Andor showrunner Tony Gilroy set out to avoid fan service with this series. It’s part of why the Rogue One prequel differs from the typical Star Wars series and is a bit more grown-up. The Mandalorian might also be a series for adults, but baby Grogu is too young to watch Andor. With the first three episodes released together, there was plenty to watch, and nothing Gilroy put in them was wasted. Still, there were a few cool things you might have missed.

Andor, if anything, makes more references to other famous sci-fi works than it does to the Star Wars universe. It adds to the show and tells viewers that this series was made with a deep love for the sci-fi genre and not just for Disney’s executives. But over the course of these three episodes, there were a few winks at some other Star Wars titles and some things that might spark a few fan theories. Well, we’re here to answer the questions you might have had and point out the small things that might have only been on the screen for a second.

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Here are all the Easter eggs you might have missed in Andor.

Andor Episode 1 Easter Eggs

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Andor opens on Cassian Andor walking towards a city on a rainy night. Then some text appears telling us we’re on Morlana One, in the Preox-Morlana Corporate Zone, five years before the battle of Yavin (BBY 5). This isn’t something Star Wars titles typically do. Rogue One was the first movie in the Star Wars canon to tell viewers what planet they were on using a subtitle like this. So it makes sense that Andor would do it since it’s a Rogue One prequel written by the same person.

But this is really significant because it’s the first time in any Star Wars project, movie, or TV show they’ve pointed out the time. The BBY/ABY timescale (Before or After the Battle of Yavin) has typically been used by fans to plot a timeline through the Star Wars universe, but it’s never been referenced inside the actual canon before. It would seem useful to do it here since the whole series is based on what happened to Andor leading up to his role in Rogue One.

Episode 1 also contained a few more fun tidbits. The Preox-Morlana Corporate zone is somewhat reminiscent of big sci-fi companies like the Weyland-Yutani corporation from Alien. And when we learn later that the Pre-Mor corporation has jurisdiction over the whole system, it’s somewhat similar to the giant corporations we see in Blade Runner or the corporate towns Disney creates in real life. Later, we see one of the corporate security officers eating blue ramen, perhaps a bit of a wink to the blue bantha Milk we saw in A New Hope.

Andor Episode 2 Easter Eggs

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Of any episode, the second had the most Easter eggs, along with everyone’s favorite character, the Bell Guy. That bell guy is listed in the credits as the Time Grappler (which is a way cooler name), and it is his job to make sure everyone in town knows what time it is. His rhythmic, almost ceremonial way of ringing that bell has a mystical strength to it. The bell itself seems to be a single piece of folded metal, and when we see it from above, it looks a lot like the ingots of beskar we’ve seen in The Mandalorian. Ironically enough, this character is played by a guy named Neil Bell.

Cassian Andor often goes to a shipyard where he hides the NS-9 Starpath Unit that he will attempt to sell to Luthen Rael later. In episode 2, we get a good overview of the shipyard, and inside are a few recognizable ship types. There’s one Y-Wing in front on the left, missing an engine. Second, on the right, we see a ship that looks like the Bestoon Legacy, Ochi’s craft from The Rise of Skywalker. And the ship behind that looks like The Ghost, Hera Syndulla’s ship from Star Wars: Rebels, a series happening around the same point on the timeline as Andor.

Episode 2 is also where we see this tribe of Kenari teens goes to explore the crashed ship we saw in episode 1. When we get there, we notice that the ship’s crew are wearing the Separatist hex logo, meaning that these flashbacks in Andor’s life are happening around the time the Clone Wars are ending. What happened to Kenari after Andor left is a mystery. A merchant mentioned that the planet was made toxic by an imperial mining accident, but a crashed Separatist ship full of what looked like toxic fumes raises some questions.

Andor Episode 3 Easter Eggs

In episode 3, Luthen Rael’s public transportation finally lands, so he can escape having his ear talked off by that guy sitting next to him. If you think he looks familiar, it’s probably because he’s appeared in Hot Fuzz, Doctor Who, and The Witcher. His name is Ron Cook. But as the ship lands, we see a droid pulling up, and it seems its entire job is to be stairs. Not an Easter egg; just odd.

In a Kenari flashback, we see young Kassa speaking to Maarva and Clem, and they don’t understand him. Fun fact: the Kenari language is actually a real language invented for the show. New Rockstars did an interview with Fiona Shaw (Maarva), who said that all the kids were taught Kenari while the adult actors were forbidden from learning it. This way, it would seem genuine when they didn’t understand what the kids were saying.

In episode 3, we also get a good look at Cassian’s gun when he holds it up to that security officer’s head. It’s a K-19 Briar pistol, Kyle Katarn’s weapon in the Dark Forces video game. Interesting, because when Rogue One came out, some said that Kyle Katarn was the inspiration for Cassian Andor’s character in the movie. The fact that he’s wielding this weapon is a nice nod to the video game.

There is also a moment when a corporate security officer is asked over comms where he is in the city, and he replies that he can’t tell because there are no street signs. This is a common tactic in guerilla warfare and was used most recently by the Ukrainian forces when the Russians invaded their cities.