The release of Clone Wars Season 7 Episode 12 ended the Clone Wars series in the most
heartbreaking way possible.
But what if the Jedi Order and Anakin Skywalker could have been saved before the events of
Clone Wars Season 7 and the Siege of Mandalore?
I’m going to break exactly how Ahsoka discovered an ancient Sith Shrine on the lowest level
of Coruscant, and was almost able to save the Jedi Order from certain destruction.
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As we all know, when Dave Filloni brought the Clone Wars Season 7 back, Disney chose
not to animate some of the unfinished story arcs that we had previously seen at Star Wars
Celebration and on the official Star Wars Website.
One of these arcs followed the journey of Ahsoka returning to the Jedi Order to warn
them about something extremely sinister that she had discovered.
During Ahsoka’s time in the lower levels of Coruscant, she had shockingly discovered
an Ancient Sith Temple on the level 1 of Coruscant, the lowest level of the planet.
This Dark Sith Shrine was not just placed randomly however.
It was placed directly below the Jedi temple.
About five thousand years before the rise of the empire, the Sith had built a shrine
on the planet Coruscant, hoping to corrupt it with Dark Side energy.
They were successful in this mission, but unfortunately for them, they were defeated
by the Jedi order and left to crumble shortly after.
After the Jedi’s monumental defeat of the Sith, they decided to construct their own
temple, above the Dark Side shrine, in hopes of preventing Dark Side energy from spilling
out onto the surface of the planet, and corrupting the surrounding area.
The Jedi had also hoped that the presence of so many light side users in one location
would transform the Dark Side rift on the planet into a lightside wellspring in the
force.
Moving straight back into the Clone Wars 7, if this unfinished story was animated, we
would have seen Ahsoka reunite with her master, and Obi-Wan Kenobi, to warn them of the dark
presence emanating from below.
Ahsoka believed that this Dark side shrine was the source of the dark side presence that
had engulfed the Jedi order ever since the beginning of the Clone Wars.
The arc would have taken Ahsoka, Anakin and Obi-Wan into the depths of Coruscant to investigate
an unusual increase in Dark Side energy flowing from the shrine.
They were to descend into the Sith temple with weird exploration vehicles which you
can see on screen now, because the lowest level of Coruscant was deemed uninhabitable
after so much building and development layered on top of it.
The group would encounter a mysterious Sith Lord who was also attempting to access the
temple at the time.
This Sith Lord was of course, Darth Sidious himself, but Anakin, Obi-Wan and Ahsoka were
unaware of this and the true identity under his hood.
We also know from the Canon Tarkin Novel, that Palpatine had learnt how to exploit the
residual Dark Side energy contained within this Sith Shrine to mask his true identity
from the Jedi council, and Cloud their vision during the Clone Wars.
Dave Filloni also shared some awesome concept art for the interior of the Sith Shrine, which
shares the similar Red and Black colour scheme as the Sith Shrine on Malachor, from Star
Wars Rebels.
Huge parallel there between Ahsoka’s duel with Vader and her meeting with Palpatine
in this unfinished episode.
Huge pillars held up the temple ceiling and it housed a giant infernal machine within
its core, similar to the one on Malachor.
The machine would have contained large moving gears, and possibly an early superweapon that
was only accessible by Dark Side Force users.
After entering the Sith Temple, Ahsoka would have an intense confrontation with Darth Sidious,
where she would be forced to protect the Jedi holocron vault by melting the door closed
with her lightsaber.
Honestly, how cool is that.
Sidious was shooting an intense amount of Force Lighting at Ahsoka, but she was able
to protect herself from it with her lightsaber and save the Jedi temple holocron vault.
Dave Filloni did confirm that Ahsoka and Sidious never actually saw eachother’s faces, because
that would obviously destroy the story of the Prequels, but Sidious was only inches
away from Ahsoka, on the other side of the vault door.
Filloni also stated that if Ahsoka did go face to face with Sidious, she would be quickly
defeated and killed almost instantly.
If Ahsoka had managed to get even a slight glimpse at the true face and identity of Darth
Sidious inside of this Sith Shrine, it’s likely that Mace Windu would have quickly
moved to arrest him, leaving absolutely no room for Order 66 and Anakin’s fall to the
dark.
So that is how Ahsoka almost saved the Jedi Order from destruction before the Clone Wars
Season 7.
She was only inches away from discovering the truth about Darth Sidious and his control
of the Republic.
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