History Headscratchers / StarWarsRebels

** Correction, Sabine and the defectors were distinguishable because the hostile ships were TIE ''Interceptors'', whereas the defectors were piloting regular TIEs and weren't firing their weapons.

** For one, Tarkin told Thawne he wanted the Rebel leaders alive. Now see what Konstantine did the moment an opportunity for his own personal glory arose. Thawne might be worried that one of his other crews would be so consumed with their excitement at imminent victory that they fire on and destroy the leader ships. Notice how no ships target the vulnerable carrier? Its because Thawne knows Sato is on it. Second, we don't see the whole battle. Its clear, from how Erza arrived on Mandalore and had a long discussion with them,that the battle was raging for quite some time. Its entirely possible at some point in time Thawne ordered a very limited attack with the destroyers to destroy the shields, then ceased to continue with TIEs, so simply the shields were worn down by repeated attacks. Third, the Rebels DON'T expect to be able to win. That's the entire reason Mon Motha refuses to send help, she knows how enormously outclassed they are.

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** also keep in mind whatwhat Phoenix Group was trying to obtain at the start of the film, and what hera finds and they steal during their capture of the shuttle. Military Grade Shield Generators. While it is possible they were looking to upgrade their CR-90's, or help supply another cell, it may well be that the Phoenix Home's own shield systems were damaged and either inoperable or greatly weakened, and they needed those generators to bring it back to proper performance. something that they never had the time to do before Vader shows up and destroys the ship.

** Because as far as everyone knows, Anakin Skywalker died during Episode III, and then Darth Vader showed up later as the Sith general of the Empire's Army. The only ones in the galaxy who know the truth are the Emperor, Yoda, and Obi-Wan. Just because he now leads Anakin's old unit doesn't automatically mean he's Anakin; command changes happen all the time in real life. Plus Ahsoka probably remembers Anakin as the kind Jedi he was and not the brutal, mostly-machine Sith he is now.

** As for Rebel shields, the Corvettes are clearly shown having shields on numerous occasions, most notably in the second season opener during the supply raid. The Corvette takes several direct hits from an Imperial cruiser without damage before a third or fourth hit breaks through and Sato announces that they are losing their shields. Later in the episode they also note that they are critically low on shield generators, which have to be repaired or replaced when the shields are brought down by enemy fire (they go down when they overload/explode as seen with the shield generator protecting Chopper Base). There's no reason to suspect the chronic shortage of shield generators has changed in any way since that episode, which easily explains why the Rebel capital ships seem more vulnerable than they should be. Besides, only the Mon Calamari cruisers seen in RotJ and Rogue One can actually go toe-to-toe with a Star Destroyer. The ships seen in Rebels are primarily armed transports and escorts, not originally intended to fight pitched battles.

** Mr. Sumar was supposed to show up in "The Siege of Lothal", watching the [=HoloNews=] and falling for the [[spoiler:[[FalseFlagOperation frame-up]] that the Ghost crew killed Minister Tua]].

** At least in part this goes to show how much learning Kanan and Ezra still have to do. Ahsoka might be one of the most competent Force wielders still around, but that is only because there are not exactly all that many Force wielders still around. Obi-Wan is old, so is Yoda and everyone else who could claim to be better than Ahsoka is either evil, dead or hiding. [[spoiler:When Vader does show up to battle Ahsoka, she has visible trouble holding her own -- and Vader is likely distracted by her attempts to pull him to the Light Side.]]

** Furthermore, both Hera and Kanan have launched similar gambits to acquire ships before. [[spoiler: When hijacking the three cruisers on Lothal ([=S2E10=]), they ran into far more Imperial security than anticipated]], but they improvised and persevered. When [[spoiler: Hera's father tried to scupper the carrier over Ryloth rather than capture it ([=S2E14=])]], they improvised and persevered. When Ezra saw that the bombers they were preparing to capture were being systematically destroyed, he improvised and persevered... and was punished for it.

** Ezra went against an explicit order. He was to do a recon mission. Instead he endangered his life and everyone else's, lost the ''Phantom'' (which for all we know may have been a much more valuable asset than those fighters he did capture) and might have alerted the Empire. True the Rebellion has a much loser command structure than regular armies, but there is no army in the world where going against a direct order in such a blatant way has no consequences, even more so because his [[spoiler:promotion]] seems to have been conditional or at least "let's see if he proves worthy" and Ezra screwed up literally the first chance he gets. Plus it's during a "does he doesn't he turn to the Dark Side" arc and to me his behavior looked like it was yet another sign of his flirtations with the Dark Side.

