Escape from the Republic military base / Legends In 19 . 1 BBY , Ahsoka Tano was framed by her friend Barriss Offee for the death of Letta Turmond , Tano was captured by Commander CC - 1010 . After Admiral Wilhuff Tarkin went to Tano ' s custody and talked to her , Tano escaped from the custody . Prelude . Following the bombing of the Jedi Temple , Jedi Knight Anakin Skywalker and Padawan Ahsoka Tano led an investigation to determine the culprit . The pair were successful in their efforts and detained Letta Turmond for having fed her husband explosive nano - droids , turning him into an unwitting suicide bomber . Skywalker and Tano captured Turmond and was taken to Republic military base . Turmond later asked for Tano . Suspicious of her motives , Padawan Tano sought to personally interrogate the prisoner in order to better understand the reasoning behind the murder of her Jedi compatriots . During the visit , Turmond began to reveal an apparent plot by another Jedi to orchestrate the bombing , before she could reveal the name of the attacker ; she was Force chocked by Offee ; who hidden herself and framed Tano for the murder . After Turmond was killed , Commander Fox and others two troopers rushed into the custody , Tano was immediately placed under arrest on suspicion of murder . Admiral Wilhuff Tarkin believed her to be guilty , given that she was displeased with Turmond being placed under military jurisdiction . Tarkin then restricted visitors , especially Skywalker , who was forced to leave when he demanded to be let through . The escape . After a brief stay in a cell , Tano noticed a security access card sitting on the floor just beyond the force field barring the door . Assuming it had been planted by her master , she levitated the card with the Force and used it to escape her cell . Proceeding through the corridors , Tano came upon her lightsabers and comlink — amidst a number of unconscious troopers . As she was answering her beeping comlink , Commander Fox emerged from a nearby doorway and seeing Tano among the unconscious clones , immediately assumed she was the guilty party and sounded the alarm . Instead of staying to face Fox , Tano ran , trying to escape the facility . After evading several clone patrols , Tano found three dead clones , apparently killed by a lightsaber . A chase through the facility ensued , with orders given by Fox to shoot to kill , until the arrival and intercession of Anakin Skywalker and Captain Rex , at which point the troops were ordered to only fire stun blasts and capture Tano " alive " . The hunt continued into the landing area outside the base and past the First Battle Memorial , with increasing numbers of troopers and LAAT craft giving chase . During the chase , as she deflected stun bolts , one clone fired a rocket launcher , knocking her off her feet . As she dropped her lightsabers , Tano retrieved one before continuing to run . Eventually , Tano found herself cornered , but was once more able to escape by cutting into a nearby piping system . She managed to evade the troopers before finding herself at the end of the pipe leading to a sinkhole towards the Coruscant underworld . Skywalker managed to find her , pleading her to come back , as escaping would only make things worse . However , Tano refused to be punished for crimes she did not commit and pleaded him to trust her as she trusted him while she finds proof of her innocence . As Rex and Fox caught up to Skywalker , Tano jumped onto a transport descending into the underworld .