Every 'Star Wars' Easter Egg In 'Andor' Episode 4
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It seems Easter came early. Andor, the latest Star Wars streaming series has proven to be a sleeper hit in a matter of days. Having a notably darker tone and focusing on the early days of the Rebel Alliance, Andor follows the titular Cassian Andor, played by Diego Luna, as he tries to locate his missing sister and ends up being pulled into a growing Rebel movement by the mysterious Luthen Rael, played by Stellan Skarsgård. In just the first few episodes, it is clear that Andor is different from the previous Star Wars series. With an abundance of new characters, locations, and political themes rarely explored in the franchise prior, Andor feels less like a Star Wars show as much as a spy thriller that just happens to be set in the Star Wars universe, which many other viewers and I have found refreshing. With that said, the series has not had any shortage of connections and allusions to various other Star Wars projects. The first three episodes alone had species, creatures, planets, and weapons from Rogue One, The Force Awakens, Solo, Dark Forces, and more. However, those episodes pale in comparison to the sheer number of Easter eggs in Andor’s fourth episode, “Aldhani.”
In the episode’s first scene, Cassian informs Luthen that he spent years working for the Empire on the planet Mimban. This is the same planet we see Han Solo serving as a mudtrooper in Solo.
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Before sending off Cassian on his mission to Aldhani, Luthen gives Cassian a blue kyber crystal, which Luthen says was once used to ward off a Rakatan army. The Rakata were a race introduced in the video game Knights of the Old Republic in which they colonized multiple worlds with a dark side-powered space station called the Star Forge.
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Upon cutting to the Imperial Security Bureau (ISB) on Coruscant, we get mentions of various planets and systems from the ISB personnel. Among them are Ryloth, the home planet of the Twi’leks introduced in The Clone Wars, the Arvala system, introduced in The Mandalorian, and Scarif, which is where the climax of Rogue One takes place.
Later in the episode, Mon Mothma meets with her husband, Perrin Fertha, who informs her of a couple of guests joining them for dinner. Among these guests is Sly Moore, Administrator for the Empire and one of Emperor Palpatine’s own personal aids.
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By far, the scene with the most Easter eggs in the episode is the meeting between Luthen and Mon Mothma in Luthen’s antiquities shop. Luthen’s shop is filled with various items from a multitude of Star Wars films, series and video games. The one that game fans might recognize right away is a suit of armor containing the helmet of Galen Marek’s Sith Stalker armor, which Galen, the protagonist of The Force Unleashed wears in the game’s dark side ending.
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Also visible within Luthen’s shop are items from various peoples, including a Kel Dor breath mask, a Kashyyyk clarion, a Twi’lek kalikori, a Gungan energy shield, and even a bit of Mandalorian beskar armor.
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Along with these are three stone slabs with bits of the Mortis mural from Rebels printed onto them.
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A reference to Indiana Jones can also be spotted in the form of Indy’s whip encased in a carbonite block.
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There are more Easter eggs in the episode, but these are the major ones that have been turning heads. A few Star Wars fans were disappointed when Andor’s head writer and showrunner Tony Gilroy claimed the series would not have any major connections to the Star Wars universe. I hope this episode alone has dissipated a lot of those expectations. Star Wars will never be short on Easter eggs and fans will always be there to catch them. Easter eggs are best when they are in the background of the story, and this episode of Andor is an excellent example of that.
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