Uprising on Raada One year after the end of the Clone Wars , an uprising against the Galactic Empire took place on the agricultural moon Raada . In response to Imperial restrictions and the introduction of soil - destroying crops , the local farmers organized a resistance movement under the leadership and tutelage of the Jedi Purge survivor Ahsoka Tano . Tano ' s plans went awry when the farmers Kaeden Larte and Hoban launched an unsanctioned attack on the Imperial administrative building . The rebels proved no match for the Imperial garrison and several fighters including Hoban were killed . Tano used her Force powers to save the rebels but exposed herself to both the Empire and the Jedi sympathizer Senator Bail Organa , who was organizing a rebel movement . Tano and the surviving rebels fled to a network of cave hideouts near the moon ' s main settlement . After rescuing Kaeden from Imperial captivity , Tano went into hiding offworld at Kaeden ' s advice . However , the Empire sent the Inquisitor known as the Sixth Brother to hunt Tano . The Sixth Brother discovered the rebel hideout , captured Kaeden , and killed most of the rebels except Kaeden ' s younger sister Miara Larte . At the request of Senator Organa , Tano returned to Raada to investigate the Sixth Brother . After killing the Sixth Brother , Tano managed to rescue Kaeden again and evacuate the moon ' s population with the help of Senator Organa ' s rebel forces . Prelude . A pastoral retreat . Following the Clone Wars and the Jedi Purge , the Togruta former Jedi Padawan Ahsoka Tano fled into hiding in the Outer Rim Territories . Adopting the pseudonym " Ashla " , she first settled on the planet Thabeska and found work with the Fardi clan as a mechanic . Tano befriended Fardi ' s daughters particularly the youngest Hedala . On one occasion , Tano saved Hedala from being crushed to death by a crate . When the Galactic Empire began to establish a presence on Thabeska , Tano fled offworld on one of the Fardi clan ' s freighter s during the Empire Day festivities in 18 BBY . After some travels , Tano settled down on Raada , a sparsely populated farm ing moon which lacked any centralized governing authority . There she set up shop , posing as a droid mechanic known as " Ashla " . Shortly after her arrival , Tano began scout ing the numerous rock outcroppings , cave systems , and canyons that surrounded the outskirts of the settlement . Within the space of a few standard week s , Tano befriended the local farm worker Kaeden Larte , her younger sister Miara and their guardian Vartan , who introduced her to the small farming community . Tano found work as a mechanic repairing threshers and other farming equipment . In her free time , Tano also explored the hills and caves near Raada ' s sole settlement , which she identified as a potential hiding place in the event of trouble . Imperial occupation . Shortly after Tano ' s arrival , the Imperial bureaucrat Jenneth Pilar recommended that the Empire exploit the moon for agricultural production due to its small population . The Empire wanting to grow soil - killing plants for rations without attracting the Imperial Senate ' s attention . These modified plant s were for the consumption of Imperial personnel working in low gravity environments . As a result , the Empire set up a presence on Raada including an administrative building , prison , and a base at Raada ' s spaceport which housed several military walker s and tanks . Under the leadership of Pilar , the Imperial administration introduced several new restrictions on the local population including night curfews , rules forbidding large group meetings , and restrictions on local cantina s ' operating hours , food , and alcohol . The Imperials also conscripted the local farmer s into work crews to plant their new crops . The farmers were required to work for long hours with insufficient rations and rest . Due to the harsh working conditions and restrictions , local resentment towards the Empire grew . This which was exacerbated by the fact that the new Imperial crops were leaching the soils of their nutrients , rendering them unproductive . When one local farmer named Tibbola drunkenly confronted an Imperial officer , he was summarily executed in public as a warning that the Empire would not tolerate trouble . In response to the Imperial occupation , Tano advised the farmers to slow down crop production as a form of non - violent resistance . She also encouraged the local farmers to form a resistance movement among the work crews . Vartan managed to recruit forty resistance fighters from the farming workers . As a Clone Wars veteran who had trained Felucian farmers and the Onderon rebels , Tano felt sufficiently experienced to lead the Raadian farmers . To prepare for the impending uprising , Tano smuggled food , medical supplies , and water recyclers into the caves with the help of Kaeden and Miara . For a fortnight , Tano and the Larte sisters assembled explosives and corrosive charges . The farmers also obtained old blaster s . The uprising . The premature uprising . Tano ' s plan was to plant corrosive charges on the Imperial walkers stationed at the spaceport . She led a team consisting of Miara , Neera and the Rodian Kolvin and managed to infiltrate the hangar bay due to the lax security measures . While planting the charges , Tano discovered that Miara had smuggled real explosives against her orders . After evading stormtrooper sentries , Tano and her fighters managed to return to Selda ' s cantina where they discovered that Vartan had sent Kaeden and Neera on an unsanctioned mission to storm the Imperial administrative building with explosives . Since the Raadian insurgents were still too weak militarily to