Ahsoka Tano is a one of the protagonists of the Star Wars animated feature film Star Wars: The Clone Wars, followed by its TV series from 2008-2020. She later appears in other multiple Star Wars-related TV series, including as the main protagonist of the Disney+ series Ahsoka. Ahsoka is a Togruta, the former apprentice of Anakin Skywalker, and a Force-sensitive outcast from the Jedi Order.
During the Clone Wars, despite being a commander in the Grand Army of the Galactic Republic, Ahsoka found a mentor in Clone Captain Rex, with whom she and Anakin Skywalker collaborated against the Confederacy of Independent Systems. She fought against a variety of opponents, from General Grievous and Sith apprentice Asajj Ventress to bounty hunters such as Cad Bane, and even died during a series of events on Mortis, only to brought back to life by a Force wielder who personified the light side called the Daughter. After the Clone Wars, Ahsoka was went into hiding briefly before joining Bail Organa's growing rebel movement against the Galactic Empire. She adopted the codename "Fulcrum" and helped establish a network of various rebel cells, taking a particular interest in Hera Syndulla's rebels because one of their members, a Jedi named Kanan Jarrus, had begun to train his own Padawan, Ezra Bridger. In addition, Tano's efforts against the Empire brought her into contact with the Sith Lord Darth Vader—who, unknown to her, was actually her former master, Anakin Skywalker—as well as the Imperial Inquisitors known as the Fifth Brother and the Seventh Sister, but it also gave her the chance to reunite with Rex. While Ahsoka was believed to have perished during a duel with Darth Vader, she was unexpectedly saved by a future Ezra Bridger, who pulled her through a portal into the World Between Worlds.
In the years following Ezra Bridger and Thrawn's disappearance, Ahsoka Tano joined Sabine Wren in a quest to find the missing Bridger, while the former Jedi and Huyang also trained Wren in the ways of the Jedi. Although the Empire fell and a New Republic rose to take its place, Ahsoka started hearing whispers of Imperial Grand Admiral Thrawn's imminent return and a plot to find the lost Grand Admiral and bring him out of exile. With the help of the Mandalorian Din Djarin, Ahsoka captured one of Thrawn's allies, Morgan Elsbeth, Thrawn's ally as well as a Nightsister witch. Elsbeth escaped custody with the help of Baylan Skoll and his apprentic Shin Hati, and fought Ahsoka for a secret map until they all travel beyond the galaxy to the extragalactic planet Perida. Despite Ahsoka Tano, Sabine Wren, and Ezra Bridger's race to prevent it, Grand Admiral Thrawn was able to escape from his exile on the Chimaera and the Eye of Sion. While Bridger was able to escape aboard the Chimaera, Tano and Wren remained stranded on Peridea.
Decades later, Ahsoka's voice joined a multitude of Jedi spirits to guide the young Jedi Rey, the granddaughter of a resurrected Emperor Palpatine, during the final battle of the First Order-Resistance War.
Background[]
Physical appearance[]
As a Togruta, Ahsoka is physically humanoid like a human but differs in lacking cranial hair, instead sporting a horn-like sensory organ called a montral and three lekkus, tentacle-like appendages, all in a silver color with navy blue stripes. She has orange skin, white facial markings and blue eyes. Throughout her life, Ahsoka's lekkus grow, appearing relatively short at the start of the Clone Wars, stopping at her thorax, growing a little more a year later and reaching the level of the basin at the end of the war, as well as her montral has developed. As an adult, Ahsoka's lekkus have grown a little wider.
During the Clone Wars, Ahsoka wore sleeveless red Jedi clothing with white tights for her legs, accompanied by fingerless gloves and long boots. She later changed to a different but still red outfit, wearing black open-toe tights, a sleeveless one-piece dress, and sporting armbands on her upper arms. During the Siege of Mandalore, she wore a blue and gray battle dress partially composed of beskar similar to her previous dress but more armored, also wearing a tiara.
In the Imperial era, Ahsoka's outfit was an ancient gray Jedi armor, and she wore a new tiara. In the New Republic era, Ashoka's outfit resembles a feudal samurai outfit, consisting of baggy pants, a sleeveless top, and sleeves cut under metal bracelets.
Personality[]
As a teenager, Ahsoka is snarky, cocky, aggressive, feisty, stubborn, reckless, and impulsive, yet loyal, generous, and kind-hearted. She is quite selfless as she willingly risk her life many times to protect the innocent, as well as her friends. Ahsoka also has very good maternal instincts, being friendly and humble.
Although Ahsoka is usually an honest person, she was capable of lying well enough to fool her master into thinking that Plo Koon had allowed her to join the mission to rescue Even Piell.
During the Clone Wars, Ahsoka matured and became more responsible in many ways. However, unlike her then-mentor Anakin Skywalker, this stopped her from being reckless and impulsive (at least for the most part).
During Ahsoka's brief infection with the dark side on the planet of Mortis during the Clone Wars due to the Son (the physical embodiment of the dark side of the Force), her personality changed completely until she was healed of the infection and returned to the light side. She had became cruel, sadistic, and prone to bouts of complete insanity and rage, venting all her frustrations at Anakin and attempting to kill him for perceived slights towards her. As such, it was fortunate that Anakin and the Daughter (the physical embodiment of the light side of the Force) managed to help return her to normal.
However, when Ahsoka was framed for murder and treason, she was horrified when the Jedi Order coldly cast her out and all but condemned her to a Republic military trial, which came very close to sentence her to death. When Anakin unveiled the true culprit, Ahsoka was shocked to see it was her friend Barriss Offee.
When Ahsoka was offered to return to the Jedi Order as a full-fledged Jedi Knight, she was deeply conflicted, but ultimately chose not to, having lost faith in the order for not standing by her, and felt she could no longer devote herself to the Jedi Order after it had become clear that it was serving the political interests of the Republic instead of than following its ancient ways and traditions.
