We all know the unfortunate reality of what happened to the younglings of the Jedi order
after the fall of Anakin Skywalker to the dark side and the rise of Darth Vader.
But what happened to the Jedi younglings who went with Ahsoka to create their first lightsabers
on the planet illum in the Clone Wars series?
I’m going to break down some chilling possibilities about what may have happened to these Jedi
younglings after Order 66.
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After travelling to the planet Illum to construct their first ever lightsabers, a selection
of Jedi younglings, led by Ahsoka Tano, were travelling back Coruscant when their ship
came under attack.
The ship was attacked by pirate Hondo Ohnaka and his crew, who were hoping to make some
easy money.
The group of younglings on board the ship came together to fight off the pirates, using
their knowledge of the force, creative ability and teamwork to overpower them and eventually
escape their grasp.
They were eventually able to escape captivity of Hondo’s crew on the planet florrum, and
were brought safely aboard General Kenobi’s Republic Cruiser.
At this point, it’s safe to assume they were returned to the Jedi temple on Coruscant
to continue their training and eventually be appointed to a master.
So this is unfortunately where things get very dark.
The first possibility is that the Jedi younglings were stationed at the Jedi temple at the time
of Revenge of the Sith and the fall of Anakin Skywalker.
Before being appointed to a master, most Jedi younglings continue their training at the
Jedi temple on Coruscant under Master Yoda, and perform tasks that contribute to the upkeep
of the Order.
If these younglings were at the temple on the Republic’s darkest day, it is almost
certain that every single one of them were slaughtered by Anakin in Operation Knightfall.
Some were probably killed directly at the hands of Darth Vader himself, and others were
probably killed by the 501st Clone Troopers.
Either possibility is extremely sad and heartbreaking to think about.
Let me know down in the comments below if you think Anakin encountered these younglings
in the temple on the dark night of Order 66.
Now to back this up, in one of the Clone Wars Lost missions episodes, Yoda experiences a
vision in the force which shows the interior of the Jedi temple, after operation Knightfall
and Anakin’s destruction of it during Order 66.
The vision chillingly show’s Mace Windu lying dead on the floor, alongside almost
all of the other Jedi younglings from the Illum episodes, except for one.
I’ll explain what that means very shortly, because there is a very dark possibility about
the survival of one of these Jedi younglings.
Because we know Anakin played a massive role in the killing of Mace Windu, slicing his
arm off in Revenge of the Sith, this scene in Yoda's vision very likely symbolises that
Anakin directly slaughtered each of the younglings with his own hands.
This is further backed up by the fact that Ahsoka is also lying on the floor, near death,
but importantly she does not die in this scene.
This further strengthens the theory, because we know that Ahsoka is brought close to death
by Anakin in Star Wars Rebels, when he fights Ahsoka on Malachor, under his Darth Vader
suit.
We know that Ahsoka does not die in Rebels, making Yoda’s vision completely accurate
and correct.
Interestingly though there is one youngling who is not dead in this scene.
The Jedi youngling is Katooni.
Katooni reaches out to master Yoda, offering her hand to end his suffering and pain.
She also offers to take him to an alternate reality, where Anakin does not fall to the
Dark side and Count Dooku remains a member of the Jedi Order, with Qui-Gon even surviving
his duel with Darth Maul on Naboo.
I can’t stress enough that this is a clear dark side deception.
The dark side is known to deceive those who are tempted by it, offering them peace, harmony
and relief from the truth and reality.
Katooni being the symbol of this dark side deception could mean that she became a young
inquisitor after Order 66, trained by the seventh Sister and the Grand Inquisitor, who
know was a Jedi temple guard.
In Yoda’s vision, Katooni is a conduit of the dark side, potentially hinting at her
conversion to darkness after the fall of the Jedi, in order to survive.
She was also present at the duel between Anakin and Barriss after the framing of Ahsoka, so
maybe she began to agree with the ideas of Barriss and believed that the Jedi order were
ultimately clouded by their arrogance, causing her to explore the dark side.
We may even see her make an appearance in the upcoming Jedi fallen Order sequel game
that was just announced.
Let me know down in the comments below whether or not you think Katooni became an inquisitor
under Darth Vader.
I would actually like this see this, as sad as it would be.
Of course it is possible that some of the others in the group did survive, but it is
very unlikely, given that Yoda’s vision depicted them on the floor of the Jedi temple.
On top if this, if they did survive, the Original Trilogy would begin to make less sense, as
more and more Jedi would be running around during Luke’s time.
But either way, let me know what you think happened to the Clone Wars Younglings after
Order 66 and the march on the Jedi temple.
I think the most likely scenario is that Anakin slaughtered all of the temple, along with
the Clones of the 501st legion.
If this is not the case though, I really hope we get a spin off comic or tv series about
their survival and eventual hunt down by Darth Vader and the inquisitors of the Empire.
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