Ahsoka Tano/Legends

"You're reckless, little one. You never would have made it as Obi-Wan's Padawan... but you might make it as mine."

- Anakin to Ahsoka following the Battle of Christophsis

Ahsoka Tano, nicknamed Snips by Anakin and Little Soka by Plo Koon, was a Togruta Jedi Padawan during the Clone Wars who was assigned to Jedi Knight Anakin Skywalker by Jedi Master Yoda, and showed an eagerness to prove herself worthy to be his apprentice. Tano was involved in the defeat of the Separatist army on Christophsis and survived a brief encounter with Dark Jedi Asajj Ventress during the Battle of Teth. Indeed, along with Skywalker, Tano was instrumental in acquiring the Galactic Republic safe passage through Hutt space, due to her part in rescuing the son of Jabba Desilijic Tiure, which ensured an alliance between the Republic and the Hutts.

Along with her Master, Tano proved a key figure during the events surrounding the Separatist superweapon, the Malevolence, a ship capable of destroying entire Republic fleets. Partially due to her involvment in the crisis, the Republic was able to destroy the superweapon, removing yet another advantage possessed by the Confederacy. Later, Ahsoka did battle with the feared General Grievous himself, becoming one of the few Jedi so survive such an encounter with the cyborg.

Early Life
"It was Master Plo Koon who found me and brought me to the Temple where I belonged..."

- Ahsoka to Anakin Skywalker



Ahsoka Tano was discovered by Jedi Master Plo Koon at a young age during a mission to Shili and was raised in the Jedi Temple. Tano considered Master Koon to be among her oldest and dearest friends by 22 BBY and felt a a large amount of gratitude to him for discovering her Force sensitivity and ensuring that she would be given a home at the Jedi Temple.

Battle of Christophsis
Tano was promoted to the rank of Padawan earlier than normal by Master Yoda in hopes that it would teach Anakin Skywalker a greater sense of responsibility. Ahsoka usually followed most situations in a more orthodox fashion than that of her Master.

The Jedi High Council hoped that as Ahsoka became more independent, her Master would learn to let go of his problematic sense of attachment. Then they sent the Padawan to Christophsis to join Anakin, hoping to aid him in the current battle and pass on a message. Though it was presumed she was going to be Obi-Wan Kenobi's Padawan, she revealed that she was assigned to Skywalker. Unfortunately, CIS General Whorm Loathsom had activated the deflector shield and had his droid armies advance behind it, negating the use of artillery. Master and Padawan then tried to figure out how to get inside the shield and destroy the generator. They hid beneath a box and waited till the droids passed before they carefully sneaked in. But they accidentally bumped into a droideka. Ahsoka was intent on fighting, but Anakin insisted on running. He then told her to stop, allowing them to slash the rolling droid as it passed them. When they reached the generator, Ahsoka accidentally tripped a number of sensors, alerting Retail droids to their presence. Anakin distracted the droids while Ahsoka planted the charges. But she kept alerting more droids and seeing her master outnumbered, tried to help by bringing down a wall with a convenient hole to crush the droids but save her master. They then blew-up the generator, enabling artillery to finish off the droid legions.

Though they were as different to one another as a Master and apprentice could be, Anakin, and Ahsoka quickly found a common ground, which left Yoda wondering whether the responsibility of mentoring a Padawan would actually calm Anakin's wild ways, or if he'd simply pass them on to his new charge.

Battle of Teth
"Kidnapped, Jabba the Hutt's son has been. Negotiate the treaty with Jabba, Obi-Wan will. Find the renegades that hold Jabba's son, your mission will be, Skywalker."

- Yoda referring to Rotta.