As an adult, despite Ahsoka's tragic departure from the Jedi Order on bad terms, she is very calm, level-headed, and mature, with a strong sense of justice, honor, and good morals. Although no longer a Jedi, Ahsoka has taken the teachings to heart to find balance in Jedi tradition and her own morals, allowing her to mature greatly into a distinct Force-user who imparts deep wisdom to her allies.
Despite being generally composed, Ahsoka struggles with her past, and her difficulty coming to terms with it, since she was unable to help her friends while on the run from the Empire. Despite everything the Council put her through, Ahsoka felt guilt and remorse for walking away from the Jedi Order, only because she left Anakin behind.
With past ties torn, Ahsoka suffered from severe grief over the fates that had befallen her friends and allies. The most significant blow was her discovery that Darth Vader is in fact her former mentor, Anakin. Even after she entered the Lothal Jedi Temple and discovered how Anakin fell to the dark side, she was still in denial that Anakin and Vader were the same individual. However, after Ahsoka slices off part of Vader's mask, she sees Anakin's disfigured face, and becomes shocked and saddened but she finally accepts that Anakin and Vader are the same person. Although she didn't want to abandon him again, Ahsoka finally understood that her former master could not be saved.
Powers and Abilities[]
Powers[]
- The Force: Since infancy, Ahsoka has a very strong connection to the Force.
- Telekinesis: Ahsoka can telekinetically move objects or other individuals without physically touching them, and she utilizes it for offensive or defensive purposes. Even at a young age, Ahsoka was able to pull down a large piece of wall with a hole inside of it to crush multiple droids without harming Anakin, who was fighting against them. As a teenager, she used the majority of her power to hold onto a medium sized shuttlecraft that was being stolen by Maul and prevent it from flying away, though she soon realized this left her and Rex in a vulnerable, defenseless position against the clones under the influence of Order 66 who were firing on them, which led her to release the ship to be able to protect her last remaining ally.
- Force Push: Ahsoka can telekinetically send her opponents flying through the air, causing serious injury or temporarily incapacitating/knocking them unconscious, depending on how much power is unleashed.
- Force Pull: Ahsoka can telekinetically pull her opponents or objects towards her.
- Force Grip: Ahsoka can telekinetically lift her opponents off the ground and into the air, sometimes by the neck, to immobilize them. She notably throttled a Trandoshan hunter on Island Four, lifting him into the air by the neck before slam him onto the ground.
- Force Barrier: Ahsoka can create a barrier or wall of Force energy in front of or surrounding herself or her allies. She notably was able to block the torrents of blue, fiery energy generated by Palpatine's Sith sorcery, although she required assistance from Ezra Bridger to dissipate the flames, if only temporarily.
- Saber Throw: Ahsoka can telekinetically guide her lightsaber towards her opponents and return the weapon back to her hand, similar to a boomerang or shuriken. In an attempt to escape the clones attacking her and Rex, she telekinetically maneuvered her lightsabers after throwing them like javelins into the ground they stood on, carving out a hole into which they both fell in, and summoning her lightsabers back into her grasp.
- Telepathy: Ahsoka can telepathically communicate with other individuals over small or vast distances. She was able to use this ability to communicate with Grogu.
- Mind Trick: Ahsoka can control the minds of other sentient beings, except for individuals with indomitable wills.
- Taming Beasts: Ahsoka can control the minds of animals. This allowed her to utilize the Purrgil to lead her to Peridea.
- Force Sense: Ahsoka can sense another sentient being's emotions, the future, ripples in the Force caused by momentous or traumatic events, impending danger, and the presence of other light or dark side Force-users.
- Psychometry: Ahsoka can deduce information about events, individuals, and places, simply by touching the objects that he held. At some point throughout her travels, Ahsoka learned to use Psychometry, where she manage to learned that Sabine Wren had left Seatos with Baylan Skoll and Shin Hati aboard the Eye of Sion by touching the destroyed Peridea star map.
- Force Vision: Ahsoka can see visions of the past, present, and future. However, like all Force-users, her visions are not always clear or sometimes they happen without warning.
- Force Jump: Ahsoka can jump or leap at great distances.
- Force Dash: Ahsoka can move at amazing speeds.
- Telekinesis: Ahsoka can telekinetically move objects or other individuals without physically touching them, and she utilizes it for offensive or defensive purposes. Even at a young age, Ahsoka was able to pull down a large piece of wall with a hole inside of it to crush multiple droids without harming Anakin, who was fighting against them. As a teenager, she used the majority of her power to hold onto a medium sized shuttlecraft that was being stolen by Maul and prevent it from flying away, though she soon realized this left her and Rex in a vulnerable, defenseless position against the clones under the influence of Order 66 who were firing on them, which led her to release the ship to be able to protect her last remaining ally.
- Extrasensory Perception: As other members of her kind, Ahsoka has an increased spatial awareness because of her hollow montrals, organs which allow her to sense the objects that move around them.
Abilities[]
- Master Lightsaber Duelist: Ahsoka is a highly skilled lightsaber duelist. Even as a Padawan, she displayed considerable lightsaber combat skills, being able to defeat three Magnaguards single handed, and at least temporarily hold her own against more powerful and experienced opponents, like General Grievous and Asajj Ventress. However, whilst fleeing from the clone troopers after being framed for murder, Ahsoka lost her lightsaber shoto, and was forced to use only her main lightsaber to fight against the recently turned Dark Jedi Barriss Offee. Her duel against her former friend Barriss proved that she had become too reliant on her second lightsaber, as despite her putting up a considerable fight, Barriss ultimately bested her relatively easily. By the time of the events of Star Wars Rebels, Ahsoka's lightsaber combat skills have greatly improved to the point of mastery. This is seen in "The Future of the Force", when she bested the two elite Inquisitors, the Fifth Brother and the Seventh Sister, relatively easily. In "Twilight of the Apprentice", Ahsoka was able to fight on par against the former Sith Lord Maul, and even hold her own reasonably well against her former mentor, Anakin Skywalker, now the ruthless Sith Lord Darth Vader. She even managed to crack Vader's mask, but as seen in "A World Between Worlds", if a future version of Ezra had not rescued her from Vader, she would have been struck down by the Sith Lord. 5 years after the fall of the Empire, Ahsoka was able to fight the Inquisitor Marrok and defeat him in their second duel however while fighting against Baylan Skoll, Ahsoka was unable to defeat him and resorted to use her superior speed and agility to counter Baylan’s powerful but slow attacks. In their second fight, Ahsoka instead distracted Baylan so she can steal his Howler.
