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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 was a female Togruta Jedi during the Clone Wars and a revolutionary leader during the early rebellion against the Galactic Empire. She was taken into the Jedi Order at a young age and, when she was fourteen, became the Padawan of Jedi General Anakin Skywalker. Tano and Skywalker, who nicknamed his apprentice "Snips," formed a close bond and fought in numerous campaigns together against the Sith and the Confederacy of Independent Systems. These battles led her into direct conflict with the Sith Lord Count Dooku, his acolyte Asajj Ventress, the bounty hunter Cad Bane, and even Darth Sidious himself, amongst many others.

The many conflicts that Tano, a commissioned field commander, fought in forged a close relationship with her master, as well as Jedi Master Obi-Wan Kenobi and Clone Captain Rex. The battles they fought in included the Battle of Christophsis, her first battle of the war; the rescue of Jabba the Hutt's son, which secured the Grand Army of the Republic passage through Hutt Space; the Second Battle of Geonosis, in which she formed a friendship with fellow Padawan Barriss Offee; the Battle of Mon Cala; and the Battle of Onderon, in which she helped train the Onderon rebels, including her friend and former Separatist Lux Bonteri, to fight the Separatist Droid Army; amongst many other battles. She also helped expose corruption within the government of the planet Mandalore. Later in the war, Tano was falsely accused of bombing the Jedi Temple, an act that led to her expulsion from the Jedi Order. The Jedi High Council offered to reinstate her after it was revealed that Offee was the true bomber, but Tano chose not to return after the Council. Though Skywalker trusted her throughout the ordeal, Tano could not return after the Council refused to trust her innocence.

The end of the Clone Wars saw the Republic transform into the Galactic Empire. Tano became involved in a growing rebellion against the Empire, as a loose collection of cells began operating under the secret leadership of Senator Bail Organa of Alderaan. Tano, under the codename "Fulcrum," communicated with the various cells, including the rebels of the Lothal system, to give them missions and supplies. Her identity was ultimately revealed to the Lothal rebels and the Phoenix rebel cell, with whom she worked closely in a number of operations against the Empire. When the rebels were in need of a base, Tano sent the Lothal rebels to find Captain Rex, who soon joined the rebellion, so he could offer them potential base locations. She was also hunted by the Inquisitors known as the Seventh Sister and the Fifth Brother, while Tano herself sought to find out more about the mysterious Sith Lord Darth Vader&mdash;her former master, Anakin Skywalker. She discovered the truth about his identity and confronted him in a lightsaber duel on the forbidden world of Malachor, staying behind to face Vader as her comrades escaped.

Early life
"It was Master Plo Koon who found me and brought me to the Temple where I belonged&hellip;"

- Ahsoka Tano, to Anakin Skywalker

Ahsoka Tano hailed from Shili and was born thirty-three years prior to the Battle of Yavin. She was discovered at the age of three by Jedi Master Plo Koon, who recognized her sensitivity to the Force and brought her into the Jedi Order. She was raised in the Jedi Temple on Coruscant and received training as a younging of the Jedi Order. Eventually, she became a Padawan.

When Tano was fourteen years old, the Clone Wars broke out between the Galactic Republic and the Confederacy of Independent Systems. The Jedi Order became the leaders of the Grand Army of the Republic, a force of clone troopers commissioned for the Republic. Tano was eager to prove herself and show that, despite her young age, she was more than a mere youngling and could be an effective member of the Jedi Order during its time of war.

Skywalker's apprentice
Tano was given the chance to prove herself when she was assigned by Yoda, the Grand Master of the Jedi Order, to be the Padawan learner of Jedi Knight Anakin Skywalker, a powerful albeit reckless Jedi General. The assignment was as much about Tano's training as it was about Skywalker's growth as a Jedi. Though Skywalker, the Chosen One of Jedi prophecy, was not interested in taking on an apprentice, Yoda felt he was ready to do so. To teach Tano would mean Skywalker would form a powerful connection with her, and that one day he would have to learn to let go and allow her to move on &mdash;as attachment was something Skywalker had grappled with in the past.

War's end and aftermath
"Do you know what happened to him?''" "The last time I saw him, he was rushing off to save the Chancellor. Then everything changed. The war ended and the Jedi were accused of treason. One by one, they were hunted down." "By the Inquisitors." "''Or worse."

- Ezra Bridger and Ahsoka Tano, on the last time Tano saw Anakin Skywalker

Tano's decision to leave the Jedi Order had a deep impact on those who were close to her. During a quest to discover the secrets of immortality, Yoda was faced with visions of the fall of the Jedi Order, in which he saw numerous Jedi dead throughout the Jedi Temple. One of those he saw was Tano herself, whom he saw dying in the halls of the temple. The vision of Tano asked him if she could become one with the Force after having been expelled from the Jedi Order, a vision Yoda saw because of his guilt over having placed her on the path that led to her decision to walk away from the Order.

