If you haven’t watched any of the Star Wars animated series, but you’re still curious
of the stories, don’t worry I’m here to help.
You’re welcome.
Not that I’m a know it all or anything.
I really don’t think there is a Star Wars fan who knows everything about Star Wars…yeah…not
even Dave Filoni.
Probably not even George Lucas at this point.
But that isn’t saying anything bad about them, there were a ton of stories written
outside their own expertise.
That’s why there is an entire Star Wars story group.
Their job is to make sure stories stick to a certain canon and be a resource to stories
in the past, including the Expanded Universe of yesteryear.
Anyways, if you don’t know much about the animated series Star Wars Rebels, I can help…a
bit.
In that series there were some new concepts added to the Star Wars mythos.
The Bendu and the Force sensitive wolves, for example.
One of those concepts was the World Between Worlds.
Embedded within the Jedi temple on Ezra Bridger’s home planet of Lothal, the World Between Worlds
was a place for Jedi to learn.
A place where they could hear, and sometimes see and interact with Jedi and events of the
past, present, and future.
But what was the World Between Worlds meant to be?
Why does it even exist if Jedi with access to it could change the course of history?
Yet they haven’t used it to change their own fates.
Obviously, Yoda knows of this place.
He actually visits Ezra Bridger in Lothal’s Jedi Temple…albeit as a type of apparition.
But Yoda knows of it and didn’t go back in time to stop Palpatine as a senator before
he was the most powerful politician in the galaxy, starting wars to distract the Jedi
and the galaxy from seeing what he was really doing.
Why didn’t Yoda change it?
Well, that’s what I’ll be talking about today.
And yes!
I have an answer.
And when we are done here, so will you.
And be sure to stick around because I will be showing an interview that backs up my thoughts
on this.
Before I go on with the World Between Worlds and what it means for the past, future and
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Now…let’s get back to the World Between Worlds.
While an astute Star Wars scholar could say the World Between Worlds was manifesting itself
in episodes that introduced the Jedi Temple on Lothal, the actual gateway wasn’t presented
until Season 4 episode 13 in the aptly titled “World Between Worlds.”
This idea that there existed a plane that defied the laws of time and space was brought
to the brilliant mind of George Lucas by the Star Wars Rebels creator, Dave Filoni.
In other words, Dave Filoni consulted George Lucas on it…and there was much rejoicing
in the Star Wars fandom.
When the World Between Worlds was first shown to us in 2018 a lot of Star Wars fans were
excited.
The Last Jedi had just been released two months prior and many people wanted this option as
a way of changing what the Star Wars sequel trilogy was bringing us…and many Star Wars
fans still do.
But what is the true purpose of the World Between Worlds?
Well, it isn’t meant to be a means of changing the past, present, nor future.
The simple answer is knowledge.
But is that the whole answer?
Well, let’s take a look.
When Ezra Bridger is launched onto his face in the World Between Worlds, he hears the
voices of Jedi and other important characters from the Skywalker Saga.
Among them are Yoda, Obi-Wan Kenobi, Ahsoka Tano, and Rey.
Ezra recognizes Obi-Wan Kenobi and Yoda but he doesn’t understand the context, and he
doesn’t understand where he is.
That is, until he happens upon a portal that he does recognize.
One where he sees backward in time where Ahsoka Tano is fighting Darth Vader on Malachor.
Just as Darth Vader is ready to defeat Anakin Skywalker’s former Padawan, in a panic Ezra
Bridger reaches in and pulls Ahsoka Tano from her fate.
But Ahsoka tells Ezra that it isn’t right.
That she doesn’t belong in his time.
But Ezra sees another portal.
A portal that shows him Kanan Jarrus’ sacrifice.
His former master is about to be killed in a fuel depot explosion in order to buy time
for Ezra and the Ghost Crew to escape to safety.
Ezra now knows he can alter the past and wants to reach in and save Kanan from his fiery
fate.
Yet, Ahsoka tells him that doing so will mean breaking the present.
A present where Ezra, and those he loves will have died in the explosion if Kanan weren’t
there to protect them.
Thus, leading to Ezra not being in the world between worlds to pull Kanan out.
But it was Ahsoka with the wisdom to know that changing anything would break everything.
If Ezra had pulled Kanan into the new timeline, not only would have the entire Ghost Crew
suffered the same fate, but all of Lothal would have remained under Imperial control.
