16 Star Wars Easter Eggs From Andor Season 2

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Star Wars Andor is backmost conscionable implicit 2 years aft its archetypal play ended connected Disney+. The archetypal 3 episodes of play 2 premiered connected Disney+ connected April 22 and the amusement is conscionable arsenic bully arsenic before, with tons of large dialogue, aggravated action, and a full clump of tension. And sprinkled passim Season 2 are immoderate fantastic Easter eggs and references to the greater Star Wars universe.

Like play one, Andor’s second play (so far) hasn’t been packed with Easter eggs and callbacks. Instead, these nods to the remainder of the Star Wars franchise are a spot much buried oregon integrated organically with the story, truthful you mightiness person missed immoderate of them. Don’t worry, I’m ever present to help.

Here are 11 Star Wars Easter eggs, secrets, and references I spotted successful the archetypal six episodes of Andor season two. We volition beryllium updating this database each week with caller worldly arsenic much episodes drop.

Let’s commencement with the biggest and astir breathtaking Easter egg. When Andor yet escapes the dysfunctional rebels, we get a changeable of his vessel flying distant and spot that each of this has been happening connected the jungle satellite of Yavin-4. Yes, the aforesaid Yavin-4 seen successful the archetypal Star Wars movie. This volition yet go the HQ of the Rebellion, but for present its temples stay abandoned.

A smaller Easter ovum I spotted was the quality of an AT-ST puppet held by a kid arsenic seen successful the 3rd episode, Harvest. Bit unusual to fto your kids play with a warfare instrumentality controlled by the evil empire that rules implicit you. But hey, parents fto kids play with toys referencing the US subject so... (Oh and yes, different kid has a bowcaster toy, too. Chewbacca would beryllium proud. Or confused.)

Back successful play 1 of Andor, Luthen mentioned the Rakatan invasion. This is simply a nonstop notation to Knights of the Old Republic and immoderate aged “Legends” epoch lore.

Now, successful play two, Luthen has fixed america much item and confirmed that, successful canon, the alien penetration happened 25,000 BBY. That lines up with the dawn of the Jedi and could corroborate that the Rakatan volition amusement up successful James Mangold’s Star Wars movie acceptable that acold backmost successful the timeline.

At 1 point, during Director Krennic’s super-secret gathering with different Imperial higher-ups, helium mentions that the Emperor wants an vigor root that could supply “unlimited power.” Of course, this is connected to the Death Star, but that circumstantial enactment besides calls backmost 1 of the Emperor’s astir celebrated quotes from Star Wars Episode III.

Also during that aforesaid super-secret space-Nazi meeting, Krennic explains that the lone radical who tin cognize astir this gathering are the radical successful the room. He past straight namedrops 2 Imperial higher-ups: Moff Tarkin and Wulf Yularen.

Of the two, Tarkin is possibly the astir absorbing namedrop, arsenic we cognize the 2 of them person immoderate beef which we spot successful Rogue One. It’s precise comic to deliberation that Krennic specifically made definite Tarkin was kept retired of the loop connected his Ghorman plans.

In the opening minutes of the archetypal occurrence of play two, we spot Andor bargain a prototype TIE Avenger. This is an precocious Imperial starfighter we had lone antecedently seen successful immoderate “Legends” stories. Seeing it successful live-action was a treat, adjacent if Andor astir crashed it similar 10 times.

When Andor steals the TIE Avenger helium is attacked by Stormtroopers, but we besides spot a antithetic benignant of trooper during the fight. This fluffy worker with a rocket launcher is simply a Range Trooper. We archetypal saw them successful Solo: A Star Wars Story connected the satellite Vandor. They are highly trained troopers usually deployed successful places wherever the Empire needs a batch of security.

I don’t request to explicate however awesome it was that Erskin Semaj appeared. Okay, I astir apt do. During occurrence three, erstwhile Luthen is talking to a young antheral astir wherever helium is from, they are interrupted by a drunken Tay bumping into them. That young lad is Erskin Semaj, an adjutant of Mon Mothma’s archetypal seen successful Star Wars Rebels. Is helium an important character? No, but hey, it was chill to spot the amusement see him arsenic it makes consciousness he’d beryllium astatine that wedding.

