The seventh and final season of Star Wars: The Clone Wars will be the last chance for the show to end its plotlines exactly how the creators want them to end. While the fifth season was never planned to be the last, and the 6th offered an opportunity to pick up a few of the hanging plot threads, there has always been a lingering sense of unfinished business with what the creators wanted to do.

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Until now. Next month, The Clone Wars will finally get the ending that it deserved. While many of the scrapped plotlines for additional Clone Wars seasons were picked up in other shows, comics, and novels over the years, there are still five lingering questions fans will get to see settled once and for all.

Ahsoka's lost years

The breakout star of The Clone Wars was Ahsoka Tano, who started the series off as an impulsive kid sidekick and grew to be a capable and independent Jedi in her own right. The climax of the fifth season saw Ahsoka' banishment from the Jedi Order, and then her voluntarily striking out on her own once the Jedi discovered their mistake. But what happened to Ahsoka afterward?

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The sequel series Star Wars: Rebels, taking place after the rise of the Empire, depicted Ahsoka as a grown woman and capable leader of the Rebellion, while her solo novel Ahsoka showed the banished Jedi's induction into the Rebellion after commanding the 501st Legion in the Siege of Mandalore. But there's still a time gap in the story of Ahsoka Tano as well as lingering questions as to where she and Anakin's relationship left off.

Clone chip removal

Another plotline that Rebels and Ahsoka picked up on was the release of some of the clone troopers from the microchip brainwashing them into obeying Order 66. Rex, Wolffe, and Gregor were all seen as aged veterans in Rebels, but there were only ever offhand mentions made of just how the clones freed themselves from the dark fate of their brothers.

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A large chunk of the 6th season of Clone Wars involved the discovery of the Order 66 plot by clone trooper Fives, but the arc ended in Fives losing both his reputation and his life before he could ever reveal the truth. This leaves a fat question mark concerning how Rex and his compatriots found out the same secret Fives did, or for that matter what stopped them from warning the Jedi of their impending doom before it was too late.

Barriss Offee's fate

One of Clone Wars' most fascinating character arcs only even sprung up just as the show ended, with Barriss Offee being revealed in the Season 5 finale as the true conspirator behind the Jedi Temple bombings Ahsoka Tano was originally held accountable for. Up until that point, the audience only knew Barriss as Ahsoka's friend and fellow Padawan, somewhat meek and shy, but nevertheless a trusted ally. The betrayal not only came as a shock but established Barriss as one of the most interesting characters in the Star Wars moral spectrum.

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Barriss' betrayal was not motivated by a sudden turn to the Dark Side, but out of a belief that it was the Jedi themselves who turned to the Dark Side. Discontent with the increasingly deadly Clone Wars she felt the Jedi were only further fueling, Barriss stands as one of the few characters to ever betray the Jedi without actually switching sides. Barriss used Asajj Ventress' dual lightsabers to fight a climactic duel before her capture, and while the creators considered ending her storyline in suicide they never actually explored what happened to the former Padawan once she was imprisoned.

Asajj Ventress' rise

Much like Barriss and Ahsoka, Asajj Ventress was another character who did not fall neatly into the Light/Dark division of the Force by the end of Clone Wars. After the former Sith-apprentice was betrayed by her master Count Dooku, Asajj disinvolved herself from the galactic conflict and instead became a bounty hunter. Barriss attempted to frame Asajj for the same crime Ahsoka took the heat for, but Clone Wars never got a chance to address what happened to Asajj thereafter.

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That's not to say Asajj's fate is totally unknown. The novel Dark Disciple delves into Asajj's life as a bounty hunter as she grows out her hair, gets a lightsaber to replace those that Barriss stole, and shared a romance with Quinlan Vos before her eventual demise at the hands of Count Dooku. But much like with Ahsoka, knowing a character's ultimate fate doesn't leave fans satisfied without knowing what they did before then.

Palpatine's capture

Given the expansiveness and complicated nature of Palpatine's multi-decade plan to control the Galaxy, it's easy to forget a few details along the way or overlook the areas that were never explained. Revenge of the Sith kicks off by jumping right into the action as Anakin Skywalker and Obi-Wan Kenobi undergo a mission to rescue the captured Chancellor Palpatine, ultimately leading to Anakin slaying Count Dooku under Palpatine's smiling eyes. But, wait, how did Palpatine get captured in the first place?

The previous explanation, spelled out in Legends and featured in the original Star Wars: Clone Wars animated shorts, was that Palpatine arranged his own capture to throw Jedi off his scent, as they were dangerously close to discovering he was also Darth Sidious. However, this explanation may no longer be canon, as Legends has been ignored thus far. Since the audience knows he's playing both sides of the war, it's easy enough to believe that Palpatine could pull such an acrobatic plan off, but since it's only the audience who knows that the potential for dramatic irony in ending the seventh season on such a note is tremendous. Dooku's look of betrayal at Palpatine urging Anakin to kill him tells a story unto itself, and fans may at last get to see just what Palpatine told the Count before leading him to his doom.

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