- Form I: Ahsoka is very skilled in Shii-Cho.
- Form II: Ahsoka has some skill in Makashi. She often switched from two-handed to a one-handed stances in multiple duels before she studied Jar'Kai.
- Form III: Ahsoka is very skilled in Soresu. After becoming Anakin's student, she favored more offensive forms, but she is skilled enough in defending herself against blaster bolts and lightsaber blows.
- Form IV: After becoming Anakin's apprentice, Ahsoka trained in Ataru, and became extremely skilled at it.
- Form V: Ahsoka is extremely skilled in Shien/Djem So. While still a little girl, Ahsoka trained the Shien variant. After becoming Anakin's student, she studied the Djem So variant.
- Form VI: After becoming Anakin's apprentice, Ahsoka trained in Niman, and became extremely skilled at it, integrating telekinetic attacks into her lightsaber moveset.
- Jar'Kai: At some point during the Clone Wars, Ahsoka began to study Jar'Kai, and became extremely skilled at it. During her second duel with General Grievous, who was a master of Jar'Kai himself, Ahsoka displayed enough mastery of dual-blade combat to defend herself against all four of the cyborg's lightsabers for an even longer period of time than in their first encounter, which took place before she had began to learn Jar'Kai. By the time of the events of Star Wars Rebels, Ahsoka's skills in Jar'Kai have greatly improved to the point of mastery, as she used it to easily outmatch and overpower the two elite Inquisitors, the Fifth Brother and the Seventh Sister.
- Sai cha: Ahsoka is highly skilled in Sai cha.
- Sun djem: Ahsoka is highly skilled in Sun djem.
- Tràkata: Ahsoka is highly skilled in Tràkata.
- Mounted lightsaber combat: Ahsoka is highly skilled in Mounted lightsaber combat.
- Expert Hand-To-Hand Combatant: Ahsoka is an extremely skilled hand-to-hand combatant, being able to defeat the veteran Trandoshan sport hunter Garnac and infamous bounty hunter Cad Bane in unarmed combat, despite the fact that they were larger, stronger, and more experienced hand-to-hand combatants than her. While on the run from the Republic, she was also able to defeat several clone troopers at once effortlessly, but refused to kill them.
- Skilled Pilot: Ahsoka is highly skilled in piloting most speeders and most types of flying crafts.
- High-Level Intellect/Expert Tactician/Leader: Ahsoka is highly intelligent and wise. As a former Jedi Commander, Ahsoka is a highly skilled tactician and a very capable leader.
- Meditation: Ahsoka can further amplify her connection to the Force with a clear mind by meditating.
- Multilingual: Ahsoka is capable of fluently speaking Basic, Togruti, and Shyriiwook.
Weapons and Equipment[]
Lightsabers[]
Ahsoka's valued weapon and possession is her green, yellow-green, blue, and later white-bladed lightsabers. She has had four lightsabers.
- First Lightsaber: Ahsoka had built a green-bladed lightsaber which she used throughout most of her Jedi career and most of the Clone Wars. It would remain in Ahsoka's possession until her duel against the Dark Jedi Barriss Offee. She later got it back from Anakin Skywalker, and left it on the false grave as a way of faking her death.
- First Shoto lightsaber: At some point, Ahsoka had built a yellow-green-bladed shoto lightsaber. It would remain in Ahsoka's possession until the clones fired a missile close to her to knock her off her feet, whilst fleeing from the clones after being framed for murder. She later got it back from Anakin, and left it on the false grave as a way of faking her death.
- Second Lightsaber: By the time of the events of Star Wars Rebels, Ahsoka had built a new white-bladed lightsaber with a curved hilt. The inner components for this lightsaber were taken from an Inquisitor called the Sixth Brother, who she had killed and the kyber crystals were imbued with the light side of the Force, turning them white.
- Second Shoto lightsaber: By the time of the events of Star Wars Rebels, Ahsoka had built a new white-bladed shoto lightsaber. Like Ahsoka's standard lightsaber, this curve-hilted shoto was built using inner components from the lightsaber of the Inquisitor known as the Sixth Brother, and its kyber crystals imbued with the light side of the Force, turning them white.
Blaster[]
- Unknown Blaster: In the first year of the Empire, Tano also owned a blaster of an unknown model, which she used against Stormtroopers while escaping the planet of Thabeska. She destroyed it in order to provide a diversion for her escape.
Vehicles[]
- Speeder bikes: Ahsoka drove several speeder bikes during her time. During the Clone Wars, Tano drove a standard Undicur-class jumpspeeder that was common among the Jedi Order. After leaving the Jedi Order, Tano drove a Joben T-85 speeder bike. However the bike suffered a lot of malfunctions and she later left with with the Martez sisters.
History[]
Childhood[]
- “Jedi. Ahsoka is Jedi.”
- ―Gantika, realizing Ahsoka's Jedi destiny[src]
Baby Ahsoka with her parents, Pav-ti and Nak-il.
Ahsoka was born on the planet Shili to the Togrutas Pav-ti and Nak-il Tano. About a year after her birth, her mother took her out on her first hunting trip. During which a large predatory animal kidnapped her and intended to eat her. However, Ahsoka subdued the animal and had it return her to her village. Only the village elder realizes she is a Jedi.[1] When Ahsoka was three years old, she was discovered by Jedi Master Plo Koon after her natural ability to sense the intentions and feelings of others had marked her as Force-sensitive.
