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 function, 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 realized lots about Cassian’s backstory. Here is a primer on Cassian Andor — every thing we already knew, plus all the foremost information we have realized in “Andor” to this point.
Who Is Cassian Andor?
The Star Wars web site describes Cassian this fashion: “An completed Alliance Intelligence officer with fight area expertise, Captain Cassian Andor instructions respect from his Insurgent troops along with his potential to maintain a cool head underneath hearth and full his missions with minimal assets.” In accordance with 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 Revolt.
Within the first three episodes of “Andor,” nevertheless, viewers study this is not the complete fact. 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 individuals do not converse Fundamental (what the Star Wars universe calls English). He lived there along with his sister and a gaggle 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 along with her to save lots of him. All this goes down close to the tip of the Clone Wars. In the beginning of the sequence, Cassian is searching for a woman 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 data confirmed Kenari was destroyed in a “mining catastrophe.” In Star Wars canon, “mining catastrophe” is usually used as code phrase for one thing horrible that occurred there. Viewers must wait and see what the present reveals in regards to 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 outdated. Within the movie, he is tasked with watching over the renegade Jyn Erso (Felicity Jones) and assassinating her father, Galen, the engineer behind the Dying Star. Cassian in the end 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 Dying Star’s databank. They get hold of the schematics for the Dying Star and ship the information 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. In the end, nevertheless, the schematics find yourself with Princess Leia, offering, nicely, a brand new hope for the Rebels.
Cassian Andor in “Andor”
Again in Might, 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, fearful about himself, right into a Insurgent chief who helps unite and encourage the rebel. The primary season of “Andor” will cowl one 12 months, with the second season protecting the remaining 4 years till the start of “Rogue One.” What’s going to occur throughout that point interval, we do not totally but know.
One factor we learn about “Andor”? Cassian will make it by each seasons. “The fantastic thing about this present is there is no manner they’re going to kill me,” Luna joked again in Might.
— Extra reporting by Victoria Edel
