Rosario Dawson first played the live-action Ahsoka Tano in The Mandalorian season 2 and it was there we learned she was on a quest to find Grand Admiral Thrawn (and Ezra Bridger).
Since then, the former Jedi has shared the screen with Luke Skywalker in The Book of Boba Fett and is now taking centre stage in a solo series which, four episodes in, is shaping up to be the most important story told during this post-Return of the Jedi era.
Showrunner Dave Filoni specialises in world-building and connects Ahsoka to The Mandalorian with a surprise cameo in today's episode, "Fallen Jedi."
After Chancellor Mon Mothma and her fellow officials turned down Hera Syndulla's request to send a strike force to Seatos to help Ahsoka and Sabine Wren, the Rebel takes matters into her own hands and goes AWOL with Chopper and her son Jacen.
However, joining them is Paul Sun-Hyung Lee's Captain Carson Teva and a squad of X-Wings!
Yes, The Mandalorian fan-favourite is back after previously befriending Din Djarin and turning to the bounty hunter for help when the New Republic failed him during the show's third season. Considering the fact he's friends with Zeb, it surely can't be too much longer before that Ghost crew member shows up, right?
In the episode's closing moments, Morgan Elsbeth activates her hyperspace ring and blasts off to find Thrawn by quite literally flying through our heroes. Thankfully, the Ghost remains intact, though many of Teva's fellow pilots are killed, something we're sure the New Republic will not be happy about seeing as this mission wasn't authorised!
There will soon be bigger issues to deal with, though, and it seems likely the New Republic will ultimately regret its decision not to do everything within its power to stop Eslbeth's machinations by helping Ahsoka put a stop to Thrawn's return.
Will the Grand Admiral be revealed as the Imperial who founded The First Order? Did he help create Supreme Leader Snoke based on Moff Gideon's cloning experiments? Those are just a couple of the questions fans are hoping will be answered in this series, but they're also mysteries that may not be solved until Filoni's eventual Star Wars movie.
For now, it was definitely fun seeing the return of a familiar face, especially when he's become a recurring presence elsewhere in this Galaxy.
Check out a screenshot of Teva's cameo in Ahsoka below.