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After making her live-action debut in [_The Mandalorian_](https://time.com/6272977/the-mandalorian-season-3-finale/), Ahsoka Tano now has her very own spinoff series. _Star Wars: Ahsoka_ is set to drop its first two episodes on Disney+ at 9 pm E.T. on Tuesday, August 22, with Rosario Dawson—who first appeared as Tano in _The Mandalorian_ season 2—reprising her role as the former Jedi Knight. The first season will run through October 3, with a new episode premiering each week on Tuesday. Written and co-directed by _Star Wars_ veteran Dave Filoni, the series will build off the backstory for Ahsoka that was established in the 2008 animated _Star Wars_ movie _The Clone Wars_ and its subsequent TV series, _The Clone Wars_ and _Rebels_. Filoni has said that _Ahsoka_ will pick up where its titular heroine's storyline left off in _Rebels_, when Ahsoka no longer considers herself a Jedi. "She’s a wanderer at this point, and is in a lot of ways wary of any organization as such because of the power that comes with it as a group," Filoni told [_Empire_](https://www.empireonline.com/tv/news/ahsoka-wanderer-dave-filoni-exclusive-image/). "She walks a path that basically died out a long time ago. And there aren’t many like her left, if any. So that’s a lonely thing. What is that life like? If you are a loner, you have a very small circle of friends. What is it like, then, when you try to open back up?" Here's everything you need to know about _Ahsoka_ ahead of the series premiere. ## How _Ahsoka_ fits in the _Star Wars_ timeline Set within the same timeframe as _The Mandalorian_, the events of _Ahsoka_ take place after the fall of the Galactic Empire in _Star Wars: The Return of the Jedi_, the final film in the original trilogy. In terms of _Star Wars_ years, _Return of the Jedi_ is set in 4 ABY (after the [Battle of Yavin](https://starwars.fandom.com/wiki/Battle%5Fof%5FYavin)) and _The Mandalorian_ begins around 9 ABY, which means _Ahsoka_ is also set in that general period. This is a time when the New Republic, the democratic government formed by the Rebel Alliance following their victory over the Empire, has only a tenuous hold on the galaxy. The first season will follow Ahsoka as she investigates rumors that Grand Admiral Thrawn (Lars Mikkelsen, who also voiced the character in _Rebels_) has returned as “heir to the Empire.” In _The Mandalorian_ season 2, we saw Ahsoka face off with former Imperial Magistrate Morgan Elsbeth (Diana Lee Inosanto) in an attempt to obtain information on Thrawn's whereabouts.  (L-R): Rosario Dawson as Ahsoka Tano and Natasha Liu Bordizzo as Sabine Wren in Ahsoka Suzanne Tenner—Lucasfilm Ltd. As Ahsoka's quest continues to play out, she will also be reunited with fellow _Clone Wars_ and _Rebels_ favorites like Mandalorian warrior Sabine Wren (Natasha Liu Bordizzo) and New Republic General Hera Syndulla (Mary Elizabeth Winstead). ## Who is Ahsoka Tano? First introduced in _The Clone Wars_ movie as the teenage padawan of none other than [Anakin Skywalker](https://time.com/6177355/hayden-christensen-obi-wan-kenobi-star-wars-prequels/) (voiced by Matt Lanter), Ahsoka (voiced by Ashley Eckstein) has a storied past within the _Star Wars_ canon. After being trained in the ways of the Jedi by Anakin during the Clone Wars, Ahsoka was framed for murder by another Jedi and expelled from the Order. Although she was eventually absolved of the crime and invited back, the incident caused her to become disillusioned with the Jedi and she set out on her own. As the events of _The Revenge of the Sith_ play out and Anakin turns to the Dark Side and becomes Darth Vader, _The Clone Wars_ series shows that Ahsoka is off fighting to retake the planet Mandalore from Darth Maul (voiced by Sam Witwer), who is revealed in the show to have survived his seemingly fatal fight with Obi-Wan Kenobi on Naboo. The final season concludes with Ahsoka surviving Order 66, the command given by Emperor Palpatine to execute all Jedi. Hayden Christensen, who played Anakin in the _Star Wars_ prequel trilogy, is slated to reprise his role in _Ahsoka_, which presumably means that we'll get some flashbacks to the time the two spent together as master and apprentice in _Clone Wars_ since Anakin is dead by the time that the events of _Ahsoka_ are set to take place. In _Rebels_, it's revealed that Ahsoka went on to become an integral member of the Rebel Alliance as a leader of their intelligence network under the codename “Fulcrum.” She eventually ends up fighting Darth Vader in a lightsaber duel and is believed to have been killed. However, we come to find out that she was actually rescued by resistance fighter Ezra Bridger (voiced by Taylor Gray), who used the World Between Worlds—a mystical dimension within the Force that touches every point of time and space in the _Star Wars_ universe—to travel back in time to save her. 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