Holy crap. Rebels has a new Big Bad, and it’s an old Big Bad—Grand Admiral Thrawn, the brilliant Imperial military commander who took over the remnants of the Empire in the old Expanded Universe, as revealed in the very first EU novel trilogy by Timothy Zahn.

Ezra takes advantage of a crashed Tie Fighter in the latest Star Wars Rebels short:

You can watch the action-packed first seven minutes of Star Wars Rebels below. It's all classic Star Wars, including a crowded marketplace, gun battle with Stormtroopers, and speeder bike chase. And nothing could be more Star Wars than introducing a new, slightly different type of Stormtrooper to turn into an…

It's Hera versus Imperial Tie Fighters in this brand new Star Wars Rebels footage, revealed today at WonderCon: