| “ | There is a wound that won't heal at the center of the galaxy. There is a darkness reaching like rust into everything around us. We let it grow, and now it's here. It's here and it's not visiting anymore. It wants to stay. The Empire is a disease that thrives in darkness, it is never more alive than when we sleep. It's easy for the dead to tell you to fight, and maybe it's true, maybe fighting is useless. Perhaps it's too late... But I'll tell you this… if I could do it again, I'd wake up early and be fighting these bastards from the start! FIGHT THE EMPIRE! | „ |
| ~ Marva's ceremonial funeral speech against The Empire |
| “ | Cassian: You can't beat them Maarva. Maarva: Not if I run away. You have a different path, Cass, and I am not judging you. Everything you've been through, everything that was taken away from you before you even started? Take all the money you've found and go and find some peace. Cassian: I won't have peace. I'll be worried about you all the time. Maarva:That's just love. Nothing you can do about that. I've never loved anything the way I love you, and I've never fretted on anything more, but this time... You can't stay, and I can't go. |
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| ~ Maarva's love for her son and her drive to fight the Empire. |
Maarva Carassi Andor is the titular overarching protagonist of the 2022 Disney+ series Andor.
She is the adoptive mother of rebel hero Cassian Andor. Although her time in the spotlight was brief, she had an extremely important impact on the saga of Star Wars, being the catalyst for one of, if not the very first open revolt against the Empire, a legacy that would profoundly impact her son and those around her, which in turn would shape the galaxy as a whole forever.
She is portrayed by Fiona Shaw.
History[]
Before the Clone Wars, Maarva and her husband Clem worked as salvagers, discovering and looting destroyed starships. On a operation on the planet of Kenari, she would encounter a Cassian, then just a child. Knowing a grim fate was the only destiny the planet and its people would have, she took Cassian away and from that day forward raised him as her son on the planet Ferrix.
Some time later, Clem would be murdered by The Galactic Empire for taking part in a protest against them, an act that would forever boil hatred towards them within Maarva. As Cassian grew and became an adult, the two would continue living together though their time spent with one another grew shorter due to her son's ventures. After imperial forces forcefully took control of Ferrix, Maarva could no longer simply sit idly by, and despite her increasingly fragile health, began making minor oppositions against them.
When she died, following the tradition of Ferrix, she left behind a speech recorded beforehand. In the speech, she opened her heart to her friends and fellow denizens, and let forth decades of pent up rage against The Empire. Confessing that even she herself turned a blind eye to their evil, she could do so no longer, and encouraged, successfully, for the people of Ferrix to take a stand against their tyranny and cruelty. The Rix Road Riot began, an event that would alter the course of history itself.
