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Ghorman is now the target of a concerted propaganda campaign, popularizing the idea that Ghor people are arrogant snobs. The Empire’s end goal is to destabilize Ghorman’s economy and destroy its reputation, to the extent that outsiders will no longer care if the planet gets wiped out.
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In the Star Wars universe, Basic (ie. English) is the galactic lingua franca—a pragmatic storytelling choice with intriguing political subtext.
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Basic belongs to the Empire’s human-centric hierarchy, established in the Original Trilogy where every Imperial officer is a white man with an English or American accent. You’ll notice a similar dynamic among the rebel factions in Andor. Mon Mothma, a founding leader of the Rebel Alliance (and later the New Republic), is a human from the Core planet Chandrila. She comes from an aristocratic background where everyone speaks Basic with an English accent, only using a handful of traditional Chandrilan phrases in ceremonial settings.
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Saw Gerrera’s Partisans are a multilingual group including more non-human fighters and Outer Rim connections than the future Rebel Alliance—and they’re seen as an extremist fringe group.
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Andor’s accent also has its own politicized backstory. Born on the remote forest planet Kenari, he only learned Basic after he was adopted (arguably kidnapped) by an offworld couple, forcibly separating him from his original language, family, and culture.
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Ghorman appears to be fully bilingual. The Ghor use their native language in private, but speak fluent Basic due to the planet’s reliance on offworld trade. As tensions mount between the locals and the Imperial interlopers, Ghor also becomes the language of rebellion.