Quest to find Ezra Bridger

The quest to find Ezra Bridger, otherwise known as the search for Ezra or the search for Grand Admiral Thrawn, was a quest undertaken to find Jedi Ezra Bridger and Grand Admiral Thrawn in the New Republic Era. In the ensuing campaign to liberate the planet Lothal from the clutches of the Galactic Empire, the Ghost crew's mission ended with Bridger disappearing with Thrawn after the young Jedi used the star whales known as the purrgil to defeat him in the Battle of Lothal, leaving both in exile and presumed dead. Several years later, after the end of the Galactic Civil War, a quest to search for Ezra as well as prevent Thrawn's return as heir to the Empire was undertaken by Sabine Wren and former Jedi Ahsoka Tano.

In the years following Ezra Bridger and Thrawn's disappearance, the once invincible Empire began to fracture, the small Rebellion had become bold, and Emperor Palpatine's reign of terror in the galaxy came to an end with the decisive victory at the battle of Endor. Sabine Wren and Ahsoka Tano embarked on a quest to find the missing Bridger, while the former Jedi and Professor Huyang also trained Wren in the ways of the Jedi until parting ways. Wren stayed on Lothal to protect the planet and the people Bridger cared for, taking residence in the LothalNet comm tower E-272, Bridger's former hideout, where she lived for a number of years after the war. Although the Empire had fallen and a New Republic had risen to take its place, sinister agents of the Imperial Remnants were at work in a plot to find the lost Imperial Grand Admiral Thrawn and bring him out of exile. In spite of his vanishing and unconfirmed death at Lothal years prior, Ahsoka Tano started hearing whispers of Thrawn's imminent return and began searching for the last missing Grand Admiral in 9 ABY, which led her to capture of Magistrate Morgan Elsbeth, Thrawn's ally as well as a Nightsister witch. Through Elsbeth, Tano learned of a secret map which was vital to their plans.

As she was transported to the New Republic for trial, Morgan Elsbeth—whose efforts would be dubbed the "Morgan Elsbeth Consipracy" in the New Republic Archives—escaped prisoner custody with the help of mercenary for hire Baylan Skoll and his apprentice Shin Hati. After Ahsoka Tano found the map on Arcana, she reunited with Sabine Wren on Lothal in a search for answers until Hati recovered the map as well as defeated Wren in a lightsaber duel. Following a discovery in New Republic shipyards, General Hera Syndulla tangled with New Republic politics and risked her career to help her friends, with senators responding to the search for Bridger and the perceived threat of Grand Admiral Thrawn's return with skeptical doubt. Meanwhile, Tano and Wren voyage to Seatos, where they confront Hati and Skoll in a space battle as well as lightsaber combat. However, Wren gave up the map to Skoll, who promised to reunite Wren with Bridger, thereby letting Elsbeth's forces use the map and the Eye of Sion to complete an extragalactic journey beyond the galaxy. Tano used the purrgil to follow them as the quest reached the planet Peridea.

Despite Ahsoka Tano, Sabine Wren, and Ezra Bridger's race to prevent it, Grand Admiral Thrawn was able to escape from his exile on his Star Destroyer, the Chimaera, with the help of Morgan Elsbeth, the Great Mothers and their dark magick. Free from his exile, Thrawn and the Great Mothers traveled to the Nightsister homeworld of Dathomir. Unbeknownst to Thrawn, however, Bridger also escaped aboard the Chimaera, while Tano and Wren remained stranded on Peridea.

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