Star Wars Rebels: Sabine Finally Gets a Jetpack

In tonight’s episode of Star Wars Rebels, “Imperial Supercommandos,” Sabine Wren finally got herself a jetpack. In a fun moment, after taking down an Imperial Mandalorian trooper, Sabine takes off his jetpack, and says with a laugh, “Oh, I’ve been wanting one of these.” She snaps it on, and she instantly makes use of it with ease.

The jetpack allows for a thrilling aerial chase scene first previewed at Star Wars Celebration Europe, where Sabine, holding Ezra, flies off, chased by the titular Mandalorians. They soar through the air, and it’s clear that despite her not having one on this series yet, Sabine has had some training with the device.

Mandalorians are oft-associated with jetpacks, from Boba Fett’s not-so-impressive use of one in Star Wars: Episode VI – Return of the Jedi to the much cooler use in Star Wars: Episode II – Attack of the Clones. In the expanded universe, especially in video games, Mandos and their jet packs are all over the place. It’s an easy visual that instantly makes things cooler, after all. Even Obi-Wan Kenobi got to use one of the Mandalorian jet packs in Star Wars: The Clone Wars, when he was fighting against Death Watch.

Unfortunately for Sabine, her jetpack use wasn’t long, as it got shot and disabled in the same episode. Now that she’s gotten a taste for the excitement perhaps she’ll get to pick up another and do it again (or maybe the animators just didn’t want to deal with it in the long term).

Click through the gallery below for a closer look at Sabine’s jetpack adventure in tonight’s episode, and see how it compares to other Mandalorian’s use of the signature device.

Star Wars Rebels follows the adventures of Hera (Vanessa Marshall), Sabine (Tiya Sircar), Zeb (Steve Blum), and the Jedi Kanan (Freddie Prinze, Jr.) and Ezra (Taylor Gray), a small crew that’s finding their way in the nascent Rebel Alliance a few years before the events of Star Wars: Episode IV – A New Hope. Executive produced by Simon Kinberg and Dave Filoni, the in-canon series helps to connect the worlds of the films and the previous animated series, Star Wars: The Clone Wars, with guest appearances so far by characters like Lando Calrissian, Ahsoka Tano, Darth Vader, Darth Maul, Leia Organa, Wedge Antilles, and more.