attack the Empire , Tano ordered the fighters to return home and to disavow any knowledge of the attack . However , Miara was unwilling to abandon her sister and Tano decided to cast a lot with the Raadian farmers . Meanwhile , Hoban split his group into thee teams and forced their way into the Imperial admin building with explosives . Though Tano ' s team had disabled the walkers with corrosive charges , the Imperial garrison still had tanks , which inflicted heavy casualties on the Raadian fighters . tano and her team entered the fray and managed to distract the tanks by hurling explosives . This allowed five survivors including Kaeden and Hoban to escape . Tano also fought with a stormtrooper and stole his blaster . While fleeing the battle , Tano and the fleeing farmers were trapped by a crater created by one of the tanks . Stormtroopers then approached the fighters and gunned down Hoban when he tried to surrender . Unwilling to see others die as a result of her actions , Tano used the Force to fling the blasters out of the stormtroopers ' hands . Tano and the farmers then fled to the caves . As a result of the uprising , the Imperial walkers were destroyed . While the tanks were damaged , they could still be repaired . In response to the two - pronged rebel attack , Pilar tightened the curfew , increased the patrols , and gave orders for troublemakers to be torture d in order to break the morale of the local population . Pilar also tasked the local Imperial commander with reporting the encounter with the Jedi to their superiors . Reports of the Jedi presence reached both the Imperial government and the Jedi sympathizer Senator Bail Organa , who was organizing a secret resistance movement against the Empire . The Empire dispatched the Inquisitor known as the Sixth Brother to hunt Tano . Retreat to the hills . Tano and the Raadian resistance fighters retreated to the caves where they tended to the wounded including Neera . With little choice , Tano revealed her true identity as a Jedi fugitive to Kaeden and Miara . Kaeden was angry that Tano had not revealed her true identity earlier since she could have helped them more . Tano felt guilty about not being able to save Hoban ' s life . Shortly later , Kaeden headed back to the main settlement and tried to enter Vartan ' s house . However , she was captured by eight stormtroopers , who recognized her as one of the rebel fighters due to the wound on her forehead . Kaeden was interrogated by two sets of Imperial interrogators , but refused to give in despite being tortured with an apparatus , injections , and sustaining a broken arm . The Imperial commander questioned her about the identity of the Jedi and the location of her fellow rebels but she refused to cooperate despite facing the threat of execution . Tano managed to use her Force power s to infiltrate the building and rescue Kaeden from her cell . Despite being cornered by stormtroopers , Tano managed to escape with Kaeden by Force jump ing out of a high window . After escaping into the wilderness , Kaeden advised Tano to leave since the Imperial commander was after her . Tano promised to return and help her Raadian friends . After Tano had departed offworld in her freighter , Kaeden and her fellow rebels hid in the caves for several weeks . By the time the Sixth Brother arrived on Raada , Tano had fled offworld . After meeting with the military commander and Pilar , the Inquisitor learned that the Imperial base on Raada was understaffed and lacked sufficient resources to fully patrol the moon . Since Raada ' s agricultural region and town was too well patrolled , the Sixth Brother considered searching the hills for the insurgents . However , after receiving reports of a series of seemingly random heroic Jedi actions offworld , the Inquisitor decided to investigate Tano ' s presence first before returning to Raada to finish his work . Hunting the insurgents . When the Sixth Brother ' s offworld investigations failed to turn up new leads , he decided to return to Raada to deal with the Jedi fugitive ' s local insurgent allies . Since the local garrison had made no inroads in capturing them , the Inquisitor met with the chief interrogator and queried about Kaeden , the girl who had escape Imperial custody . After learning of Kaeden ' s physical description , the Inquisitor headed for the hills to hunt the rebels . Meanwhile , with the artificial crops due to be harvested in a few days time , Pilar departed Raada , leaving behind a ruined world and a resentful populace . Elsewhere , Kaeden and the other rebels spent their time hiding in the caves . Due to their limited medical supplies , Kaeden ' s broken harm had not yet fully healed . Kaeden , Miara , and Neera bid their time playing the game crokin . As a result of the injuries sustained during the attack on the admin building , Neera shambled around the cave repeatedly . While the girls were playing another round of crokin , the sentry Kolvin reported that something was approaching the cave entrance , which was locked . While the other camouflaged entrances were secured , the sentry door was not . The three girls and Kolvin decided to secure the sentry door . Miara wanted to come along but Kaeden objected to it . Before the older girls could stop her , Kaeden rushed to the sentry door . Before they could collapse the tunnel leading to the entrance , the Sixth Brother discovered their presence and ordered Kaeden to surrender under the threat of collapsing their hiding place . After some argument , Kaeden decided to surrender herself in order to save the lives of her comrades . When Miara insisted on coming , Kaeden gestured to Neera , who stun ned Miara with her blaster . With much difficulty , Kaeden managed to