History Fridge / Andor

*** This adds a little bit of {{Irony}}/[[{{Hypocrite Hypocrisy}}]] to Yularen's declaration that the PORD would grant the ISB further Army and Navy access. With the two examples mentioned above, it's quite clear that the Death Star was the only exception.

*** This adds a little bit of {{Irony}}/{{Hypocrite Hypocrisy}} to Yularen's declaration that the PORD would grant the ISB further Army and Navy access. With the two examples mentioned above, it's quite clear that the Death Star was the only exception.

* A call forward to Film/ANewHope. Yularen states that the only question the Empire has is "How tight to close our fist". Which of course is the wrong response as Leia states later. " The more you tighten your grip, Tarkin, the more star systems will slip through your fingers."

** In hindsight this might explain why the ISB never realized that Andor was imprisoned on Narkina 5 despite their extensive efforts to locate him. Information relating to [[spoiler: the Death Star Program]] was highly classified with few in the ISB likely even being aware of its existence. So for all intents and purposes Cassian ceased to exist in imperial records when he got sent to Narkina 5, since the Empire likely didn't want even their own people wondering about the purpose of these massive labor camps.

** While he likely didn't overhear all of Mon and Luthen's argument, he had to have overheard at least ''some'' of it. Being ISB, one can imagine he's been trained to pick up details in conversations. Given his gray hair, it wouldn't be surprising if he was an intelligence agent for the Republic before the Empire.

* In his speech Luthen declares “I’ve made my mind a sunless space.” What’s one of the most famous shots of the ''Star Wars'' series? [[Film/ANewHope Luke on Tatooine, watching the twin sunset.]] Luke can see the suns and dream of a better future, because of people like Luthen who did the dirty work first.

* In his speech Luthen declares “I’ve made my mind a sunless place.” What’s one of the most famous shots of the ''Star Wars'' series? [[Film/ANewHope Luke on Tatooine, watching the twin sunset.]] Luke can see the suns and dream of a better future, because of people like Luthen who did the dirty work first.

* Yularen's titular announcement all but confirms that the Aldhani natives are going to get jackbooted ''even harder'' by the Empire as a result of the heist, which the vast majority of them had nothing to do with. Note his reference about local customs being used as 'cover' for partisan activity -- the pilgrims present at the base during the heist will be ''lucky'' if they only end up in prison. This also suggests a throughline from Aldhani to the kind of repression we see on Ferrix - and, later, maybe even the implied religious strife on[[Film/RogueOne Jedha]].

* People keep telling Cassian to [[ArcWords "Climb!"]], from Nemik as they flee Aldhani to K2 as as he and Jyn steal the Death Star plans. His whole story is about rising upwards, both metaphorically when he goes from the gutter to saving the galaxy, to literally, because his destiny is to climb that tower on Scarif.

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* This episode reveals that Luthen has a civilian cover as an antiquities dealer on Coruscant. Antiquities and artwork dealing is a fantastic disguise for money laundering, which the Rebellion would need to do a lot of in order to hide where its money is coming from. The prices of antiquities are often highly subjective, giving wealthy anti-Imperial supporters a plausible excuse to greatly overpay for a given piece and the dealer wiggle room to record a different number in their books than however much money actually changed hands, and making it hard for an auditor to tell if a price is suspiciously high or low. Antiquities dealing also works as a convenient excuse for someone to be off globe-trotting (or planet-hopping) for months at a time and receiving cash from odd places.

* Tying the shuttle to a piece of salvage actually makes sense. Sabotaging the engines or any other part of the shuttle could possibly be detected by the computers. Just attaching it to something heavy, on the other hand, isn't detected until it's too late.

* Yularen's titular announcement all but confirms that the Aldhani natives are going to get jackbooted ''even harder'' by the Empire as a result of the heist, which the vast majority of them had nothing to do with. Note his reference about local customs being used as 'cover' for partisan activity -- the pilgrims present at the base during the heist will be ''lucky'' if they only end up in prison.

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