First trailer for Ahsoka season 2 shows Anakin, Clone Wars-era flashbacks, and a declaration of war by Thrawn

At D23, Lucasfilm dropped the first trailer for Ahsoka season 2, and Grand Admiral Thrawn is already declaring war on the Rebel Alliance.

Hayden Christensen returns as Anakin in the footage, appearing both as a Force ghost and in snowy Clone Wars-era flashbacks.

In the present, Grand Admiral Thrawn is back in a galaxy far, far away and declares war on the Rebel Alliance – expect plenty of space battles, then.

Quick flashes of action also reveal Huyang wielding multiple lightsabers like General Grievous for a fight with Shin Hati. The question of Ahsoka Tano's Jedi status will also be addressed, by the sound of things.

The Mandalorian and Grogu director Jon Favreau has shared details about the scope of the new season:

Anybody who saw the sequels knows that there's a First Order coming in, like, 20 years from where we are now in the storyline," "And then Ahsoka season 2 is coming out – which I've seen all of – and that's definitely more dealing with the larger [picture], a higher level. That's about the officers and we're the enlisted men – this is more of a ground-level experience of what's going on. You're seeing the backdrop – which, by the way, is what the first Star Wars started off as.

Ahsoka season 2 premieres January 20 on Disney Plus.