From a retconned origins story, to the rival agency of the ISB, to Star Wars Rebels. Here are the hidden details and references I found in Episodes 7-9 of Andor Season 2!
In my Andor Season 2, Episodes7-9 review, you will find my in-depth analysis and thoughts of each scene and events that took place during this week’s episodes. I recommend that you either read the review or watch the episodes first before jumping to the easter eggs below.
Rebel transport
The ship that appears in the first scene of Episode 7 is a JT-731 Broadhorn Transport. The first time we saw this ship was in the Obi-Wan Kenobi series. Roken and all the other refugees escaped Jabiim in this transport.
Rebellions are built on hope
The hotel clerk tells Cassian the iconic line “Rebellions are built on hope”. In Rogue One, Cassian would tell this to Jyn Erso, and later she would repeat it to the rest of the Rebel Alliance when debating if they would fight on Scariff.
Network droids
The droids who are broadcasting the Ghorman protest are also used in the Senate to broadcast the sessions. You can see them in both Andor and the prequel trilogy.
Force-healing
Force-healing is a concept that is relatively new. This ability allows the user to accelerate the healing process of a wound or even heal injuries that are fatal.
Obviously, the effectiveness of this technique is equivalent to how strong in the Force its user is. We have seen it in The Mandalorian, The Acolyte, The Rise of Skywalker, Star Wars: The Old Republic, and some High Republic books.
Eadu’s lab
When speaking to Dedra, Major Partagaz says that Krennic had the lab on Eadu work day and night. As you might remember from Rogue One, this is where Galen Erso and his engineering team are located.
Gaining the Emperor’s favor
Partagaz also mentions that the success on Ghorman will gain them a good position with the Emperor, but why would they need this? The answer is because they’re constantly competing with Imperial Intelligence, a sister Agency.
Even if on paper they have the same goal, let’s not forget that everyone in the Empire is always trying to climb the power ladder, and undermining competitors within the Empire is a part of this. Director Krennic is one of the highest-ranking officials in Imperial Intelligence.
General Davits Draven
The man who was bossing Andor around is General Davits Draven, one of the main military strategists of the Rebel Alliance. He appeared for the first time in Rogue One.
General Dodonna
When Vel is talking to Bix about Cassian, she says that her orders to talk to her were issued by Draven and Dodonna.
General Jan Dodonna is a character from the original trilogy. You can see him in the control room coordinating the attack against the first Death Star.
Many extras
For the Ghorman massacre, they used 350 extras. All of them were fully dressed by the costume department.
The old’ reliable
Cassian’s weapon of choice to assassinate Dedra is the modular A280-EFE blaster. He also uses this blaster when heading to assassinate Galen Erso on Eadu. You can use this weapon in the current Fortnite Star Wars mini-season.
K-2SO origin
Episode 8 retcons the origin of how Cassian and K-2SO originally met. This was shown in a one-issue comic special (Amazon affiliate link) released by Marvel back in 2017.
The ultimate killing droid
This is the second time we’ve seen how the Empire deploys the KX droids to kill people. The first time was during the Great Purge of Mandalore.
Senate location
The majority of episode 9 was filmed in the “Ciudad de las Artes y las Ciencias” in Valencia, Spain.
See you in one year
Bail Organa makes the decision to stay behind and stall as much as he can until Yavin is ready. He promises to meet Mothma one year after, which actually happens as we get to see him at the Yavin base in Rogue One.
Leaving the Empire
Right before exiting the Senate building, Mon Mothma drops her iconic blue robe. This is the last time we see her wear the iconic blue of Chandrila, a metaphor of the former Senator leaving all her former life behind. Until the Empire is defeated, we will only see her wearing white clothes.
Secret Cargo
After Mothma is rescued, Erskin tells Cassian that a Yavin escort will take Mothma to Yavin because they want her to make a new speech.
The reason why we don’t see or hear that in Andor is that it already happened in Star Wars Rebels. Gold Squadron has some problems, and the Ghost crew saves the day.
After Mothma’s speech, the rebel cells that were spread out finally came together. Officially creating the Rebel Alliance. The episode is the 18th of the third season.
Will we get to see and hear Mon’s full speech?
In the Andor Declassified episode, Disney revealed that they recorded the full speech of Mon Mothma and during the editing process, they picked what parts to actually show from it.
Genevieve O’Reilly tells us that they asked her if she wants to have the entire speech written for her and she confirmed it immediately. This was a very emotional and personal for her as she has been playing and developing the character for a long time now for us on screen.
So, maybe we will get a chance to see a behind-the-scenes or “deleted scene” material including the full speech one day. Hopefully.
