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"It's every citizen's duty to challenge their leaders, to keep them honest, and hold them accountable if they're not."

- Ahsoka Tano

Ahsoka Tano, nicknamed Snips by her master, was a female Togruta who trained as a Jedi Padawan during the Clone Wars. She was trained by Anakin Skywalker and, alongside her master, commanded troopers from the Grand Army of the Republic for most of the war. She was expelled from the Jedi Order after being falsely implicated as the culprit in a bombing at the Jedi Temple, and she was put on trial by the Galactic Republic before the true bomber, her friend Barriss Offee, was discovered. Despite the Jedi Council allowing her to return to the Order, Tano became disillusioned with the Council and their lack of trust in her, and she chose to leave the Jedi Order.

Padawan Learner
"I'm the new Padawan learner. I'm Ahsoka Tano."

- Tano introduces herself

Ahsoka Tano was assigned to Jedi Knight Anakin Skywalker by Jedi Grand Master Yoda, and she demonstrated an eagerness to prove herself worthy to be his apprentice. Tano was involved in the defeat of the Separatist army on the planet Christophsis and was important to Republic efforts during the Battle of Teth. Along with Skywalker, Tano was instrumental in acquiring the Republic's safe passage through Hutt Space, due to her part in rescuing the son of Jabba the Hutt, which ensured an alliance between the Republic and the Hutt clans.

Disaster on Ryloth
Later on, during the war, The Separatists invaded Ryloth and the planet is blockaded. The invasion is led by Aboard a Neimoidian Captain Mar Tuuk and Emir Tambor of the Techno Union. The Republic responded by sending Masters Mace Windu and Obi-Wan Kenobi. Skywalker allowed his Padawan to lead a squadron of clone troopers and managed to cut a clean path. With the arrival of Separatist reinforcements, however, the victory was short-lived. Anakin, who saw the battle from his ship, demanded Ahsoka Turn back but disobeyed. Vulture droids began After losing half of her squadron, she finally saw the error of her ways and retreated. The battle made her uneasy and even as Skywalker tried to comfort her, she still felt like the loss of the men was solely her fault. Later, Tano found the injured Admiral Yularen unconscious in the and mournfully apologized for her actions.

Skywalker received orders to continue with the plan despite their losses. Tano, however, refused to lead the battle because of what occurred earlier. She questioned her Master, who told her that she needed to relax. Shortly after, she learned that the Defender was to be evacuated and proceeded to find her master and learned that he decided pilot the Defender alone and ram it into the main control ship in order to destroy it. Again, she was hesitant to lead and the pressure of ensuring Anakin's safety. Before she could state her case, Skywalker announced that Ahsoka was in charge and that he was leaving.

Ahsoka decided to have the hull of the Resolute angled toward the blockade allowing the ships to launch and assault the Separatist craft. ex and the navigation officer are very skeptical of their chances of success. To make matters worse, The navigation officer tells Ahsoka that they usually have Anakin to back them; while he doesn't mean Ahsoka any offense She, however, received support from a recovered Admiral Yularen. After Skywalker rammed the Defender into the lead control ship and its commander, Mar Tuuk, fled, the Resolute came out of hyperspace, and Tano led fighters and bombers, and successfully destroyed the remaining frigates in the blockade. Three Acclamator-class ships came out of hyperspace, the lead ship carrying Obi-Wan Kenobi and Mace Windu. Kenobi conferred with Tano, and she told him that they were clear for ground assault; Kenobi was rather disapproving of Skywalker's reckless plan, but was glad it had worked. Tano dispatched Rex to send a shuttle to pick up Skywalker's escape pod

Leaving the Order
Towards the end of the war, Tano's friend Barriss Offee, who believed the Jedi Order to be evil, and corrupt, and overly belligerent, orchestrated the bombing of the Jedi Temple on Coruscant, killed the bomber, Letta Turmond, and caused the deaths of clone troopers while framing Tano for these crimes. While running away from Republic authorities and Skywalker, who still believed her to be innocent, Tano met her longtime nemesis Asajj Ventress and briefly allied with her, since both were on the run from their masters. Tano was led by Offee, the only Jedi whom she still saw as an ally, into a trap at an abandoned Coruscant warehouse in Coruscant's Undercity, where she was captured by Skywalker's forces. The Jedi Council then expelled Tano from the Jedi Order and turned her over to the Republic for trial, where she was prosecuted by Admiral Wilhuff Tarkin. Tano came very close to a conviction and death sentence, but she was acquitted at the last minute by the forced confession of a captured Offee. While the Council pardoned Tano and offered to bring her back into the Order, Tano refused, and she left the Jedi Order.

Legacy
Tano's departure from the Jedi Order had a deep impact on those she knew. During a quest to discover the secrets of immortality, Yoda was faced with visions of the fall of the Jedi Order. In one such vision, he saw Tano dying in the halls of the Jedi Temple, with the vision of her asking if she could become one with the Force after having been expelled from the Jedi Order. The vision of Tano was a result of Yoda's guilt over having placed her on the path that led to her departure from the Jedi Order.

While on a mission with Kenobi, Skywalker spoke of calling her for help, only to then realize that she was gone. In an emotional conversation with Kenobi, he expressed heartfelt grief at her absence, describing her as "one of us." Kenobi reminded him that it was her choice to leave, but Skywalker felt that they had not given her any choice and that the Council had turned their backs on her. Kenobi, however, stood by the Council's authority, much to Skywalker's annoyance and anger. Kenobi did admit, however, that he would not sleep well were Skywalker to leave the Order. Skywalker himself did eventually leave the Jedi Order after falling to the dark side and becoming Darth Vader. Like Tano's decision to leave the Jedi, Skywalker's fall to the dark side was partly influenced by his belief that the Jedi Council did not trust him.

After the Republic was transformed into the Galactic Empire, Moff Tarkin and Darth Vader had a somewhat tense relationship with one another. Tarkin, who believed that Vader had once been Skywalker, suspected that the strain in their relationship was influenced by Tarkin's prosecution of Tano for the Jedi Temple bombing.