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 sequence doesn’t give specifics, and for those who’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 (thus far) oddly coy method of courting 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 basic sense, Ahsoka’s place within the Star Wars timeline is obvious. Like The Mandalorian and The E-book 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 no less than 4 years after Star Wars: A New Hope, or 4 ABY (which stands for After the Battle of Yavin).

And in line with some supplemental Star Wars books, the occasions of The Mandalorian, by 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 paintings rendered in reside motion. Lothal’s authorities has a complete dedication ceremony for it in Ahsoka, which might indicate that it’s newly painted.

However for those who’ve watched Rebels, you recognize 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 can be forgiven for considering 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 a complete 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’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 in addition that Lothal is simply actually, actually late to dedicate the mural. Not complicated in any respect.

Episode 7 of the sequence 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 performing on his personal.” This could point out that Ahsoka takes place after season 3 of The Mandalorian, by 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 no less than 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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