When is Ahsoka set within the Star Wars timeline?

Did you end the primary couple episodes of Ahsoka questioning when precisely this all takes place? It wasn’t simply you — the brand new Disney Plus collection doesn’t give specifics, and if you happen to’re a fan of Star Wars Rebels, it even seems to contradict itself.

So let’s sweep up all these breadcrumbs and see what we will make of it, and Ahsoka’s (to date) oddly coy means of relationship itself.

[Ed. note: This piece big spoilers for the first two episodes of Ahsoka, and minor spoilers for episode 7.]

In a basic sense, Ahsoka’s place within the Star Wars timeline is obvious. Like The Mandalorian and The Guide of Boba Fett, it takes place after the autumn of the Empire and earlier than the rise of the First Order — between Star Wars: Return of the Jedi, starring Luke, and Star Wars: The Drive Awakens, starring Rey. In Star Wars universe parlance, that is a minimum of 4 years after Star Wars: A New Hope, or 4 ABY (which stands for After the Battle of Yavin).

And in response to some supplemental Star Wars books, the occasions of The Mandalorian, through which Ahsoka initially cameoed, happen 9 years after A New Hope, or 9 ABY. Ahsoka the present appears to happen someday after that.

However then there’s that dang mural dedication scene

The mural is a pleasant deal with for Rebels followers to see this art work rendered in stay motion. Lothal’s authorities has an entire dedication ceremony for it in Ahsoka, which might suggest that it’s newly painted.

However if you happen to’ve watched Rebels, that it’s not. It was initially seen within the present’s finale, which takes place in 5 ABY, as Sabine Wren and Ahsoka Tano stood earlier than it and vowed to work collectively in a seek for Ezra Bridger. This could sound very acquainted, as a result of they do this very same factor in the very same place within the second episode of Ahsoka. So you possibly can be forgiven for pondering that Ahsoka takes place in 5 ABY, earlier than the occasions of The Mandalorian and instantly flowing out of Rebels.

And but, we additionally be taught in Ahsoka that Ahsoka and Sabine have developed an entire master-and-failed-apprentice relationship off display screen, which might suggest that when Sabine and Ahsoka meet to go discover Ezra in entrance of the mural in Ahsoka, it’s not merely a live-action re-creation of the ultimate scene of Rebels. It’s simply the 2 of them doing it once more some years later, with out both of them commenting on the repetition, and likewise that Lothal is simply actually, actually late to dedicate the mural. Not complicated in any respect.

Episode 7 of the collection underscores this when Captain Carson Teva — who first appeared in The Mandalorian as a New Republic house ranger-type that Din Djarin would cross paths with — mentions “the battle on Mandalore,” prompting one other to explain Moff Gideon as “a warlord appearing on his personal.” This is able to point out that Ahsoka takes place after season 3 of The Mandalorian, through which Gideon’s plot to grab and reignite the mines of Mandalore was found and stymied by Din Djarin and his allies.

So: Ahsoka takes place after the occasions of The Mandalorian and Boba Fett, which occur round 9 ABY, which is a minimum of 9 years after the occasions of Star Wars: A New Hope. What number of years after? Because the governor of Lothal so helpfully places it on the mural dedication ceremony: “A number of.”

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