Andor’s Cool Imperial Cruiser Has a Long Star Wars History

From what we’ve seen thus far, the Arrestor has firmly turn out to be a part of the rise of the Empire period between Revenge of the Sith and A New Hope, coming into operation earlier than the early years of Solo’s opening—about seven years after the creation of the Empire—and lasting as much as, on the very least, the time of Andor season one, 5 years earlier than the Battle of Yavin in A New Hope. We’ve but to see one past that timeframe, although its specialization as a disabling ship units it aside from different Imperial capital ships.

There may be a motive for that, nevertheless—we all know that finally the Empire fields a special type of Support Cruiser to close down fleeing ships, perhaps maybe even due to how Luthen’s fancy flying in Andor episode 11 proved that tractor beams alone can’t cease ships from fleeing Imperial seize. Chronologically, a 12 months after the occasions of Andor season one in an episode of Rebels’ second season, “Stealth Strike”, we’re launched to the Interdictor-class cruiser, a brand new Imperial vessel able to utilizing gravity effectively projectors embedded in its hull to tug ships out of, and forestall them from re-entering, hyperspace.

Maybe it was introduced into operation to switch the Arrestor? We don’t know for certain, however now that the vessel has been given time to shine, don’t be shocked if we see it crop up once more quickly.