Ahsoka Tano is a Torgruta Jedi who served as the loyal Padawan to Jedi Knight Anakin Skywalker
during the height of the Clone Wars, before she was horribly framed for an attack on the Jedi
Temple, by her good friend Barriss Offee, causing her to be wrongfully expelled from the Jedi Order.
After the Jedi council discovered that had no part in the attack on the temple, she
was offered a spot back inside of the Order, but sadly she refused and took her own path in life.
So With Ahsoka Tano appearing in the Mandalorian Season 2 Episode 5,
I’m going to break down 7 awesome Facts about Ahsoka
Tano that may be very important before Mandalorian Chapter 13 - The Jedi, Airs.
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Number 1. Ahsoka Was almost kidnapped and stolen
away from her home by a Jedi Imposter at a very young age.
Ahsoka was born on the planet Shili to two Torgurta Parents many years before the
Clone Wars. Because of her incredible force sensitivity and connection with the force,
Ahsoka was discovered by the Jedi Order’s scouts only a very short while after her birth.
Before the Jedi Order could send one of their own to collect the young girl however,
Ahsoka was tracked down by a Zygerrian slaver, who were species known for their
love of slavery and for holding one of the Galaxy’s last remaining Slave Empire’s,
despite the practice being outlawed by the Republic many years prior.
This Zygerrian slaver was one of the most renowned bounty hunters among her people, and
was tasked by her queen to track down and capture force sensitive children around the galaxy.
After the Zygerrian arrived at Ahsoka’s home town on Shili, she pretended to be a member of
the Jedi Order, sent by the council to collect the force-sensitive togruta, but of course in reality,
she planned to take Ahsoka in as a slave to the Zygerrian people. Luckily, as the bounty
hunter was in the process of stealing Ahsoka away from her parents, Jedi Master Plo Koon arrived on
the planet, and thankfully rescued Ahsoka, bringing her back to safety on Coruscant.
Number 2. Ahsoka’s headdress is made from the Teeth of a Deadly Predator.
Ahsoka’s headdress was a traditional garment worn by many Togruta males and females , and was known
as the Akul-tooth headdress on the planet Shili. This item was carefully crafted using pearls,
various precious metals, stones and most importantly, the Teeth of the Akul beast.
Only Togrutas who were brave enough and strong enough to face an Akul Beast along and come
out on top were given the right to wear this important headdress, marking them as a truly
fierce warrior of their species. The Akul was a large, four-legged predator with orange fur,
which menacingly roamed and prowled the Grasslands of Shili, striking fear into
the hearts of many Togrutas. The jaw and teeth of this ferocious creature was so strong no
Togruta in history had ever broken free from it’s hold, once it’s teeth sunk into their thick skin.
Number 3. Ahsoka is actually not dead in the Rise of Skywalker.
In one of the final scenes of Episode IX, the Rise of Skwyalker,
Rey was guided by the voices and force spirits of some of the most influential and important Jedi
from before her time. Among the voices that spoke to Rey were Obi-Wan Kenobi,
Mace Windu, Anakin Skywalker, Kanan Jarrus and of course Ahsoka Tano. Because every single
one of the Jedi who spoke to Rey during her fight with Palpatine are confirmed to be dead,
many of us believed that this unfortunately confirmed Ahsoka’s death by the time of Episode 9.
Thankfully however, Dave Filloni, the co-creator of Ahsoka, along with George Lucas has strongly
hinted, and probably confirmed that Ahsoka is actually still alive with multiple statements.
The first thing Dave Filloni said after Ahsoka’s appearance in Episode was:
It doesn’t really have any big implications to what I’m doing with the character,
to be honest, I just thought it was a really fun thing to include”.
He also went on to add: “[Star Wars fans] deal a lot in absolutes, which is very much a Sith thing.
I remember in The Empire Strikes Back Luke speaking out through the Force to Leia.
Vader also does this at the end of Empire Strikes
Back. There's no absoluteness that these people are dead.”
This statement right here pretty much gives us a big nod that Ahsoka is definitely not dead and
that Dave Filloni has many plans for her character in the future, including the Mandalorian Season 2.
And to put the cherry on top, after making these Statements, Dave Filloni released an awesome piece
of artwork that he drew, on his twitter Page, once again reassuring everyone that Ahsoka is probably
still out there during the time period after the Mandalorian. As you can tell by the photo,
Dave Filloni is a massive Lord of the Rings Fan.
Number 4. Ahsoka Worked as a Mechanic to survive After Order 66
After the tragic call of Order 66 was given to all Clone Troopers of the Grand Army of the Republic,
and Ahsoka was able to remove the inhibitor chip from Captain Rex’s head the two close
friends went their separate ways, forcing Ahsoka to survive on her own in the aftermath of the
Great Jedi Purge. Ahsoka eventually ended up on the outer rim world of Thabeska, where she
took the fake name Ashla, in hopes of remaining hidden from Darth Vader’s ruthless inquisitors.
