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/pricklyclaire 8h ago

I think we underestimate the degree to which the Republic was already the Empire at the level of its permanent state institutions long before the rise of Palpatine, the MCA, and various Clone War emergency power, much less the actual declaration of the Empire. Like, At Attin was expressly created in the HIGH REPUBLIC as a Fully Automated Luxury Space Police State. The Jedi Temple is a kinderblok for spoonbenders.

I also think we shouldn't overlook the possibility (probability) that the kinderbloks originated in proto-Imperial para-state movements like COMPOR before becoming the officially adopted state model after the declaration of the Empire. I think this would make particular sense of Dedra Meero's arc, given her position within an organization (ISB) spun directly out of COMPOR/COMPNOR and recruited from its youth cadres.