Just ran my first Star Wars D6 game on Roll20. Around the 3 hour mark one of my players, a Shistavanen named Rom who is not good at slicing whatsoever decided to just rip the hard drive out of the big server we were trying to steal from in this adventure. Right as he ripped it out the Roll20 servers went down and we decided to end the session there.
I know the episode guide says that the Separatist Alliance technically doesn’t exist yet. But that begs the question why does this symbol exist before the CIS is formed and why do people associate it with the Republic?
For my TTRPG campaign set in 24 BBY I’ve come up with the headcanon that this is the symbol of the Republic Rangers. Specifically a symbol the rangers adopted right after the Nihil Incursion when they were mopping up in the Outer Rim.
In any conflict when forces leave an area they often leave behind a lot of supplies because it’s cheaper than transporting them. I imagine these early Separatist rebel groups would find these old Republic Defense Force/Rangers supplies plastered with these symbols and they would use them. So the guys you see in Andor are super early Separatist guerrillas. People see their uniforms and assume they’re part of the Republic but in the coming months/year as news of Separatist revolutionaries and bioguerrillas start to become more well known people will instead associate the symbol with Separatists.
This also explains why the Empire would use the symbol in the TIE-Fighters. It could be akin to some of the German/Austrian symbology that were used by the Nazis but are so old and ‘generally German/Austrian’ and not specific to that group that they’re still used today. When people see that symbol they just think ‘the main government of the core taking part in military action on the outer rim’.