Because she was of course a Jedi Knight before the great Jedi Purge,
she didn’t have any money of her own, meaning she had to find herself a job on the planet.
Ahsoka eventually became a mechanic for the Fardi family on Thabeska, using the
skills that she brushed up on with the Martez sisters, and was kindly given a place to stay,
in return for fixing the various transport and cargo ships owned by the Fardi Family.
During her time as the Fardi Clan engineer, she collected an assortment of spare parts and pieces,
from her work. And make sure you remember this, as it will be very important for the next fact.
The Fardi family were extremely dodgy, and heavily involved in the underworld smuggling business,
but Ahsoka had no other choice but to keep her mouth shut if
she wanted to remain hidden from the vast reach of the Empire’s inquisitors.
Unfortunately however, on one gloomy evening, the children of the Fardi family were
playing in their courtyard near some heavy, stacked crates without a care in the world.
One of the young children bumped into the crate with a strong force, sending it tumbling towards
one of the other children, only moments away from brutally crushing him. Ahsoka
happened to be nearby, and was forced to reveal herself as a force user to save the young child.
Only a short time after this incident, imperial officials arrived on Thabeska, wanting to speak
to Ahsoka, but the moment she heard this news, she knew her time on the planet was over,
before stealing one of the Fardi Family ships and fleeing to the nearby farming moon Raada,
where she once again worked as an engineer. This leads us straight onto the next fact.
Number 5. Ahsoka’s White Lightsabers come from the purified Kyber crystals of an Inquisitor
After fleeing from the grip of the Empire on Thabeska, and arriving on Raada,
Ahsoka once again the Moon’s most well known engineer, and befriended a group of Locals
farmers. Ahsoka eventually became horrified at the Empire’s disgusting oppression of the planet,
forming her own resistance movement with the locals. Her actions eventually gained
the attention of the Empire after she raided an imperial military installation on the small moon,
where they quickly figured out that Ahsoka was force sensitive.
Because of this, the Empire sent the Grey-skinned inquisitor known as the Sixth Brother or Bill
Valen to hunt down and kill Ahsoka. As the inquisitor approached the farming town that
Ahsoka was located in, she heard the bleeding red crystals of his lightsabers sing to her
in the force, and from that point onwards, she knew those crystals would belong to her.
Following this, the two engaged in a ferocious battle, where Ahsoka was able to brutally explode
the lightsaber in the hand of the Sixth Brother, killing horrifically burning his
face and killing him shortly after. After this, she took the kyber crystals from his
blades and purified them into the bright, white coloured sabers that we saw in rebels.
This again leads us directly into the next fact.
Number 6. Ahsoka Started the Fulcrum Covert Intelligence Program for the Rebel Alliance.
After Ahsoka began her small scale resistance movement on Raada, high ranking Rebel alliance
member and adoptive father of Leia, Bail Organa quickly took notice of her noble work,
and offered Ahsoka a position in the Rebel alliance intelligence network.
Ahsoka quickly accepted this position and served as head of the Rebel Alliance intelligence,
taking the codename Fulcrum for herself. The name fulcrum actually comes from Ahsoka’s time serving
in the Clone Wars, where a covert Republic communications frequency, codenamed Fulcrum
was used to communicate with Saw Gererra and the Rebels on Onderon. After Ahsoka accepted Bail
Organa’s offer, she took the name Fulcrum from her time on Onderon and made it her personal codename.
Following this, all further high-ranking agents of the Rebel Intelligence network
used Fulcrum as the standard codename for their highly secretive work.
Other Fulcrum agents included Cassian Andor, and Agent Kallus, an Imperial Defector.
Number 7. Ahsoka has a deeper connection to the Daughter of Mortis than anyone realizes.
The Gods of Mortis, also known as “The Ones” were a mysterious family
of incredibly powerful force users, attuned to the three natural states of the force.
The father of Mortis represented the balance,
the Daughter represented the light and the Son represented the Darkness.
During Ahsoka’s time in the mysterious world,
she was actually killed by The Son of Mortis after having her life force drained by him.
She was eventually revived by her master Anakin however, using the essence of the daughter.
After this however, the animal form of the daughter, a mysterious Convor named Morai,
continued to follow Ahsoka around for the rest of her life, even following her into
the World Between worlds, after almost being slaughtered by her former master Darth Vader.
For this reason, she has a deeper connection to the Daughter of Mortis than anyone realizes,
which may be explored in the Mandalorian Season 2.
So those are 7 awesome facts about Ahsoka Tano before the Mandalorian Season 2
Episode 5. Thanks so much for watching, cheers guys, hope to see you in the next one!