GOD I frickin' love Andor. 'What if we got to see the transition of a slimy, corrupt, but largely invisible and stable authoritarian empire to outright cartoon villainy, but make this transition seem quite rational and logical and show what it looks like from the perspective of ordinary people'?. One of the most based premises for a sci-fi show ever.
Such a great espionage thriller and ode to self sacrifice! Andor is about empire and security state, where most of the bad guys are just family-feeding pencil-pushing cogs in a machine so heavy handed that it is destined to break what it tries to fix. Andor is a class conscious elucidation of empire and industry, where minor characters build major weaponry to bring home a paycheck, and in which the industries serving the empire are so pervasive that at last empire is not merely the allegiance of the bad guys, it is the setting in which all players operate.
6:55 "A republic still needs to be maintained. You can't simply call something a republic and let it rot away from the inside and expect people to still believe in it and cherish it." Okay, that was a great and extremely relevant line.
i just have to say that the way you tie real world politics together with star wars is just such a genius concept and it really makes it easier to see both the real world and star wars in a new light which is just really cool so thank you
I will disgaree. I feel this video would have been better without drawing the direct connection to present day politics, instead allowing the viewer to make their own connection about "Hey, this feels like what is going on right now" instead of him basically beating us in the face with it. /End Rant
star wars sucks now you would be better off to talk about something else if you give props to disney you will just encourage them to make more garbage and ruin it more.
@@will-vi9pk Some DisSW is good. We should give props to, and watch at least twice, that which is good so they make more of it. All stick and no carrot does not work. As was pointed out in the video.
The scene is Andor that explains the Empire's downfall is the one where Cassian is arrested on the tourist planned for being at the wrong place at the wrong time and then gets send to prison with no chance of defending himself. It means that the Empire has no real justice system left and it will grind anyone without political protection or the wealth to buy that protection. It also means that the Empire's policies are now completely deaf to local concerns. Tourist locations are notorious with letting tourists get away with petty crimes because they need the tourists to come back and/or recommend the location to their friends. As far as the locals know, Cassian is just an average tourist planning to go home in a couple days. So a tourist location now has innocent tourists just disappearing with all their possessions. Once news gets out, that planet's tourist economy is dead for decades. No local politician would support something like that if they had any choice.
Yep, the Empire's increasingly authoritarian overreach was doomed to destroy their economy eventually, and that was with them already relying on slavery.
@ An unofficial right is not a right. Kinda like the abortion question. The SC decision stated there is no constitutional factor barring one. A right is explicitly provisioned by written law. Back to France. French “rights” are literally subject to the whims of their government. If they decide their is an extant factor you can and will be prosecuted regardless of personal risk of self incrimination or safety. “Rights” are unfortunately very thin things with very little safeguarding. The unspecified virus of unknown origin proved that. When a “public emergency” is an excuse to erase your rights they are not rights. When permits are required to assemble regardless of the reason it is no longer a right. When an obvious parody is grounds for a prison term here is no freedom of speech. Several women in European nations have gotten prison terms for “defaming” proven rapists by calling them what they are convicted of.
2:58 This reminded me a lot of a line from HBO's _Rome_ that's stuck with me over the years, where one of the main character's outraged when he finds out he's basically being given a elected position without really having to run for it and the whole election is really just pageantry for the public. He makes the statement that the elections are sacred and need to be respected. Whereupon the man he's talking to says: "The Roman people are not crying out for clean elections. They're crying out for jobs. They're crying out clean water, for food, for stability and peace." It was so cynical and to the point, and yet it really does ring true. As long as a majority of people are happy, fed, and have a means to support themselves, they will always be content with the status quo
The thing is the Empire really were bad for the Galaxy, but Andor is one of the few pieces of Star Wars Media that actually showed why that was the case.
Yes, and there is an actual academic term for it: Anarcho-Tyranny. "A system of government that fails to enforce or adjudicate protection to its citizens while simultaneously persecuting innocent conduct." - Wikipedia
@@pancakes8670 lots of alien species experimented or enslaved. entire planets slowly wiped out. yet the majority were ignorant or didn't care since it didn't affect them.
I did see in a previous video (the one about the Imperial military culture I think) that apparently that having force lightning reflected back into your brain did more than just give you a case of "wrinkly mcscrotumface".
The other irony of Palpatine's strategy means, not only did he end up surrounded by yes men, often others that had the capability of identifying problems ended up dead, demoted or joining the rebellion.
I'll be very surprised if Ded-ra doesn't end up dead, although probably not before something befalls Partagaz. I hope we find out why Dedra has such a hate on for rebels though
@@zer0nix remember what Bill Burr's character said to Mando when they were riding that vehicle to the Imp base after the pirate attack? A lot of people were in the Imp forces due to pirates or rebel attacks that killed innocent people.
Palpatine pulled off a masterstroke in how he got to power. But somehow he thought the Rebels would be as easy to control as the Separatists and the Senate. Being able to use both controllers in a video game is no small feat - but eventually you have to stop playing yourself.
The implication being that the one thing Palpatine couldn't account for was organic opposition to his rule, an opponent he didn't control and couldn't direct. One wonders what happened to the Sith's huge, thousand year built network of underworld contacts. Perhaps Crimson Dawn destroyed them.
Palpatine was playing with two controllers, but he never noticed the third controller being operated by an otherwise wimpy MLG player. Palpatine could take the third controller, but not without losing control of the other two. He assumes the wimpy looking gamer won’t be a threat until he’s already started losing, and then it’s too late. Everything was stacked against ol’ Sheev, but he had no way to stop it in spite of his overwhelming control.
@rakisuzuki-burke4148 he gained power, but that only brought him fear. He enjoyed his rise to power, pulling the strings to make everything fall into place, but once he won, he was bored.
I feel like we need someone like Tony Gilroy running Lucasfilm now. People like Filoni are just "yes men" to people like Kathleen Kennedy. And we've seen where that power structure leads us... But Gilroy is clearly capable of injecting GREAT WRITING into an existing universe, and refreshing the product! This is what fans both want, and need!
@@jacob4920 Gilroy doesn't care about Star Wars enough to do that. What Star Wars needs is more artists like him to come in and make their own projects, with full control to make a good story without having to submit to the politics of big companies like Disney.
@@J7mmy2K04 Exactly. Someone LIKE Tony Gilroy. People who still care about the CRAFT of storytelling, and not whatever "messages" they can pound into the plot.
