the power that the twins would wield when they grew older, Luke told Han and Leia that he felt it was best to minimize any chance for the twins to be kidnapped during this vulnerable time. |
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They took his advice and sent the twins to New Alderaan, to be under the care of Leia's lifelong friend and aide Winter. Any safety that could be derived from this arrangement would be short-lived, however. The reborn Emperor Palpatine discovered New Alderaan's location and ordered an attack on the planet immediately. During the chaos of the Second Battle of New Alderaan, Jaina and Jacen were nearly kidnapped by Darksiders Xecr Nist and Kvag Gthull, but their efforts were thwarted by the actions of Jedi warriors led by Skywalker. |
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Following the battle, Jaina and Jacen were brought to the ancient space city of Nespis VIII, where their parents and uncle discovered that the New Republic had survived the destruction of Da Soocha V. After the birth of their younger brother, Anakin, Jacen and Jaina would live with their mother and father in the space city until they fled with the rest of the New Republic forces, shortly before the city was destroyed by one of the Galaxy Gun's warheads. |
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eeding Luke's advice, Han and Leia took Jaina, Jacen and Anakin into hiding on the world of Onderon so that the future of the Jedi would be protected from Palpatine, who planned to spiritually enter Anakin and free himself from his last clone body, which was deteriorating at an alarming rate. Han and Leia made their way to Onderon, but Palpatine, using a Sith oracle stone, was able to determine their destination and intercept the Millennium Falcon. The Falcon was damaged in the ensuing confrontation, but Han and Chewbacca managed to coax it into limping all the way to Onderon, where they landed it in the city of Iziz. |
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With Palpatine hot on their heels, Vima-Da-Boda and Chewbacca attempted to create a diversion, with a goal of making Palpatine think that Leia and the children had fled Onderon aboard the Falcon. Meanwhile, Jaina, Jacen and Anakin embarked on a day-long journey to Fortress Kira with their parents. Palpatine did not fall for the ruse and managed to track his quarry right to the room where Leia and her children were staying. |
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Jaina and Jacen could do little more but look on as their parents, uncle, Empatojayos Brand, and Rayf Ysanna battled Palpatine's last clone. At the cost of the lives of Ysanna and Brand, Palpatine was thwarted in his attempt to possess Anakin's body. After the New Republic had retaken Coruscant, Jaina, Jacen, and Anakin were relocated to the isolated and nearly unknown world of Anoth with Winter, where they would once again rarely see their parents. |
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'''Reunion''' |
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When they were two-and-a-half years old, Jaina and Jacen returned to Coruscant to live with their parents. By this time, Jaina and Jacen demonstrated an ability to move objects with their minds from time to time. 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. Because Han and Leia had been able to visit Anoth only a few times, Jaina and Jacen became quite apprehensive about leaving Winter (whom they had come to view as their mother) for the care of Leia, whom they viewed as a stranger. |
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Because Han was gone at the time that the twins returned, Leia found herself struggling to balance her motherly duties with her responsibilities as Minister of State of the New Republic. As a result, Leia enlisted the help of C-3PO, who was eager to put his recently-downloaded child-rearing subroutines to the test. C-3PO met the job with an initial enthusiasm, but found himself overwhelmed on a number of occasions, including one incident in which the twins caused him to become entangled within a tentacle-cactus during a diplomatic ceremony in the Skydome Botanical Gardens. He also put his masterful storytelling abilities to use, and took pride in his ability to sing lullabies in just about any language or style. More often than not, though, Jaina and Jacen would decide that they preferred their father's telling of The Little Lost Bantha Cub more than anything else. |
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After he returned with Han from their mission to Kessel, Chewbacca assisted C-3PO with the care of Jaina and Jacen while Han and Leia attended to other responsibilities. In the first instance when the pair was tasked with taking care of the twins in their parents' absence, Jaina and Jacen's pestering managed to drive Chewbacca into a frenzy, and even deteriorate C-3PO's patience programming. The Wookiee and the protocol droid decided that it would be a good idea to bring the twins on a field trip to Coruscant's Holographic Zoo of Extinct Animals. Jaina and Jacen quickly tired of the dullness of the museum and decided that a game of hide-and-seek with their escorts would be much more fun. |
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Without informing C-3PO and Chewbacca, Jaina and Jacen began the game. Evading Chewbacca's pursuit, the twins found their way onto a turbolift and rode it down to the floor designated as "1." Exiting from the turbolift, Jaina and Jacen embarked upon an adventure in Coruscant's undercity where they encountered many odd and dangerous creatures. The twins eventually discovered a refugee community that consisted of accountants who had fled the oppression of the Galactic Empire on Coruscant's surface. Despite his fear of the Empire (which he thought was still in power on Coruscant), King Onibald Daykim helped Jaina and Jacen return to their home. |
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==See also== |
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== References == |
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==External links== |
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* {{databank|category=character|subject=jainasolo|text=Jaina Solo}} |
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* {{sww|Jaina Solo}} |
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