The Clone Wars[]
Skywalker's Apprentice[]
Despite Obi-Wan's want of a Padawan, Ahsoka is assigned by Yoda to be Anakin's. At first, Anakin does not want to be her master. After a mission on Christophisis, however, he decides that "she'll never make it as Obi-Wan's Padawan but will make it as his". Soon, she and Anakin are sent to find Jabba the Hutt's son, Rotta, and bring him safely home. She is relieved to find Rotta is only a baby, and thinks him to be cute. She later tries to prove that she's "not too young to be a Padawan". As they are trying to get Rotta out, however, Ahsoka is confronted by Asajj Ventress, a lightsaber-wielding villainess in the pay of Count Dooku. Anakin rescues her, and they depart for Tatooine. On the way, Ahsoka finds some medicine that saves Rotta's life. On the way to Jabba's Palace, Ahsoka asks Anakin about his experience on the planet, but Anakin refuses to discuss it. They formulate a plan - Anakin will hold off Dooku, pretending to have the Huttlet in tow, while Ahsoka breaks for the palace and returns him to Jabba. Despite uncertainties suffered by Dooku and his MagnaGuards, the plan succeeds and Jabba's son is successfully brought home. After this mission, she continues to work alongside her master and Obi-Wan.
Ahsoka during the Clone Wars.
Ahsoka fights in battles along Anakin and Obi-Wan. She is sometimes seen arguing with Anakin about each other's flaws. Yet, she seems to grow fond of her master and respects him. Obi-Wan approves of the Council's decision to pair them, but fears they are so similar they will only increase each other's bad habits. She also develops a close friendship with another Padawan, Barriss Offee, who is training under Luminara Unduli. She tries her best to save as many people she can. In The Alter of Mortis, where Ahsoka and company go up against the Father, Son, and Daughter, Ahsoka is temporarily controlled by the dark side of the Force until Anakin and Obi-Wan come to her aid.
Ahsoka Tano in Star Wars: Forces of Destiny.
Between the events of "Hunt for Ziro" and "Heroes on Both Sides", Ahsoka is seen running through the streets of Coruscant, on her way to the ceremony where she will receive an extension to her Padawan braid from Master Yoda. Along the way, Ahsoka stops to save a mother and her child from a malfunctioning droid. She easily disables it by slicing off one of its legs and drenching its circuits with water, and later arrives for the ceremony at the force-sensitive tree.[2]
Ahsoka helps with Senator Amidala arrangements for negotiations with the Arthurian delegates. The bounty hunter known as Cato Parasitti, disguised as one of the Senator's handmaidens, tries to disrupt the negotiations until her attempts to kill Padmé are foiled by Ahsoka and Padmé's teamwork.[3]
Leaving the Jedi Order[]
Despite Anakin's encouragement, Ahsoka chose to leave the Jedi Order after losing all faith in them.
Ahsoka was framed for crimes that she did not commit, regarding the bombing in the Jedi Temple that had killed several Jedi, and is expelled from the Jedi Order, turned over to the Republic military, and comes very close to being sentenced to death. Although her name is ultimately cleared, Ahsoka has lost faith in the Jedi Order, since virtually all of its members had refused to believe in her innocence from the very beginning (excluding Anakin Skywalker), and so she refuses the Jedi Council's offer to rejoin the Order. Despite her master's protests, she tells Anakin that she has to find her own way, without the Jedi and without him, and sadly walks down the temple steps to whatever and wherever the Force will take her.
Another Way[]
Shortly after leaving everything she's ever known, Ahsoka found herself in Coruscant Underworld and befriended mechanic Trace Martez after stopping a Demolition droid's rampage, also learning that many people never really thought of the Jedi as heroes. Afterwards, she accompanied Trace and her older sister Rafa on a spice delivery to the Pykes Syndicate, leading her to attempt to dissuade the sisters from going through with the delivery but only for Trace toss the spices into the room. space. Imprisoned on Oba Diah by the Pykes afterwards, Ahsoka used her Force powers to enable the off-planet escape. Although the sisters are initially upset that she hid her former Jedi identity from them, they nevertheless accept that Ahsoka is a good person. Bo-Katan Kryze, a Mandalorian whom Ahsoka had faced a year earlier, soon after recruited the Togruta into her campaign to overthrow the former Sith Lord Maul ruling over Mandalore.
Siege of Mandalore and Order 66[]
Ahsoka subsequently meets with Obi-Wan and Anakin to ask about the Republic's involvement in the upcoming siege of Mandalore, with no real outpouring of joy at seeing her friends again. Of course, Obi-Wan is reluctant because of his high Jedi principles and when he decides to return to Coruscant currently under attack by the Separatists, disappointing Ahsoka to the point that she accuses the Jedi Order of caring more politics than those who really need it. Luckily, Anakin allows Ahsoka to take Rex and the 332nd Company to Mandalore, while returning her old lightsabers now blue. Ahsoka then sees her master for the last time, the latter smiling at her with the benevolence and trust he has always had for her.
Arriving on Mandalore, Ahsoka and her allies confronted the Mandalorians in Maul's pay. In the underworld, Ahsoka meets Maul in person and the Zabrak is confused when she comes, expecting Obi-Wan and Anakin instead. Before escaping when Ahsoka's renfords arrived, Maul warned him that the Republic would fall into the hands of Darth Sidious. Worried about these revelations, Ahsoka talks to Obi-Wan via Hologram of Darth Sidious, also learning that Anakin had killed Dooku, the only other person who knew about Sidious and that only Maul could now tell them about it. Privately, Ahsoka learns from Obi-Wan that the Jedi Council sent Anakin to spy on Palpatine, something that Ahsoka unabashedly disagrees with but after Obi-Wan finally acknowledges that the Council wasn't always right, she agreed to talk to Anakin about it when she can, mending some of the old relationship she shared with Obi-Wan.
Ahsoka battles Maul, refusing to join him in defeating Darth Sidious after he threatens Anakin's life.
