History Fridge / Andor

* Once more, [[Film/RogueOne Rebellions are built on hope]]. While Luthen made his speech about the depths he's willing to sink to and the sacrifices he's willing to make, all of that gets thrown back into his face when he sees the spark that ignites Ferrix into a riot - It wasn't just a call to arms, it was a call to Hope, to want for a better tomorrow. Maarva's post-mortem speech, the riots and Luthen's HeelRealization towards the path he was walking ties the series together with the major theme of the franchise as whole; the Light (Hope, Respect, Idealism and Love) proved to be magnitudes more powerful and effective than the Dark (Hate, Viciousness and Fear).

* People keep telling Cassian to "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.

* Cassian's question to Luthen is [[BookEnds exactly the same question Luthen first put to Cassian]]. Cassian Andor has accepted he's going to die fighting the Empire. But now he challenges Luthen to decide whether his death will matter.

** For anyone familiar with other [[Franchise/StarWarsExpandedUniverse EU]] works, they'll have a good idea of what's to come for aliens. [[BigfootSasquatchAndYet Wookiees]] and [[GreenSkinnedSpaceBabe Twi'leks (primarily female ones)]] were constantly plagued by having members of their race sold into slavery for [[WorkingOnTheChainGang hard labor]] and [[SexSlave involuntary sex work]] respectively, so other aliens would be just as likely to go into similar kinds of denigrating and forced servitude. The difference is that with humans they at least try to maintain the illusion of them "only going to prison", whereas aliens don't get that distinction at all.

* on Kenari, from Kerri's perspective, the older kids went out to go investigate something, and came back with their leader dead and her big brother Kassa just gone, after he apparently promised to come back to her. And she likely never found out the truth.

* From Kerri's perspective, the older kids went out to go investigate something, and came back with their leader dead and her big brother just gone, after he apparently promised to come back to her. And she likely never found out the truth.

* 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 the dealer wiggle room to record a different number in their books than however much money actually changed hands for a given piece, 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.

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* 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 the dealer wiggle room to record a different number in their books than however much money actually changed hands for a given piece, 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.

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* When Cassian asks [=B2EMO=] to lie for him, Bee specifies that he has adequate power reserves to do so. This sounds a bit like a standard case of "writers don't understand computers" at first, but it actually makes a bit of sense. Computer programs are ultimately just sets of instructions, and lying would require Bee to not only add an additional instruction to know when to say the lie instead of the truth, but would also require him to hold both the lie and the truth in memory. Both actions have an energy and power cost, which might be infinitesimal to a modern 2020s computer that can carry out millions of instructions per minute, but for a computer that keeps with the show's 1970s-esque RetroFuture, that's a big deal, especially since it's shown that Bee's battery has trouble holding a charge.

* When Cassian asks [=B2EMO=] to lie for him, Bee specifies that he has adequate power reserves to do so. This sounds a bit like a standard case of "writers don't understand computers" at first, but it actually makes a bit of sense. Computer programs are ultimately just sets of instructions, and lying would require Bee to not only add an additional instruction to know when to say the lie instead of the truth, but would also require him to hold both the lie and the truth in memory. Both actions cost power, which might be infinitesimal to a modern 2020s computer that can carry out millions of instructions per minute, but for a computer that keeps with the show's 1970s-esque RetroFuture, that's a big deal, especially since it's shown that Bee's battery has trouble holding a charge.

* When Cassian asks B2EMO to lie for him, Bee specifies that he has adequate power reserves to do so. This sounds a bit like a standard case of "writers don't understand computers" at first, but it actually makes a bit of sense. Computer programs are ultimately just sets of instructions, and lying would require Bee to not only add an additional instruction to know when to say the lie instead of the truth, but would also require him to hold both the lie and the truth in memory. Both actions cost power, which might be infinitesimal to a modern 2020s computer that can carry out millions of instructions per minute, but for a computer that keeps with the show's 1970s-esque RetroFuture, that's a big deal, especially since it's shown that Bee's battery has trouble holding a charge.

** This also explains why Cassian was handed down [[FelonyMisdemeanour such a ridiculously long sentence]] in "Announcement" -- [[spoiler:Considering the scale of the [[BigDumbObject Death Star]]]], it makes perfect sense that the Empire would be determined to round up as many [[MadeASlave sla]]-*ahem*, ''dissidents'', as possible for unpaid labour.

** This also explains why Cassian was handed down [[FelonyMisdemenour such a ridiculously long sentence]] in "Announcement" -- [[spoiler:Considering the scale of the [[BigDumbObject Death Star]]]], it makes perfect sense that the Empire would be determined to round up as many [[MadeASlave sla]]-*ahem* ''dissidents'' as possible for unpaid labour.

* During the series, Cassian comes to Ferrix three times. The first time, he comes to take- to beg favors off his friends so he can get offworld and lay low. The second time, he comes to make himself even- he checks on his family and friends, and pays back his debts. The third and final time, he comes to give back- he rescues his friends and surviving family and gives them what they need to convey them to safety, and then commits to the Rebellion, the thing that he knows he will give his life for, one way or another.