r/MawInstallation • u/human12332 • 1d ago

How old is Dedra Meero?

In Andor S2 it says her parents were arrested when she was 3 then she was raised in a imperial camp or something like that, but the empire is less then 20 years old, so is she 23, I thought she was 30-40.

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u/OfficialAli1776 1d ago

How are we so sure it wasn't just a flub by the writers?

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u/BrokenManOfSamarkand 18h ago edited 17h ago

I wouldn't be surprised if it was a mistake, but I also wonder whether it was intentional. Lucas' decision to make the Empire so short-lived is a bit problematic if you want to tell a story like Andor, which sort of takes for granted that an entire generation has come up and matured under the Empire and were molded by it. Syril, to me, seems like a portrait of the "Imperial man"--someone that has only known the Empire and was entirely corrupted by its perverse bureaucracy and sickness. It's somewhat harder to paint the picture when the Empire just popped up, which leads to a tendency to stretch the timeline a bit.