Ahsoka Season 2: 13 Biggest Star Wars Moments Disney Has Already Confirmed
Published Aug 18, 2026, 11:45 PM EDT
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Following the release of its first trailer, it's looking as though Ahsoka season 2 will be one of the biggest Star Wars television events yet. Featuring returning characters and stakes that have been massively raised, Disney and Lucasfilm have already confirmed quite a few things about the upcoming season to get Star Wars fans all kinds of hyped.
In Ahsoka's first season, Ahsoka Tano and her apprentice Sabine Wren found Ezra Bridger on the extragalactic world of Peridea. However, they also encountered Grand Admiral Thrawn, having also survived his and Bridger's shared exile, which lasted nearly a full decade. While both Thrawn and Ezra managed to return to the main Star Wars galaxy by the first season's end, Ahsoka and Sabine were left behind along with the Dark Jedi Baylan Skoll and Shin Hati. Now, galactic warfare threatens to break out in the main galaxy while those left on Peridea seek a game-changing new power in Ahsoka season 2.
Featuring reunited heroes, villains, new character introductions, key flashbacks, and the return of Hayden Christensen's Anakin Skywalker himself, here are all of the biggest things Disney has confirmed for Ahsoka season 2 ahead of the Star Wars show's release early next year.
A Battle On Dathomir
Multiple shots in the new Ahsoka trailer confirm that the heroes of the New Republic will be landing on the dark world of Dathomir, home of the Nightsisters in the main Star Wars galaxy and the homeworld of both Asajj Ventress and Darth Maul himself. As was teased at the end of Ahsoka season 1, the new trailer for Ahsoka season 2 confirms that Grand Admiral Thrawn and his Nightsister allies are using the world as a base of operations, intending to rally the might of the Imperial Remnant combined with the dark magicks of the Nightsisters.
New Clone Wars Flashbacks With Ahsoka & Anakin
The beginning of the new Ahsoka trailer also sees young Ahsoka Tano (Ariana Greenblatt) with Anakin Skywalker during the Clone Wars, a never-before-seen flashback where the two Jedi are shown in a dark snowy forest before facing an all-new threat. That said, they're notably wearing the same winter Jedi gear seen in colder episodes of the original animated Clone Wars series. As such, one has to wonder if we might see Ewan McGregor's Obi-Wan Kenobi in his own Jedi winter gear as well.
A Mysterious New Force Wielder
The first trailer for Ahsoka season 2 also confirms the appearance of an unknown Force wielder who fought Anakin Skywalker and young Ahsoka during the Clone Wars. As seen in the exciting new flashback, this Force wielder is shown using a rather unique double-bladed lightsaber in which the kyber energy seems to run through the entire hilt as a single long blade, even between their hands.
Seeing as how the blade itself isn't the classic blood-red color of the Sith or other dark side wielder, it will be fascinating to learn about this new Star Wars character as we get closer to the new season.
Anakin's Force Ghost Returns
Beyond the flashback to when Anakin was still alive, the trailer confirms that Ahsoka Tano in the present will still be guided by Anakin's Force ghost, confirming that he's always by her side. As such, this new Star Wars trailer implies that Hayden Christensen's Anakin is set to play a key role as Ahsoka and Sabine seek to uncover the cosmic secrets of Peridea.
Thrawn Declares War On "The Rebel Alliance"
Publicly addressing the galaxy, Lars Mikkelsen's Grand Admiral Thrawn is heard declaring his return to the "glorious Empire" before declaring war on "The Rebel Alliance." Even though it's been years since the Empire was shattered and both Emperor Palpatine and Darth Vader were killed, it seems Thrawn will refuse to acknowledge the New Republic as a legitimate government, confirming his intention to launch a full-scale attack to restore the might of the Empire galaxy-wide.
Thrawn vs Admiral Ackbar
A series of incredible shots are seen in Ahsoka season 2's new trailer depicting a major space battle between Grand Admiral Thrawn's fleet and the forces of the New Republic. Featuring B-Wings, TIE Bombers, A-Wings, and more, Dave Filoni confirmed back at Star Wars Celebration 2025 that Admiral Ackbar himself would be in command of the New Republic Defense Fleet during a major space battle with Thrawn. As such, this will mirror Timothy Zahn's original Heir to the Empire books, where the Grand Admiral was first introduced in Legends trying to restore Imperial might after its fall.
Nightsister Warriors
An incredible scene sees TIE Bombers launching drop pods filled with Nightsister warriors on New Republic ships below. The warriors are shown with fully black eyes, suggesting their status as previously deceased warriors resurrected by the Great Mothers, as was teased and theorized after Ahsoka's first season when Thrawn's ship was loaded with what looked to be coffins from the Nightsister temple on Peridea.
One of the warriors in the new trailer is also shown firing an energy bow, a traditional weapon of the Nightsisters first seen in the animated Clone Wars series.
