New Star Wars Theory Reveals Ahsoka Season 2 Is About To Break The Jedi Code In A Thrilling Way

According to a new Star Wars theory, Ahsoka Tano may excitingly break the Jedi Code in Ahsoka season 2 with the help of Shin Hati. First entering the Star Wars universe in Ahsoka, Shin is Padawan to Baylan Skoll and was trained after Order 66. At the beginning of the show, she is introduced as a mere antagonist, stabbing Sabine Wren with her lightsaber. However, as the show progresses, audiences are treated to hints of moral conflict that suggest there’s more to this character than meets the eye. As such, there’s a real demand for Shin to be redeemed.

At the end of the season, Shin is abandoned by her master, who tells her that she should follow Grand Admiral Thrawn and take a position of power in his new Empire as she desires. However, in the Ahsoka season 1 finale, Shin was left behind on Peridea with Ahsoka and Sabine. After running away from a fight with Ahsoka, Shin went to the bandits she and Baylan had worked with previously – but not without Ahsoka making her an offer that would potentially break the Jedi Code.

Ahsoka Offered Shin A Helping Hand – Will She Become A Second Padawan?

During their climactic fight in the season finale, it was clear that Ahsoka outmatched Shin. Seeing the fear on the younger woman’s face, Ahsoka offered to help her. Shin ran away, not ready to trust Ahsoka. However, there is evidence that Shin will eventually accept the offer.

Shin’s former master likely misjudged her. He told her that she should pursue power with Thrawn, but there is evidence that she never actually wanted that, even if she thought she did. In fact, throughout the season, she expresses disagreement with Thrawn’s methods. She didn’t want to go after Sabine Wren after Thrawn told Sabine that she could leave; it’s implied Shin believed it was dishonorable. She is also very distrustful of the Nightsister witches. Shin was clearly hurt when her master abandoned her, thus she is now vulnerable and full of conflict.

This suggests that she will accept Ahsoka’s offer after having some time to think about it. When Ahsoka first offered to help her, Shin simply wasn’t in a frame of mind to accept. She had just lost the one person she thought she could rely on. She was in an unfamiliar place, being offered help by people she’d considered enemies. She likely thought Ahsoka was lying. However, given the way the show set it up, she probably will eventually come to realize that Ahsoka was being genuine.

If this happens, Shin will undoubtedly become Ahsoka’s apprentice. After all, that is what the offer of help meant. Ahsoka was asking Shin to allow her to train her in the ways of the light side of the Force, as she wanted to help guide Shin. She wanted Shin to be her second Padawan, recognizing that she was the only one who could help her.

The Jedi Code Meant Masters Could Only Train One Padawan At A Time

In Star Wars: Episode I – The Phantom Menace, the Jedi Council reveals an important part of the Jedi Code. When Qui-Gon Jinn requests to train Anakin Skywalker, the Council tells him that he cannot do so because he already has a Padawan. Mace Windu directly states that “the Code forbids it.” Qui-Gon gets around this by saying that Obi-Wan is ready to take the Jedi trials, but if Obi-Wan hadn’t been ready, there would’ve been nothing Qui-Gon could do.

This is very important for Ahsoka. If Ahsoka takes on Shin Hati as a second apprentice in season 2, she will be breaking a clearly important part of the Jedi Code. It would be a break from the tradition that she was raised in – but this is something Ahsoka’s already quite familiar with doing.

Ahsoka’s Second Apprentice Would Be Perfectly In-Character For These Jedi

As the droid Huyang said, Ahsoka and Sabine are unconventional Jedi, to say the least. This is no surprise, as Ahsoka was trained by Anakin, one of the most unconventional Jedi in history. She and Anakin gained a reputation in the army for being loose with protocol. Further, Ahsoka was always willing to question and argue with Anakin and other Jedi when she felt they were wrong. Then, after she left the Order, while she held to many of its core values, she still carved her own path. She even told Darth Vader that she was “no Jedi.”

Sabine is even more unconventional as a Jedi than Ahsoka. Sabine didn’t grow up in the Temple with the values of the Jedi being taught to her since before the Clone Wars. She was a Mandalorian with an aptitude for the Force far lower than what would be allowed in the Order. If the Order still existed and Ahsoka was still a part of it, Sabine simply would not have been trained. The fact that she is being trained is breaking a Jedi rule in and of itself.

Ahsoka and Sabine are rebels at heart. Ahsoka left the Jedi but continued to fight for justice, helping Bo-Katan Kryze oppose Darth Maul. Ahsoka and Sabine both joined an insurrection against a corrupt government. They don’t follow strict codes or procedures; they simply do what they believe to be right. As such, it would be completely in character for Ahsoka to take on Shin as a second apprentice and for Sabine to accept a fellow student. Further, Ahsoka training Shin would be a symbol of how far she’s come as a master.

The show reveals that Ahsoka stopped training Sabine because she was afraid of what Sabine might become after she lost her family in the Purge of Mandalore. This is something that Ahsoka feels guilty over, as she tells Hera that she walked away from Sabine just like she walked away from the Jedi – because she was afraid. Taking Sabine on again was a step in her character development, but the real watershed moment was when she chose to live in the World Between Worlds. Ahsoka let go of fear at that moment and decided to forge her own path.

This is what made her able to stick with Sabine after she gave over the map, even though she’d abandoned Sabine before for less. It’s also why she would be Shin’s perfect master. She has worked through her fear and seen the negative effects of abandoning an apprentice. She has accepted that she doesn’t have to follow all the rules of the Jedi Code to recognize its value and apply the lessons she’s learned. Ahsoka is thus the perfect person to guide Shin through her fear and abandonment issues in Ahsoka season 2.

Ahsoka is available to stream on Disney+