Andor Highlights What Being an Outsider Means

Editor’s Note: The following article contains spoilers from Episodes 1-3 of Andor.Cassian Andor (Diego Luna) didn’t ask to be in the Empire.

We know this now more than ever with the first few episodes of Andor.

Though Rogue One made Cassian’s disdain for the Empire clear, through Andor we’re starting to see where that fire came from.

Cassian was from Kenari, a mid-rim planet with little Empire activity.

He lived in a village of people who had never seen a spacecraft before, had their own language and culture, and a family of his own.

For the beginning of his life, Cassian quite literally existed outside the Star Wars world we know and love.

But his status as an outsider ignorant to the larger plights of the galaxy does not last long.

After he’s whisked away from his home in a bid to save him from Imperial forces,

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