[CaptainCrunch]

So I had some thoughts on the connection between Rogue one and Rebels.

We know in season one that the series started about 5 years before the battle of Yavin we are now in season 3.

We've also seen hints of the Death Star in rebels especially in the last episode where the Geonosian survivor of the Empires genocide of that planet kept drawing a circle within a circle when asked what the Empire was doing there.

Its pretty clear that there are maybe two major storylines that they are going to explore in Rebels.

1) The fate of the Jedi. We know that by the time ANH comes around that the Empire is pretty well convinced that the Jedi are gone. We've also seen though that the remaining Jedi in Obi-Wan and Yoda are content not to bring the Jedi back and remain in hiding. We also know that Rebels has one Jedi and one apprentice. We know also that there's going to be a confrontation between Maul and Obi-Wan on Tatooine and that Ezra also is being drawn to that world.

So Fate of the Jedi theory one. Maul and Obi-wan have their confrontation which leads to the death of Maul. I believe that Ezra and Kanan will probably run into Obi-Wan as they search for the new hope that will arise as per Obi's message on the holocron. At that point, Obi-Wan will probably crap on them and tell them to step away from galactic events and go into hiding and that they're putting everything that he and Yoda are hoping for in the Skywalker children at jeopardy.

So does this scenario make it easier to believe that maybe the ultimate fate of Kanan and Ezra is that they put down their light sabres at some point and step away from the rebellion and go into hiding as originally ordered by the Jedi temple transceiver?

Another theory could be that there is a tragic event, the show seems to indicate that Ezra is moving down the path to the darkside, will he be pushed this way when the Empire eventually catches up to them and one ends up dead and the other one leaves the fight behind and goes into exile?

I've jokingly said that I have a theory that Ezra is Snoke, but I don't really think that Disney would allow a popular character in a animated series to become the genocidal leader of the First Order. But I believe that tragedy is going to befall our two Jedi possibly before the end of this year. Or next year they will bring Vader back with the sole job of finishing order 66.

2) We also know that the crew of the ghost is now on the trail of the Empires super secret project. Combine that with Saw showing up, and I tend to think its likely that one of the big events that starts the Rogue one mission is the crew of the Ghost tracking down the Death Star and seeing it first hand.

We also know that they're involved in the events of Rogue one as we hear Hera's name paged and we see Chopper in the background. However we don't see Sabine or Zeb or Ezra or Kanan in that movie. Sabine would have been easy to do as she wears armor.

Ok, so you're saying so what.

But this all comes together nicely to a final episode in season 5 which will probably bring Rebels right to the events of the Rogue one battle.

So here's my time lines

This year

Ezra and Kanan are warned off by Obi-Wan but they ignore his advice and continue to fight for the Rebellion and draw more and more attention to themselves because they are Jedi, that's why we're seeing Thrawn.

Vader returns at some point as early at the end of the season. He fights Kanan and Ezra and Kanan finally dies. Ezra in a rage falls to the darkside but fails to kill Vader. He goes on a crusade against the Empire doing more damage then good in his thirst for revenge.

Ezra stumbles onto the project that the Ghost is investigating as well. He knows the odds are against him, and somehow Sabine, Hera, Chopper and Zeb bring him back to the light side. He announces that he can't stay in the fight because he'll fall again. Ezra exits midway through next year.

Hera, Sabine and Zeb and Chopper continue to gather info about the Death Star as Thrawn becomes more and more dangerous. I think Zeb dies because there's not much of a story line left for him, maybe he tries to save Kallus when Thrawn tries to execute him for treason and dies a hero.

So in the last episode we see the battle that we saw in Rogue one from the Ghosts perspective with Hera, Sabine and Chopper as the sole survivors on the Ghost. They do a bunch of heroic stuff, but in the end after the battle, Hera crushed by loss decides that she's had enough and decides to just become a smuggler. Sabine goes back to Mandalore to lead her clan.

Then we have a prologue at the end of the episode where we zoom into Lothal into a abandoned comm tower and into the top room where we first found Ezra. He hears the news of the destruction of the Death Star and looks at his lightsaber hanging on the wall and smiles.