So the Ahsoka show is only a very short time away and I know that a
lot of you will not have seen the hundreds of hours of tv, books and comics that fill
in Ahsoka’s backstory before and and after her mandalorian appearance. Ahsoka’s story
is a key part of not only the fall of Anakin Skywalker, but also to the galaxy as a whole,
going from jedi, to street urchin, to rebel, to something far greater.
So we’re going to dive deep into Ahsoka’s story in the Star Wars canon,
going all the way from her birth, to her possible transcendence… with this,
you’re going to find out everything you need to know about her before
her LIve action series begins. Hit that subscribe button and let’s get into it
- Part 1: The Birth of Ahsoka and Her Discovery by Master Plo Koon
Ahsoka’s life begins on the outer rim world of Shili, where she is born to a loving togruta
mother and father. She is soon discovered to be force sensitive but nothing much comes of it for
a long time. She remains on the planet like any other child of her species would. But then on
one dark and gloomy day, a Jedi from the Zygerian species named Latrans shos up and offers to bring
Ahsoka to the Jedi temple back on coruscant. Her parents and the rest of their togruta villiage
are extremely happy and begin to celebrate the occasion, preparing to send Ahsoka off for a new
life. Latrans then takes Ahsoka into her arms and begins travelling back to her ship, but Ahsoka was
quickly able to sense that something was eerily off about this Master. Latrans was no Jedi,
but instead a bounty hunter hoping to capture Ahsoka and bring her into the Zygerrian slave
trade. Having felt this distrubance, Ahsoka runs for her life and used a very similar ability
to Grogu in the Mandalorian to call out to a real Jedi to come and rescue her. Either way,
her force call actually worked and Jedi Master Plo Koon soon arrived on Shili,
to attempt to save the young Togruta from the clutches of the evil Zygerrian slavers.
Now at this point, Ahsoka had to make a very difficult decision. She had to choose to trust
either the scary, masked face of Plo Koon, or the beautiful face of Latrans. Thankfully,
Ahsoka chose plo koon, teaching her the very valuable lesson “never judge a book by its cover”.
- Part 2: Ahsoka’s initiation and apprenticeship in the Jedi Order
This is where Ahsoka’s story begins for many people. Ahsoka’s introduction in the Clone
Wars movie of 2008. Here she begins as a snippy little Padawan with no respect for her Masters and
no restraint in battle. Obi-Wan Kenobi believes initially that she is supposed to be his Padawan,
but Yoda confirms that no, Ahsoka will train under A nakin. And despite not seeming like it,
this was the best possible choice for her. Now this is actually crazy to think about
because in Attack of the Clones takes place only takes place about a month or 2 before the
movie. The impatient, arrogant and feisty young Anakin is hoisted with a huge responsibility,
a student of his own. It is also here where Ahsoka meets Captain Rex for the First time,
beginning their long and prosperous friendship.
This leads into Ahsoka’s first major responsibility at the Battle of Ryloth, where she
is given her first Squadron command of the Clone Wars. During the battle she was lured deep into
a Separatist trap, and refused to retreat despite Anakin ordering her multiple times,
leading to the wipeout of a significant number of her men, causing Ahsoka great pain. She
eventually conquered her sorrow for this event and successfully led a second battle group shortly
after, teaching her an extremely valuable lesson about listening to those more wise.
Some time later Ahsoka was put into action once again at the infamous Second Battle of Geonosis,
bringing her to the location where the Clone Wars began. Displaying incredible acts of selflessness,
her and fellow Padawan Barriss Offee were successful in destroying the droid factories,
willing to give their own lives to do so, although thankfully that was not necessary. This was the
beginning of a long and lasting friendship with Barriss, which will be extremely important in the
Ahsoka series. Soon after the battle, Barriss and Ahsoka were sent to the planet Dantooine
with medical supplies, but Geonosian brain worms from the surface of the planet infected their crew
and soon infected their entire ship, along with Barriss Offee herself. Thankfully Ahsoka found a
way to eliminate the worms and save Barriss life yet again, strengthening the two’s friendship.
Following this,
Ahsoka traveled to the planet Mandalore, marking her first visit to the home of
the Mandalorian people. She was there to help educate young Mandalorians on
law and public service, but she was also undercover, hoping to root out corruption.