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The original Star Wars film — later retitled Episode IV: A New Hope — opened in just 32 American theatres and proceeded to become the highest-grossing film of its era, redefining what summer blockbusters could be. In which year did it premiere?
A1975 B1977 C1979 D1980
✓ Correct! 1977 — specifically May 25. 20th Century Fox had so little faith in the project they only opened it in 32 theatres at first; queues quickly stretched around the block, and the film expanded to over 1,000 screens within months. It earned $307 million in its initial domestic run, won six Academy Awards (with another four nominations) and inverted Hollywood’s economics for the next 50 years.
✗ Wrong. The answer is 1977. 1975 is when the script was being shopped around. 1979 is when Star Trek: The Motion Picture released as a Star Wars-shaped countermove. 1980 is The Empire Strikes Back. The original Star Wars is May 25, 1977.
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A New Hope’s writer-director was a then-32-year-old American Graffiti veteran who’d struggled to get the project greenlit and famously took back-end profit and merchandising rights in lieu of a higher salary — the deal that would build a billion-dollar company. He returned to direct the prequels but stepped away from the original-trilogy sequels. Name him.
ASteven Spielberg BGeorge Lucas CFrancis Ford Coppola DIrvin Kershner
✓ Correct! George Lucas. The merchandising rights he kept (because Fox didn’t value them) became the financial bedrock of Lucasfilm and the basis of the modern toys-and-licensing megabusiness. After A New Hope, Lucas produced but didn’t direct Empire Strikes Back (Irvin Kershner) or Return of the Jedi (Richard Marquand), then directed all three prequels (1999–2005). He sold Lucasfilm to Disney in 2012 and stepped away from creative control of the sequels.
✗ Wrong. The answer is George Lucas. Steven Spielberg was Lucas’s close friend (and the godfather of his post-A-New-Hope career) but never directed a Star Wars film. Coppola was Lucas’s mentor at USC and at American Zoetrope. Irvin Kershner directed Empire Strikes Back. The original is Lucas’s.
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In 1980’s The Empire Strikes Back, Darth Vader delivers cinema’s most-misquoted line at the climax of his Cloud City duel with Luke Skywalker. Vader severs Luke’s hand and reveals their relationship. The exact line is — for the record — “No, I am your father.” What relationship does it confirm?
AVader is Luke’s uncle BVader is Luke’s father (Anakin Skywalker) CVader is Obi-Wan’s brother DVader is Han’s father
✓ Correct! Vader is Anakin Skywalker, Luke’s father. The reveal was so jealously guarded that Mark Hamill was only told the real line on set the day they shot it (the script said “Obi-Wan killed your father”), and even James Earl Jones recorded the dub without knowing the full plot context. The line — commonly misquoted as “Luke, I am your father” — rewrote what trilogies could pull off and is broadly considered cinema’s most famous twist.
✗ Wrong. The answer is that Vader is Luke’s father, Anakin Skywalker. The whole foundation of the Skywalker saga collapses to this single twist: Anakin (the Jedi prodigy of the prequels) becomes Vader after his fall. Luke and Leia are revealed in Return of the Jedi to be his twin children, separated at birth.
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Yoda — the green, ear-twitching Jedi Master — was puppeted and voiced from his Empire Strikes Back debut through the prequels and the sequels by a single Muppet-show-veteran performer who also voices Miss Piggy and Fozzie Bear. Name him.
AJim Henson BFrank Oz CSteve Whitmire DBrian Henson
✓ Correct! Frank Oz — longtime Jim Henson collaborator and voice/puppet work on Miss Piggy, Fozzie Bear, Animal, Sam Eagle and Grover. Oz puppeted Yoda directly through The Phantom Menace before CGI took over for Attack of the Clones onward, but he’s continued to voice the character through the sequels and animated series. Yoda’s syntax was developed jointly by Lucas and Oz to feel old, foreign and hard-won.
✗ Wrong. The answer is Frank Oz. Jim Henson was Oz’s mentor and collaborator (he created the Muppets) but didn’t voice Yoda. Steve Whitmire took over Kermit after Henson’s 1990 death. Brian Henson is Jim’s son and runs the Henson company today. Yoda is Frank Oz’s.
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In a deal that reshaped Hollywood, Disney acquired Lucasfilm Ltd. for $4.05 billion in cash and stock — bringing Star Wars, Indiana Jones, ILM and Skywalker Sound under the Disney umbrella. The deal also kicked off the sequel trilogy production. In what year did Disney close the acquisition?
A2009 B2010 C2012 D2014
✓ Correct! 2012 — specifically October 30. The deal was announced with simultaneous reveal that a Star Wars Episode VII was being developed for a 2015 release. Lucas had been quietly preparing his exit from Lucasfilm for years; Kathleen Kennedy had been brought in as co-chair months earlier specifically to take over. The Force Awakens came out three years later, in December 2015, kicking off the modern era.