I love that Andor is just...like, at his DNA...unable to abide servitude or being in a cage (barely put his hands up, barely put them behind his head, etc). He's not just a "rebel w/o a cause", he just fundamentally will NOT be imprisoned. Yeah, he fit in when he had to work at the camp, but he was never imprisoned--in his mind. He was a free man always!
Going to have to rewatch Andor again sometime soon. Best bit of Star Wars that came out in recent times, I may even argue it's the best Star Wars content ever in moving picture form.
In "Serenity" The Operative is talking to Mal, and he says something to the effect that he does "terrible things to bring about a better world" knowing full well there will be no place in that world for men like him. Luthen is a lot like that I think, but perhaps with the delusion that he thinks there will be a place for him.
@ProtoNeoVintage While they're similar, I think Luthen has a better view of the world than the Operative did. He runs his shop, and has a whole network of contacts and projects going. I think he would find a place to keep going after the rebellion, if he survives it. And thank you for the Firefly call-out. 😉
@@jedironin380 Oh, no doubt about it. Though, given how much his shop is used as a cover for his other operations, it may not be a given. As this is a geek'ument there is no right answer though. 🙂
Your questioning if people even really want or care about the concept of freedom or even really living in a Democracy is soul-chillingly on-point. I personally think that, deep down, nobody really CARES about living in a Democracy. They care about living in a nation with what they believe is a stable and functional government that protects and provides for them, and Democracies just do a good job of CONVINCING people that they can do the job on paper. The problem though is that Democracy isn't that simple with JUST having leaders in charge. More than any other system, a Democracy demands PARTICIPATION among its voters It demands that the average voter keep themselves informed about the issues, that they educate themselves on their own political system and political and economic key terms. But the average voter DOESN'T care about any of that. They want to believe that watching a 30 minute broadcast on a news channel, even a deeply biased one, is enough for them to know what's really going on. Then the politicians find out how malleable and easily manipulated these people are and they start ENCOURAGING this behavior, even changing aspects of the country like the media and education system to keep them ignorant and pliable. I HONESTLY learned more about politics and economics from internet videos and online searches than I EVER did from school, and that should be terrifying.
Andor was great sci-fi set inside the Star Wars universe and what I love most about it. Any sci-fi or fantasy trope can happen from magic space monk fantasy to hard edge political thriller, they both work because the galaxy is so huge. I do enjoy your take on Star Wars. Lucas loved storytelling because it's such a huge part of human culture and Star Wars talks about those issues in broad strokes to make it relevant to almost anyone. The fact that you've often mention the mistake of a military first economy is relevant to a large part of the the world economy, especially our own.
I'm sitting here watching a RUclipsr and photographer lay out a far better understanding of how insurgencies and rebellions grow than I ever saw from the supposed "experts" when I was contracting for the Dept. of State. That either says a lot about Allen's understanding of sociology and geopolitics, or about how disconnected the government has become over the past few decades from the situation on the ground. Probably both.
In my experience, government agencies are generally isolated from the real world. They have their accepted ideas and really cannot see how things REALLY work because they cannot see outside of those ideas.
We're at a stage where numerous countries have reached a point similar to monologue scene in V for Vendetta, where government are simultaneously hyper-aware of a multitude internal and external threats and tensions as well as being incapable to walk back many of the systems and policies that further increase those threats. When faced with the attacks of 911, the US signed the Patriot Act, introduced massive spy programs and escalated war across the globe, thus worsening their perception while greatly enhancing their power projection. Billion dollar corporations in practically every western democracy have entirely gutted so many systems that the only way they can keep seeing growth is to openly buy their way into government while also introducing more draconian measures to fight escalating responses from understandably frustrated groups. At the same time, individuals actively working to dismantle our society walk away unscathed while bemoaning they are wrongfully targeted. Andor expresses the worsening state of the UK, Canada and the US (to name just a few countries being ruined by corporate and governmental overreach) through the use of a timeless fictional story, meaningful characters, impactful moments that build up to huge payoffs while also being absolutely scathingly honest about the state of current events. In short, Andor is a masterclass on storytelling.
@@marc-andrerenaud1394Both GK Chesterton and JRR Tolkien were adamant that "fairy stories" are necessary to help us understand the world, even if they are "fantasy". Andor is an example.
I’m really glad you included the scene when Mon and Luthen get together after the heist went down. That is single-handedly maybe one of the top three most important scenes in the show in terms of defining the franchise based on the original trilogy. I talked more about that scene in a video I made on my film channel: “How One Scene in Andor Defined An Entire Franchise”
@ lol I’m not just promoting for the sake of promoting. That video ties into his commentary from the subject matter of the video. It’s not malicious what I’m doing I’m only trying to build the conversation.
22:33 Knowing that Sith Lords are invariably power hungry psychopaths, yes. That is most likely what he expected to happen. Sidious spent most of his time planning to takeover the galaxy, but afterwards, with regards to governing the galaxy, he ultimately used Sith philosophy as a model for his policies, which were going to cause rebellion sooner or later.
Luthen Rael in provoking the Empire may be ultimately a good guy, but it is an action that Lenin (a thoroughly bad man) could appreciate. The ISB's reaction to the Aldhani Heist produced a "The worse, the better.", in Lenin's words. It is a measure of how well the character of Luthen Rael is written that he understands this and articulates how he damns himself by acting as he does.
Luthen's strategy is described in detail in the US Army manual "Insurgencies and Countering Insurgencies". The strategic battle is about legitimacy... The insurgents are attempting to make their opponent lose legitimacy, and trigger a reactive security crackdown to cause those opponents to damage their own legitimacy. A real world example playing out now is Israel. The current government of Israel and the IDF have been doing pretty much exactly what the manual says not to do. "Actions should not create more enemies than they eliminate."
The problem with Luthen Rael is he views everyone around him as expendable, on the other hand; his willingness to fight against the empire albeit from the shadows I agree with!
Actually, what prevented the Cold War going 'hot' was that everyone realised that if the nuclear genie was unleashed, there was no going back. War had been costly since the turn of the century, that's why it took the death of the heir presumptive of a great power to kick it off. Nukes though, they were a different kettle of fish. Suddenly, just one aircraft (later missile) getting through could destroy a whole city. Open war went from merely ruinous to downright cataclysmic.
But if you look at the early propaganda from both sides, they downplayed just how bad a nuclear war would be. Duck and cover drills, for example gave people a sense of control/ safety despite being a waste of time. They never really explained to people what the effects of radiation would be. The countries that had nukes were also the ones that won the war. Until the Cuban missile crisis most people probably weren't too worried about nuclear war.