Thrawn would have remained in the fight against the Rebellion, and Governor Pryce would have
remained in control of Lothal, and for her victory, may have been promoted to a higher
rank.
But that last bit is speculation.
But you get the point.
When all was said and done, the gateway to the World Between Worlds was closed and the
Jedi temple on Lothal was destroyed, stopping anyone from entering it.
But where did it come from?
Who built it?
And why?
That’s a much deeper conversation.
But we have seen similar designs all the way back to the Clone Wars and the video game,
Jedi Fallen Order.
In the Mortis arc of the Clone Wars, we see Anakin Skywalker, Obi-Wan Kenobi, and Ahsoka
Tano called to a location that didn’t exist on maps.
When they arrived, they are pulled into a place called Mortis.
A self-contained ecosystem within a structure that resembles a mirrored pyramid.
But the design is familiar.
It’s much like the aesthetic used by the Zeffo in Jedi Fallen Order and the same aesthetic
of the World Between Worlds.
We see the design again in the Bad Batch Season 2.
So, yes!
The Zeffo and the Gods of Mortis…or simply “The Ones” are a big part of the Force.
The three Gods being the balance in the Force that has always existed, until the son kills
the daughter and the balance shifts to the dark side.
Then Ahsoka unknowingly becomes the embodiment of the light side.
The Zeffo, first introduced in Jedi Fallen Order are the beings who first discovered
the Force.
Its discovery caused the downfall of their civilization.
Then the World Between Worlds becomes the place where the Force exists all at once.
Every time period is here.
Time doesn’t exist in the linear form that we know it.
Everything takes place all at once.
Possibly built by the Zeffo thousands of years prior to Star Wars Rebels.
With the Ahsoka series set to release in August of this year, a lot of fans are hoping this
World Between Worlds will come into play once again.
As the Ahsoka series looks to be a live action continuation of Star Wars Rebels.
However, I wouldn’t bank on the World Between Worlds showing up again.
As I said, it was destroyed.
That doesn’t mean there aren’t other gateways throughout the galaxy, though.
But the message was very clear during Rebels season 4 that the World Between Worlds is
dangerous and should not be used to alter events in the timeline.
So, love the sequel trilogy or hate it, it isn’t going to change.
The World Between Worlds was meant as a place for gaining knowledge.
A way to pier into time to learn from mistakes and accomplishments.
To learn from them and better one’s self as a Jedi.
Ahsoka Tano knew that pulling her from her timeline and placing her into the post Malachor
timeline was a mistake.
So, she went back into her original timeline.
This is also why master Yoda never used it to interfere with what had transpired during
Palpatine’s takeover.
For him to do that would have unintended consequences.
Though, I don’t see how eliminating Palpatine before his rise would be a bad thing.
But it does mean something horrible for the Star Wars fandom.
Imagine if Yoda did go back and change history.
Everything we have come to love about the original trilogy and the prequels would now
be null and void.
It could exist in a separate timeline but the timeline we would be watching from that
moment on would be so much different than what we know and love.
And don’t worry, another villain would appear and try the same thing.
Seriously, some character would be pissed off about the ancient battle between the Jedi
and the Sith on Malachor and would want revenge.
We will call that character Darth Ralph.
But it just wouldn’t be the same.
With all that said, the World Between Worlds was never meant to be a place where history
could be altered.
Yes, it had that capability, but only Jedi who were wise would know not to mess with
it.
Case in point, Ahsoka Tano vs Ezra Bridger.
Ezra not yet being wise enough to understand its purpose.
But he learned, and he closed that portal.
The secret that was the World Between Worlds had been guarded by the Jedi.
Hence the reason it took so many puzzles to enter.
However, the Empire was close to discovering it.
Had it not been destroyed, Emperor Palpatine would have used it for his own evil plans.
So, let’s hope another one doesn’t exist.
It becomes bad precedent to change a story.
It may help some stories, but it will hurt others.
And that’s the point they were trying to make with the World Between Worlds.
But what do you think?
Should the World Between Worlds be used in other forms?
Should there be more of them out there.
Surely, they didn’t build one in the Jedi Temple on Coruscant.
That would be far too risky.
Especially since the Jedi temple was built on the ruins of a former Sith Temple.
But let me know in the comments what you think.
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And now, a message from Dave Filoni about the
World Between Worlds.