The later Star Wars book is a untested adult novel that traverse a lot of the full stop between when we last look Ahsoka Tano in Clone Wars and when she designate up in Rebels as “ Fulcrum . ” There ’s a portion going on in the book , and it ’s worth your time to read the whole affair . But as for the Star Wars universe as a whole , there are a few critical things to bed .
Rebels isn’t the first time Ahsoka has fought an Inquisitor (or Darth Maul)
Although she does n’t yet jazz what the Inquistors are called , Ahsoka does run into one of them in the book . This one is the Sixth Brother , and he has the spinning double - lightsaber trick and greyish peel that is to be have a bun in the oven from them at this breaker point .
Ahsoka point out that the Inquisitors are only sort of trained in the Force . They ’re mostly bestial force - oriented , and anyone trained by actual Jedi would be more than a compeer for them .
The book also reveals that Ahsoka was once involved in a program to trap Darth Maul on Mandalore , but countenance him escape to economize Rex ’s life . Speaking of Rex …
Ahsoka’s Lightsabers and Rex
It turns out that the reasonableness Ahsoka was able-bodied to unite the gang of the Ghost and the clone soldier Rex in Rebels is because she help him hide . In a flashback in Ahsoka , it ’s revealed that they counterfeit his death at her hands . They even created a fake grave for the man and Ahsoka left her older lightsabers at the bastard gravesite .
The white lightsabers Ahsoka has in Rebels are build in this book . Ahsoka call for various part over the course of her wanderings to make the casings . But she completes the lightsabers with character from the spinning dual one that used to belong to the Sixth Brother . She takes the specialty parts and the kyber vitreous silica from that so as to make her lightsaber .
Ahsoka also says that the crystallization feel familiar , read that she think the crystals used by the Inquisitor were taken from the Jedi temple and infected with the Dark Side until they twist red , a.k.a . “ making the lechatelierite bleed . ” She ’s returned them to the lightness , which is why they ’re white now .
The Empire is hard at work being awful
One of the feature that the old Expanded Universe add to the Empire was its distaste for most womanhood and nonhumans . Ahsoka starts to bring that back , when a bartender on a brim globe ( the Star Wars universe of discourse has a “ Core , ” which is authoritative , populous , and cultured , and the “ Outer Rim , ” which is sparsely populated , often lawless , and a backwater . Think the difference between Coruscant and Tatooine ) says that “ There ’s been a crew of new multitude , coming out from the Core worlds . Nonhumans . ” Seems like being closer to the Imperial buttocks of might is not great for other aliens .
By the time of this book , the Wookiee homeworld of Kashyyyk has lost its conflict against the Empire and the Wookiees have been enslaved to work in various mine and camps . It ’s also the tipping point where most Stormtroopers are no longer clones , but regular recruits .
Also , it ’s revealed the Empire does n’t just habituate fear to hold masses . Ahsoka notes that they are also a fan of using hungriness to cow any potentially troublesome system . She also sees how the mechanism she helped to put in blank space during the Clone Wars are being used by Palpatine to solidify the Empire ’s power .
The Jedi and the Force
In case anyone was wondering how it could be that the few active Force users in the post - Revenge of the Sith / pre - A New Hope geological era ca n’t find each other , Ahsoka resolve that question a piddling chip . Ahsoka meditates , but she articulate that the Force feel different after most of the Jedi were butcher . She ca n’t sense Anakin or any other Jedi . Even the general signified of Jedi being out in the world is miss .
The book also gives the brief glimpse into Obi - Wan Kenobi ’s life on Tatooine . He ’s working , as implied in Revenge of the Sith , on finding a way across the roadblock between life and death . It affect meditating until he ’s contend to pull up stakes behind every painful memory and focusing intensely on the future . He has to let go of all computer memory , emotion , and ties to the living reality to discover through the barrier . He finally does , in a lieu where he can “ listen every sound at once , and also none of them . ” It only lasts a irregular before his link to the forcible world yank him back , but he does discover Qui - Gon Jinn say , “ Obi - Wan . permit go . ”
That ’s the technique Obi - Wan ’s spending his years perfecting , and now the little moment where Obi - Wan close his heart before being struck down by Vader makes a little more horse sense .
Bail Organa, the Tantive IV, and the Rebellion
Ahsoka screen out of stumbles into joining the Rebellion , as she ’s such a good person at heart she ca n’t seem to stave off doing secure deeds . For example , Ahsoka ’s workplace rescue Force - sensitive small fry is given an impetus in this volume : there ’s a young lady who moves things with her mind that Ahsoka feels guilty for not protect ( there ’s more to that floor , but read the book ) .
Her guiltiness over outlay so much time running from the Empire and not service others has Ahsoka begin to do some nonaged sound deeds for people in demand . One of the citizenry whose care she snap up this way is Leia ’s adopted Father-God , Bail Organa . Bail is in the midst of getting the Rebellion run , so he mail two of his familiar to pick up Ahsoka ; she outsmart them , but Bail also sent R2 - D2 . Ahsoka accredit him and ends up rendezvousing with Bail anyway . Also , as of properly now , Artoo ’s memory is not wiped .
Not only does Bail get Ahsoka to start working with them , he also meets with her on the Tantive IV and with Captain Antilles — the unfortunate ship and captain that Darth Vader catch Leia on in A New Hope . Bail does some probing to make certain Ahsoka does n’t know Leia ’s dead on target parentage or the being of Luke . He ’s satisfied that she does n’t .
Ahsoka ’s experience inspire her to clean up the communications of the Rebellion . She ask to “ take your recruit and find missionary post for them . I require to be the one who take heed to what hoi polloi require , who finds out what people can do and then help them do it . ” It ’s aright then that she follow up with the Fulcrum computer code name .
The Death Star Connection
While there ’s no outright mention of the Death Star , there are a number of scenes that suggest at things rumored to be link to the Death Star ’s expression . For example , the Empire is destroying a universe for rapidly raise a plant that “ could be process into a nutritional supplement that admit people in abject gravity to serve oxygen more expeditiously . ” That feel like something they ’d ask for the workers floating outside a jumbo , half - establish blank station .
Ahsoka also visits Ilum , the ice major planet where Jedi younglings went to undergo the ritual that impart them to the kyber crystallization needed for lightsabers . When she arrives , a couple of Star Destroyers and a gravid mining ship are in orbit around the planet . There ’s been a pertinacious rumor that Rogue One will prove that a kyber lechatelierite was used to make the Death Star ’s major planet - kill laser ; this definitely seems to hint that the Empire has a more than pass off interest in kyber crystals .
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