>>121631404Actual tl;dr for her
Vader's first nu-EU solo starts with sheev messing with him after the first death star explosion so he goes around imperial authority by hiring a roboticist to build a private army of droids including evil C3PO and evil R2D2 a pair of assassin droids and a bunch of clone wars mass produced models. Vader has Aphra go on missions for him and eventually decided to tie up loose ends once the Emperor was done messing with him. Stuff happens and she eventually gets one of the bounty hunters to flip by offering a ton of credits and she takes a gamble to fake her death.
After all that she gets a solo which is mostly about her partnering up with people then throwing them under the bus for profit, Vader shows up a few times and she manages to survive mostly through luck, there's a romance subplot with an imperial investigator who ends up disenfranchised with everything after Aphra wipes her mind and replaces it with a visceral memory of killing Aphra to keep Vader off her tail and the whole series eventually comes to a close with an arc where Vader finds out she's alive, forces her into the team of archeologists the Empire is forcing to hunt for the Rebels (rebels mostly used old temples as their bases) and she manages to "beat" Vader by hitting him with an EMP in a temple of crazy jedi offshoots that liked to cut themselves off from the force and using the few minutes that all that would slow Vader down to set up a scenario where she can cut and run when the Empire is too busy setting up for the Hoth battle.
