I think you answered it on your own, he is the ISB Chief - he probably knows as much as anyone, but keeps quiet to keep his position

They probably got drunk together now and then, after a rousing round of killing traitors and incompetents.

@@ThereMayBeLions And his life.

@@ThereMayBeLions : If he is being protected by Palpatine, then on one can do him harm to include Tarkin.

it could be possible Yularen knows about Vader being Anakin

And killing Jedi. With guns

"I spoke with emperor palpatine last night"

After Kenobi and Book of Boba Fett I was close to abandon Star Wars completely. Because of, well, obvious reasons. So happy I decided to give it a try and watch Andor afterall. It's a gem.

Can you blame them after years of "meh" (at best) product? It's because of videos like this and people like Alan that perhaps they will try it out one night when they have nothing else to do and then watch the next episode due to enough interest from the previous episode. Recognizing that it's a different perspective on the Star Wars universe will take time and they'll still be wary of Lucasfilm products even if they eventually are wholly supportive of Andor.

We'll just have to wait for Mando season 3, or maybe Ahsoka, to draw back all the fans and get them to love Star Wars again, and then they might just check this show out.

I haven't watched this show yet I'm waiting until bad batch releases then a good binge.

Honestly I wasn’t going to watch this show after Book of boba fett and kenobi, but after seeing someone on YT that I trust not to be a shill say it’s good I gave it a hesitant watch and actually like it

It is a well done show indeed

This could be just me, but I LOVED the soundtrack. Gave me some Tron Legacy vibes and I loved it

really good episode i also like how the unforms sre old school star wars and not first order knockoffs, the cut is much more sinister than the first order stuff.

@@OneMoreCrown yeah…. Even the soundtrack is just great…. I didn’t even think of that

@@poil8351 I just love all of the variety and showing us what the empire ACTUALLY looked like instead of JUST storm troopers. We saw engineers here! We see loaders/movers! What’s next? Imperial janitors? It just accurately shows how a military/empire operates. I love seeing all the different organizations/departments/positions. And yeah the uniforms are impeccable…. I like how it’s not all cookie cutter. Although all militaries are extremely uniform, there is VAST differences between one soldiers uniform to another’s. Especially on campaign or posts far from the core. You don’t see marines in WW2 in the pacific all dressed exactly the same..

Hoping we will see him in Andor: He, Mon Mothma and Bail Organa are so importand for the Rebellion. He was reintroduced in the Disney-Canon, too! :D

He’s definitely more hardline then mon mothma it shows the diversity of beliefs in the rebellion which is great

The purpose of intelligence in a stable Western democracy is to keep commanders informed. This requires a highly functional society to work. To understand the ISB, it's probably easier to look at an unstable authoritarian regime. In the Soviet Union, the purpose of the NKVD in its various incarnations was to keep society under control, including the military. Their duties included putting ethnic minorities into death camps and purging competent officers from the red army, which occurred shortly before war with Germany.

@@hypothalapotamus5293 Yes the ISB for all intents and purposes is an extension of Palpatine.

@@dred9174 Assuming that the ISB is actually loyal goes against "setting up a secret police/intelligence agency in an authoritarian regime 101". If the emperor's attack dog is too strong, the emperor might serve at the pleasure of the praetorian guard and not the other way around (It took about 40 years for the Praetorian guard to be the greatest internal threat to the Roman emperor). It's a fine balancing act.

idk, Mandalorian was a fanfilm series, same with Kenobi. I think there's a huge difference between giving what the audience wants, versus giving them something they didn't even know they wanted. I don't think anyone was expecting Andor, while Kenobi was extremely predictable in terms of just fan-appeal with low effort. Andor is providing a unique framing of the empirial-rebellion conflict, working on what Rogue One and Rebels did to a much larger degree. Which is the opposite of fan films that really focus on stuff like Boba Fett or Kenobi, fan-favourite characters and situations, Andor is kinda the reverse, it takes far smaller new characters and newer situations

They have the authority...

In Legends, specifically the books involving the Hand of Judgement stormtroopers, yes. It's why those men did what they did and still remained loyal to the Imperial people. The stuff the ISB did made them like the KGB and other internal "security" organizations. I'm sure there were other books that showcased the shady side of the ISB but not all were scummy. You had Yularen and some agents that just did the job and dealt with fraud and embezzlement by powerful Imperials.

ISB Agent Kallus wielded entire frigates and destroyers with the authority of less than that of an ISB lieutenant. His comrade was an ADMIRAL…

or the German gestapo officers. Lucas had a lot of nods in star wars to WII stuff.

ISB basically is Empire's equivalent of NKVD. Far more than just counter-intelligence and secret police.

He was in ep 7

Was that yularen? He kinda had the look but didn't sound right imo

@@cloudmaster182 That’s because the actor who voiced him is not British and doesn’t look like Yularen. Also he’s not doing acting anymore after suffering a stroke a few years ago 😕

@@cloudmaster182 because it's a different actor. The other one doesn't look like the character and unfortunately can't do voice work anymore because of a stroke he suffered.

The recent canon Tarkin novel was excellent highly recommended

How are Star Wars and Russia even remotely comparable?

He basically retired his republic commission and then Palpatine asked him to come back and serve as a colonel in the isb. He focused on rooting out traitors within the imperial navy.

@@GenerationTech: That sounds great. However, what was his position in the ISB. Was he a supervisor or higher? How close to the top of the ISB leadership structure did he occupy? In episode IV of Star Wars, you see Yularen just sitting at the conference table while everything else is going on.

@@GenerationTech He and Vader probably got drunk now and then after a rousing round of executing traitors and incompetent buffoons.

@@jameshanlon5689 He seems to be the ISB chief.

@@shariqhasan6220: If he was the ISB chief, then why was he on the Death Star instead of ISB headquarters running the whole show. Was he shadowing Tarkin to keep an eye on him for the Emperor?

Well said spoken like any good dictator.

Rebels piss the Empire off, the non-Rebels pay the price.

@@diinouhothead9362 Exactly

Yes, if only everyone submitted like human batteries in the Matrix. Peace of all time.

no, the rebellion had only made the Empire turn to stage 1 to 2 so quickly that people noticed and felt the difference and the Death Star plan predate the Empire. Honestly look a lot like victim blaming, in the latest Andor episode the entire oppression, corruption, and callouness of the Empire government is showed, for a little bank robbery they overreacted so wildly that they basically punish randomly people in a ridicolous way just to show who is the boss. In the end rebellion or not rebellion the only way to not be killed or imprisoned by the empire was to do always and quickly what they want, with a smile and a lot of bootlicking, never protest and accept everything and hoping to have luck because even do all things will not protect you if a random imperial officer have a bad day or imperial policies or internal infight dictate your demise ...and we can all agree that's not a system that can work in the long term

@@lukedalton It would work for the Empire. And that's what's important. Long Live The Empire. By the way, the ISB will be wanting a word with you.

Checks and balances prevent anyone from rising up to challenge him as well.

Yeah, Jakku was the last battle (not counting remnants like what’s in _The Mandalorian_).

More like the NKVD/KGB as the agency has both intelligence collecting and internal security duties plus the job to keep an eye to the military