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9-10ABY (ish): The Mandalorian and The Book of Boba Fett

Screenshot: Lucasfilm
Screenshot: Lucasfilm

We don’t really know much canonically about that happens between the signing of Galactic Concordance and the events of The Mandalorian beginning, but by that time the New Republic is still struggling to expand its reach and jurisdiction into the Outer Rim, with criminal syndicates and lawlessness rife in the farthest flung charted regions of the galaxy.

We also know at this point a second Imperial Shadow Council has been established on the ruins of Mandalore by the former Imperial Security Bureau officer Moff Gideon. Attempting to create an army of cloned, Force-sensitive Mandalorian warriors of his own—in the wake of a seemingly genocidal campaign during the Galactic Civil War that effectively scattered the remaining Mandalorians into individual clans and coverts and purportedly rendered Mandalore’s surface largely uninhabitable—Gideon began working with an arrayof former Imperial Warlords, as well as agents seeded into the New Republic’s nascent rehabilitation programs, to enact various plans to return the Empire to rule.

We know his plan to establish his own rule of Mandalore is defeated—and Gideon is seemingly killed—when the forces of Bo-Katan Kryze, sister of the former Neo-Mandalorian ruler Duchess Satine Kryze, and several tribal coverts of Mandalorian warriors assault Gideon’s facilities beneath the surface of Mandalore during The Mandalorian’s third season, but at least one other plan is still in the works we’ll see more of in Ahsoka: Shadow Council member Admiral Gilad Pellaeon’s plans to see Grand Admiral Thrawn returned as the leader of the Empire’s military forces.

As far as Ahsoka’s own personal timeline at this point, what little we see of her in The Mandalorian and then The Book of Boba Fett is all we have to go on. Having largely stayed out of the Galactic Civil War—and her role within the Rebellion as the intelligence operative Fulcrum—Ahsoka spent years wandering the galaxy investigating ways to both find Thrawn and recover the Jedi Padawan Ezra Bridger, who had vanished alongside the Grand Admiral during the climactic events of Star Wars Rebels. Briefly crossing paths with her former Master’s son, Luke Skywalker, Ahsoka was present for the nascent days of construction on Luke’s new Jedi Academy on the planet Ossus… although it remains to be seen if she ever returned to this new iteration of the Order that had once spurned her.