✗ Wrong. The answer is 2012. 2009 is when Disney acquired Marvel ($4 billion). 2010 is the year before Lucas began signalling exit plans. 2014 is when production proper began on The Force Awakens. Lucasfilm joined Disney on October 30, 2012.
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The Mandalorian launched as Disney+’s flagship original on November 12, 2019 — the day the streaming service itself launched. Created by Jon Favreau and run by Dave Filoni, the show centres on a helmeted bounty hunter who reluctantly becomes a foster father to “The Child” (Grogu). What is the Mandalorian’s real name?
ABoba Fett BCobb Vanth CDin Djarin DBo-Katan Kryze
✓ Correct! Din Djarin — played by Pedro Pascal under the helmet (with body double Brendan Wayne handling much of the physical work). The Mandalorian is widely credited with reviving Star Wars on TV, popularising the StageCraft LED-volume virtual production technology now used across Hollywood, and turning baby Yoda — Grogu — into the meme-economy phenomenon of late 2019. Three seasons have aired with a feature film, The Mandalorian & Grogu, set for May 2026.
✗ Wrong. The answer is Din Djarin. Boba Fett is the famous bounty hunter from the original trilogy, with his own Disney+ spinoff (The Book of Boba Fett, 2021). Cobb Vanth is the Tatooine marshal played by Timothy Olyphant. Bo-Katan Kryze is the Mandalorian princess played by Katee Sackhoff. The Mandalorian himself is Din Djarin.
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Order 66 — the secret directive that turns the Republic’s clone troopers against their Jedi commanders and effectively ends the Jedi Order — is dramatised in the climactic third act of which prequel film?
AEpisode I: The Phantom Menace BEpisode II: Attack of the Clones CEpisode III: Revenge of the Sith DRogue One
✓ Correct! Episode III: Revenge of the Sith (2005). Palpatine’s “Execute Order 66” comm to the clone armies leads to the methodical, planet-by-planet liquidation of the Jedi Order — one of the saga’s most operatic sequences, scored to John Williams’ “Anakin’s Betrayal” cue. The same film features Anakin’s fall to the Dark Side, the Mustafar duel with Obi-Wan, and his rebirth as Darth Vader in the suit. Widely re-evaluated as the best of the prequels.
✗ Wrong. The answer is Revenge of the Sith. Phantom Menace ends with Qui-Gon’s death and the unveiling of Darth Maul. Attack of the Clones ends with the Clone Wars beginning. Rogue One is set just before A New Hope, after Order 66 has long since happened. The Order 66 sequence is the climax of Episode III.
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Andor (2022–25) is widely regarded as the most adult, politically literate Star Wars project ever made — a slow-burn prequel to Rogue One charting Cassian Andor’s radicalisation against the Empire. The series was created and showrun by a writer/director best known for the original Bourne trilogy and Michael Clayton. Name him.
ATony Gilroy BRian Johnson CJon Favreau DDave Filoni
✓ Correct! Tony Gilroy. He’d previously been brought in for extensive Rogue One reshoots in 2016, and Lucasfilm gave him near-total creative independence on Andor. Season 1 (12 episodes, 2022) is widely regarded as Star Wars’ finest dramatic writing ever; Season 2 (also 12 episodes, in four three-episode jumps across 2025) closes the gap to Rogue One’s opening scene. Gilroy’s prior credits: Bourne Identity / Supremacy / Ultimatum / Legacy, plus directing Michael Clayton (2007).
✗ Wrong. The answer is Tony Gilroy. Rian Johnson directed The Last Jedi (2017). Jon Favreau created The Mandalorian and is Lucasfilm’s Disney+-era animation/live-action lieutenant. Dave Filoni runs the Filoniverse (Clone Wars, Rebels, Ahsoka, the upcoming Heir to the Empire film). Andor is Tony Gilroy’s.
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Baylan & Shin Reunited
Taking over the role from the late Ray Stevenson, the new Ahsoka season 2 trailer briefly shows actor Rory McCann as Baylan Skoll, shown facing his former apprentice Shin Hati, whom he abandoned at the end of the first season in search of a mysterious power on Peridea connected to the Mortis Gods. Perhaps now, Shin will be able to prove herself ready and willing to join Baylan's quest.
A Power To End Wars
The new Ahsoka trailer further confirms that the power Baylan is seeking (and is apparently calling out to him) can end wars. Wishing to break the cycles of violence and dark and light the galaxy has been plagued by, Skoll believes this power can bring about a true peace. However, it's been widely theorized that this power connected to the Mortis gods could very well be Abeloth aka The Mother from Legends stories, a being of complete entropy seeking to bring about total annihilation and nothingness.
Spectres Reunited
There's also a great shot of Ezra and Zeb Orellios reuniting in the new Ahsoka trailer. General Hera Syndulla and Chopper are also seen in the trailer as the Spectres from Star Wars Rebels prepare to fight Thrawn once more (this time in live-action). All that's missing is Sabine who's still stuck on Peridea with Ahsoka.
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