* Isn't it a bit sketchy that [[spoiler:Kallus]] is the next Fulcrum and knows the TrustPassword? Ahsoka invented the Fulcrum entity so that it's kept secret from almost every rebel, and ''especially'' from any Imperial. Plus, it's intended that the rebels make minimal contact with the bearer of the Fulcrum identity so as not to draw attention. [[spoiler:Kallus]] didn't think of helping the rebellion until after Season 2, so there's no way whoever knows about the Fulcrum system would easily pass the mantle to [[spoiler:an Imperial]] for any reason whatsoever. How could he have known about the Fulcrum system, and why would the rebel network let [[spoiler:an Imperial]] in on the code phrase (regardless of the reason)?
** We don't know what [[spoiler:Kallus]] has been up to ever since their last episode in Season 2. They could've come into contact with a rebel allied with Organa/Rebel High Command that determined that [[spoiler:Kallus]] is trustworthy and genuine enough to become a Fulcrum sometime offscreen like during the TimeSkip. And we don't know if the TrustPassword is used for ''all'' Fulcrums either, because surely, if the Fulcrum program has existed ever since the ''Ahsoka'' novel, then a trust password idea must've always existed as well, but it sounds like Organa and Ahsoka never heard about Lothal until the events of ''Rebels'' in Season 1, so the password couldn't have always been "By the light of Lothal's moons" and/or been for ''all'' Fulcrums. But in the end, we simply just don't know what's going on yet, like how we don't know how Ezra got his second lightsaber.

* So we know the Fulcrum codename is a shared identity and there are several agents around, but during the series, it looks as if only one Fulcrum can be active until he/she dies or leaves. For example, Ahsoka was the first Fulcrum, but since she left, another Fulcrum, [[spoiler:Kallus]] eventually took her place and has been the active Fulcrum ever since. I am under the impression that the Fulcrum Informants are a SecretSociety of agents who maintain contact over an encrypted network without directly meeting. Is there a rule against Fulcrum agents taking turns? The whole point of a CollectiveIdentity is so that if knowledge of Fulcrum's existence is discovered, there is no single source to be traced, creating a case of PlausibleDeniability. For example [[spoiler:Thrawn already suspects Kallus, so why doesn't he contact another Fulcrum agent to take his place so that Thrawn can't put two and two together and trace anything to Kallus]]? If one agent gets caught another takes his/her place, then the Empire will know there is more than one Fulcrum.

** But isn't the point ''not'' to get caught/killed by the Empire? For all the Empire knows, Fulcrum is one person. If they catch one Fulcrum and it slips out another is active, the Empire will know there are multiple Fulcrum agents and try to hunt them down. So why doesn't [[spoiler:Kallus]] contact another agent to take over and guide Phoenix Squadron in order throw Thrawn off the scent?
** It's possible that [[spoiler:Kallus]] can't contact another agent because he doesn't know any others and/or how to contact them. Again, we don't know the circumstances of [[spoiler:Kallus]] becoming Fulcrum or even that much about the Fulcrum network besides Ahsoka and Senator Organa working closely together on it as well as there being implicitly Fulcrums for different cells/sectors, so we'll have to wait and see for now.

* Near the end of the last episode [[spoiler: we are introduced to Kanan and Hera's son, Jason Syndulla. Who has no traits of being half human, half twi'lek.]] HOW?!
** [[spoiler: Half human hybrids are born near human most of the time.]]
** [[spoiler: That still makes no sense. It's basic genetics that both the mother and father contribute to the genetic components of the offspring. How is it that the child of two different species has no traits of the mother]]?
** It's basic genetics that [[spoiler:totally different species shouldn't be able to reproduce at all.]] ''Star Wars'' is not a realistic universe, so it's safe to assume HollywoodGenetics is fully in play.
** [[spoiler:Jacen's ears have a green tint to them and his hair is naturally green, so he obviously does inherit some traits from Hera, probably because of skin pigments or something.]]

* Since Kallus wasn't able to retrieve his Bo-rifle and the glowing rock he'd received while on Geonosis icy moon. Does the Empire now have them now? Or are those items now in Thrawn's personal collection?