Board Thread:Star Wars/@comment-4935956-20170104205704

Earlier today, a mid-season trailer dropped for Star Wars Rebels. I've gone ahead and embedded the video in this post. Below it I'll have a list of highlights

List of highlights:
 * Death troopers - It looks like Thrawn has his own personal squad of death troopers now. This makes perfect sense because death troopers are elite stormtroopers assigned to high ranking Imperial officials. It would make sense for Thrawn, the Grand Admiral of the Imperial Navy, to have them as guards.
 * Rebel Alliance - I had predicted that Mon Mothma would soon tie-in to the series and the Rebel Alliance would begin to form, because one of the Rogue One source books stated she was branded a traitor in 2 BBY (the current year of Rebels), and I was right. In the trailer, we can see Mon Mothma and hear her say, "We're building an alliance. This is our rebellion."
 * Mandalorians - The Mandalorians are seen on some sort of snowy planet. It's definitely not Concord Dawn or Mandalore, so it's probably a new planet. It could very well be Carlac, CWA's second combat zone, which was a snowy planet that Death Watch was on in Season 4 of The Clone Wars.
 * Sabine's mom - On the snowy Mandalorian planet, we see Sabine Wren's mother, an older Mandalorian woman. This could very well be Bo-Katan Kryze from The Clone Wars, who was teased to return in Season 3 of Rebels and has long been speculated to be Sabine's mother. Dave Filoni stated that Sabine's mom was in his mind present in the throne room on Mandalore when Darth Maul killed Pre Vizsla. Bo-Katan is the only known female in the room in that episode.
 * Chopper Base - It looks like Chopper Base gets bombarded by the Empire in an upcoming episode. This is probably when the rebels will go to Dantooine, the first base of the Rebel Alliance.
 * Admiral Yularen - This is a minor one, but immediately after the Chopper Base scene, a brief scene can be seen on a star destroyer where Admiral Wullf Yularen is running alongside stormtroopers. Yularen was the admiral serving under Anakin Skywalker in The Clone Wars. He was one of the men in the meeting room on the Death Star during A New Hope, and was killed when the Death Star was destroyed.
 * Obi-Wan returns...and will fight Darth Maul! This is an epic scene many people have been eager to see for a long time. Near the end of the trailer, Obi-Wan can be seen near a fire on Tatooine. Darth Maul approaches him, and Obi-Wan gets ready to fight. Perhaps this will be the final showdown between the rivals. A duel to the death, where only one makes it out alive. 