In the evening, Ahsoka encounters Maul again in the throne room shortly before the Zabrak launches an assault on Sundari. Finding out more about Ahsoka after questioning the clone Jesse, Maul tries to rally her to his side, denouncing the hypocrisy of the Jedi council, that they weren't so different, that the Republic will fall and inviting her to defeat Sidious side by side. Ahsoka almost agrees but when Maul reveals that he intends to kill Anakin as he had sensed he would fell on the dark side and join Sidious, she refuses and engages Maul in a lightsaber fight. Ahsoka is able to hold her ground against the Zabrak, who in the clash tries to flee Mandalore only for the Togruta to catch up with him on the rooftops of Sundari. Maul disarms Ahsoka and corners her on a ledge, giving her one last chance to join him or die but she still refuses. Enraged, Maul tries to strike her down, only for Ahsoka to knock him over the edge.
With Maul captured, Ahsoka spoke briefly with a few members of the Jedi Council about the situation, including the clash between Obi-Wan and Grievous that could spell the end of the war. Alas, Windu's despicable attitude towards Ahsoka's now citizen status and Council's personal affairs made the end of the briefing cold. Yoda stayed on the line and asked if she wanted him to deliver a message to Anakin but Ahsoka respectfully replied that she would deliver the message herself, then Yoda cut off the transmission on good terms. Before boarding the Venator for the return trip to Coruscant, Ashoka bid farewell with Bo-Katan.
In hyperspace, Ahsoka shares with Rex her doubts about the Jedi acting more like soldiers than peacekeepers, while Rex acknowledges that the clones have mixed feelings because war is what allowed them to exist. Ahsoka replies that the Republic could have had no better soldier and she no better friends. Later, Ahsoka senses in the Force Windu's death and Anakin's fall to the dark side. As she comes to warn Rex, Palpatine who was Sidious all along triggers Order 66, causing all the clones to try to kill Ahsoka. She escapes through the ventilation ducts, frees Maul, also targeted by Order 66, to create a diversion. With the help of her astromech droid friends and a clue Rex gave her before succumbing to her programming, Ahsoka discovers the existence of the inhibitor chips in all of the clones. Rex is subsequently captured and Ahsoka manages to remove his chip, returning him to normal, only for him to reveal to her that the entire Grand Army of the Republic has been ordered to kill all Jedi.
Ahsoka and Rex make their way to the Shuttle Hangar, only to have the clones already waiting for them in ambush. If Ahsoka still refuses to harm them, Rex casually tells her that her brothers don't care and that they will die anyway with Maul's damaged Venator falling into the orbit of a moon. Ahsoka consoles Rex, swearing to him that they are not the ones who will kill them. Afterwards, Ahsoka and Rex battle the clones to reach the shuttle, only for Maul to grab it and escape the Venator. The duo are however able to survive the crash of the ship by using a Y-wing to escape. They then bury the clones who died during the crash out of respect, Ahsoka leaving her lightsabers on the moon to pretend to be dead.
Ahsoka as a farmer.
Soon after the Galactic Empire was formed, Ahsoka learned of her friend Padmé Amidala's death and traveled to Naboo to secretly attend her funeral. Some time after, Ahsoka goes into hiding and becomes a farmer. After the brother of a farmer she saved with the Force realizes her true identity and reports her to the Empire, the village she worked at is massacred and set ablaze by an Inquisitor. Ahsoka confronts and kills the Inquisitor. The day following the confrontation, she contacts Bail Organa, who arrives to pick up the survivors of the Imperial attack. He asks Ahsoka if she is willing to join his fight against the Empire. She accepts Bail's request and joins his rebel cell.[4]
The Rebellion[]
Fulcrum[]
Ahsoka speaking with Hera in private, under the name of "Fulcrum".
Ahsoka provides the Rebels with intelligence for missions in order to hit Imperial forces or interests, and those missions are part of a larger plan that the Rebels are part of, one that only Hera knows. Because of all the secrecy, Sabine Wren, the crew's explosives expert, becomes curious and suspicious of who she is, and on rare occasions insists on knowing her identity to no avail. This makes Sabine feel distrusted and want to know why the Rebel missions are becoming so dangerous, but Hera assures her that the less she knows, the safer she would be if captured by the Empire.
Ahsoka takes former Imperial Information Officer, Tseebo, into safe custody. Tseebo has half of the Empire's secrets downloaded into his cybernetic implants, information that could prove useful in the Rebels' fight against the Empire, despite that the whole download was an accident when Tseebo was actually looking for information on what happened to Ezra's parents.[5]
When Kanan is captured by the Empire, Ahsoka contacts Hera and dissuades from her attempt in rescuing Kanan. After reminding her that Kanan understands the risks and Ezra, the crew's remaining Jedi, is too important to risk losing. She informs her that the transmission they sent out had attracted a great deal of attention, not just from citizens, but also from the highest levels of the Empire. Ahsoka urges Hera to take her crew into hiding to avoid further risks that would jeopardize their mission. She later learns that the Ghost Cell went to rescue Kanan anyway and she sent Phoenix Squadron to save them.[6]
Phoenix Squadron[]
Ahsoka in deep thought.
