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Contacting Bail remained an option, but Ahsoka expected his response to be more evasion. The more she wanted to know, the more she came back to the core question: why was Vader’s identity kept secret from her? Many discoveries in the fight against the Empire could not be shared freely because of the agents and operations which could be compromised. Withholding information from Ahsoka, one of the Rebellion’s top intelligence coordinators, regarding how she possessed personal knowledge of the second most powerful person in the Empire, didn’t make much strategic sense. That doubt went both directions. If the Rebellion needed to know their enemy, then Ahsoka should let the entire galaxy know the truth about Anakin. Tell every Fulcrum operative and every allied cell, spread it over the holonet, archive everything they could find about Anakin, especially his military history and combat skills, then use that to devise countermeasures. Leave traces connecting the disclosures to prominent imperials, let Vader hack his way through them in a rage. But, the more she thought about it, the less Ahsoka felt like she knew Anakin at all.
I'm a lot of things, but I ain't a quitter.
