Ahsoka Fugitive Arc? Clone Wars Season 5 Speculation

 One of the scenes that struck me most from the Clone Wars Season Five trailer is the image of Ahsoka in a travelers cloak making her way through a subway car and the scene ends with her swinging on a hand railing and kicking two individuals who look to be security guards.  Of course this got my spidey-senses tingling.  What do we have here? Let me throw some random speculation on you.

Now so far in TCW I believe the only human police officer we have seen on Coruscant is Lt. Tan Divo.  The other times we have seen beat cops on Coruscant they have been droids.

But if you look at the two individual above that Ahsoka is about to kick, they are wearing a very similar style of gear as to this image of a Coruscant Security Force (CSF) member shown on Wookeepedia.

Looks pretty similar right? Well let me get my detective's magnifying glass again and resort to my old friend Aurebesh.  There are two letters printed on the armored characters backs, peth (p) and dorn (d), or put together PD, which is the common abbreviation for police department.

So this has me thinking that this "subway" car for lack of a better word is either part of the Coruscant Subway system we saw in Episode 24 of the Tartakovsy series, or one of the hovertrain.

Now why would Ahsoka be running from the police?  Well let's assume it is a fugitive scenario, which is a nice hat tip to actor Harrison Ford (Han Solo and Dr. Richard Kimble in The Fugitive). We would then assume that Ahsoka was like Kimble framed for some crime.

So what do I think is going on.  We know the Clone Wars are winding down and Palpatine has his eyes on Anakin as his next apprentice.  So it is time to start pressing the levers in Anakin's life.  I think in another story arc we will be seeing assassination attempts on Padme as it look like Embo has it out for her.  I also think that Palpatine surreptitiously puts out a bounty on Ahsoka Tano.

Ventress decides to take the bounty.

As the Clone Wars drag on, unrest and suspicion of the Clones and the Jedi begin to rise.  Asajj sees her opportunity to flush her quarry out into the open and frames Ahsoka for an attack on an anti-war protest.

"There are some citizens of the Republic who believe the Jedi Order is not what it used to be."~Purple Lady, maybe she is a big Prince fan. 

Ahsoka is about to be arrested and she flees knowing that everyone thinks she is responsible for the attack and only she will be able to track down who framed her.

Ahsoka's fleeing from the authorities and search for the real attacker takes her into the Coruscant undercity where she is pursued by police as well as Asajj Ventress. In her hunt for Ahsoka, Ventress also runs into Clone Coruscant security officers (the red clones) who interfere with her tracking her quarry.

So look at the set of images below and think about this as a rough outline of the story.

• Asajj dispatches clones that are in her way.
• Asajj attacks Ahsoka from above
• Asajj and Ahsoka duel #1
• Ahsoka almost killed by explosion
• Asajj Moves in for the kill
• Asajj and Ahsoka duel #2

How does the duel end?  Now that could be interesting. What do you think of my theory?

IMAGE SOURCE: STARWARS.COM 

Republic Commando Gregor Story Speculation

The introduction of a new clone character is always welcome with this fan, so I am very exciting to see Republic Commando Gregor.

From the new Season Five trailer that we have seen I think we can begin to piece together what the story may be.

We know R2-D2 and a group of  four other droids are being asked by Mace Windu to board a Separatist Dreadnought and steal an encryption module.  Perhaps the Droids need a human/alien assistance in either getting to the dreadnought or perhaps after recovering the encryption module they need help extracting.

Any chance we get to include an Republic Commando into TCW is awesome, because they are like the Navy Seals of the Star Wars galaxy, if you where going to take out the Bin Laden of the Star Wars galaxy, you would send in the RCs.

It also appears that R2-D2 is the droid that is scanning Gregor's arm and revealing despite a heavy beard his true identity.  Now whether Gregor is a deserter, an undercover agent, or a Republic Commando that suffered some sort of amnesia and doesn't remember who he is is another matter.

It certainly seems that given the dialogue included in the trailer that he is either a deserter or someone suffering from memory loss.

A male character says in the trailer, "You are a clone and a soldier in the Republic army....Our mission depends on it."

Presumably their is a large chunk of dialogue missing where the character speaking convinces Gregor of who he is.  I am thinking a bit like Steven Seagal in Hard to Kill.

If you look at the holo-file that R2 plays for Gregor their is some Aurebesh present. For the unitiated Aurebesh is the Star Wars universe's alphabet.  Jinkies a clue!

In the lower corner of the screen there is one line of blue writing, on line of red writing, and then two lines of blue writing.  I am unable to decipher what the red writing characters are but translating the blue writing the file says,

"Status
???
Battle of Serrish"

I think it is safe to presume the missing letters are something to the effect of KIA or killed in action.  I think we are dealing with a RC who was believed to have died at the Battle of Serrish.  According to Wookieepedia their is no record of a "Serrish," so it looks like we are dealing with a battle never before mentioned in the series or in the EU.

On the top right of the screen the info box contains Gregor's name on the top line and presumably his operating number and vital statistics below that. The writing below his name is just to difficult to make out to attempt to translate.

Let's look at the Gregor shots in rough sequential order:

Gregor, this is your life...

Damn I'm handsome...

This seems familiar....

I remember...

It's like riding a hoverbike...

I should have washed the buy'ce first...

My face is back lit !

I LOVE KILLING CLANKERS!

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Star Wars: The Clone Wars Celebration VI Premiere Press Conference

A great find by our friends across the pond at JediNews.co.uk.

The Youtube Channel of JeffLangeDVD posted video from the Press Conference/panel following the Season Five TCW Premiere at Celebration VI. Enjoy the goodness below.


SOURCE: JeffLangeDVD on Youtube via JEDI NEWS

Clone Wars Season Five: Extended Trailer Screenshots & Speculation

Star Wars Celebration VI gave us a brand spanking new TCW trailer for Season Five and it is pretty mind blowing.

I was not in attendance at CVI, so I did not see any of the Season Five episodes screened there. As a result I am speculating only based on what i have seen in the various S5 trailers.

Some of these images are no doubt from the season premier Revival (5.01), others are from the Onderon arc, Front Runners (5.02), The Soft War (5.03), and Tipping Points (5.04). The scenes with Clovis are no doubt from the next arc An Old Friend (5.05), The Rise of Clovis (5.06), and Crisis at the Heart (5.07).

The Maul and Mandalore stories are connected, the Republic Commando and Droid adventure stories are connected, and it would make sense if the Padme assassination attempt and Clovis arc are connected, but it is just as possible that the Padme assassination attempt and Asajj/Ahsoka stories are connected.

Other things that caught my eye are Anakin helping promote Star Wars  1313, a Jedi Funeral with at least six caskets, a new and odd looking troop carrier, an anti-Clone/War protest, and a number of interesting duels.

I would also add that I would probably also force choke any man I found alone in a room with my wife if she was in her Naboo Leather outfit.

In subsequent posts I will be regrouping images based on how I assume the story arcs are going to play out.

IMAGE SOURCE: STARWARS.COM