After Christophsis, Master and Padawan were dispatched to find and rescue Jabba the Hutt's kidnapped son Rotta, whom scouts located on the planet Teth. The success of their mission was vital to completing negotiations with the gangster for trade routes in the Outer Rim Territories. En route, Ahsoka gave the troops an "enhanced" version of how she "saved" Skywalker from the retail droids. Upon arriving at Teth, it proved impossible to land at the monastery, which forced them to land at the base of the mesa. The only way to reach the monastery was by scaling the vertical cliff walls. Master and apprentice treated it like a race and began their climb to the top. Ahsoka got aboard an AT-TE, defending it from dwarf spider droid fire when its gunner was shot. STAPs nearly caused the AT-TE to lose grip and likely would have succeeded had Anakin not commandeered one of the STAPs to destroy the others. Once at the top, she used the AT-TE cannon to save her master from three droidekas.

"I'm a Jedi Knight. Or soon will be."

- Ahsoka Tano to 4A-7 after the droid calls her a "servant girl."

After securing the Monastery, they discovered a protocol droid named 4A-7 who informed them the Huttlet was being held in the dungeons. After dispatching a few battle droids, they found Rotta whom she nicknamed "Stinky". Unfortunately, while trying to load the Huttlet into a pack, a recording of their actions was taken by 4A-7, who was actually the servant of Asajj Ventress. Ventress transmitted the recording to Count Dooku to convince Jabba that the Jedi had been the ones who kidnapped Rotta. With an army of droids sent to "retrieve" the Huttlet, the Jedi had to find an alternate way off the planet, as the Huttlet was sick. When the gunship sent to retrieve them was shot down, they spotted another landing platform. Ahsoka had a brief duel with Ventress before her master picked her up on the back of a Can-cell, followed by Artoo. They discovered a ship, with 4A-7 at the foot of the ramp. When battle droids descended from the ship, it became obvious to Ahsoka that 4A-7 was a spy and she decapitated the droid. They commandeered the ship and attempted to land on the Spirit of the Republic but its hangar was destroyed before they could land. With no other options left to them, they traveled to Tatooine directly in the old freighter. While in transit, Ahsoka was able to treat Rotta with medicine on board the ship, saving his life.

Battle of Tatooine


The Twilight arrived at Anakin's homeworld, Tatooine, but they were shot down by MagnaGuards. Fortunately, they survived the crash and made their way across the Dune Sea to Jabba's Palace. Ahsoka wished to know more of her master's life on the planet but he refused to talk about it. On the way, however, both Ahsoka and Skywalker sensed a trap. Ahsoka separated from her master, taking the Huttlet with her. As Anakin faced Count Dooku, Ahsoka was forced to contend with three MagnaGuards single-handedly. Though it was difficult, she was able to defeat them and deliver Rotta to his father before Jabba, believing the Jedi had kidnapped him, could have Anakin executed. Jabba believed the Jedi were still using him however and ordered them killed. Luckily, at the last moment, Senator Padmé Amidala of Naboo appeared via hologram with testimony that Jabba's uncle, Ziro, was responsible for Rotta's kidnapping. Once the truth was made known, Jabba promised the Republic safe passage through his territory in the Outer Rim. Ahsoka and Anakin were then picked up by Obi-Wan Kenobi and Yoda.

Battle of Gwori
After Jedi Master Mace Windu briefed a gathering of Jedi and highlighted a key issue in the war; that the Separatists vastly out numbered the Republic in terms of ships, Master Kenobi suggested a surgical strike on the InterGalactic Banking Clan warship building factories. It soon became clear that the Gwori System was the prime target, yet due to the Republic forces being too splintered, it would be impossible to launch an all-out attack. Further complicating a possible strike team's sabotage attempt was a gigantic bio-scan-irradiator-incinerator that would kill any organics on ships that pass through it. Anakin then concoted a plan that would successfully bipass this complication; the strike team would freeze themselves in carbonite, which would resist the radiation produced by the incinerator.

Anakin ordered Ahsoka to not participate in the mission, however, after he and the strike team are frozen, she manipulated Admiral Yularen into believing that Skywalker had decided to reverse his order and allow Ahsoka to be frozen and accompany the team on world. As R2-D2 piloted the frozen teams shuttle on world, a Separatist commancer noticed an irregularity and orders the ship fired upon. Artoo had the carbonite slabs strewn from the ship, and moments before it was destroyed, escaped it himself.

