Star Wars: The Bad Batch just referenced former Jedi Ahsoka Tano, potentially teasing a full appearance in future episodes of the animated series on Disney+. Thus far, The Bad Batch has featured Clone Force 99 and their desertion of the newly risen Empire after the end of The Clone Wars. It seems as though they've found a new profession as mercenaries, making a living and doing their best to lay low due to the bounty hunter in pursuit of Omega. However, their latest job featured a run-in with some familiar smugglers with connections to Ahsoka, teasing the possibility that Ahsoka herself could come face to face with the Bad Batch in the future.
Towards the end of The Clone Wars, Ahsoka left the Jedi Order to forge her own path. In doing so, she met two sisters in Coruscant's level 1313 named Rafa and Trace Martez. Together, the three of them formed an unlikely alliance despite the Martez' feelings and preconceptions about the Jedi Order, seeing as how their parents were inadvertently killed during a Jedi conflict with the bounty hunter Cad Bane. However, Ahsoka soon proved that she was different than most Jedi, and they formed a friendship after their misadventure with the Pyke Syndicate, a faction belonging to Maul's shadow collective that would eventually become Crimson Dawn.
This brings things to The Bad Batch, season 1, episode 6 "Decommissioned," seeing Clone Force 99 taking a job on the planet Corellia to retrieve a valuable tactical droid. However, the Bad Batch wasn't the only group looking to claim the droid, and they soon ran into Rafa and Trace. Due to circumstance and a hail of laserfire from the security forces guarding the refinery melting down old Separatist battle droids, the Bad Batch and Martez' sisters join forces. While they ended up escaping together, they lost the droid's head with its valuable information. In the aftermath, Rafa questions why they aren't working for the Empire, given they are clones, and Hunter answers by saying that he and his squad are different than most clones. Rafa that she's heard that before, a direct reference to Ahsoka's similar expression about herself and the Jedi during the Clone Wars.
What makes this reference so interesting is the Martez sisters' reveal that they're working for someone who needed the droid head to fight back against the Empire, whom they also let know about their meeting the Bad Batch. While the contact isn't revealed by the end of The Bad Batch's sixth episode, someone like Captain Rex would certainly be interested in rogue clones, while also potentially opening the door for Ahsoka herself to be featured in future episodes, considering the fact that she and Rex survived Order 66 together. Seeing Ahsoka's return would certainly be a dynamic addition to the series, especially with theories persisting that the Bad Batch's newest recruit Omega is potentially a Force-sensitive clone.
It's a pretty fun Easter egg all the same, confirming that Ahsoka positively challenged the Martez sisters' views of the galaxy during The Clone Wars, and it seems to have stuck going forward. Just like the Jedi, there are some clones who are exceptions to the ruling majority, and the Bad Batch is a perfect example of this fact. Regardless of whether or not Ahsoka gets featured in future episodes of The Bad Batch, there's bound to be more exciting reveals and surprises as the series continues on Disney+.
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