Not only did it reintroduce the galaxy-crossing “star whales” known as the purrgil, but it also brought back the World Between Worlds (also first seen in the animated series Rebels), which reunited us with Anakin Skywalker/Darth Vader (Hayden Christensen).
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Throw in a zombified Sith Inquisitor (Marrok) and an entire company of zombie night troopers, along with a quartet of magic-wielding witches, and it’s fair to say that Star Wars will never be the same again. The faraway galaxy has changed forever.
Not only did some of these plot devices “correct” the sequel trilogy in many ways (whether intentional or not), but they also mean some significant changes for the franchise in general. Ahsoka Season 1 certainly laid the foundations for a bold new future.
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At the same time, many fans were left frustrated. The finale, “The Jedi, the Witch, and the Warlord”, ends on a few cliffhangers. Grand Admiral Thrawn (Lars Mikkelsen) returns to the original galaxy, which doesn’t bode well for anyone on the wrong side of the Empire.
And unbeknownst to him, there was a stowaway aboard the Chimera — Ezra Bridger (Eman Esfandi), who manages to escape and reunite with Hera Syndulla (Mary Elizabeth Winstead) and Chopper (Dave Filoni).
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Meanwhile, Ahsoka Tano (Rosario Dawson) and Sabine Wren (Natasha Liu Bordizzo) have switched places with Ezra, as they now find themselves stuck on the barren planet known as Peridea, where Thrawn and Ezra were previously trapped for over 10 years (although we do get another welcome cameo from Anakin Skywalker).
Elsewhere on the planet, the Dark Jedi Baylan Skoll (the late Ray Stevenson, who will be replaced by Games of Thrones‘ Rory McCann in Ahsoka Season 2) has embarked on a quest towards what fans believe is the home of the Gods of Mortis, as suggested by the giant statues of the Father, the Son, and the Daughter in the background, characters from the Mortis story arc in Star Wars: The Clone Wars (2008 — 2020).
Baylan’s apprentice, Shin Hati (Ivanna Sakhno), whom he abandoned in the episode prior, finds sanctuary with the planet’s nomadic bandits.
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Hopefully, these storylines will be followed up in Ahsoka Season 2.
Either way, Star Wars will never be the same again. And if there’s one thing Ahsoka brought into the spotlight that completely changed everything we thought we knew about Star Wars, it’s the second galaxy, home to Peridea.
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In Ahsoka, we learn from Morgan Elsbeth (Diana Lee Inosanto) that her people, the Dathomiri, originally hailed from Peridea and were the first to make use of the star whales, which is how they fled their home world and discovered the “prime” galaxy.
This is a significant retcon, as we’d always been led to believe that the Dathomiri are from the planet Dathomir. But this is no longer the case, and it begs the question as to what other races from the Star Wars universe also originate in this second galaxy.
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One that instantly comes to mind is Yoda’s species.
There are only three members of this species currently in Star Wars: Jedi Master Yoda, the youngling Grogu from The Mandalorian (2019), and Jedi Master Yaddle from Star Wars: Episode I — The Phantom Menace (1999) and Star Wars: Tales of the Jedi (2022).
In the 45 years since Jedi Master Yoda’s first appearance in Star Wars: Episode V — The Empire Strikes Back (1980), in which we see him train Luke Skywalker (Mark Hamill) in the ways of the Force, we haven’t learned much about his species.
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Where is Yoda from?
Yoda (Frank Oz) appears in six live-action films: The Empire Strikes Back, Star Wars: Episode VI — Return of the Jedi (1983), The Phantom Menace, Star Wars: Episode II — Attack of the Clones (2002), and Star Wars: Episode III — Revenge of the Sith (2005), and Star Wars: Episode VIII — The Last Jedi (2017).
He also appears in many other forms of Star Wars media, including The Clone Wars movie and the television series of the same name and Star Wars: Rebels (2014 — 2018).
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But we still haven’t learned the name of his species or its place of origin. And, up until Jedi Master Yaddle’s first appearance in The Phantom Menace, which is just a small cameo that sees her sitting on the Jedi Council on Coruscant, there was no other creature like Yoda.
Grogu’s debut in The Mandalorian shined an even bigger spotlight on these questions, but three seasons into the show and we still know little about him. The same goes for Yaddle, who has since made her animated debut in 2022’s Tales of the Jedi.
We learned more about her character, but not her species. While there are evidently more members of Yoda’s species in the faraway galaxy than we first thought, there aren’t many. But then part of the reason why Yoda is so revered is because of how mysterious he is.
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When it comes to other alien races in Star Wars, there’s no shortage. Wookiees, Trandoshans, Quarrens, and Sullustans are only a few examples of common alien species found at almost every corner of the faraway galaxy.
But Yoda’s species has remained a mystery now for so long. While it hasn’t even been remotely suggested that his race hails from the second galaxy, it would make perfect sense if it does, and Ahsoka might have just created the perfect segue into Yoda’s origin.
Do these three characters hail from the second galaxy? And if they do, does this mean the Jedi Order knew about the second galaxy all along? It certainly checks out, especially when you consider that droid Huyang (David Tennant) seems to know all about it.
Who knows — maybe Din Djarin/The Mandalorian (Pedro Pascal) and Grogu will find themselves in the second galaxy in the upcoming film, The Mandalorian and Grogu (2026).
Ahsoka is now streaming on Disney+. Season 2 is currently in development. The Mandalorian and Grogu will be released on May 22, 2026.
What do you think of this theory? Do you think Yoda, Grogu, and Yaddle are from the second galaxy? Let us know in the comments down below!
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