Her students discovered a conspiracy to unseat the Duchess of Mandalore. Ahsoka put a stop to it and
arrested the plot's leader, Prime Minister Almec. This will be very important later.
Her actions cemented her as a hero to the people,
something which will have large ramifications later on.
- Part 3: Practice Makes Perfect (Tales of the Jedi)
As the Clone Wars drag on, Anakin begins to realize that things are only getting more
dangerous on the battlefield. Because of this, Anakin makes it his mission to teach
Ahsoka how to survive in the absolute worst of Situations. Anakin orders Ahsoka to stand on
a marked spot in the middle of a horde of her own clone troopers, and they all switch their
blasters to stun before firing a barrage of shots at her. She falls to the ground every single time,
failing to block their fire… This drags on over the course of the war
until finally Ahsoka gets it. She learns to block every shot from her clones… Keep
this scene deep in your memory as it will become very relevant later in the video.
- Part 4: The Daughter of Mortis
Some time after this, Anakin, Obi-Wan and Ahsoka find themselves on the mysterious
planet of Mortis, which is a wellspring in the force. A place where the energy of the
force converges and allows things that usually aren’t permitted by the regular nature of the
galaxy. Now here they come across a family called simply “The Ones”, also known as the
Mortis gods. They represent the three aspects of the force. The Son represents the Dark side,
the Daughter represents the light side, while the Father Represents the Balance. There is also the
Mother who represents the chaos, but she isn’t in this series so we’ll save that for another video.
Because Anakin was the Chosen one, the Father of Mortis wanted him to become the new Father
of Mortis and govern the Balance of the Galaxy from that point onwards. Obviously
Anakin rejected this. While on the planet, each of the trio receive revelations in the form of
visions. Obi-Wan sees his master Qui-Gon Jinn as a force ghost for the first time, because as we
know from Revenge of the Sith he didn’t complete his training to manifest his body, only his voice.
Ahsoka sees a vision warning her of her future apprenticeship under Skywalker and that it will
only bring paint. Anakin on the otherhand see’s an exact vision of everything he will do during the
final days of the Clone Wars, including pledging his allegiance to Palpatine and fighting Obi-Wan
On mustafar. Having seen this, Anakin immediately falls to the Dark Side and submits himself to
the Son of Mortis, who promises him that he can help to fix this horrid future. Luckily though,
the Father of Mortis clears Anakin’s memory, returning him back to balance, but before they
can leave Mortis, the Son kidnaps Ahsoka. He then does something shocking by sapping the
life essence out of her, literally killing her. Yes, Ahsoka actually died right here on mortis.
This is where things get crazy. Under the guidance of the Father of Mortis,
Anakin is able to transfer the essence of the Daughter of Mortis via the purest form of the
Light side of the force, into Ahsoka’s body, breathing new life into her. This also leaves
Ahsoka with a permanent part of the Daughter’s spirit permanently within her. This is very,
very important so please keep this in mind for the rest of the video, and going into the ahsoka show.
- Part 5: The Wrong Jedi
This is the part of the video where things get really sad, especially if you’re not a
fan of innocent people being locked up. Now after a massive attack on the Jedi temple
by an unknown assailant, Anakin and Ahsoka are called in to conduct investigations and interview
suspects. After catching the primary suspect Letta Turmond, Ahsoka is left alone with her
in her cell and during her interrogation, Letta begins to be unexplainably force choked. On the
CCTV footage it appears that Ahsoka is the one doing the force choking because she is flailing
her arms around wildly, wondering what is going on. On top of this, she is also framed for the
Original Attack on the temple. This framing was done by none other than Barriss Offee,
one of her best friends in the order. During this whole time where Ahsoka was accused,
Anakin stood by her, maintaining her innocence and relentlessly pursuing the truth about who
was behind the attack. Eventually Anakin catches Barriss, but it is too late. Ahsoka is expelled
by the Jedi Order in a non-unanimous vote of the Jedi council. It is believed that Obi-Wan
and Plo Koon are among the members who voted against her expulsion. Ahsoka was eventually
cleared of any wrongdoing, and Barriss Offee was dragged in front of Tarkin, who you will
know to face a Republic military Tribunal. Interestingly, she was actually escorted to the
trial by the Grand Inquisitor, who is the Jedi Temple guard here on the left. (show picture).