crawl out of the cave and surrendered to the Sixth Brother . However , the Inquisitor reneged on his promise and used the Force to drag Kolvin out of the cave and Force choke him . The remaining insurgents tried to shoot the Sixth Brother but he slaughtered them all with his double - bladed spinning lightsaber . The Inquisitor announced that this would be the punishment for those who resisted the Empire before slicing the fallen Kolvin ' s body in half . Knowing that Neera had saved her sister Miara ' s life by stunning her , Kaeden allowed the Sixth Brother to take her into custody . The Inquisitor hoped to use Kaeden to lure Tano out of hiding . Evacuation of Raada . After establishing contact with Organa , Tano agreed to take part in a mission on Raada . Organa ' s contacts had transmitted visual footage of a new mysterious Imperial agent , who turned out to be the Sixth Brother . Through the visual footage , Tano learned that her friend Kaeden had been captured by the Empire and decided to honor her promise to return to Raada . Tano traveled to Raada in a freighter and parked the ship on the far side of the moon . After walking for two hours , Tano encountered Kaeden ' s sister Miara , who updated her about the recent events on Raada . By that stage , the Empire had finished harvesting Raada ' s fields , leaving much of the moon as a wasteland . As they approached the main settlement , Tano instructed Miara to bring the holo she had recorded in space to Seldar or Vardan . Tano then went to confront the Sixth Brother in the settlement ' s streets . Following a verbal exchange , the Sixth Brother activated his double - bladed spinning lightsaber and attacked her . Despite lacking her former lightsabers , Tano managed to fend off his attacks using the Force . After hearing the Kyber crystal s inside the Inquisitor ' s lightsaber sing to her , Tano used the Force to amplify her touch and destroy his lightsaber hilt . The Sixth Brother was killed when his lightsaber hilt exploded . After tending to her fallen foe , Tano used the Force to restore balance to the kyber crystal s , turning them from red to their natural white color . Armed with her new white lightsabers , Tano then fought the stormtrooper sentries guarding the main admin building . She freed the prisoner s including Kaeden and led them to Selda ' s cantina . At the cantina , Selda reassured Tano and Kaeden that Miara had transmitted Tano ' s message and that Vartan was gathering the farmers for an evacuation . As the population headed to the edge of the two , six or eight of Organa ' s A - wing starfighters attacked the Imperial compound and destroyed several parked Imperial starfighter s . A few of the Imperial starfighters managed to get airborne , but were pursued by the A - wings . Two of the A - wings were shot down during the dogfight . The first A - wing ' s pilot managed to eject to safety but the second crashed with his starfighter into the Imperial compound . Several rebel transport s and cargo ships including the CR90 corvette " Tantive IV " led by Organa ' s lieutenant Captain Raymus Antilles then landed at the edge of the settlement . Tano then helped Antilles to evacuate the farmers aboard the ships . Before they could evacuate the remaining hundred aboard the three remaining ships , three Imperial tanks opened fire on the refugees . Using her Force powers , Tano charged at the tanks . She jumped onto the leading tank and sliced off its gun turret . After throwing out the pilot , Tano overloaded the cannon and destroyed the tank . The explosion toppled one of the two remaining tanks , causing it to crash into one of the houses . The third tank headed towards Vartan , who was coordinating the refugee evacuation . The tank opened fired on Vartan , seriously wounding him . Tano used her Force powers to crush the tank turret out of shape , destroying the gun and incapacitating the vehicle . Tano then helped Antilles evacuate the grievously wounded Vartan aboard the " Tantive IV " . Aftermath . Following the evacuation of Raada , Antilles ' medical crew treated Kaeden ' s broken arm and fitted Vartan with prosthetic limbs . While most of the Imperial facilities and forces were destroyed , the rebels only lost one pilot and fourteen evacuees during the evacuation . Tano managed to convince Organa to resettle the Raadian refugees on remote worlds that could be used to supply agricultural produce for the rebellion . Organa also agreed to train the Raadian volunteers who were interested in become pilots or soldier s . After some discussion , Tano agreed to join Organa ' s rebel movement as his spy coordinator . She adopted the code name " Fulcrum " and subsequently became a key member of the rebellion . Meanwhile , the main settlement on Raada was destroyed during the fighting . By the time Imperial Star Destroyers had arrive to provide back up , the buildings and former farmlands had been razed . The Grand Inquisitor visited the ruined moon and concluded that Tano posed a major threat to the Empire due to her ability to train insurgents and call large numbers of ships to help her . After finding the corpse of the Sixth Brother , the Grand Inquisitor informed Darth Vader that he had found evidence of another Jedi Purge survivor . Behind the scenes . The Uprising on Raada first appeared in E . K . Johnston ' s young adult novel " Ahsoka " , which was published on October 11 , 2016 . The Uprising is split into the abortive uprising attempt and the Evacuation of Raada in the book . The Uprising serves as the rising action and climax of the novel . Besides Ahsoka , the events of the uprising are also told from the point of view of the secondary characters Kaeden Larte , Jenneth Pilar , and the Sixth Brother .