@@richardziolkowski7246 In the early days, nukes were delivered by aircraft (and thus, were capable of being shot down), and had yield in the kilotons or tens-of-kilotons range, which would have seen city peripheries relatively untouched. It was only later that nukes got small enough to be mounted on ballistic missiles.
I imagine Palpatine realizing sted-by-step that ultimate power was not all that great after all, and when he got bored, he just decided to set fire to it all. Love when you draw parallels between the Fall of the Republic and contemporary US-society
the funny thing is Luthen Rael said said something very similar to what Baron Vladimir Harkonnen with regard to squeezing so the natives of Dune would embrace his nephew Feyd in deposing Rabban - but the Baron Harkonnen played by Stellan Skaarsgard didnt
I'm going to say it. This is what Palpatine wanted. He didn't really want a stable rule. He wanted to be the guy who kicked every dog. He's a sadist. And he was undone because of it.
I seem to remember in legends somewhere it was mentioned the battle of coruscant killed a mind boggling amount of civilians especially on the upper levels. It was at least billions.
We need to pay attention to those dolphins. Because one day they will DISAPPEAR! And when they do, we'll know that the VOGONS are coming, to destroy Earth, so they can build their galactic bypass!
8:48 I would say that this is because most school systems for the last 200 years have been designed to produce obedient factory workers or soldiers, who are good at following instructions and keeping a tight schedule but not thinking for themselves.
Easy on the "grandparents" comments, my dad was in WWII. it's bad enough that every year, my son tries to get me to give up my Obi-Wan Halloween costume for an "old" Obi-wan, or Count Dooku look! I saw ep. 4 at a drive-in, but I'm still every bit the Star Wars nerd now that I was when I was 5, just a little.... older. 😂😂 Great video, man. You've created the best Star Wars channel on the platform, hands down. Original, well thought out content, incredibly interesting subject matter, and easy to listen to narration with a little humor added to taste. Rock on Alan! 🤘
While I'm not quite as old as you, I was 6 years old when I first watched Episode IV (from the comfort of my own living room, because the films were already on Home Video. lol) So "Star Wars" touched me, at a drastically early age as well. Back when the product was still considered fresh.
If your son keeps hounding you about your costume, you just gotta wave your hand in front of his face and say "These are not the costumes you seek." ^_^
I actually think the beginning of season 2 of 'Andor' will start with the Empire nearly wiping Ferrix City off the map. Thus beginning a line of Imperial atrocities so long that the destruction of Ferrix City is barely remembered by 0BBY.
@10:55 the "enshitification" process on a galaxy wide economy rather than a single platform or service. Just as a platform will begin by focusing on making users happy, to attract a wide user base, then sell those users to advertisers when the users are invested in the platform and less willing to leave, and finally squeeze the advertisers and the users while offering worse service to both and making massive profits for the platform. Palpatine started out offering lucrative defense and rebuilding projects, so businesses would position themselves to win such contracts, and citizens would see imperial employment or contract work as good jobs. Then when the whole economy was in bed with The Empire, the work could be less lucrative because "where else can you get a job?" and even if you're resentful of COMPNOR looking over your shoulder, if the imperial military complex got smaller, that would threaten your job as well as the jobs of your family and friends; so people were willing to put up with it.
Of course the alternative motivation for Palpatine to do these increasingly despotic things was to create the rebellion. Vader was damaged goods and he needed a new younger apprentice. The Inquisitor program wasn't delivering much, Starkiller (if cannon) went rogue, so he had to provoke the remaining Jedi to come out of hiding and oppose him openly. What better a way to root out a suitable Jedi - one powerful enough to make an impact in the civil war and susceptible to the Dark Side after being involved warfare for years - than generating an open armed rebellion against him for a Jedi to join up with? And if a whole lot of people suffer and increase their anger and hatred, making the Dark Side more powerful along the way, hey that's just a bonus for him.
I argue this is not a great plan either though. More likely he is going to find someone like Luke, who is strong in the Force and susceptible to the Dark Side, but is more likely to just kill Palps and take his place. The hero who becomes the monster in the slaying of it, so to speak.
People will think more about how the economy affects them besides others, this raid weakened the trust in the Empire ability to protect their troops pay as well showed how vulnerable the machine is to small issues eroding at it.
AHEM. History major here. Better comparison for ISB would be Sicherheitsdienst, SD, or Security Service in basic. It was branch of the SS, which is most comparable to the COMPNOR, with Stormtrooper corps being Waffen SS, and ISB the Sicherheitsdienst.
I agree with this assessment entirely. Also the SD was where the few dissidents to the larger oppressive apparatus actually endured throughout the war.
Or NKVD who during the Great Purge of the Red Army General Secretary Stalin gave orders to the Chief of the NKVD Lavornity Beria to kill off Red Army Generals and Officers who Stalin thought posed a threat to his power that is why when the Germans lunched Barbarosa the Red Army did no have a answer because all the Compatant Red Army Generals and Officers were killed off and New Officers did not have the experience
@@danielpetrucci8952 Correct my friend. The Wehrmacht had the right assessment of the Red Army's capabilities then, they had poor implementation of what they could have done because they thankfully had such an incompetent authoritarian in charge. Beria was just as much of a monster as Stalin. Without Beria there really could not be an enduring Stalin.
@Smenkhaare Exacty there is a reason why Stalin called Beria his own Himler I'd argue Beria was WAY WAY WAAAY more Evil than Himlar even Stalin had to send in his Bodyguard to get his own daughter away from Beria it was only Nakita Kurshsev with help from Marshall Zhukov to overthrow Beria and become the next Premier of the Soviet Union then he made De Stalinaztion policy and the NKVD became the KGB
Alan this was astonishingly good. I mean it’s your MO to inject real word socio / political / economic realism in o our favourite kids show universe I know but this one was brilliant ! Also I love the almost unintentional humble brag backdrop showing the benefits of life as a digital nomad !! Assuming that’s Taipei or Bangkok or some other awesome Asian mega city. Love your content love your message. Hits so much more positively and celebrates what sits at the core of the very idea of starwars. The hope of a better humanity. Have a re read of Aristotle and forms of government. See if you can re work that in x
Damn I can't believe it's already been a whole year since Andor released and the writing is still phenomenal. I cannot wait for what they are gonna do in Season 2.