Skywalker himself was also profoundly affected by Tano's choice. While on a mission to the planet Utapau, Skywalker instinctively told Kenobi he wanted to ask Tano for help, before remembering that she was gone. In an emotional conversation with his old master, Skywalker expressed his grief over her absence, saying that she belonged with the Jedi. Kenobi reminded him that it was her choice to leave, but Skywalker felt that the Council had not given her a choice after turning their backs on her. Kenobi, however, stood by the Council's authority, though he did admit that he too would not sleep well if Skywalker ever chose to leave. Some time later, Tano became involved in at least one last conflict in the Clone Wars: the siege of Mandalore, in which she fought alongside Rex once more as the Republic staged its operation on the planet. This marked her final collaboration with Rex during the war. She saw Skywalker one last time, as he was leaving to fight in the Battle of Coruscant, a Separatist invasion of the capital in which the chancellor was kidnapped by the Separatists and ultimately rescued by Skywalker and Kenobi.

Shortly thereafter, the chancellor&mdash;who was secretly Darth Sidious, and had manipulated the entire conflict to seize power&mdash;revealed his true identity to Skywalker. Master Windu and other members of the Jedi Council attempted to arrest him, but Sidious struck them down. He had help from Skywalker, after he was seduced to the dark side by the Dark Lord in order to learn the dark knowledge he needed to save Amidala's life; for some time beforehand, Skywalker had visions in which he saw Amidala, who was pregnant with twins, dying in childbirth. Unknown to Tano, Skywalker &mdash;who, like Tano when she chose to leave, fell partly because the Jedi Council no longer trusted him&mdash;embraced the dark side became the Sith Lord Darth Vader and helped Sidious destroy the Jedi Order, who were branded as traitors for the so-called rebellion against the chancellor. Claiming his actions were in the interest of galactic security and stability, the chancellor transformed the Republic into the Galactic Empire and declared himself emperor. The Clone Wars came to an end, the Republic Tano had dedicated her life to defending was no more.

During the expansion of the Empire, Vader was tasked to work with Moff Tarkin on hunting a band of rebels who had been attacking Imperial installations. Tarkin, who suspected that Vader was once Anakin Skywalker, had a tense relationship with the Sith Lord. Tarkin believed this was because he was the prosecutor who argued that Tano had committed the bombing of the Jedi Temple during the Clone Wars.

Rebel contact
"Why did you come here?''" "''Because of you and your apprentice. Many in this system and beyond have heard your message. You gave them hope in their darkest times. We didn't want that hope to die."

- Kanan Jarrus and Ahsoka Tano

Throughout the Age of the Empire, the Imperial regime moved deeper into the Outer Rim Territories, taking more territory and resources to fuel its war machine. To oppose the Empire's efforts, Senators Bail Organa and Mon Mothma began quietly organizing a loose collection of rebel cells that could operate against the Empire. Tano joined their revolutionary efforts and operated under the codename of "Fulcrum," which she used to provide resources and operational orders to rebel cells. One such cell was rebel crew of the starship Ghost, who operated on the Outer Rim world of Lothal. The group came to Organa's attention in the fifth year before the Battle of Yavin, when these rebels encountered C-3PO and R2-D2, who were in the service of the Alderaanian senator. Tano, as Fulcrum, became the group's contact provided missions and resources to the ship's leader, Captain Hera Syndulla.

Discovering the Sith Lord
"The fear, the anger, the hate.''" "You felt it." "I haven't sensed a presence like that since&mdash;" "''The Clone Wars."

- Kanan Jarrus and Ahsoka Tano

An old friend
"Commander. You got old.''" "''Had to happen sometime, Rex."

- Captain Rex and Ahsoka Tano

Anakin's fate
"Ahsoka, why did you leave? Where were you when I needed you?''" "I made a choice. I couldn't stay." "You were selfish." "No!" "''You abandoned me! You failed me! Do you know what I've become?"

- Ahsoka Tano and a vision of Anakin Skywalker, in which she learns he has become Darth Vader

Secrets of the temple
"Ahsoka, you said we're here to find knowledge. What kind of knowledge?''" "''The forbidden kind. To defeat your enemy, you have to understand them."

- Ezra Bridger and Ahsoka Tano

The fateful duel
"I won't leave you. Not this time.''" "''Then you will die."

- Ahsoka Tano and Darth Vader