Zajimavy. Deep substrate…
The Roots of ‘Andor’ Lore Run Deep - The Ringerhttps://www.theringer.com/2025/05/08/star-wars/andor-lore-star-wars-rpg-history-ghorman-massacre-paul-murphy-west-end-gamesMurphy wrote 1990’s The Rebel Alliance Sourcebook, a companion to West End Games’ Star Wars: The Roleplaying Game that fleshed out the origins of the Rebel Alliance featured in the original trilogy (and now, Andor). The sourcebook included recollections from Alliance (and, later, New Republic) leader Mon Mothma about how she got Alderaan senator Bail Organa on board with the rebellion. At first, Mothma remembers, Princess Leia’s adoptive dad “was aghast at the very idea of attempting to overthrow the government he had given his whole life to. … It wasn’t until the Ghorman Massacre that he turned around.”
Murphy sketched out the massacre in a single passage:
Ghorman is a small planet located in Sern Sector, just outside the Core Worlds. The citizens of Ghorman were staging a peaceful demonstration against new taxes; they staged a sit-in at the spaceport, blocking all of the port’s landing pads. A Republic warship, arriving at the planet to collect the taxes, landed in spite of the citizens, killing dozens and wounding hundreds more. The commander in charge of the warship, one Captain Tarkin, was not prosecuted for the murders; in fact, he was promoted.
“After Ghorman,” the text concludes, “Bail realized that the Republic was dead.” Some of the details differ from the description of the incident on Andor—we’ll get to that—but the broad strokes are the same. “Remarkable,” Murphy says now, sounding a little choked up as he describes his “deeply moving” spectator experience. “Hearing my thoughts just get put out on a $300 million TV series … wow.”