In a galaxy far, far-off, there are specific planets that appear a bit nearer — or no less than extra acquainted — than others. Ask anybody carrying a Star Wars shirt on the road to call a planet from the franchise, they usually’d in all probability go together with Tatooine. Coruscant could be a very good second possibility; presumably then Naboo, or poor, doomed Alderaan.
Properly, put together to listen to one other title added to the lexicon as a result of Andor’s second season appears poised to deliver a lesser-known, however well-documented planet in Star Wars historical past to the forefront: Ghorman.
Earlier than Andor returns for Season 2 (and brings the present’s timeline ever nearer to the occasions of Rogue One), right here’s what we already learn about Ghorman and what we suspect the present may delve into within the new episodes.
The place is Ghorman talked about within the Star Wars universe?
In the event you’re a movies-and-TV-only fan, Ghorman is likely to be unfamiliar to you. To this point, whereas loads of lore exists surrounding it, it hasn’t proven up on-screen. We did hear about it in Star Wars: Rebels, throughout Mon Mothma’s daring deal with to the Senate — however when the planet seems in Andor, it’ll be the primary we’ve truly gotten to see it.
Inside canon, Ghorman is situated within the Colonies, which locations it simply exterior the Core Worlds like Coruscant (however not as far-off as Tatooine). It’s recognized for producing high-quality silk materials, however its fundamental export is likely to be Imperial discontent — and a spark of revolution because the galaxy learns of the atrocities dedicated towards it by the Empire, and the way its residents fought again.
In the course of the first season of Andor, Mon (Genevieve O’Reilly) makes point out of delivery lanes to the planet being minimize off, which she says will trigger hundreds to starve. Legends mentions the same, if not precisely the identical, situation: The Ghorman individuals protested peacefully towards elevated Imperial taxes, which resulted within the Empire retaliating with lethal drive.
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What’s the Ghorman Bloodbath?
These followers who’re already acquainted with Ghorman’s historical past had been intrigued when Mon talked about it throughout that tense Season 1 chat along with her husband as a result of the Ghorman Bloodbath is already an notorious incident inside Star Wars canon. In Legends, the bloodbath includes Grand Moff Tarkin touchdown his ship on peaceable protestors, which ends up in lots of of casualties and causes an outcry throughout the galaxy. Canon is much less detailed, however equally grisly; we all know it came about two years earlier than the Battle of Yavin, we all know there was a peaceable protest on Ghorman, we all know the Empire retaliated with troops and blasterfire, and we all know lots of to hundreds had been killed. We additionally know the bloodbath was the inciting incident that led Mon to publicly denounce the Emperor and the Empire. In consequence, she fled Coruscant and formally joined the Insurrection.
As one may assume, Ghorman already has its personal insurgent group: the Ghorman Entrance. Particulars about it are sparse, though we did hear Noticed Gererra (Forest Whitaker) point out it throughout his “all of them, misplaced!” speech to Luthen (Stellan Skarsgard) in Season 1.
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What occurs with Ghorman in Andor?
As of now, that’s the foremost query. We don’t know a ton but about how the doomed planet can be built-in into Andor’s second-season storylines, though we all know for sure it’s coming. Showrunner Tony Gilroy teased a Ghorman storyline to Collider, saying that canon has by no means been clear on what actually occurred in the course of the bloodbath — and that Andor will characteristic a plotline involving the planet that takes place over 5 episodes.
It doesn’t appear an excessive amount of to imagine that we’ll see the bloodbath itself, and maybe that the foremost protest scenes which have been showing in Season 2 trailers is likely to be happening on Ghorman (the Particular Look trailer on Disney+ mentions in a subtitle that individuals are “singing in Ghor,” the Ghormans’ native language). If that’s the case, it additionally seems that Kyle Soller’s Syril Karn might need a task to play on Ghorman, since he’s dressed equally to the protestors and seems in the identical setting. So does Cassian Andor (Diego Luna), who we’d count on to point out up for no less than a kind of 5 episodes. We’ll have to attend and see how Andor addresses this key Star Wars second, however one factor is for certain: after this, there’ll be no extra guesswork as to what occurred when the Empire descended on Ghorman.
Andor Season 2, premieres April 22, Disney+