Star Wars’ World Between Worlds is the answer to Ahsoka’s latest cliffhanger
Not much has happened so far in Star Wars: Ahsoka, the latest Star Wars show on Disney Plus. Sure, Sabine and Ahsoka are reunited, and Sabine has resumed her training. But up until episode 4, the pair had mostly been talking about finding Ezra and Thrawn, and not actually doing it. Episode 4 shook things up in some pretty unexpected ways, including bringing in one of Star Wars: Rebels’ most complicated and important pieces of lore.
[Ed. note: This post contains spoilers for Star Wars: Ahsoka episode 4.]
After some prolonged fights between Sabine and Shin, and Ahsoka and Marrok, and Ahsoka and Baylan, Ahsoka gets herself kicked all the way off a giant cliff and seemingly killed — at least at first.
Immediately after that, Sabine grabs the map but finds herself face-to-face with Baylan and does the only sensible thing she can: gives him the map in exchange for passage to Thrawn (and Ezra). But before we can continue with the quest to find our missing characters, the show cuts back to Ahsoka, who wakes up on a bridge of light seemingly in an area of darkness that looks like space.
As with almost everything in Ahsoka, this new space should be instantly familiar to Rebels watchers as the World Between Worlds. For everyone else, here’s what that means:
The World Between Worlds (also known as the Vergence Scatter) is kind of like a pocket dimension that exists adjacent to the real world. It’s a Force-connected plane of existence that connects all places and times in the world through a series of doors. These doors lead to all of the moments that have ever happened or will ever happen.
The World Between Worlds is the creation of the Rebels series, where Ezra Bridger accessed it in order to save Ahsoka from the past. After he
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