Both democratic and autocratic regimes, without checks and balances, anything can go wrong. After all, we saw dynasties risen and fallen, and also witnessed the collapses of the governments of many elected leaders as well.
I think you would like the books The Fourth Turning, and The 5000 year leap. There is a lot about what it really means to be a citizen of a Republic. We as a people should be cognizant of what it means to be part of a Republic, and not simply leaving it to the bureaucrats.
The sentence increase was problematic on so many levels. Including the part where it was never told why it happened to the people who were affected by it. All Andor saw was suddenly getting his numbers increased. And the problem with that is it gave the feeling, that they will remain there forever. Once someone was about to finish they just increase the numbers. It puts people into the position where the only way out is to rebel, or die trying.
If only the Empire had a bunch of superpowered investigators and diplomats bent on maintaining the status quo. Maybe they can have telepathic or telekenetic abilities. They can have a bright glowing symbol of status everyone can recognize. We can call it an Order of some kind. Thanks for the video.
You know what might be interesting? A look into the sith species during the high republic period. We're there any left after the last sith war? What happened to them?
FINE! I stopped immersing myself in star wars universe after TLJ, but i guess i'll watch Andor. Just Andor. This video is a damn good recommendation for it.
Luthen is the most interesting character within the Star Wars universe. He's been at the game of intelligence and sedition for so long, playing agents off each other and the organizations they work within, that he's clearly multiple steps ahead of the enormous bureaucratic machine called the Galactic Empire. Nearly every scene with him is perfect--masterfully performed by Stellan Skarsgård. The only scene which should be cut out is that moment where his freighter does a Phantom Menace spin, slicing those TIEs in half...awful writing, even if it looked cool. Andor is really my favorite show of all time.
Putting people into maximum security prison over misdemeanor offenses? Bending the justice system to get free labor from inmates? Things are getting political during this time of the cycle.
The problem with the dark side is it really requires conflict and is about conflict. There is no peaceful and prosperous galaxy ruled by a dark side user. The Force will not allow it. It’s a contradiction. This does not mean you cannot have a galaxy ruled by a dark side user or dark side users. It just won’t look like one ruled by light side users.
8:20 Freedom can be defined as the power or right to act, speak, or think as one wants without hindrance or restraint. However, in practical terms, it's often bounded by the rules and laws of a society, which aim to balance individual liberties with the common good. This means that while individuals have freedoms, these are constrained to some extent to ensure that everyone can enjoy their rights without infringing on the rights of others.
No. If you consider the economic situation of the empire it is reasonable. The empire inherited huge amount of depts from the republic and it's military focused budget didn't improve the financial situation of the galaxy either. A printed or digital currency depends on mutual trust. Without trust they are only worth the paper they are printed on or drives they are stored on. If you find yourself in a bad economy with a currency that is continiously devalued you would prefer to be paid in something more stable like metals. If anyone in the galaxy could demand to be paid in metal even from palpatine it was the military which he based his power on.
Hey Alan could you do a video on what if the empire democratised and gave power back to the imperial senate and the emperor became a symbolic figurehead like how the Japanese emperor is today or the British monarchy is today would this have save the empire from collapse or do you still think it would have fell?
GOD I frickin' love Andor. 'What if we got to see the transition of a slimy, corrupt, but largely invisible and stable authoritarian empire to outright cartoon villainy, but make this transition seem quite rational and logical and show what it looks like from the perspective of ordinary people'?. One of the most based premises for a sci-fi show ever.
It's so good!!! One of the best star wars shows ever made!!
Personally its the best thing disneys done
Such a great espionage thriller and ode to self sacrifice!
Andor is about empire and security state, where most of the bad guys are just family-feeding pencil-pushing cogs in a machine so heavy handed that it is destined to break what it tries to fix.
Andor is a class conscious elucidation of empire and industry, where minor characters build major weaponry to bring home a paycheck, and in which the industries serving the empire are so pervasive that at last empire is not merely the allegiance of the bad guys, it is the setting in which all players operate.
SHITFUCK I love Andor golly gosh darn it!
6:55 "A republic still needs to be maintained. You can't simply call something a republic and let it rot away from the inside and expect people to still believe in it and cherish it."
Okay, that was a great and extremely relevant line.
i just have to say that the way you tie real world politics together with star wars is just such a genius concept and it really makes it easier to see both the real world and star wars in a new light which is just really cool so thank you
Good real world politics instead of social politics
I will disgaree. I feel this video would have been better without drawing the direct connection to present day politics, instead allowing the viewer to make their own connection about "Hey, this feels like what is going on right now" instead of him basically beating us in the face with it. /End Rant
Literally that's what Star Wars is built on. People nowadays forget that George Lucas had very strong political views since he is a sociologist
star wars sucks now you would be better off to talk about something else if you give props to disney you will just encourage them to make more garbage and ruin it more.
@@will-vi9pk Some DisSW is good. We should give props to, and watch at least twice, that which is good so they make more of it. All stick and no carrot does not work. As was pointed out in the video.
The scene is Andor that explains the Empire's downfall is the one where Cassian is arrested on the tourist planned for being at the wrong place at the wrong time and then gets send to prison with no chance of defending himself. It means that the Empire has no real justice system left and it will grind anyone without political protection or the wealth to buy that protection. It also means that the Empire's policies are now completely deaf to local concerns. Tourist locations are notorious with letting tourists get away with petty crimes because they need the tourists to come back and/or recommend the location to their friends. As far as the locals know, Cassian is just an average tourist planning to go home in a couple days. So a tourist location now has innocent tourists just disappearing with all their possessions. Once news gets out, that planet's tourist economy is dead for decades. No local politician would support something like that if they had any choice.
Yep, the Empire's increasingly authoritarian overreach was doomed to destroy their economy eventually, and that was with them already relying on slavery.
You might be shocked how many nations are like that. In France you have no right to remain silent or to due process for example.
"The more you tighten your grip, Tarkin, the more star systems will slip through your fingers.” -Princess Leia
@@mikewaterfield3599 France has a law to protect the right to remain silent since 2011 and from what I can tell an unofficial right before then.
@ An unofficial right is not a right. Kinda like the abortion question. The SC decision stated there is no constitutional factor barring one. A right is explicitly provisioned by written law.
Back to France. French “rights” are literally subject to the whims of their government. If they decide their is an extant factor you can and will be prosecuted regardless of personal risk of self incrimination or safety.
