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Maya Pei Brigade

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Warning! This page contains spoilers from the episodes "One Year Later" and "Sagrona Teema" of Andor. Caution is advised.

"So, who's really in charge here?"
―Cassian Andor[3]

The Maya Pei Brigade, referred to by Saw Gerrera as a "Neo-Republican collective,"[4] was a rebel cell led by Neo-Republican Maya Pei[5] that operated as early as 5 BBY.[6] In 4 BBY, the group was attacked, with Pei's fate unknown to the survivors that found themselves stranded on Yavin 4. They found Porko's Breon HOY-39 and attacked them in desperation, driving them off into the wilderness. Two members of the group, Bardi and Gerdis, vied for leadership when Cassian Andor landed in a stolen TIE Avenger prototype looking for Porko, and the group began warring amongst themselves not long afterwards, in the light of one member of the Maya Pei Brigade known as Crab shooting Rika who attempted to figure out how to fly the TIE Avenger.[3]

Later, after a period of fighting with each other on opposite sides of the clearing, Bardi and Gerdis played a game of Five Hands with Roski rules to decide who would depart and who would stay on Yavin 4. After a few rounds, the two rivals stopped playing the game when they heard a low rumbling growl, which they confused with thunder. They were ambushed a moment later by a Yavinian doodar, which devoured both factious leaders of the brigade. In response, their comrades fired their blasters in the creature's direction. Andor used the chaos to his advantage and fled to his stolen TIE Avenger and escaped from the Maya Pei Brigade and Yavin 4.[7] A microcosm of where the larger rebellion was at that time in galactic history, the experience with the Maya Pei Brigade had shown Andor how far the rebellion was from being any kind of organized, capable team.[8]

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Behind the scenes[]

The Maya Pei Brigade was first mentioned with the Andor Season 1 episode "Nobody's Listening!"[9] before making its debut in the season two episodes "One Year Later," which first identified the group,[3] and "Sagrona Teema."[7] According to star[8] and executive producer[10] Diego Luna, the scenes with the Maya Pei Brigade were intended to showcase where the larger rebellion was at in that point in time, demonstrating that it was not yet an organized team capable of making an effective stand against the Empire.[8]

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  1. ↑ 1.0 1.1 Andor — "Nobody's Listening!"
  2. ↑ Andor — "One Year Later" dates the first arc on Andor Season 2 to 4 BBY.
  3. ↑ 3.0 3.1 3.2 Andor — "One Year Later"
  4. ↑ Maya Pei Brigade in the Databank (backup link)
  5. ↑ Star Wars: Dawn of Rebellion: The Visual Guide
  6. ↑ The Maya Pei Brigade is established to be active during the events of "Nobody's Listening!," the events of which occur in 5 BBY per the reasoning here
  7. ↑ 7.0 7.1 Andor — "Sagrona Teema"
  8. ↑ 8.0 8.1 8.2 Andor Season 2 Declassified: Time on the official Star Wars YouTube channel (backup link)
  9. ↑ Andor — "Nobody's Listening!"
  10. ↑ StarWars.com Future Lucasfilm Projects Revealed on StarWars.com (backup link)
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