Summary
- The Great Purge of Mandalore took place at the end of the Galactic Civil War, after the Battle of Endor, and explains the transformation of a sect of Mandalorians into religious zealots.
- The Purge of Mandalore is connected to Emperor Palpatine's contingency plans, known as Operation: Cinder, which involved punishing failures and enemies of the Empire.
- The timeline of the Great Purge explains why no one came to Mandalore's aid, as it occurred during Operation: Cinder when the galaxy was in chaos. It also recontextualizes the event as a recent occurrence despite the presentation that it was a long time before The Mandalorian season 1.
Ahsoka episode 8 gave an update on the timeline of the Purge of Mandalore, proving that it connects to Emperor Palpatine's post-original trilogy contingency plans. The Purge of Mandalore was first mentioned in The Mandalorian as a genocidal attack against the Mandalorian people by the Empire. This resulted in hundreds of thousands of Mandalorians losing their lives with any survivors losing their planet to the Empire's grasp. While Mandalore was retaken in The Mandalorian season 3, the Great Purge was an event that changed the trajectory of the planet and its people forever.
In Ahsoka episode 4, it was mentioned by Baylan Skoll that the tension between Ahsoka and Sabine in the early episodes of the show stemmed from the Purge of Mandalore. After being mysteriously left unexplored, Ahsoka episode 8's Easter egg to the Great Purge delved further into this plot point by exploring Sabine and Ahsoka's relationship all while tying the show to its peer, The Mandalorian, and the original trilogy. Through Ahsoka's finale, the Purge of Mandalore's exact timeline has been confirmed and provides plenty of context to the event concerning the wider Star Wars timeline.
