Possible canon ideas

[childofrebellion]

Looking forward into what I'd like to do with Cassian, I want to check in on Rebels' timelines to make certain that I'm not in the way of anything. As well as possible ideas for times when perhaps characters could have conversations either outside of Milliways or talking more directly in Milliways. I do know at some point that I'm going to do an OOM of hearing Ezra's speech but from what I've seen of how Rebels' stuff is going, that will be a while.

At this point in time, I'm looking at two of Cassian's aliases: Willix-government agent on Ord Mantell which has a deep port and is in the Mid-Rim and Aach-Senatorial contact on Darknell in the Outer Rim. Another one is as an aide, Joreth Sward, to Imperial Admiral Grendreef but I can't find any information about the admiral, my plan for that is perhaps it was a one off assignment. It might have even been one that went bad. Fulcrum I'm not going to touch until after the next season of Rebels because it would be useful to know when he was using the codename in terms of Ahsoka and Kallus.

My plan for my next OOM is to have Cassian setting himself up in either the Willix or Aach cover for a longer assignment to mine a lot of information.

I would love thoughts in terms of how this might interact with what everyone else is planning. I have A New Dawn on my to-read pile and am finishing up Thrawn. This is up here as I figure its the best way to reach everyone.

Comments

[bjornwilde]

At this point I'm still feeling out how much Sabine knows of the greater Rebellion. I think she assumes the crew is working on their own and is hearing rumors of other bits of rebellion, but they have no ties to them; aside from doing things on occasion to help other teams.

I think once we get to the start of the show, she'll start learning the Rebellion is more of a thing with structure and everything else.

If it helps, I know SWR starts five years before ANH and the battle of Yavin/destruction of the first Deathstar. I think it's safe to assume a year passes during the first season, so Ezra's broadcast occurs four years before ANH.

I'm assuming s02 is the fourth year before ANH, and the s03 jumps a year to be two years before ANH. S04 I am guessing is the year before and might end with the battle of Scarif, but we'll see this Fall.

[childofrebellion]

I've seen that same timeline and at this point, I have Cassian from about five years before ANH as it seems like its easier to have him move around the Rebels crew. I think I might go with the Ord Mantell one as it seems like a bureaucrat role and something that is less tightly defined.

[bjornwilde]

That seems like a good choice. I do love the idea of Cassian and Sabine trading details of Imperial activity from time to time.

[childofrebellion]

Me too, I look forward to when that can happen.

[for_everyone]

Right now we're planning to get Hera and Kanan pre-season 1/caught up with Sabine sometime this month. A lot of this kind of depends on whether Cassian shows up in season 4, though given that we've already had them meet, it doesn't really make that much of a difference. And there's a point in season 1 where the Ghost crew is pretty much publicly known to be rebels, so they can probably be less secretive about it once they hit that.

And Hera, at least, does know that there are other rebel groups - but I think she keeps herself on a need-to-know basis when it comes to that, too, and would know as little about the specific identities of other rebels as possible. After the end of season 1 that doesn't really matter so much since the rebel groups start coordinating more openly, though they don't really come together as the "Rebellion" until end of season 3/season 4. So yeah, a lot of it probably comes down to getting through season 1/knowing what's going on in season 4.

[childofrebellion]

Thanks, its good to know your timeline. That makes a lot of sense with the need to know and I'm looking forward to season 4. And if there are any points when it might be helpful to have him intersect with plot, let me know. Rewatching Rebels is on my list of many things to watch.