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What important background info do I need to fully enjoy the new series?

All I know is that Ahsoka was trained by Anakin because I saw most of the first season of CW.

1) Ahsoka was Anakin's Padawan.
2) She left the Jedi Order shortly before the end of the clone wars after being framed for bombing (something?)
3) Star Wars Rebels comes out. Rebels features ex Jedi Padawan Kanan Jarrus, pilot Hera Syndulla, Mandalorian airbrush artist Sabine Wren, and teenager turned Jedi padawan Ezra Bridger.
4) Ahsoka is featured at some point in the show. Ezra saves Ahsoka from being killed by Darth Vader.
5) Ezra and Sabine develop feelings for each other. Kanan sacrifices himself to save the team.
6) Grand Admiral Thrawn shows up (blue guy from the old EU). Ezra "sacrifices" himself to save the team by being sent with Thrawn across the universe by hyperspace traveling space whales.
7) Hera becomes general in the Rebel Alliance/New Republic (mentioned at the end of Rebels) and has a baby with Kanan.
8) Ahsoka has a cameo appearance in a couple episodes of the Madalorian. She is hunting Asian space lady Morgan Elsbeth (someone who was involved with the creation of the Imperial Navy) for information on the whereabouts of Grand Admiral Thrawn.

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Posted by Roll Tide Ravens

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Posted on 8/23/23 at 9:23 am to BulldogXero

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2) She left the Jedi Order shortly before the end of the clone wars after being framed for bombing (something?)

**Clone Wars and Rebels Spoilers to follow.**

This is a key part of Clone Wars. Ahsoka was framed for the bombing of a hangar at the Jedi Temple on Coruscant. The bombing was actually carried out by another Jedi Padawan that Ahsoka was friends with (Barris Offee) who had become disillusioned with the Jedi. Anakin was able to determine who was really behind it, but by that point Ahsoka had been banished from the Jedi Order and was on trial for the bombing. After Anakin proved it wasn’t Ahsoka, she was freed and offered her place back in the Jedi Order, but she couldn’t bring herself to rejoin despite Anakin’s wishes. She felt betrayed by the Order and didn’t know how she was supposed to trust herself if the Council didn’t trust her.

This part of Clone Wars really helped provide more information on why Anakin was so sick of the Jedi by the time of Revenge of the Sith.

In Rebels, Ahsoka and the Rebels crew encounter Darth Vader in a space battle and Ahsoka realizes that Vader is probably Anakin and Vader realizes that Ahsoka is alive. They end up dueling later at a Sith temple on the planet Malacore, and she gets confirmation that Vader is indeed Anakin. She pleads to him by telling him she won’t leave him again, to which he responds: “Then you will die.” Ahsoka seems to blame herself, at least in part, for Anakin’s fall to the dark side because she wasn’t there when it happened to try to stop it.

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