While Emilia Clarke’s Qi’ra was Han Solo’s old flame as seen in Solo: A Star Wars Story, what occurred subsequent within the Star Wars timeline after she left him? Although Qi’ra’s story hasn’t been featured in any subsequent movies or streaming sequence, her story has continued in different Star Wars media, most notably within the pages of Marvel Comics’ canonical sequence set between Empire Strikes Back and Return of the Jedi. Qi’ra destiny – and her management of the Crimson Dawn crime syndicate – has been explored throughout a full trilogy within the comics (and a job in Ubisoft’s Star Wars: Outlaws).

At the tip of Solo: A Star Wars Story, Qi’ra killed the crime lord Dryden Vos so she might take his place as chief of Crimson Dawn. The crime cartel is considered one of 5 working inside the Dark Times of the Empire’s reign, all secretly dominated by Palpatine’s former Sith apprentice Darth Maul. But the ending solely confirmed Qi’ra reporting in, leaving her future unclear. Given a Solo sequel positively is not occurring, it has fallen to different mediums to proceed Qi’ra’s story – notably a trilogy of comedian ebook occasions by Charles Soule and in Outlaws.

Qi’ra’s Star Wars Future After Solo Explained

Finishing What Darth Maul Could Not

In War of the Bounty Hunters, Qi’ra has turn out to be Lady Qi’ra, main a reborn Crimson Dawn after The Empire Strikes Back. Qi’ra restructured and significantly expanded Crimson Dawn after Darth Maul’s loss of life, embedding brokers everywhere in the galaxy. Furthermore, she stole Han Solo in his carbonite jail from Boba Fett whereas he was en path to ship him to Jabba the Hutt, auctioning the smuggler off in a grasp scheme to pit the Hutts and Empire in opposition to one another. Fett retrieved Solo and handed him over to Jabba, who has the smuggler in Return of the Jedi.

Lady Qi’ra then moved on to the following section of her plans with Soule’s Crimson Reign, utilizing her huge community of brokers and assassins (together with the Knights of Ren) in a marketing campaign in opposition to Emperor Palpatine and Darth Vader, wanting to chop off the top of the Empire itself by destroying the Sith. Using her contacts to create mass chaos with assassination makes an attempt and tricking rival crime syndicates into warring with every to realize Palpatine’s favor, Qi’ra successfully destabilizes the order and management maintained by the Empire, together with sending the Knights of Ren to rob the fortress of Darth Vader himself.

The last chapter introduced forth the fruits of Qi’ra’s plans with the Hidden Empire. Having obtained an historical artifact referred to as the Fermata Cage, Qi’ra seemingly hoped to unleash a Sith Lord in opposition to Palpatine and Vader, one who’d been suspended inside the artifact for hundreds of years. In reality, the Fermata Cage was empty, permitting Qi’ra to spring her entice and efficiently time-lock Vader and Palpatine inside. However, the Knights of Ren feared Palpatine greater than Qi’ra, and so they selected to avoid wasting the Sith. Having risked and misplaced every part in her purpose to destroy the Sith, Qi’ra fled and disappeared in failure.

Qi’ra’s Role In Star Wars Outlaws

Manipulating the Ashiga Clan

Ubisoft and Massive Entertainment’s Star Wars: Outlaws can also be set between The Empire Strikes Back and Return of the Jedi. The sport follows the story of Canto Bight thief Kay Vess and her rise within the galactic underworld as she good points favor/makes enemies with varied crime syndicates. This consists of Crimson Dawn and a few temporary encounters with Lady Qi’ra herself in Star Wars: Outlaws. Taking place someday after Qi’ra’s public sale of Han Solo, Kay meets Qi’ra throughout Crimson Dawn’s efforts to destabilize the Ashiga Clan syndicate working from the icy mountain world of Kijimi.

The Ashiga Clan’s queen sought to increase and align her syndicate with the Empire in alternate for weapons contracts. However, Qi’ra and Crimson Dawn supported Krisk, the queen’s daughter who in the end staged a coup to turn out to be the brand new queen. Having been pulled into the battle, Kay confronted Qi’ra after the takeover, deducing that each one Crimson Dawn needed was to sow chaos (probably a part of the grander syndicate battle as seen in Crimson Reign).

Claiming that her actions had been all within the service of future galactic freedom, Qi’ra tells Kay that she’s going to do no matter is critical to make that freedom occur after her eyes had been opened to those who actually pull the strings throughout the galaxy. This is in fact a reference to Maul who informed Qi’ra all concerning the Sith who secretly dominated the Empire and stored the galaxy oppressed. Likewise, Crimson Dawn’s makes an attempt to maneuver in on different syndicates’ operations and territories might be seen all through Outlaws, sustaining Qi’ra’s main goal as was established within the comics.

Why Is Qi’ra Not In The Original Trilogy?

While Marvel’s Star Wars comics reveal that Qi’ra was alive through the time of the unique trilogy and interacted with Han and Leia, her most popular technique of dealing with issues from the shadows justifies her lack of an on-screen presence through the precise films. Likewise, her failure and lack of assets after her personal battle explains her absence in Return of the Jedi. However, the epilogue of Hidden Empire confirms she survived into the daybreak of the New Republic Era and the Empire’s fall.

Just as Qi’ra moved on from Han Solo, it appears as if Han moved on from her earlier than (or when) he met Leia. Likewise, the autumn of Crimson Dawn and Qi’ra’s believed demise assist clarify her absence and lack of references to her character as properly. While Qi’ra’s profession with Crimson Dawn after Solo: A Star Wars Story is seemingly over within the comics, it is potential she might return in a future Star Wars mission happening after Return of the Jedi.

Qi’ra Didn’t Kill Vader Or The Emperor (But Still Matters)

During the Crimson Dawn trilogy, Lady Qi’ra did work together with Princess Leia, conceding that Han Solo was higher off with Leia than with Qi’ra herself. She argued that Leia brings out the most effective in Han, whereas she would solely convey out the worst. This may very well be seen as a method of justifying why Han thinks of Leia because the love of his life as an alternative of Qi’ra, due to this fact by no means mentioning Qi’ra in the primary Star Wars films.

An epilogue scene to Hidden Empire revealed that Qi’ra was nonetheless alive on the time of Return of the Jedi, though she didn’t be a part of the celebrations of the Emperor’s loss of life. By this level within the timeline, she not had an influence base; she knew every part had occurred with out her, and her video games had been at an finish. It was a tragic finish for such an influential determine.

But it is essential to notice Qi’ra’s Star Wars story nonetheless has a major impact on the universe. Qi’ra’s work resulted in large upheaval to the legal underworld, a chaos that stored the Empire busy, which in flip gave the Rebellion time to reform after the Battle of Hoth. Two of Qi’ra’s Crimson Dawn brokers had been even accountable for alerting the Rebellion concerning the existence of the second Death Star. For all of her failures, Lady Qi’ra made a serious affect on the galaxy and the occasions that adopted from Solo: A Star Wars Story.