After the Ghost Crew escapes Lothal after failing to save Maketh Tua, the Empire follows them and, led by Darth Vader, attacks the Phoenix Home. Ahsoka joins the Ghost Crew to help fight off Darth Vader. When she senses the force is unusually strong with Darth Vader, she and Kanan try to figure out who he is. When Ezra tells them it is the Sith Lord the Ghost crew faced on Lothal, Ahsoka realizes Darth Vader is her former master, Anakin Skywalker. After sensing each other, Ahsoka screams and faints in Kanan's arms. Darth Vader tries to capture the rebels alive, wanting Ahsoka, but the Ghost crew manages to escape. After Ahsoka wakes up, she asks Ezra and Kanan what they know about Darth Vader. When Ezra asks if Ahsoka knows who he is, she lies saying she does not, but knows they'd be coming.[7]
After the destruction of Phoenix Home, Ahsoka and the other Rebels try to find a suitable base for what remains of their fleet. Ahsoka brings up that she knows a great commander with experience in the Outer Rim that could help them find a base. She gives the Ghost crew an old Tactical Droid's head and tells them to search the Seelos system first before starting to leave. Ezra asks why she isn't coming with them, and Ahsoka tells him that she has other matters to deal with; the Sith Lord that attacked them. Before leaving Ahsoka tells Kanan that he must trust her friend. It is soon discovered that her friend is Clone Captain Rex. Even though Kanan doesn't trust him, Ezra constantly reminds him that Ahsoka does.[8]
Upon regrouping with Ahsoka's Alderaan Cruiser, the Ghost crew reunites her with Rex. After exchanging a few words, Ahsoka embraces Rex. Ahsoka thanks the crew for trusting her friend, and though Kanan tells her it still isn't easy; Ahsoka simply tells him "Nothing worth doing, ever is".[9]
Ahsoka against the Seventh Sister.
Ahsoka intercepts communications from Mustafar in an effort to learn more about Darth Vader. Information on him proves scarce, but she learns of a secondary mission given to the Inquisitors. After decoding a pair of coordinate sets, she asks Kanan and Ezra to investigate one of them and take Zeb along for help, while she went to investigate the other. She soon comes across a derelict transport ship and an injured woman named Darja, whose granddaughter, Alora, has been abducted by the Inquisitors. Ahsoka quickly makes her way to join Kanan's team on Takobo, where the Fifth Brother and Seventh Sister have defeated her friends. She engages the pair of Inquisitors in a lightsaber duel and easily defeats them through her mastery of the Force and superb lightsaber skills. Before she can capture or kill them, however, a squadron of Stormtroopers arrive and Ahsoka is forced to retreat, joining the others in escaping aboard the Phantom.[10]
After Kanan and Ezra are attacked by the Inquisitors on Oosalan Mesa, they realize their presence is endangering the Rebellion's search for a base and meet with Ahsoka on the Ghost to discuss a plan of action. While waiting for them, she views a holocron of Anakin giving a demonstration in lightsaber combat, which Ezra also watches when he arrives. Remarking on his skills, he asks her what happened to him. Hesitant, she reveals she saw him once more when he was sent to rescue Chancellor Palpatine, but does not know what happened to him as the Jedi Purge unfolded. When Kanan arrives expressing his concerns, she mentions in difficult times she would have had asked Master Kenobi or Yoda for advice. Kanan reveals that they had communed with Yoda in the Lothal Jedi Temple, and chose to return there in the Phantom.
Ahsoka haunted by the fate of her former Master.
Ahsoka declines to raise the entrance to the temple, pointing out she is no longer a Jedi. Kanan and Ezra raise the temple from the ground, discovering a new door below the one they had entered before. Inside, Ahsoka, Kanan, and Ezra have their own visions. She is confronted by the spirit of Anakin, who expresses a twisted anger at her departure, calling her selfish and accusing her of abandoning him. He finally asks if she knew what he had become. Lashing out with her lightsaber, Ahsoka howls in agony, but she finally accepts the truth; her master became Darth Vader.
The Inquisitors arrive, but the visions in the temple took the shape of the Jedi Temple Guard and distract them, allowing Ahsoka and the Jedi to escape. As she flees, Ahsoka turns and sees a vision of Yoda, who waves at her. Smiling back, she turns and continues on her way back to the Phantom. On board, Ezra reveals he has spoken to Yoda and that he has been told to find Malachor. Ahsoka explains that Malachor is not a person, as Ezra assumed, but a place.[11]
When Ezra, Kanan, and Ahsoka arrive at Malachor, Ahsoka explains the planet's history; thousands of years ago, Malachor was a Sith homeworld, the site of a great battle between the Jedi and Sith and that Jedi were taught not to go near the world. As they explore into the ruins of an old underground Sith temple, a place where they believe answers may be found in regards to the Sith's weaknesses, they are ambushed by a masked Inquisitor known as the Eighth Brother, whom they manage to capture after he separates Ezra from Kanan and Ahsoka. Upon interrogating him, they learn the Inquisitor is hunting a "Shadow". When Ezra and the companion he has activate the temple with a Sith holocron, this causes enough of a distraction that Ahsoka and Kanan's prisoner calls for backup, summoning the Fifth Brother and Seventh Sister. As a battle breaks out between the Inquisitors, Ahsoka and Kanan, Ezra and his companion join the fight, revealing "the shadow" to be an old enemy; Darth Maul, who is no longer a Sith lord and had survived the Clone Wars.
Ahsoka against her former master.
After driving off the Inquisitors, Ahsoka, having met Maul before, asks him why he was on Malachor. Maul responds that he too wishes to see the Empire fall, but for his own reasons, and that only by working together could they enter the temple. Saying that they had little time, Maul coerces them into reaching the top of the Sith temple, and helps to defeat the Inquisitors, killing them. Ahsoka then sees Maul turn on them and blind Kanan. Maul then reveals his true plans: he desires to turn Ezra into his new apprentice and use the holocron to activate an ancient Sith weapon to use against the Empire and anyone who stood in his way. Ahsoka leaves Maul to fight and be defeated by Kanan, and rushes to stop Ezra from inadvertently activating the weapon. Upon arriving, Ahsoka is greeted by the sight of Darth Vader, who states that their meeting was foretold to which she says she thought she knew who Vader was, only to declare him a different person altogether. Vader then claims that they did not need to be enemies and that he will spare her if she told him where the remaining Jedi were hiding, also saying that Anakin Skywalker was weak and that he had been destroyed. Ahsoka coldly retorts by saying there were no more Jedi, and that she, no longer being a Jedi, will avenge Anakin's "death". The two then engaged in battle, and though Ahsoka holds her own at first, Vader eventually overpowers her, throwing her off the edge of the temple. However, Ahsoka survives the fall and attacks Vader as he attempts to attack Ezra and Kanan for the Sith holocron. She knocks him down, slicing off part of Vader's mask and allowing Ezra and Kanan to escape. Ahsoka hears Vader call her name, and is horrified to see the eye and hear the partially distorted voice of Anakin Skywalker beneath the mask. Left without a doubt that Vader is her former master, Ahsoka states that she would not leave him, to which, after a brief moment of apparent hesitation, Vader replies that she will die. As the temple collapses and explodes around them, Ahsoka and Vader continue their duel. After the temple's destruction and Vader's departure, Ahsoka is last seen entering the ruins of the Sith Temple.[12]
After Ezra gains access to the Lothal Jedi Temple and finds himself in some kind of realm, he sees Ahsoka in a portal flashback of the duel she had with Vader in the Sith Temple on Malachor. The battle between the two continues as the temple starts to collapse around them. She creates a chasm that Vader will fall into, and before he strikes her down, she gets pulled through the portal by Ezra and into the realm. Ahsoka is confused on where she is and why Ezra looks different. Ezra fills her in about Kanan's demise and what has happened over the years since they last saw each other on Malachor at the Sith Temple.