The password, Kafrene, fixed to Andor by the Imperial technologist astatine the commencement of occurrence 1 isn’t immoderate random satellite oregon made-up nonsense. (Okay, well, this is each made-up nonsense, but you cognize what I mean.) Kafrene is really wherever we archetypal conscionable Cassian Andor successful Rogue One. Specifically, the Ring of Kafrene is simply a seedy mining colony wherever Cassian learns of the Death Star and kills a dude. Kafrene is besides acceptable to look successful the upcoming tactical crippled Star Wars Zero Company as the squad’s HQ.

In Star Wars, the satellite Ghorman is the tract of the infamous Ghorman Massacre, an lawsuit that we cognize happened successful canon, though we don’t cognize the specifics of it. This play of Andor seems to beryllium gathering toward the massacre, which is simply a pivotal lawsuit successful Star Wars arsenic it kickstarts the rebellion and pushes Mon Mothma to publically basal up against the Empire.

We really spot Mothma basal against the Empire and past flight into hiding successful an occurrence of Rebels. It seems Andor is going to capable successful that portion of the timeline and amusement america the massacre.

A large infinitesimal in Star Wars history, 1 that we’ve ne'er seen before, is the Ghorman Massacre. This infinitesimal is what spurs Mon Mothma to publically telephone retired the Emperor and helps galvanize the rebellion. In Legends, the massacre happened erstwhile Grand Moff Tarkin landed a ample vessel connected a radical of protestors. And present we cognize that it still happened in the Canon timeline, but it isn’t the massacre that volition yet pb to Mothma taking a nationalist basal against the Empire. It’s an absorbing mode to grant the past and aged EU stories, portion inactive letting bid creator Tony Gilroy and institution archer their ain caller story. And if you don’t cognize thing astir Star Wars lore, it conscionable adds immoderate other spirit to the world.

This is an easy-to-miss Easter egg, but erstwhile Syril returns to the bureau to get his notes (and interaction idiosyncratic astir his concealed mission), helium distracts immoderate guards from watching a podrace. We archetypal saw podracing successful The Phantom Menace, and it’s amusive to spot it inactive being a athletics each these years later.

Did Saw’s HQ connected the planet D’Qar successful episodes 4 and 5 look a small familiar? That’s due to the fact that we’ve seen this grassy subject basal earlier successful The Force Awakens and The Last Jedi. This is wherever Leia’s Resistance is headquartered earlier they are attacked by the First Order and person to escape.

While connected D’Qar we spot Saw’s rebel radical eating an alien that is being cooked implicit a fire. This being Star Wars, it shouldn’t astonishment you that this isn’t immoderate random alien created conscionable for this scene. Nope! This is simply a Massiff, a spiky lizard-alien-dog that is communal connected Tatooine. Tusken Raiders often person them arsenic pets and defender dogs. How did it extremity up here? I don’t know. I await the five-part comic miniseries explaining this alien dog’s origins.

No, you’re not going crazy, that was Bail Organa that popped up concisely to accidental hullo to Mon Mothma during the Imperial Ball. However, this clip around, the quality wasn’t played by Jimmy Smits but alternatively by Benjamin Bratt. Don’t worry, Smits isn’t dormant oregon thing similar that. Instead, helium conscionable couldn’t look successful the amusement owed to a scheduling conflict. It’s a shame that Smits won’t get to decorativeness retired Organa’s pre-New Hope storyline, but Bratt is simply a coagulated replacement, and I’m blessed Organa volition beryllium a portion of Andor’s final play arsenic the quality is simply a cardinal portion of the rebellion.

A precise tiny Easter egg, but 1 I love, is that astatine immoderate point, Luthen and his adjunct Kleya were capable to overhear a speech by the Emperor’s Grand Vizier Mas Amedda aka that large bluish feline from the prequels. Amedda is simply a fascinating quality successful Star Wars arsenic he’s 1 of the precise fewer radical successful the postulation who cognize astir the Emperor’s existent quality arsenic a Sith Lord.

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