It has been a minute since 2016’s “Rogue One: A Star Wars Story,” however Disney+ is revisiting the movie with “Andor,” its new sequence about Insurgent spy Cassian Andor. Sure, Diego Luna is again within the fan-favorite position, portraying the character in what Disney payments as a spy thriller set 5 years earlier than the occasions of “Rogue One.” Season one of many new present premiered Sept. 21 with three episodes, following Cassian’s journey into the Insurgent chief viewers met in “Rogue One.” And in these episodes, followers discovered so much about Cassian’s backstory. This is a primer on Cassian Andor — every little thing we already knew, plus all the foremost information we have discovered in “Andor” up to now.
Who Is Cassian Andor?
The Star Wars web site describes Cassian this fashion: “An achieved Alliance Intelligence officer with fight subject expertise, Captain Cassian Andor instructions respect from his Insurgent troops together with his potential to maintain a cool head below hearth and full his missions with minimal assets.” In response to the Star Wars Encyclopedia, he was born on the planet Fest and joined an insurrectionist cell in the course of the Clone Wars and fought as a baby soldier. His father was killed at a protest, and his mom additionally died when he was younger. Not a lot else is understood about his life earlier than he joined the Insurrection.
Within the first three episodes of “Andor,” nevertheless, viewers be taught this is not the complete reality. Cassian being from Fest is a canopy story made up by him and Maarva (Fiona Shaw). Cassian is definitely from the plant Kenari, the place the folks do not converse Primary (what the Star Wars universe calls English). He lived there together with his sister and a bunch of different kids. Sooner or later, they got here throughout a mysterious Republic ship that crash-landed there, with useless officers. Cassian ventured into the ship to discover it, the place he was discovered by Maarva. Maarva is satisfied the Republic will kill them in retaliation, so she takes Cassian together with her to save lots of him. All this goes down close to the top of the Clone Wars. In the beginning of the sequence, Cassian is searching for a lady from Kenari and says it is his sister.
In the course of the present, Luthen Rael (Stellan Skarsgård) does point out that Cassian’s father was hung by Imperials. Presumably, that was his adopted father.
What Occurred to Kenari?
In one other scene, the investigators from Pre-Mor who’re searching for Andor say that the Empire information confirmed Kenari was destroyed in a “mining catastrophe.” In Star Wars canon, “mining catastrophe” is commonly used as code phrase for one thing horrible that occurred there. Viewers must wait and see what the present reveals concerning the doomed planet.
Cassian Andor in “Rogue One”
“Rogue One,” launched in 2016, is a prequel to 1977’s “A New Hope,” the very first Star Wars film. In “Rogue One,” Cassian is an intelligence officer who’s labored with the Rebels since he was 6 years previous. Within the movie, he is tasked with watching over the renegade Jyn Erso (Felicity Jones) and assassinating her father, Galen, the engineer behind the Loss of life Star. Cassian finally chooses to not kill Galen, although the scientist dies throughout a bombing anyway. The Insurgent captain and Jyn find yourself taking an imperial ship — dubbed Rogue One — to raid the Loss of life Star’s databank. They receive the schematics for the Loss of life Star and ship the info again to the Rebels. Regardless of the win, the film’s ending is pretty bleak: a blast from Grand Moff Tarkin kills the pair and lots of the Insurgent forces supporting them. Finally, nevertheless, the schematics find yourself with Princess Leia, offering, properly, a brand new hope for the Rebels.
Cassian Andor in “Andor”
Again in Could, Luna mentioned on the Star Wars Celebration that the model of Cassian followers will meet in “Andor” is a “very egocentric man.” The present will take Cassian on a journey from a daily individual, nervous about himself, right into a Insurgent chief who helps unite and encourage the insurrection. The primary season of “Andor” will cowl one yr, with the second season overlaying the remaining 4 years till the start of “Rogue One.” What’s going to occur throughout that point interval, we do not absolutely but know.
One factor we learn about “Andor”? Cassian will make it by each seasons. “The great thing about this present is there is not any manner they will kill me,” Luna joked again in Could.
— Further reporting by Victoria Edel