Ezra then realizes if he was able to alter Ahsoka's fate, he could alter Kanan's as well. Ahsoka, however, convinces him to not try and save Kanan because if he does, he could alter the events that saved him and his friends, also saying he couldn't save Kanan any more than she could save Anakin so she asked him to let go. Just then, Emperor Palpatine attacks the two Jedi and attempts to abduct Ezra. Ahsoka saves him and they both take different paths, promising that she will find Ezra soon. She enters a portal, sending her back to Malachor with her convor, Morai. Wishing good luck to Ezra, she heads into the ruins of the Sith Temple.[13]
The New Republic[]
Searching for Thrawn[]
After the end of the Galactic Civil War, Ahsoka joined Sabine Wren in her quest to find Ezra Bridger, who disappeared during the Liberation of Lothal. She trained Sabine in the ways of the Jedi until they parted ways. Ahsoka later journeyed to the city of Calodan on the forest planet Corvus looking for information on the location of Grand Admiral Thrawn, who also disappeared alongside Ezra, from the city's corrupt magistrate, Morgan Elsbeth, who works for the Empire and repeatedly sends her troops to kill Ahsoka to no avail. During that time, Mandalorian Din Djarin was tasked with bringing "The Child" to the Jedi, and following a mission with Bo-Katan he is directed to Corvus. Upon arrival, Djarin is told by the magistrate to kill Ahsoka, and in exchange she will give him her staff made of pure beskar. Djarin and Ahsoka meet and briefly fight outside the city before Djarin addresses her by name and says Bo-Katan sent him, causing her to stop.[14][15]
Ahsoka in The Mandalorian.
The three set up camp and the Child and Ahsoka communicate through the Force (as he cannot speak full sentences yet). Through this, Ahsoka reveals to Djarin that the Child's name is Grogu, and that he was taken from the Jedi Temple and hidden away after the end of the Clone Wars, after which he remembers very little. Ahsoka mentions that he reminds her of Yoda and she explains the Force to the Mandalorian, and they decide to let Grogu sleep.
The next morning, Ahsoka begins training Grogu, who proves uncooperative until Djarin assists him. Ahsoka refuses to train Grogu on the grounds that he is too attached to Djarin, making him vulnerable to his fears. Having seen this happen with Anakin becoming Vader, Ahsoka intends to avoid a repeat of Anakin's path and says it is best to let Grogu's abilities fade. Djarin then mentions that he was sent by Elsbeth to kill Ahsoka but never agreed to anything. He offers to help her retake the town on the condition that she trains Grogu. They make a plan to free three prisoners and dethrone Elsbeth. Ahsoka enters town and overpowers several soldiers before personally meeting Elsbeth. She throws a piece of Din's shoulder armor onto the ground, as "proof" that she killed him instead. Ahsoka then demands to know where Elsbeth's master is, so Elsbeth orders her men to kill her. Ahsoka escapes and Elsbeth orders for the three prisoners to be executed, but Djarin arrives and kills the executioners. Ahsoka continues to hide in the shadows and kill several soldiers. Din kills Elsbeth's hired assassin, while Ahsoka defeats Elsbeth and demands Thrawn's location.
Djarin gets Grogu, planning to leave him with Ahsoka. However, the child has become extremely attached to Djarin, so Ahsoka still refuses to train him but offers an alternative: he may take him to Tython, where there is a Jedi temple. She tells Djarin to place Grogu on a seeing stone at the top of the mountain and from there he may choose his own path. Djarin and Grogu then depart on the Razor Crest.[15]
Building of Luke Skywalker's Jedi Temple[]
When Din Djarin arrived to go visit Grogu, Ahsoka surprised him and informed the Mandalorian that he can't visit Grogu while he's training with Luke. The two talk about Grogu and how he was doing, Ahsoka had warn him about his attachment to him, and it was his choice to be trained. Before leaving, Din asks Ahsoka to give Grogu his gift. Ahsoka later speaks with Luke to inform him that Din came to visit Grogu and then left, the two had a short talk about Grogu's future, before leaving Luke ask if they'll ever see each other again. Ahsoka told him "perhaps" and the force will be with him.[16]
Printed Media[]
Ahsoka[]
Ahsoka appears as the main character in the young adult novel in October 11, 2016, Ahsoka, written by E.K. Johnston. The novel explains what happened to Ahsoka after the end of the Clone Wars, and before she re-appeared as the mysterious Rebel operative "Fulcrum" in Star Wars Rebels.[17]
In the final days of the Clone Wars, approximately a year after she left the Jedi Order, Ahsoka discovered the whereabouts of the former Sith Lord Maul, who had taken over Mandalore again and gained leadership of Death Watch. She then contacted Anakin and Obi-Wan, requesting their help in confronting Maul. Shortly before establishing a siege to Mandalore, however, Anakin and Obi-Wan were called back to Coruscant to save Chancellor Palpatine, who had been abducted by General Grievous. Unable to use the help of her former masters, Ahsoka was given the possession of her old lightsabers, and the command of an army of Clone Troopers led by Rex. Unbeknownst to Ahsoka, this would be the last time she would ever see Anakin as a friend.