Now after being cleared of these charges, Ahsoka is offered a position back in the Jedi Order,
and the rank of Jedi Knight to finally end her apprenticeship, with Yoda calling this
her great Jedi trial. Understandably Ahsoka’s faith in the order is completely shattered
so she turns and walks away. This completely breaks Anakin’s heart into millions of pieces
as he loses the closest person to him in the entire order. Anakin begs for her to stay,
but she simply can’t after what has been done to her. This is a pivotal
moment for both Anakin and Ahsoka, more for each than eachother know.
- Part 6: The Siege of Mandalore
Now here is where Ahsoka’s arc really hits a crescendo. This is the absolute peak of
the Clone Wars tv series and it’s where hearts are shattered and tears will flow.
After Ahsoka’s leaving of the Jedi order she moved to the Coruscant underworld where she
would have to make a new life for self. Being down on the dark lower levels of the planet,
exposing herself as a Jedi was not smart. So instead she turned to her other great talent,
being a mechanic, no doubt taught to her by Anakin. After getting involved with some street
urchins named Trace and Raffa Martez, Ahsoka finds herself on the Pyke Crime Syndicate homeworld of
Obah Diah, where she hears chilling rumors that Maul is still alive, and has taken control of
Mandalore. It’s at this point where Bo Katan, Sabine’s mother Ursa Wren, and Possibly the
armoer (although thats just a theory) show up and intercept Ahsoka, begging for her help.
At this point, Ahsoka returns to Mandalore and finally reunites with Anakin and Obi-Wan for
the first time in a long time. Anakin gives Ahsoka back her lightsabers,
having re-attuned the kyber crystals to blue, matching Anakin’s force aligment,
which readies her for battle. Unfortunately though, while on their venator, an emergency
alarm is triggered with news from Coruscant that Chancellor Palpatine has been kidnapped by General
Grievous. This marks the beginning of the Battle of Coruscant and puts us squarely into Revenge of
the Sith. Anakin and Obi-Wan are forced to return to Coruscant, leaving Ahsoka alone on Mandalore to
fight off the threat of Maul with Bo-Katan’s army. They expect to reunite shortly after Chancellor
Palpatine is saved and Maul is captured… As you can probably guess, this is not to be.
Ahsoka takes on Maul in one of the most ferocious lightsaber duels of the Clone
Wars and he is finally captured. Ahsoka then loads her onto a Republic Venator and begins
the escort back to Coruscant, where he is to be tried and likely executed for his crimes.
This is where things take yet another turn into a chilling direction. Order 66 is called and Rex
falls to his inhibitor chip, turning on Ahsoka along with the rest of his men. Thankfully,
using the training that Anakin Gave her earlier, Ahsoka managed to deflect all of the fire against
her and escape. She then helps Rex to remove his inhibitor chip, and the two hide from the other
troopers on board who are still under Order 66. Now Ahsoka also lets maul loose to help
herself to survive, but he goes ballistic and destroys the power core of their ship,
sending it plummeting into an unkonwn ice moon. Rex and Ahsoka make a daring escape,
along with Maul but painfully the ship impacts the icy moon and every single clone trooper that
Ahsoka fought with during the siege of mandalore were killed on impact. Ahsoka then buries her
fallen clones along with her lightsabers and goes into hiding. Rex and Ahsoka then go their separate
ways, with Rex meeting up with other clones and Ahsoka fleeing deep into the outer rim.
A long time after this event, Vader visits the site of the Crash and finds Ahsoka’s lightsabers,
as well as a Clone Helmet. But interestingly, the spirit animal of the Daughter of Mortis,
called Morai, who is an owl is circling around. This indicates Ahsoka’s presence
at the site. Morai will go on to follow ahsoka everywhere and have a deep connection to her,
of course because of the life essence of the Daughter flowing within her.
- Part 7: Ahsoka in Exile
At this point, Ahsoka is in full fear of the newly formed Galactic empire and believes
Anakin died in the siege on the Jedi Temple. She takes the fake name Ahsla and resides on
an outer rim farming moon called Raada, where she has a job as a mechanic. Soon her force
sensitivty is discovered and an inquisitor known as the 6th brother is dispatched to
eliminate her. In an immense display of skill and power, Ahsoka kills the 6th brother with
her bare hands by exploding his lightsabers, and steals the two red crystals inside. Using
the light side of the force, Ahsoka then purifies these crystals and stops them bleeding, turning
them into white and puts them into new hilts, granting her a new pair of White lightsabers.