Artoo freed Ahsoka from her carbonite slab, who in turn freed the rest of the strike team; her Master being less than impressed to discover that she had disobeyed his commands. While the team located the Separatist shipyards, they were unable to contact Republic bombers, due to the Separatists having jammed all communications. However, Ahsoka noticed a communications tower near by and after fighting their way in, the team commed Masters Plo Koon and Saesee Tiin and it is organised that the bombers will strike at dawn.

Unfortunatly, the overseer of the shipyards, Juhm, noticed the unauthorized transmission and attempted to destroy the comm tower, though the team escaped and split up. B2 super battle droids equipped with jetpacks trailed Ahsoka and her faction of the strike team into a cave, where she was forced to kill a large reptillian carnivore. Kenobi and Skywalker soon learnt that the Separatists were using organic slaves to build warships; quite suprising due to it being far less productive than the use of droids. Later, the remnants of the strike team, Ahsoka, Anakin, Obi-Wan and Rex, are captured. Skywalker and Ahsoka came to an agreement to trust eachother and the group then proceeded to escape.

In addition, the Separatist slaves revolted and joined the Jedi strike team. However, upon the arrival of the Republic forces, and the destruction of half of the shipyards, the escape craft of the Jedi and slaves was nearly destroyed by friendly fire; though after comming the forces, the situation was resolved. The freed Separatist slaves were made Republic citizens and then began the work of building warships for the Republic.

Slavers
On Kiros, a Togruta colony world under the control of the Separatists, Ahsoka was apprehensive due to the horrors faced by her people. While Obi-Wan "negotiated" with Commander Ugg, the Master-Padawan team of Anakin and Ahsoka disabled all the bombs around the city, except the one near Ugg's escape ship. Afterwards, they discovered that the entire planet's population had disappeared. Meanwhile, Ugg's computers indicated that he was talking to someone in the Zygerrian system, a system of slave traders.

After making contact with Grand Master Yoda, the Jedi are informed by the diminutive Master, that Dooku had begun to spread lies about the Republic destroying the population of Kiros. When told about the Zygerrians, Yoda recounted how the Jedi crushed there empire on the orders of the Republic. Anakin ordered everybody to get ready and for the ship to jump to the Zygerrian system while Obi-Wan informed Ahsoka about how Anakin was once a slave, causing this mission to effect him some what.

Aboard the Twilight, the Jedi hide in an asteroid field, which is all that remains of the homeworld of the Shi'Kar after it was struck by a comet. Smugglers, scavengers and pirates use it as a haven as Republic cruisers are unable to maneouver safely through the asteroid field. The Jedi and the Zygerrian's engage in combat, though they are soon forced back and Ahsoka is captured by the captain of the Zygerrian slave ship.

The captain uses Ahsoka's comlink to try and strike a deal but Anakin, Obi-Wan and Rex are already in space-suits and mounting a rescue mission. Once aboard, the small group takes the Zygerrian's captive and discover that the Zygerrian Queen plans to auction off the captured Togrutas in an attempt to bring the Zygerrians back to prominence. As such, the Jedi formulate a plan to use Ahsoka as merchandise and thwart the Queen's plans.

The Malevolence
Later, Ahsoka assisted Anakin in the rescue of the first Jedi she ever knew - the one who brought her to the Jedi Temple, Master Plo Koon, when he was stranded in an escape pod in the Abregado system with a small group of Clone troopers. Only her ability to sense Master Koon through the Force kept Anakin from giving up on him after an unsuccessful search, as well as the fact that she grabbed the controls of the Twilight and began piloting it herself. She found Master Plo and his clones and rescued them. Koon informed them that the "secret weapon" that the Separatists were using was an ion cannon that rendered their ships defenseless. At that point the ship passed by, forcing them to shut down all systems before it could detect them. They however forgot to shut off the medical droid. It was detected by the Malevolence, which responded by firing the ion cannon. The Twilight managed to escape the ion wave by jumping into hyperspace, taking knowledge of the Separatist weapon with them.