Ahsoka and her allies then laid siege to Mandalore. After engaging in a lightsaber duel with the former Sith, Ahsoka managed to lure Maul into a plaza where her comrades trapped him in a ray shield. However, all the efforts of Ahsoka and her allies were undone when Darth Sidious enacted Order 66, a devastating command that turned the clones against the Jedi and wiped out most of them, including Ahsoka's former mentor Plo Koon. As a result, the clone troopers under Ahsoka's command turned on her, with the exception of Rex, who had previously removed his inhibitor chip, an inorganic brain implant that compelled each clone trooper to comply with Order 66. As a result, Maul escaped once again, but Ahsoka and Rex were able to escape as well, after faking their own deaths, with Ahsoka leaving her lightsabers behind as evidence of her faked demise.
After fleeing Mandalore, Ahsoka went into the Outer Rim, eventually coming to the moon of Raada. Under the alias of Ashla, Ahsoka befriended Kaeden Larte and made a life for herself in the farming community. Unfortunately, Imperial forces under Jenneth Pilar soon targeted the moon for their own purposes (in secret, helping to grow supplies for the engineers constructing the Death Star), leading to an Imperial occupation. Ahsoka and her new friends set about forming a resistance movement, but some of the farmers took too aggressive of a stance and ended up in a battle with the Imperials. As a result, Ahsoka was forced to employ her Force powers during a confrontation, which alerted an Inquisitor called the Sixth Brother to her presence on Raada.
Ahsoka dueled the Inquisitor, defeating him and causing his lightsaber to explode, unintentionally killing him in the process. She then took the kyber crystals from his lightsaber and used them to craft a pair of white lightsabers. With the assistance of Senator Bail Organa, Ahsoka evacuated the citizens of Raada, and the two began organizing a formal rebellion against the Empire.
Video games[]
Disney Infinity[]
Ahsoka appears in Disney Infinity's third installment as a playable character. She can be used in the Toy Box and the Twilight of the Republic Play Set, where she helps Anakin, Obi-Wan, and Yoda to get rid of Darth Maul. She is also playable in the other Star Wars play sets if her crossover coins are collected in each playset.
Star Wars: Force Arena[]
Ahsoka Tano is the assist character for Anakin Skywalker, available as a Unique card.
Disney Parks[]
Disneyland[]
Following the release of the Ahsoka television series, Ahsoka Tano began making meet and greet appearances at Star Wars: Galaxy's Edge.
Star Wars Weekends[]
Ahsoka appears as a meet and greet character during Star Wars Weekends at Disney's Hollywood Studios.
Relationships[]
Gallery[]
Trivia[]
- Her re-appearance in Star Wars Rebels was teased by James Arnold Taylor at the 2014 Star Wars Weekends.
- From Star Wars Rebels and onward, Ahsoka has two lightsabers that share references to the early concept made by Ralph McQuarrie, such as the blades being white.
- According to Dave Filoni, the white blades reflect her non-affiliation with the Jedi or Sith.
- Rosario Dawson's casting as Ahsoka can be traced back to a tweet from 2017 when a fan said they wanted to see Dawson portray Ahsoka in live action, with Dawson herself then voicing her desire to play Ahsoka as well.
- Ahsoka is the first known person to have changed the color of a lightsaber crystal, which she did to the red crystals of the Sixth Brother by removing the taint of the dark side and imbuing the Light back into the crystals, turning them white.
- Ahsoka is the first female Jedi to be a lead character in the canon continuity of the Star Wars universe. Although in the Star Wars Legends continuity there were other female Jedi that were created as lead characters before her, because she was introduced in the canon continuity, she is the first one that made her debut onscreen rather than in a novel, comic, or game.
- Because she is one of the voices heard by Rey during the confrontation against Palpatine in Star Wars: The Rise of Skywalker, many fans believed that this meant Ahsoka had died at some point before the events of the film. However, on Christmas Day of the same year, a few days after the theatrical release of the film, Dave Filoni posted on Twitter a drawing with Ahsoka and Gandalf (from The Lord of the Ring series), in which the wizard tells Ahsoka, "People thought I was dead too. Look how it turned out," hinting that Ahsoka is still alive during the scene in The Rise of Skywalker.[18]
- During an interview a few months later, Dave Filoni talked about this tweet, saying that he was surprised by the fan reaction. He stated that the fans watch the films but don't take all the lessons and deal a lot in absolutes like the Sith. He explained that some of those voices are in fact of characters that we know are dead, but speaking with someone through the Force is something already seen between living characters in Star Wars, and mentioned as example Luke speaking through the Force with both Vader and Leia in The Empire Strikes Back.[19]
- Based on the way Ahsoka describes Anakin's downfall in The Mandalorian because of his attachment implies that she ended up learning both of her former master's feelings towards Padmé and that was what caused his downfall to the dark side.
- Ahsoka was originally going to appear in "Nightsisters". In an early layout of the episode, Ahsoka along with Jedi Master Ma'kis'shaalas, were going to join Anakin and Obi-Wan in their duel against Ventress.
- Ahsoka was set to appear "Lawless", where she briefly appears after Anakin lets Obi-Wan borrow the Twilight to fly to Mandalore to help Duchess Satine. The scene was cut due to time.
- When the Star Wars: The Clone Wars trailer was first shown, Ahsoka Tano is completely absent, but can be briefly seen at the end of the trailer when the Twilight goes into hyperspace. She is also hidden and shadowy in the first poster of Clone Wars. It's possible, they wanted to keep her appearance a secret.
References[]
External links[]
Ahsoka Tano on Wookieepedia: The Star Wars Wiki- Ahsoka Tano on StarWars.com (backup link on Archive.org)
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