It’s at this point where Ahsoka is found and contacted by Bail Organa, a founding member
of the very early resistance against the empire, and she is appointed as an undercover intelligence
officer for the cause. As part of this duty, she uses the codename ‘Fulcrum’, which she used back
on Onderon with Saw Gererra during the clone wars. This code name was later used by Cassian Andor.
Part 8: The Spectres
As part of her fulcrum duties, she eventually meets up with a group of rag tag rebels known
as the Spectres, led by Order 66 survivor Kanan Jarrus, and his new apprentice Ezra
Bridger. Along with them are Sabine Wren and Hera Syndulla… Oh and of course the
most murderous and psychopathic droid in the galaxy, Chopper. Very important characters.
Soon after this Ahsoka finally reunites with Captain Rex after all these years,
and not to mention this was the first time we as a fanbase found out what happened to Rex
after the Clone Wars, many thought he took part in the siege of the jedi temple with anakin.
It is soon after this where Ahsoka is directed to Malachor by Master Yoda,
alongside Kanan Jarrus and Ezra Bridger. Here Ahsoka finally reunites with Maul,
who appears to have been stranded on Malachor after his ship crashed here,
seemingly right after the Siege of Mandalore. Ahsoka actually teams up with her old foe to
defeat the Inquisitors who also tracked them to Malachor, but then something shocking happens.
Darth Vader himself shows up. This sets up the showdown of the Galaxy, with Ahsoka finally facing
down her old master, a master who she believed was dead for all this time. The two duel it out
in the Twilight of the Apprentice showdown and Ahsoka cracks Vader’s mask, revealing
Anakin underneath. This shatters her, leading her to declare that she won’t leave his side,
like she did back at the temple all those years ago. At this point, Anakin turns back to Vader
and kills Ahsoka on the spot… Or so we think. This is where the world between worlds comes in.
When the season originally came out, everyone thought Ahsoka was either
dead or something mysterious happened to her in the force. But later on in season 4 of Rebels,
Ezra bridger finds a mural with the gods of mortis on it, and manages to unlock a
portal to a place outside of space and time called the World Between worlds.
Here he can can effect the past and future. Viewing Ahsoka about to die through a portal,
Ezra pulls her out before Vader can strike her down, therefore saving her life,
and altering time forever. Interestingly, Morai is yet again seen here above the Portal where
Ahsoka was fighting Vader. Another insane nod. As a result of this however, Ahsoka believes
that her interacting with anything major in the galaxy will destroy the timeline. This is the
reason why she is not present during the Original Trilogy. That is until: Cut to chapter transition
Party 9: The Mandalorian
Now at the end of Star Wars Rebels, while Ahsoka is away in hiding, Thrawn decides
to lay siege to Ezra Bridger’s homeworld of Lothal. In an act of shocking self sacrifice,
Ezra uses the force to summon a species of force sensitive whales named Purgill to capture all of
Thrawn’s fleet, and thrawn himself, with Ezra also on board. He then directs the
Purgill to blast off into hyperspace, taking Both Thrawn and Ezra into the unknown regions,
never to be found again… That is if ahsoka can’t help it. And before this amazing feat,
Ezra tells Sabine Wren to promise that she will come look for him…
This leads us to that fateful episode of the Mandalorian called “The Jedi”. Ahsoka is on a
forest world called Corvus, attempting to hunt down and get information from the Nightsister
known as Morgan Elsbeth, one of the last survivors of General Grievous’ massacre of the nightsisters
during the Clone Wars. Elsbeth is building ships for Thrawn on Corvus, and Ahsoka eventually
defeats her in a duel, where she demands to know “where is grand admiral thrawn” (play clip).
And then after this, Ahsoka visits Sabine Wren on Lothal and they prepare to save Ezra,
a journey which they admit has been waited on too long. This is the start of the Ahsoka
series. I hope you guys are hyped for the series, make sure you check out every single
known inquisitor so find out more about the inquisitors and ill see you in the next video!