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NAME: Cassian Jeron Andor ALIASES: Willix, Aach, Joreth Sward, Fulcrum
AGE: 26 HOME PLANET: Fest
DATE OF BIRTH: 26 BBY DATE OF DEATH: 0 BBY, Scarif
SPECIES: Human HEIGHT: 1.78 m
HAIR: Brown EYES: Brown
OCCUPATION: Alliance Intelligence
AFFILIATIONS: Confederacy of Independent Systems, Alliance to Restore the Republic, Rogue One RANK: Captain
NOTABLE MISSIONS: Imperial Agent on Ord Mantell, senatorial contact on Darknell, assistant to Admiral Grendeef, rebel recruitment as Fulcrum in the Albarrio Sector, mission to the Ring of Kafrene, liberation of Jyn Erso, Operation Fracture on Jedha and Eadu, Battle of Scarif
CURRENT RESIDENCE: ( blank ) ROOMMATES: ( blank )
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inventory
FIELD JACKET
Corellian cut field jacket for cold weather use. Hitting mid-hip, the blue jacket has a fur lined hood and weatherproof directional fabric that sheds water and retains heat. A personal identifier transponder inside the breast pocket conceals a lullaby suicide pill.BLASTER
The A280-CFE (covert field edition) blaster was a modular version of the A280 blaster rifle. It featured a core pistol that could be reconfigured into an assault rifle or sniper rifle.SECURITY KIT
A security kit was a collection of tools and electronic components designed specifically for bypassing electronic and mechanical locks. Sensor devices were often included as part of the kit to aid in their use. Exceptional models contained a dedicated comlink to monitor frequencies typically used by silent alarms to warn the user of detection. Designed with portability and concealment in mind, most security kits weighed 1 kilogram.
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captain cassian andor
I couldn't face myself if I gave up now, none of us could.
personality
On the outside Cassian is a quiet, serious sort of man who follows the orders he's given, no matter what his feelings on the subject may be. Good luck, in fact, finding an inkling or suggestion that his orders and his personal feelings don't align. It's a survival tactic, much like being able to convince people to trust him with information that might get them both killed. Being a spy during an intergalactic civil war means you keep your friends close and your enemies closer. Hopefully with them being blissfully unaware that you're the enemy in the first place. The Rebellion has been his primary motivator for years, and to that point Cassian is a selfless individual. He doesn't do what he believes is right for himself, he does what he believes is best to further the Rebellion's cause, namely toppling the Empire. Unfortunately that selflessness combined with the realities of what he does for the Rebellion leads to a compartmentalizing, a distancing from his actions. The gulf between Cassian's personal moral core and what he has been ordered to do has grown wide, but he manages to traverse it with a calm that does not betray his inner turmoil. That calm is not necessarily a façade, but a part of the way he's creating measured distance between himself and the things he must do.
Cassian is neither an optimist or a pessimist, but a realist; he has all the hope of the Resistance succeeding but he also recognizes that a lot of people will get hurt for that to be accomplished. Recognizes that he might well be one of those people who dies. Continues on doing what he knows he must anyway. Cassian knows what has to be done to survive, because he's done it before. He's lied and killed and recruited for the Resistance almost all his life; he admits he's been a part of the Resistance since he was six years old, and being a captain in the intelligence division is no calm walk in the park. There's little point, in his opinion, in being unwavering in the face of what's necessary. Yet what is necessary and what helps one sleep at night are not always one in the same, and these differences have fractured Cassian internally.
Again, that compartmentalizing comes into play, and there aren't many situations in which he would admit unease at what he's done, and if it was worth it; there's a war going on, and there isn't much time for that kind of talk. In fact, the one situation in which he does confess to unease at his personal history of being an assassin and spy? Comes when the Resistance stalls at the idea of turning over in defeat or attempting to collect the schematics and plans for the Death Star in the hopes of destroying it before it destroys them. Cassian feels torn, because he cannot justify the blood on his hands if the Rebellion intends to just give up. Unlikely to happen again, and Cassian is just as unlikely to seek out therapy or whatever it is people who aren't traumatized by war and lacking emotional outputs do.