“Rights” are unfortunately very thin things with very little safeguarding. The unspecified virus of unknown origin proved that. When a “public emergency” is an excuse to erase your rights they are not rights. When permits are required to assemble regardless of the reason it is no longer a right. When an obvious parody is grounds for a prison term here is no freedom of speech.
Several women in European nations have gotten prison terms for “defaming” proven rapists by calling them what they are convicted of.
2:58 This reminded me a lot of a line from HBO's _Rome_ that's stuck with me over the years, where one of the main character's outraged when he finds out he's basically being given a elected position without really having to run for it and the whole election is really just pageantry for the public. He makes the statement that the elections are sacred and need to be respected. Whereupon the man he's talking to says:
"The Roman people are not crying out for clean elections. They're crying out for jobs. They're crying out clean water, for food, for stability and peace."
It was so cynical and to the point, and yet it really does ring true. As long as a majority of people are happy, fed, and have a means to support themselves, they will always be content with the status quo
Unfortunately true. I wish I could dispute this.
It's funny how Andor did more with a few scenes to explain how the Empire was _evil_ to the average person than literally anything else.
The thing is the Empire really were bad for the Galaxy, but Andor is one of the few pieces of Star Wars Media that actually showed why that was the case.
Yes, and there is an actual academic term for it: Anarcho-Tyranny. "A system of government that fails to enforce or adjudicate protection to its citizens while simultaneously persecuting innocent conduct." - Wikipedia
@@pancakes8670 lots of alien species experimented or enslaved. entire planets slowly wiped out. yet the majority were ignorant or didn't care since it didn't affect them.
In palps defence (never thought I would write that) darkside force use does seem to rot the brain out rather quickly.
it is corruption of the Force, and the Force gives us life. So it can only rot you away in all ways.
I did see in a previous video (the one about the Imperial military culture I think) that apparently that having force lightning reflected back into your brain did more than just give you a case of "wrinkly mcscrotumface".
@@jdreyes3745 His face got more wrinkly while his brain became smoother!
@@mrbyzantine0528 so I guess we can blame everything sidious did on his smooth brain
Not true. Read more.
The other irony of Palpatine's strategy means, not only did he end up surrounded by yes men, often others that had the capability of identifying problems ended up dead, demoted or joining the rebellion.
I'll be very surprised if Ded-ra doesn't end up dead, although probably not before something befalls Partagaz.
I hope we find out why Dedra has such a hate on for rebels though
But also as brilliant as the ISB scenes were in andor at illustrating how competent the imperials it also shows that they fight among each other
@@zer0nix remember what Bill Burr's character said to Mando when they were riding that vehicle to the Imp base after the pirate attack? A lot of people were in the Imp forces due to pirates or rebel attacks that killed innocent people.
Palpatine pulled off a masterstroke in how he got to power. But somehow he thought the Rebels would be as easy to control as the Separatists and the Senate. Being able to use both controllers in a video game is no small feat - but eventually you have to stop playing yourself.
The implication being that the one thing Palpatine couldn't account for was organic opposition to his rule, an opponent he didn't control and couldn't direct. One wonders what happened to the Sith's huge, thousand year built network of underworld contacts. Perhaps Crimson Dawn destroyed them.
Palpatine was playing with two controllers, but he never noticed the third controller being operated by an otherwise wimpy MLG player. Palpatine could take the third controller, but not without losing control of the other two. He assumes the wimpy looking gamer won’t be a threat until he’s already started losing, and then it’s too late. Everything was stacked against ol’ Sheev, but he had no way to stop it in spite of his overwhelming control.
The weakness of absolute control is that it's not absolute.
He was good at seizing power.
But that means nothing once you're already *in* power.
@rakisuzuki-burke4148 he gained power, but that only brought him fear. He enjoyed his rise to power, pulling the strings to make everything fall into place, but once he won, he was bored.
Pretty much the Doolittle raid for the Rebels, the Andor and RO lore and writing is such a masterpiece!
I feel like we need someone like Tony Gilroy running Lucasfilm now. People like Filoni are just "yes men" to people like Kathleen Kennedy. And we've seen where that power structure leads us...
But Gilroy is clearly capable of injecting GREAT WRITING into an existing universe, and refreshing the product! This is what fans both want, and need!
@@jacob4920 Gilroy doesn't care about Star Wars enough to do that. What Star Wars needs is more artists like him to come in and make their own projects, with full control to make a good story without having to submit to the politics of big companies like Disney.
@@J7mmy2K04 Exactly. Someone LIKE Tony Gilroy. People who still care about the CRAFT of storytelling, and not whatever "messages" they can pound into the plot.
I love that Andor is just...like, at his DNA...unable to abide servitude or being in a cage (barely put his hands up, barely put them behind his head, etc). He's not just a "rebel w/o a cause", he just fundamentally will NOT be imprisoned. Yeah, he fit in when he had to work at the camp, but he was never imprisoned--in his mind. He was a free man always!
I think theres a lot of people like that in the world. Reminds me back to Season 1 with the "The natural state of living things is to rebel" line
Going to have to rewatch Andor again sometime soon. Best bit of Star Wars that came out in recent times, I may even argue it's the best Star Wars content ever in moving picture form.
I have seen it 3 times. I would definitely be up for a 4th. I don't watch much Star Wars stuff in general.
Bro I just rewatched it last night and I’m still blown away by that episode.
Luthen Rael's monologue at the end of episode 10 hits the most for me.
That, and Nemik's Manifesto.
In "Serenity" The Operative is talking to Mal, and he says something to the effect that he does "terrible things to bring about a better world" knowing full well there will be no place in that world for men like him. Luthen is a lot like that I think, but perhaps with the delusion that he thinks there will be a place for him.
@ProtoNeoVintage While they're similar, I think Luthen has a better view of the world than the Operative did. He runs his shop, and has a whole network of contacts and projects going. I think he would find a place to keep going after the rebellion, if he survives it.
And thank you for the Firefly call-out. 😉
@@jedironin380 Oh, no doubt about it. Though, given how much his shop is used as a cover for his other operations, it may not be a given. As this is a geek'ument there is no right answer though. 🙂
Your questioning if people even really want or care about the concept of freedom or even really living in a Democracy is soul-chillingly on-point. I personally think that, deep down, nobody really CARES about living in a Democracy. They care about living in a nation with what they believe is a stable and functional government that protects and provides for them, and Democracies just do a good job of CONVINCING people that they can do the job on paper.
