Star Wars: The Clone Wars Ending EXPLAINED

After Maul tears through the ship and sends it on a collision course with a nearby moon, he manages to steal Ahsoka and Rex's escape shuttle and leave them to their fates. Ahsoka actually hangs onto his ship for a moment, but, sensing that it's not worth the battle, she chooses to channel her energy elsewhere - saving Rex, and finding another solution, whilst also leaving Maul to found Crimson Dawn, which eventually ties into the events of Solo: A Star Wars story and then Star Wars Rebels.

As the Republic Cruiser comes crashing down, Rex manages to get into a Y-Wing and get them both to safety. The pair do not speak for the remainder of the episode.

What follows is some of the most poignant viewing in Star Wars history. We see Ahsoka, space-poncho donned, standing solemnly over a gravesite she and Rex built for the dead clones they could find, their helmets used to signpost each grave. It's a powerful symbol of the clones' own humanity, and for Ahsoka - whose face was mirrored in their orange paint - a tragic reminder of the love and admiration they once shared, now extinguished by an order they had no choice but to obey.

It's here that Ahsoka and Rex fake their deaths, with Tano letting her lightsaber slip from her grasp. They go their separate ways until meeting again years later in Star Wars Rebels, by which point Ahsoka had adopted the identity of Fulcrum, and was working with a burgeoning Rebel Alliance.

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