When is Ahsoka set in the Star Wars timeline?

Did you end the first couple episodes of Ahsoka questioning when precisely this all takes place? It wasn’t simply you — the new Disney Plus collection doesn’t give specifics, and in case you’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 are able to make of it, and Ahsoka’s (to date) oddly coy approach of relationship itself.

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

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In a common sense, Ahsoka’s place in the Star Wars timeline is clear. Like The Mandalorian and The Book of Boba Fett, it takes place after the fall 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 Force Awakens, starring Rey. In Star Wars universe parlance, this is not less than 4 years after Star Wars: A New Hope, or 4 ABY (which stands for After the Battle of Yavin).

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

But 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 reside motion. Lothal’s authorities has an entire dedication ceremony for it in Ahsoka, which might indicate that it’s newly painted.

But in case you’ve watched Rebels, you realize that it’s not. It was initially seen in 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 ought to sound very acquainted, as a result of they try this very same factor in the very same place in the second episode of Ahsoka. So you could possibly 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 study in Ahsoka that Ahsoka and Sabine have developed an entire master-and-failed-apprentice relationship off display screen, which might indicate that when Sabine and Ahsoka meet to go discover Ezra in entrance of the mural in Ahsoka, it is not merely a live-action re-creation of the last scene of Rebels. It’s simply the two of them doing it once more some years later, with out both of them commenting on the repetition, and in addition 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 conflict on Mandalore,” prompting one other to explain Moff Gideon as “a warlord acting on his own.” This would point out that Ahsoka takes place after season 3 of The Mandalorian, in 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 happen round 9 ABY, which is not less than 9 years after the occasions of Star Wars: A New Hope. How a few years after? As the governor of Lothal so helpfully places it at the mural dedication ceremony: “Several.”

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