BEWARE SPOILERS: Just like with the previous Disney Plus series, we at Fantha Tracks will be offering our own episode guide for your entertainment! Here we will post every reference, Easter egg, everything named and unnamed per episode and some fun trivia in-between that we have spotted. Official summary: A valuable prisoner escapes New Republic custody; search for answers reunites two old friends. Trivia Added to the opening helmets for this series are a clone trooper, an HK-87 droid, Marrok and Huyang. Sabine and Chopper were seen previously in this title screen. For the first time we are getting an opening crawl with a series. Outside the Episode films, we only had opening texts with Solo. Unlike typical scrolls, the layout is different, and the color is red. Red coloring brings to mind the Maul episodes of The Clone Wars, when logo was also colored red. The crawl mentions “Evil Galactic Empire”, this is a callback to the opening crawl of A New Hope, where it was also mentioned as such. However this time it appears in bold letters. Another nod to A New Hope is how the New Republic ship enters in view like the Devastator did. The New Republic transport ship is of a new and as of yet unidentified class. The New Republic ship’s crew is seen wearing Return Of The Jedi brown uniforms with Captain Hayle sitting in the same kind of chair Ackbar sat in. Captain Hayle was played by Mark Rolston, who can also be heard as Senator Dagonet in Tales Of The Jedi. His First Officer was not named in the episode or subtitles, but the End Credits gave her name as Jensen Corbyt and was played by Shakira Barrera, who is new to Star Wars but known for Glow and Far Cry. The navigator droid is a cameo from a crewmember: The droid was voiced by Bonnie Wild, who worked on the sound production for The Last Jedi and The Mandalorian. The security detail contains a Mon Calamari named Jakris and they all wear the same blue as Matt Lanter’s character Lant Davan in The Mandalorian. The Sith are Baylan Skoll (Ray Stevenson) and Shin Hati (Ivanna Sakhno). Dave Filoni’s love for wolves is seen in their names, as both Hati (Hati Hróðvitnisson) and Sköll are wolves in Norse mythology that are chasing the Moon and the Sun respectively. Ray Stevenson previous voiced Gar Saxon in The Clone Wars and Rebels. The shuttle that they use is a Eta-class shuttle, which was often seen in The Clone Wars, and making its live-action debut here. Shin Hati wears a Padawan braid, which was not part of a disguise for the opening infiltration, as she wears it during this and next episode. Aurebesh numbers show that Elsbeth is prisoner 620. Ahsoka has to fight off HK-87 droids, which she did before in The Mandalorian — Chapter 13: The Jedi, which was also the debut of Morgan Elsbeth. The Leader Droid was voiced by Helen Sadler who voiced quite a few characters before in games and other Star Wars media. She voiced Jyn Erso in Forces of Destiny and Battlefront, Rey in various LEGO productions, Havina Vonreg in the game Squadrons, Doctor Scalder in The Bad Batch and the Ishl Tib Guild Master in The Book Of Boba Fett. Also returning from The Clone Wars are Huyang and the shuttle that Ahsoka uses, which is for the first time identified as T-6 One-Nine-Seven-Four, 1974 is the birth year of Dave Filoni. Fulcrum is another returning term used by many Rebel spies, among them Ahsoka, Kallus and Cassian Andor. Aboard the Home One Ahsoka meets up with Hera, now played by Mary Elizabeth Winstead, who is married to Ewan McGregor. And while it was not clear in previous promotional material, she does have the white markings on her lekku like she had in animation, just more faint. But you can spot them in scenes when she is seen from the side or back, like in this scene. The briefing room from Return Of The Jedi returns There she shows Hera the star map she has found. We have seen star maps before in Knights Of The Old Republic, and such compass-like devices in the Sequels. The Mon Calamari comms officer was voiced by David W. Collins, who has worn many hats for Lucasfilm and a regular name that pops up in these episodes guides. While identified as Speaker in the subtitles, that is Ryder Azadi, the governor who lost his title due to the Empire taking over Lothal as seen in Rebels. After defeating the Empire he has regained his former position. Once again he is played by Clancy Brown who has become a veteran actor within Star Wars having also voiced Montross (Bounty Hunter), Savage Opress (The Clone Wars) and the Inquisitor from Tales of the Jedi. His other live-action role was Burg in The Mandalorian. He speaks of Commander Ezra, the title Ezra used during the last episodes of Rebels, season 4. Senator Jai Kell (played by Vinny Thomas) is maybe one of the more subtler references to Rebels. He was one of Ezra’s fellow Imperial cadets from the episode where he infiltrated the Imperial Academy and they were tested in the Well. Since then he made more cameo appearances in the series as a rebel, and by now he has grown up to become the senator of Lothal. When Sabine is speeding away from Lothal she uses a 614-AvA speeder bike, which may be the same speederbike that Ezra owned, but now with a new color scheme. She is tracked down by two E-wings. E-wings make their canon live-action debut, having been designed originally in the Expanded Universe in the third comic of the Dark Empire series. Captain Porter uses the call sign Spectre 2-1, originally in Rebels Spectre 1 was Kanan and Spectre 2 was Hera. Porter was played by Matt Law. The other pilot was named in the End Credits as Lieutenant Callahan, played by Michelle Weaver. On Sabine’s speeder helmet we see Aurebesh (reading BÆB, probably an unknown in-joke) and a Loth-cat. More Aurebesh is seen in the road sign, which is weirdly enough inverted, but reads Sector 7. Graffiti inside Sabine’s living space feature the Loth-wolf, a stormtrooper helmet with a no sign over them stylized as they appeared in Rebels, and a lot of Loth-cats. Also Sabine did keep Ezra’s helmet collection as various Imperial helmets are all over the place. Morgan Elsbeth is revealed as a witch from Dathomir, and the temple we saw Ahsoka getting the star map is a temple made by the Witches of Dathomir. While they need no introduction by this point, this is the first time we saw them establishing a stronghold outside of Dathomir. Arcana is the name of the world. The End Credits are stylized as a star map with worlds being connected by a traveling line. The words of the worlds are in a new script, but they are translatable. The worlds appear in order are: Arcana (new to the series), Ierne (new and unseen yet), _raa (partial only), Perlem(ia), Garel, Lothal (hence the Loth-wolf constellation near it), Mandalore, Agamar (classic world from Legends, but also seen in Rebels), Dathomir, Yavin, Corellia, Cato Neimodia, Duro, Pasaana, the Corellian Run, Coruscant, Seatos (with the purrgil constellation), Odyn (the half moon one - seems to be a new one), ?unna and the last one (where all lines lead to) is Peridea, which got a name drop in the next episode. Speculation, based on looking at the missing letters makes us think that ?unna is actually Junna. With a planet or moon named Odyn, probably after the Norse god Odin, it would make sense that ?unna would also be named after a mythological god, with Juno (and thus Junna) making the most sense. [amazon box="B0BHKW8HXM"]
