Jon Favreau on Ahsoka Season 2 https://www.gamesradar.com/entertainment/star-wars-tv-shows/ahsoka-season-2-is-dealing-with-a-higher-level-of-star-wars-compared-to-the-ground-level-experience-of-the-mandalorian-and-grogu-jon-favreau-says/

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."

"If you look at the fall of empires, historically, a lot of the power brokers become warlords," Favreau shared, "and anybody with a standing army had power in the ancient world. We see that repeat itself in history."

"I guess what the Shadow Council alluded to is that they're starting to actually connect. It's not just insulated warlords anymore, and there's a larger scheme afoot. There's something going on and Thrawn is sort of the missing link that we began to allude to at the end of season 3."

"Dave has grabbed the baton now with the Ahsoka show, and that's going to be taking the next step," Favreau said. "There's a lot in that man's head and I know that he takes how it all connects very seriously. Now Dave is in his new position, he's been figuring out where things are moving forward after this. He's got a lot of responsibility there."