The problem though is that Democracy isn't that simple with JUST having leaders in charge. More than any other system, a Democracy demands PARTICIPATION among its voters It demands that the average voter keep themselves informed about the issues, that they educate themselves on their own political system and political and economic key terms. But the average voter DOESN'T care about any of that. They want to believe that watching a 30 minute broadcast on a news channel, even a deeply biased one, is enough for them to know what's really going on.
Then the politicians find out how malleable and easily manipulated these people are and they start ENCOURAGING this behavior, even changing aspects of the country like the media and education system to keep them ignorant and pliable. I HONESTLY learned more about politics and economics from internet videos and online searches than I EVER did from school, and that should be terrifying.
Andor was great sci-fi set inside the Star Wars universe and what I love most about it. Any sci-fi or fantasy trope can happen from magic space monk fantasy to hard edge political thriller, they both work because the galaxy is so huge.
I do enjoy your take on Star Wars. Lucas loved storytelling because it's such a huge part of human culture and Star Wars talks about those issues in broad strokes to make it relevant to almost anyone.
The fact that you've often mention the mistake of a military first economy is relevant to a large part of the the world economy, especially our own.
I'm sitting here watching a RUclipsr and photographer lay out a far better understanding of how insurgencies and rebellions grow than I ever saw from the supposed "experts" when I was contracting for the Dept. of State. That either says a lot about Allen's understanding of sociology and geopolitics, or about how disconnected the government has become over the past few decades from the situation on the ground. Probably both.
the usa is the empire, theres no debating that now
In my experience, government agencies are generally isolated from the real world. They have their accepted ideas and really cannot see how things REALLY work because they cannot see outside of those ideas.
We're at a stage where numerous countries have reached a point similar to monologue scene in V for Vendetta, where government are simultaneously hyper-aware of a multitude internal and external threats and tensions as well as being incapable to walk back many of the systems and policies that further increase those threats.
When faced with the attacks of 911, the US signed the Patriot Act, introduced massive spy programs and escalated war across the globe, thus worsening their perception while greatly enhancing their power projection. Billion dollar corporations in practically every western democracy have entirely gutted so many systems that the only way they can keep seeing growth is to openly buy their way into government while also introducing more draconian measures to fight escalating responses from understandably frustrated groups. At the same time, individuals actively working to dismantle our society walk away unscathed while bemoaning they are wrongfully targeted.
Andor expresses the worsening state of the UK, Canada and the US (to name just a few countries being ruined by corporate and governmental overreach) through the use of a timeless fictional story, meaningful characters, impactful moments that build up to huge payoffs while also being absolutely scathingly honest about the state of current events.
In short, Andor is a masterclass on storytelling.
@@marc-andrerenaud1394Both GK Chesterton and JRR Tolkien were adamant that "fairy stories" are necessary to help us understand the world, even if they are "fantasy". Andor is an example.
Andor is [surprisingly] the best Star Wars TV show ever made so far and is on par with the better Star Wars movies.
People not caring about the Jedi order losing, the empire taking over completely. Crazy how art reflects life.
I’m really glad you included the scene when Mon and Luthen get together after the heist went down. That is single-handedly maybe one of the top three most important scenes in the show in terms of defining the franchise based on the original trilogy. I talked more about that scene in a video I made on my film channel: “How One Scene in Andor Defined An Entire Franchise”
bro just self promoing 😂
@ lol I’m not just promoting for the sake of promoting. That video ties into his commentary from the subject matter of the video. It’s not malicious what I’m doing I’m only trying to build the conversation.
@@OrionInSpace mb i was joking, shouldve made that more clear
@@kobaltmyst8074 ok lol I couldn’t tell how you meant it
22:33 Knowing that Sith Lords are invariably power hungry psychopaths, yes. That is most likely what he expected to happen. Sidious spent most of his time planning to takeover the galaxy, but afterwards, with regards to governing the galaxy, he ultimately used Sith philosophy as a model for his policies, which were going to cause rebellion sooner or later.
Luthen Rael in provoking the Empire may be ultimately a good guy, but it is an action that Lenin (a thoroughly bad man) could appreciate. The ISB's reaction to the Aldhani Heist produced a "The worse, the better.", in Lenin's words. It is a measure of how well the character of Luthen Rael is written that he understands this and articulates how he damns himself by acting as he does.
Luthen's strategy is described in detail in the US Army manual "Insurgencies and Countering Insurgencies".
The strategic battle is about legitimacy... The insurgents are attempting to make their opponent lose legitimacy, and trigger a reactive security crackdown to cause those opponents to damage their own legitimacy.
A real world example playing out now is Israel. The current government of Israel and the IDF have been doing pretty much exactly what the manual says not to do.
"Actions should not create more enemies than they eliminate."
The problem with Luthen Rael is he views everyone around him as expendable, on the other hand; his willingness to fight against the empire albeit from the shadows I agree with!
Actually, what prevented the Cold War going 'hot' was that everyone realised that if the nuclear genie was unleashed, there was no going back. War had been costly since the turn of the century, that's why it took the death of the heir presumptive of a great power to kick it off. Nukes though, they were a different kettle of fish. Suddenly, just one aircraft (later missile) getting through could destroy a whole city. Open war went from merely ruinous to downright cataclysmic.
mutual assured destruction.
But if you look at the early propaganda from both sides, they downplayed just how bad a nuclear war would be. Duck and cover drills, for example gave people a sense of control/ safety despite being a waste of time. They never really explained to people what the effects of radiation would be. The countries that had nukes were also the ones that won the war. Until the Cuban missile crisis most people probably weren't too worried about nuclear war.
@@richardziolkowski7246 In the early days, nukes were delivered by aircraft (and thus, were capable of being shot down), and had yield in the kilotons or tens-of-kilotons range, which would have seen city peripheries relatively untouched. It was only later that nukes got small enough to be mounted on ballistic missiles.
@@GoranXIIAnd were more powerful*
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I imagine Palpatine realizing sted-by-step that ultimate power was not all that great after all, and when he got bored, he just decided to set fire to it all.
Love when you draw parallels between the Fall of the Republic and contemporary US-society
12:43 at this time I thought Alan was going to start a impromptu dance routine 😁
Generation Tech: the modern school of political science.