Cassian does not make friends easily, in part because he's a paranoid sort after living the life he has. People connected to the Resistance, or to resistance-type activities in their own worlds that parallel the struggles he's familiar with are most likely to be deemed 'safe'. They're more likely to see less of the outwardly stoic Captain and more of the quippy, intelligent man underneath with a philosophical twist; anyone else has at least a little while to go before then. However, when he does make friends, his selfless streak comes through a mile wide. Cassian puts the needs of the many before the needs of the one and this translates to his interpersonal relationships as well.
history
Cassian Jeron Andor was a human male who was born on the planet Fest in 26 BBY to a human father and unknown mother. During the Clone Wars, Andor joined an insurrectionist cell backed by the Confederacy of Independent Systems that operated in the wilds of the Outer Rim Territories and fought against the Galactic Republic. Andor saw his first combat experience in this cell as a child soldier in 20 BBY by tossing rocks and bottles at Republic walkers and clone troopers. Sometime during his life Andor's father was killed at the Carida Academy during a protest against the expansion of Republic militarism.Prior to 0 BBY, Andor joined the Alliance to Restore the Republic after being recruited by General Davits Draven. Holding the rank of Captain, Andor served as an officer in the Alliance's Intelligence branch.
A veteran spy of the Rebellion, Andor maintained a network of contacts throughout the galaxy who kept him informed about the activities of the Galactic Empire. Sometime during his career, Andor encountered the Imperial security droid K-2SO and reprogrammed him to serve the Alliance.
Andor was stationed at the Rebel base on Yavin 4 when Jyn Erso was assigned by Mon Mothma, a leader of the Rebel Alliance, to take part in what became the theft of the Death Star plans. During the mission, Andor was assigned to keep an eye on Erso due to her reckless and potentially volatile nature and was given a secret mission to kill Galen Erso in an attempt to stop the development of the Death Star.
Once he, Jyn, and K-2SO landed on Jedha, he and Jyn left to find Saw Gerrera and his rebels. Going to his various sources, the two got stuck in the middle of a battle between the Imperials and Saw's rebels, the Partisans, during which he takes out a man from the group in an attempt to save Jyn. As the fight continued, the two escape and run into K-2SO. The two are then mistaken for his prisoners and are detained but are saved by Chirrut Îmwe and Baze Malbus, only to be captured by Saw's forces for killing one of their own. While imprisoned, he found the Imperial pilot, Bodhi, and asked him of the location of Jyn's father. Shortly afterwards, the destruction of Jedha City caused the Partisans to flee, letting him escape with Chirrut, Baze, Bodhi, and Jyn.
The group arrived on Eadu, where they crashed attempting to avoid Imperial detection. Cassian and Bodhi left so that he could get in position to take out Galen and then had Bodhi leave to find a ship to escape with. He then watched a meeting between Galen and Director Orson Krennic, where he had several attempts to take him out but refused. However a strike force from the Rebellion came and attacked the facility, killing Galen in the process. He then went and rescued Jyn and the group leaves on a stolen Zeta-class cargo shuttle to Yavin 4.
Jyn tried to convince the alliance to attack Scarif in order to retrieve the plans to the Death Star, but it failed. Knowing this would happen, however, Cassian assembled a squad of Rebel assassins, mercenaries, and soldiers to fight on Scarif and retrieve the plans. Together, they all took the stolen Imperial shuttle and left for Scarif. At landing, Jyn and Cassian took the uniforms of two Imperial men and snuck into the base. They reached the area where the plans were kept, while a battle occurred outside as a distraction. During the attempt, K-2SO sacrificed himself by locking them in the facility to avoid their deaths by Stormtroopers. The two of them then broke out and stole the plans, only to be met by Krennic and his death troopers, where they fought and Cassian was knocked unconscious. He later saved Jyn from Krennic by blasting him. He and Jyn beamed the plans to the fleet and went to the beach, where they watched as the Death Star destroyed the base, killing them and the other rebels in the area.
