Insane Star Wars Theory on Ahsoka That May Totally Be True
Many fans believe they have discovered the origin of a mysterious character just introduced in the trailer.
When the trailer for the Ahsoka TV series finally dropped, fans saw enough familiar characters to feel that the upcoming show will be a live-action reunion of Star Wars Rebels, including the titular Jedi Knight, Hera Syndulla, Sabine Wren, Chopper and Grand Admiral Thrawn.
But some of the mysterious new faces immediately had fans speculating about the plot, and coming to some interesting conclusions.
Aside from Ivanna Sakhno's character named Shin Hati, who bears a striking resemblance to Lana Beniko from the MMORPG Star Wars: The Old Republic (which is most likely just a coincidence), we saw a gray-haired man with an orange lightsaber.
Although this character, portrayed by Ray Stevenson, is named Baylan Skoll according to the IMDb page, fans suspect that he might be a reimagining of a certain character from the Legends canon.
Joruus C'baoth was a mad clone of the Jedi Master Jorus C'baoth, raised in a facility on Mount Tantiss on the planet Weyland, which, oddly enough, was just reintroduced into the main canon in the second season of the animated series The Bad Batch.
He was a major part of the "Thrawn Trilogy" books by Timothy Zahn in the Legends canon, the first part of which is called Heir to the Empire.
This is literally what Ahsoka calls Thrawn in the trailer for the series.
The mad clone served the Grand Admiral until his master began to see him as a threat to the Empire and betrayed him, leading Joruus to confront both Thrawn and the New Republic.
He was then killed by Mara Jade, a Force-sensitive smuggler who later became Luke Skywalker's wife.
Although the name on the IMDb page suggests otherwise, this theory has a good chance of being true. After all, it would not be the first time that Disney used the old canon as a basis for new stories.
For example, Cassian Andor has some similarities to Kyle Katarn from the Legends, at least when he was first introduced in Rogue One.
The Andor TV series did a great job of making the character unique, though the creators still left some nice nods to their spiritual predecessor, such as Cassian using Kyle's iconic Bryar pistol.