In the Galactic City on Coruscant, the Sith Lord Darth Sidious, had just executed Order 66,
sentencing all of the Jedi their deaths. Nowhere was this more apparent than aboard a
Republic cruiser returning from Mandalore, as the 501st Legion turned upon the former Jedi
padawan Ahsoka Tano. The padawan is somehow able to escape the initial flurry of attacks,
freeing the captured Maul, who had himself been on the receiving end of separate orders from Sidious,
and he managed to cause enough chaos with his dark side powers to find his way to the
hangar. Meanwhile Ahsoka had managed to remove the inhibitor chip from her most trusted clone trooper
Commander Rex, they try but fail to stop Maul from escaping in one of the last ships available. In
the end, they take advantage of the ship burning in the atmosphere of the moon to find a Y-Wing
bomber and escape, but the damage had been done as they were forced to live a life running from the
chasing Empire. But what if Ahsoka and Rex had managed to escape on the first ship with Maul?
Would their roles with the Rebellion be altered? As you will discover, their quicker escape
could have changed all of their futures… As ARC Trooper Jesse pointed his blasters
at Ahsoka and Rex, the droids had finally performed their task and collapsed the floor
in their hangar, knocking out a large majority of the clones. As Maul begins his own escape to the
solitary shuttle, the Zabrak cleverly pushes them both into a pit, and begins to initiate a starting
procedure for the ship to depart. Maul suddenly felt a massive lurch, as from behind the ship,
Ahsoka had used the Force to hold the ship in the hangar, whilst being defended by Rex.
Despite Maul’s best efforts, the shuttle began to slowly creep back to the ground, grinding to
a stop before it could take off. Ahsoka and Rex leapt away from the fire of the 501st Legion,
and into Maul’s shuttle, then they left into hyperspace, leaving the cruiser and Ahsoka’s
troops to fall to their deaths. The former Republic warriors landed on the planet of Florrum
with Maul, and their hatred for each other was balanced by their common enemy in Darth Sidious.
Maul was amused and smug at how he had been correct in his premonitions of the Jedi falling,
but they were in even greater danger from the Empire. Maul once again offers
his help in defeating Sidious, with their journey becoming more and more treacherous,
and Ahsoka and Rex reluctantly agree, as they had lost everything. Maul is eager to get going,
and leaves Ahsoka and Rex on the planet to fend for themselves, as he ventured back to
his home planet of Dathomir, and reassert his authority over his criminal enterprise.
The former Jedi and clone trooper trudged through the rocky and dust filled terrain, both physically
exhausted and psychologically wounded from the loss of everything they had fought for.
Eventually, they make their way to the familiar surroundings of Hondo’s ruined base, and find that
the Weequay pirate was seated alone. Like the Jedi, Hondo’s gang had been split apart but by
internal conflict, and with the pursuing Empire, he was forced to undertake operations on his own.
Suddenly, they hear a beeping sound from Rex’s armour, and they activate it to find the hologram
of Senator Bail Organa. One of the survivors of Palpatine’s new regime, had been looking for other
survivors of the clone wars, and after almost losing all hope, he had found the services of
the clone commander. Ahsoka and Rex are requested to head to the coordinates given by the Senator,
and even Hondo was welcome, as he had connections to useful allies, and the trio take Hondo’s
freighter to Bail Organa’s cruiser. The Senator is pleased to greet the new allies, and he is keen to
begin establishing the new Rebellion. Jedi master Obi-Wan Kenobi had just departed to Tatooine,
as he sought to complete his mission of protecting Anakin’s son Luke Skywalker, from the wrath of the
New Empire, and he received another surprising transmission from Bail Organa. Ahsoka and Obi-Wan
were unwilling to discuss the fate of Anakin, and instead began to argue about the alliance with
Maul. Obi-Wan was sceptical of the crafty Zabrak, and knew that one of his aims was to kill him,
but Ahsoka was insistent that they needed his knowledge to understand the enemy. The Rebel
members leave the frustrated Obi-Wan, and Bail dispatches Rex to use his knowledge of the galaxy,
to search for any remaining clone troopers to bring to their cause, whilst Ahsoka is instructed
to bring any Force sensitives to Yoda, as well as assist Maul in opposing the Empire with his
criminal enterprise. Beginning her journey through to the ship’s hangar, she hears the familiar
noises of the astromech droid R2-D2, and she was pleased to see that it had survived with C3P0,
before taking off in a T6 Shuttle. The former Jedi was unsure of where to search first, so decided
to take a large risk, in not only facing the new Empire, but also bringing about horrible memories,
back on the planet of Coruscant. That is it for part 1 what if Ahsoka
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