Shortly after, Anakin created a plan to utilize Y-wing bombers in a daring attack upon the Malevolence, which primarily saught to take out General Grievous and ensure a speedier resolution to the war. The Republic plotted the coarse of the Separatist super weapon to the Kaliida Shoals Medical Center, and in an attempt to arrive their before it, the strike force made its way through the Balmorran Run; however, the small force had not reckoned on being confronted by neebray manta. After barely escaping with their lives, the strike team engaged in battle with the Malevolence, taking several casualties. When it became apparent that the original plan would fail, Ahsoka, acting as her Master's gunner, suggested a change in tactics. With this in mine Master Koon devised a plan that saught to cause the Separatist warship's ion cannons to overload; this tactic proved successful and shortly after destroying the ion cannons, Master Kenobi arrived in system with three Republic ships that began pursuit of the fleeing Malevolence.

Due to the Malevolence being so large that it could withstand the barrage of fire being thrown at it by Master's Kenobi and Koon, Anakin and Ahsoka contacted Jedi Master Luminara Unduli to request reinforcments, though the Mirilan Jedi Master herself was unable to oblige due to being involved in a skirmish with a Separatist fleet herself. As the battle continued, Ahsoka discovered that a small Naboo ship had entered the system; and aboard was none other than Senator Amidala of Naboo, who had been sent on a diplomatic mission to the region. Unfortunatly, the Senator became caught in the tractor beam of the Separatist superweapon and was taken captive aboard it. Whilst, Anakin and Obi-Wan mounted a mission to rescue Amidala, Ahsoka remained with the Republic forces, to aid Master Plo Koon. Soon, the small task force escaped the Malevolence, which itself collided with a nearby moon, destroying it instantly.

Later missions
Later, Ahsoka would come face to face with General Grievous while alone on Skytop Station. There, the young Togruta found herself in trouble as the cyborg general grabbed hold of her neck, though she barely managed to escape. She would also lead a squadron as Blue Leader later in the war.

Behind the scenes
The film Star Wars: The Clone Wars serves as the introduction to the 2008 animated series on Cartoon Network. Ahsoka Tano is one of the main protagonists throughout both the film and the series, along with Obi-wan and Anakin.

Star Wars: The Clone Wars supervising director Dave Filoni and writer Henry Gilroy initially had the idea for a female character for the series, and the idea was ultimately approved by creator/executive producer George Lucas. Lucas first publicly mentioned the character during his appearance at the Museum of Television and Radio's PALEY Festival in April 2007. StarWars.com later formally introduced the character as part of one of its daily updates. According to Lucas, the character was eleven years old when The Clone Wars series begins. However, the StarWars.com Databank, The Clone Wars: The Visual Guide, and the novel say she was fourteen by the time she was chosen as Anakin Skywalker's Padawan.

Ahsoka Tano is voiced by Ashley Eckstein.

Ahsoka uses a reversed saber grip while in combat. Anakin will attempt to break her of this habit in the series and teach her to use Form V with a standard grip. She will however still use a reversed blade in a pinch.

Ahsoka wears an akul-tooth headdress, which could only be worn by Togrutas who had single-handedly killed one of the fierce akul creatures: an impressive feat for one so young.

Appearances

 * Star Wars: The Clone Wars film
 * Star Wars: The Clone Wars novel
 * Star Wars: The Clone Wars: Slaves of the Republic - Chapter 1: The Mystery of Kiros
 * Star Wars: The Clone Wars: Slaves of the Republic - Chapter 2: Slave Traders of Zygerria
 * Star Wars: The Clone Wars: Slaves of the Republic - Chapter 3
 * Star Wars: The Clone Wars Volume 1: Shipyards of Doom
 * Star Wars: The Clone Wars Volume 2: Crash Course
 * The Clone Wars: Shakedown
 * The Clone Wars: Procedure
 * The Clone Wars: Procedure