Star Wars: Pop Culture and Politics. Professor Alan.
the funny thing is Luthen Rael said said something very similar to what Baron Vladimir Harkonnen with regard to squeezing so the natives of Dune would embrace his nephew Feyd in deposing Rabban - but the Baron Harkonnen played by Stellan Skaarsgard didnt
I'm going to say it. This is what Palpatine wanted. He didn't really want a stable rule. He wanted to be the guy who kicked every dog. He's a sadist.
And he was undone because of it.
First one. Bro I love your videos so freaking much thanks for making this type of content 🎉🎉
Was like a domino effect that started and never ended
I seem to remember in legends somewhere it was mentioned the battle of coruscant killed a mind boggling amount of civilians especially on the upper levels. It was at least billions.
This video was really well timed
My allegiance is to flipping, to dolphins.
We need to pay attention to those dolphins. Because one day they will DISAPPEAR! And when they do, we'll know that the VOGONS are coming, to destroy Earth, so they can build their galactic bypass!
so long and thanks for all the fish
5:14 oh wow, memories. That's a classic.
8:48 I would say that this is because most school systems for the last 200 years have been designed to produce obedient factory workers or soldiers, who are good at following instructions and keeping a tight schedule but not thinking for themselves.
"Did the Jedi Order put food on my table for my family? No." Some random farmer.
❤Andor. Hopefully season 2 is as good as the first.
I wish all of Disney Star Wars had the quality of Andor
They do. Except the movies i suppose.
Easy on the "grandparents" comments, my dad was in WWII. it's bad enough that every year, my son tries to get me to give up my Obi-Wan Halloween costume for an "old" Obi-wan, or Count Dooku look! I saw ep. 4 at a drive-in, but I'm still every bit the Star Wars nerd now that I was when I was 5, just a little.... older. 😂😂
Great video, man. You've created the best Star Wars channel on the platform, hands down. Original, well thought out content, incredibly interesting subject matter, and easy to listen to narration with a little humor added to taste.
Rock on Alan! 🤘
Boo hoo
I saw Star Wars in Modesto, California as an ankle biter. I feel the age thing.
While I'm not quite as old as you, I was 6 years old when I first watched Episode IV (from the comfort of my own living room, because the films were already on Home Video. lol) So "Star Wars" touched me, at a drastically early age as well. Back when the product was still considered fresh.
@@KageNoTora74 kids these days don't get the "cutting-edge" excitement that Star Wars was back then. There was nothing like it!
If your son keeps hounding you about your costume, you just gotta wave your hand in front of his face and say "These are not the costumes you seek." ^_^
In fiction, a heist. In our history, it's usually a massacre.
I actually think the beginning of season 2 of 'Andor' will start with the Empire nearly wiping Ferrix City off the map. Thus beginning a line of Imperial atrocities so long that the destruction of Ferrix City is barely remembered by 0BBY.
Luthen Rael is best SW character since the OT
That's debatable
@10:55 the "enshitification" process on a galaxy wide economy rather than a single platform or service. Just as a platform will begin by focusing on making users happy, to attract a wide user base, then sell those users to advertisers when the users are invested in the platform and less willing to leave, and finally squeeze the advertisers and the users while offering worse service to both and making massive profits for the platform. Palpatine started out offering lucrative defense and rebuilding projects, so businesses would position themselves to win such contracts, and citizens would see imperial employment or contract work as good jobs. Then when the whole economy was in bed with The Empire, the work could be less lucrative because "where else can you get a job?" and even if you're resentful of COMPNOR looking over your shoulder, if the imperial military complex got smaller, that would threaten your job as well as the jobs of your family and friends; so people were willing to put up with it.
Of course the alternative motivation for Palpatine to do these increasingly despotic things was to create the rebellion.
Vader was damaged goods and he needed a new younger apprentice. The Inquisitor program wasn't delivering much, Starkiller (if cannon) went rogue, so he had to provoke the remaining Jedi to come out of hiding and oppose him openly. What better a way to root out a suitable Jedi - one powerful enough to make an impact in the civil war and susceptible to the Dark Side after being involved warfare for years - than generating an open armed rebellion against him for a Jedi to join up with?
And if a whole lot of people suffer and increase their anger and hatred, making the Dark Side more powerful along the way, hey that's just a bonus for him.
I argue this is not a great plan either though. More likely he is going to find someone like Luke, who is strong in the Force and susceptible to the Dark Side, but is more likely to just kill Palps and take his place. The hero who becomes the monster in the slaying of it, so to speak.
Kinda like how John Brown's raid on Harper's ferry essentially ignited the Civil War.
People will think more about how the economy affects them besides others, this raid weakened the trust in the Empire ability to protect their troops pay as well showed how vulnerable the machine is to small issues eroding at it.
AHEM.
History major here.
Better comparison for ISB would be Sicherheitsdienst, SD, or Security Service in basic.
It was branch of the SS, which is most comparable to the COMPNOR, with Stormtrooper corps being Waffen SS, and ISB the Sicherheitsdienst.
I agree with this assessment entirely. Also the SD was where the few dissidents to the larger oppressive apparatus actually endured throughout the war.
@@ewok40k Nice a fellow historian.
Or NKVD who during the Great Purge of the Red Army General Secretary Stalin gave orders to the Chief of the NKVD Lavornity Beria to kill off Red Army Generals and Officers who Stalin thought posed a threat to his power that is why when the Germans lunched Barbarosa the Red Army did no have a answer because all the Compatant Red Army Generals and Officers were killed off and New Officers did not have the experience
@@danielpetrucci8952 Correct my friend. The Wehrmacht had the right assessment of the Red Army's capabilities then, they had poor implementation of what they could have done because they thankfully had such an incompetent authoritarian in charge. Beria was just as much of a monster as Stalin. Without Beria there really could not be an enduring Stalin.
@Smenkhaare Exacty there is a reason why Stalin called Beria his own Himler I'd argue Beria was WAY WAY WAAAY more Evil than Himlar even Stalin had to send in his Bodyguard to get his own daughter away from Beria it was only Nakita Kurshsev with help from Marshall Zhukov to overthrow Beria and become the next Premier of the Soviet Union then he made De Stalinaztion policy and the NKVD became the KGB
Sad to see how Yularen became an oppression bringer
He was a good man
Alan this was astonishingly good. I mean it’s your MO to inject real word socio / political / economic realism in o our favourite kids show universe I know but this one was brilliant ! Also I love the almost unintentional humble brag backdrop showing the benefits of life as a digital nomad !! Assuming that’s Taipei or Bangkok or some other awesome Asian mega city.
