Or Die Trying

"Or Die Trying" is a short story by Sean Williams and Shane Dix that features the Jedi Knight Jaina Solo infiltrating the headquarters of Onadax Droid Technologies on the planet Onadax. The company has manufactured a Human replica droid (HRD) that betrayed the citizens of Bakura, and Solo hopes to bring them to justice for the crimes committed by their clients. She confronts an HRD named Stanton Rendar and engages him in a discussion regarding the moral implications of immortality and near-invincibility, but ultimately remains firm in her convictions and prepares to apprehend him. Rendar looses a group of battle droids on Solo and sets the compound to self-destruct, but she defeats the droids and escapes while Rendar flees the planet.

"Or Die Trying" included a full-page illustration by Leanne Buckley in its publication in the seventy-fifth issue of Star Wars Insider. The issue was made available to subscribers on March 19, 2004, followed by a release to newsstands on April 6. In 2003, Williams and Dix had written the Force Heretic trilogy, three volumes of The New Jedi Order book series; "Or Die Trying" is set between the trilogy's second and third installments. The six-page story builds on the continuity of Force Heretic and additionally ties up several loose ends of the Star Wars Expanded Universe, such as the fates of Dash Rendar and Guri from 1996's Shadows of the Empire multimedia project. "Or Die Trying" was also published in the fifty-ninth issue of Star Wars: The Official Magazine, and later went on to be archived online as part of StarWars.com's Hyperspace fan club. Its characters and events have since been mentioned in several reference guides.

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