Star Wars' next live-action show seems to be bringing back a classic Imperial vehicle that's one of the coolest Easter eggs from 1979. There's currently a lot of excitement about Diego Luna's Cassian Andor piloting a TIE Avenger in Andor season 2, an impressive TIE variant from Legends now brought back to the official canon. However, I'm just as excited about the other Imperial transport which Cassian blows up in the trailers for Andor's second and final season.

Premiering in April, Andor season 2 will consist of 12 episodes with four three-episode arcs, each arc taking place in a year leading up to the events of 2016's Rogue One: A Star Wars Story. As such, the series will heavily focus on the growing pockets of resistance and defiance of the Galactic Empire which eventually coalesces into the greater Rebel Alliance. That being said, I'm still surprised to see what looks to be the return of the K79-S80 Imperial Troop Transport in Andor season 2's trailers, a classic Star Wars vehicle and Easter egg with a pretty cool history.

Rather than debuting in the movies like the vast majority of Star Wars ships and vehicles, the Imperial Troop Transport made its first appearance as a toy, a new creation for the Kenner toyline in 1979. Likewise, it was the first Star Wars toy to be released that did not first appear in a film. However, it eventually made its on-screen debut thanks to Lucasfilm's Dave Filoni with the animated series Star Wars Rebels as the K79-S80 Imperial Troop Transport ("K79" being a reference to Kenner and the year the toy was released).

Furthermore, Filoni brought the ITT back in The Mandalorian season 1 with its first ever live-action debut, as well as a rarer, more combat-ready variant in The Mandalorian season 2, known as the Trexler 906 Armored Marauder. Now, it looks as though the Imperial vehicle Easter egg is surprisingly continuing in Andor season 2 with one of the transports being attacked by Cassian on what's likely the early Rebel world of Dantooine. However, it's currently hard to make out from the trailers alone if this is the classic ITT that's returned or the Marauder.

What makes the ITT's live-action return in Andor season 2 so surprising is the simple fact that the first season features very few Easter eggs or cameos. As a whole, Andor is a show that takes itself as seriously as possible, and it's been confirmed by showrunner Tony Gilroy that nothing has been included unless it ultimately serves Andor's story. As such, it does make sense that Imperial Troop Transports would be present, given their frequent use by the Empire during this period of the Star Wars timeline (even if they weren't ever seen in the movies).

Additionally, one should expect at least a few more references and elements pointing to the greater Star Wars galaxy compared to the first season, if only for the simple fact that Andor season 2 is set to cover a much wider region of the timeline. After all, it's a four-year period that's pivotal to setting up the events of both Rogue One and the original trilogy. All things considered, it's very cool to see the ITT's return considering its history in the Star Wars franchise.

Andor season 2 is set to premiere April 22nd on Disney+.