I figure that Ahsoka was gone for the same amount of subjective time that she was in the world between worlds. Say she spent 17 minutes there by her reckoning and then she returned to the real world 17 minutes after she left.
The Ahsoka series is coming.
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I think we'll find out.
Basically. After all the same applied to Ezra (more or less) and Vader needed enough time to get back up to the surface and start walking (limping) away.
In this case, unlike the first two times he fought Obi-Wan; he probably walked away convinced he'd killed her. What would have been the killing blow came a fraction of a moment before the floor gave way beneath him, and the temple weapon explosively discharged. Given all the noise, electrical arcing, and his damaged mask, it's not surprising he didn't catch the very brief moment where Ezra grabbed her.You have to imagine Vader was kinda embarrassed after that. Five years earlier his old master had battered him, now his old apprentice had done the same
From his perspective, she would have just seemed to vanish as his blade made contact. After that; no body, no trace. Just a smoking ruin. By the time she re-emerges, she's far away, down in the city ruins, and he's already half-way back to his ship.
Personally; I just imagine that after what happened with Kenobi on the Death Star, he's just deeply confused why people keep vanishing into thin air when he goes to cut them in half. Part of me wonders if he ever brought this up with Palpatine, or kept it to himself for fear of seeming ignorant. Either way, I just imagine him prodding Kenobi's empty robes thinking to himself "What, again? Why the hell does this keep happening!?"
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I don't think he thought he killed Ahsoka.
Rosario Dawson talked to Total Film about where Ahsoka is now and made a very cool comparison:
We made a lot of Gandalf references. Ahsoka the Grey… And at the end of Rebels, you get to see her in white. There is this idea of her becoming wiser, more settled in herself, and kind of exploring herself and developing in a way that I think is really remarkable for someone of that level of prowess and skill and aptitude – that there are still places to reach towards. There’s still more wisdom.
Pretty sure he did.
He didn't, it's why he stopped hunting her. He presumed she died.He saw a guy drag her into a portal.
Tarkin was a layman- neither Jedi, Sith, nor Force sensitive. Most of what you see the emperor do relating to his Sith abilities happens with no witnesses other than his red guards and other Force users. To the galaxy at large, he is simply Palpatine. I suspect very, very few know him as Darth Sidious. There is no particular reason Tarkin should. Tarkin even infers that he believes Vader is the last of the Jedi- no mention of the Sith at all.
More importantly, why should he care?
Right. To most non-Jedi, the difference between Jedi and Sith must seem semantic at best. All that matters to Tarkin is power, and if there are Jedi survivors out there, they have no power that matters, and thus do not exist. Indeed, the reality is that most people likely wouldn't understand what it means that Palpatine is a Sith, let alone care. After all, at this point the Sith are literally ancient history.
Plus, as I said before; there's a difference between rhetoric/stated opinions, actually held opinions & belief, and objective fact. Just because a character says something, doesn't make it true, or even something they think is true. It's all about context.
Why would he think he killed her if he didn't kill her?
A lot of people died, that doesn't mean I killed them.
At best he would have thought the explosion killed her.
Vader also wouldn't feel her presence anymore, as she was out of time and space for several minutes, before coming back outside the destroyed temple, as Vader was limping away to his fighter. By that point, Vader was likely focused on keeping himself alive and thus not really reaching out with the Force. He'd need as much of it as he could to sustain his own functions until he can get back to someplace he can safely take off his mask and begin repairs to his suit.
I doubt Palpatine would ever tell Vader about seeing Ahsoka and Ezra in the World Between Worlds. Might not even tell him such a place exists.
I doubt Palpatine would ever tell Vader about seeing Ahsoka and Ezra in the World Between Worlds. Might not even tell him such a place exists.
right. And since that place seems to exist outside time we don’t even know from when the emperor they met is exactly.