Love your content love your message. Hits so much more positively and celebrates what sits at the core of the very idea of starwars. The hope of a better humanity.
Have a re read of Aristotle and forms of government. See if you can re work that in x
I would love to see you do a playthrough of Stellaris. Idk why I just think it would be fitting
it would be nice to see someone on youtube do a run without feeding their pops to a war machine, lol.
Damn I can't believe it's already been a whole year since Andor released and the writing is still phenomenal. I cannot wait for what they are gonna do in Season 2.
Its been a whole 2 years
This was awesome Alan! Well done 👏
Awesome connections. This applies to the outside, current political landscape too.
Alan was really preachin' on this one about the state of Society. Many in my Generation understand what's up to varying degrees. 👊👊✊✊👏👏👏👌👌
Both democratic and autocratic regimes, without checks and balances, anything can go wrong. After all, we saw dynasties risen and fallen, and also witnessed the collapses of the governments of many elected leaders as well.
I think you would like the books The Fourth Turning, and The 5000 year leap. There is a lot about what it really means to be a citizen of a Republic. We as a people should be cognizant of what it means to be part of a Republic, and not simply leaving it to the bureaucrats.
The sentence increase was problematic on so many levels. Including the part where it was never told why it happened to the people who were affected by it. All Andor saw was suddenly getting his numbers increased. And the problem with that is it gave the feeling, that they will remain there forever. Once someone was about to finish they just increase the numbers. It puts people into the position where the only way out is to rebel, or die trying.
Noobs ha. I share this channel every chance I get, keep up the great work!
If only the Empire had a bunch of superpowered investigators and diplomats bent on maintaining the status quo. Maybe they can have telepathic or telekenetic abilities. They can have a bright glowing symbol of status everyone can recognize. We can call it an Order of some kind. Thanks for the video.
You know what might be interesting? A look into the sith species during the high republic period.
We're there any left after the last sith war? What happened to them?
This is reflected in
“Maslow’s Hierarchy of Needs”. If your most basic needs aren’t met most will achieve them by any means.
Might have to rewatch Andor! It's still one of the best star wars projects ever made!
Man. This hits hard
Luthor, the first successful accelerationist.
From a single point the waves ripple out
"Passing laws that aren't well-thought out" explains the entirety of Congress since 1929.
Well said sir!
Damn the hammer germ metaphor was hella good
@4:27, also it would have been disproportionally the wealthy and influential impacted, as the surface was an expensive luxury
I would love to hear your thoughts on agent Kalus when in the ISB and after
The irony of this script, in hindsight, is palpable.
FINE! I stopped immersing myself in star wars universe after TLJ, but i guess i'll watch Andor. Just Andor. This video is a damn good recommendation for it.
Luthen is the most interesting character within the Star Wars universe. He's been at the game of intelligence and sedition for so long, playing agents off each other and the organizations they work within, that he's clearly multiple steps ahead of the enormous bureaucratic machine called the Galactic Empire. Nearly every scene with him is perfect--masterfully performed by Stellan Skarsgård. The only scene which should be cut out is that moment where his freighter does a Phantom Menace spin, slicing those TIEs in half...awful writing, even if it looked cool.
Andor is really my favorite show of all time.
8:31 lol you had me worried you were doing a Segway.
Putting people into maximum security prison over misdemeanor offenses? Bending the justice system to get free labor from inmates? Things are getting political during this time of the cycle.
Is 3:17 a real image?? That looks sick as hell I want one
The problem with the dark side is it really requires conflict and is about conflict. There is no peaceful and prosperous galaxy ruled by a dark side user. The Force will not allow it. It’s a contradiction.
This does not mean you cannot have a galaxy ruled by a dark side user or dark side users. It just won’t look like one ruled by light side users.
I see what you did there.
Good stuff.
I thought the man in the thumbnail was Ernest.. Ernest joins the Empire.
The most terrible thing in this video was the Hello Kitty 40k.
You can never have too many heresy! 🎀. 😅
Given how easily colonel Yularen played into the rebels hands, it almost seems like he’s helping their cause on purpose.
Both Star wars empire and Babylon fives Earth alliance and at least the third season mirrors what is going on right now
Sometimes the smallest things can lead to the biggest changes.
God an actual analysis of starwars
8:20
Freedom can be defined as the power or right to act, speak, or think as one wants without hindrance or restraint. However, in practical terms, it's often bounded by the rules and laws of a society, which aim to balance individual liberties with the common good. This means that while individuals have freedoms, these are constrained to some extent to ensure that everyone can enjoy their rights without infringing on the rights of others.
This.
Why does this guy remind me of Kyle when the Jersey took over 🤣
Does anyone else think that it’s strange that the imperials get paid in physical credits as opposed to a bank transfer/funds transfer?
No. If you consider the economic situation of the empire it is reasonable. The empire inherited huge amount of depts from the republic and it's military focused budget didn't improve the financial situation of the galaxy either. A printed or digital currency depends on mutual trust. Without trust they are only worth the paper they are printed on or drives they are stored on. If you find yourself in a bad economy with a currency that is continiously devalued you would prefer to be paid in something more stable like metals. If anyone in the galaxy could demand to be paid in metal even from palpatine it was the military which he based his power on.
I'm curious about something. What did they as a calendar system before the BBY/ABBY system? Republic Era? Imperial Era?
I get most of this, aside from people not trusting the Republic... So they trust the guy leading it?
You think about Andor almost as much as I do
The Cold war wasn't a shooting war? I think the people of Korea or Vietnam would disagree with that statement. Love your channel!!! 🤘😁🖖🍻
Wake up maul, new gen tech video dropped
The Empire really goofed up.
Powerful,I hope more people CAN share this b 4 the 5th
Hey Alan could you do a video on what if the empire democratised and gave power back to the imperial senate and the emperor became a symbolic figurehead like how the Japanese emperor is today or the British monarchy is today would this have save the empire from collapse or do you still think it would have fell?
Overheard at an Imperial rally:
Have you heard about the floating ball of space garbage in the Free Trade sector? It's called Ferrix.
That was a nice LAAT
All right - but much to small in scale.
80 million credits?
That's < one coffee for everyone on aldhani - not to speak of the whole sector.
It had nothing to do with the quanity but everything to do with the capability.
Alan just wanted an excuse to talk about Andor and i'm ok with it.
Okay, okay...I'll go watch Andor again.
The raid on Aldhani was sort of the Francis Ferdinand of the galactic civil war.