
From the moment Ahsoka Tano was first introduced in Star Wars: The Clone Wars, it felt like she was living on borrowed time. The character started out as one destined for death: it was the only way to explain her absence in films like Revenge of the Sith and George Lucas’ original trilogy. Ahsoka was firmly set on the path to becoming a Jedi, after all, so the Jedi Purge that bookended the Star Wars prequels was inevitably going to affect her.