Did we ever get an explanation for why what's-his-name had a map to Luke Skywalker in TFA? Why did Luke leave a map? Didn't he specifically not want to be found?

Back to Ashoka, why did the ancient nightsister temple have a map that lead to Thrawn, when he disappeared not even a decade before? Also, if someone knew Thrawn's location precisely enough to map it, why didn't that someone also try to find him themselves?

[–] Odo@lemmy.world 11 points 1 year ago (2 children)

Did you watch Rebels?

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There are space whales with organic hyperdrives. They grabbed Thrawn at the end of Rebels and took him to parts unknown (what we now know is another galaxy). The map appears to be an ancient record of their migration paths, so the presumption is they dragged him along their normal route.

[–] whileloop@lemmy.world 3 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

This makes sense, but... I imagine the New Republic has easy access to the same information, and perhaps even more accurate or updated information.

[–] StrawberryPigtails@lemmy.astaluk.icu 2 points 1 year ago

Thanks for that. I was wondering how a thousands or years old map had relevance to Thrawn in Ahsoka. That part was throwing me for a loop.

[–] Pipoca@lemmy.world 4 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Thrawn was carried away by giant hyperspace whales in the finale of Rebels.

The map has stylized hyperspace whales on it. It's presumably an ancient hyperspace whale migration map or something.

[–] whileloop@lemmy.world 0 points 1 year ago

I agree that's probably what it is, but that doesn't change the fact that they should have established this on screen. Otherwise, it feels like 'random map comes out of nowhere to solve all our problems'.

[–] darko8472@feddit.uk 2 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

R2 is a navigation droid, so presumably keeps a record of everywhere he’s been for audit trail purposes. He’s also (up until that point) never been memory wiped unlike C3P0, so having part of that route erased is a big change from previous canon.

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The map in Ahsoka isn’t necessarily a map to Thrawn specifically, someone else mentioned it being a map of migration patterns but equally it was mentioned in the episode that some beings travelled from another galaxy to the main Star Wars galaxy in the past. Morgan may just be assuming that’s where Thrawn was taken by the purrgil as they roam all over, so the map may be a bit of both migration patterns and a record of where the travellers came from.