In the first three episodes of Andor, Cassian attempts to sell a stolen Imperial box to Luthen Rael. He says it’s an untraceable NS-9 Starpath unit, but what is it, really? Cassian explains that it can track Imperial traffic for nine radial parsecs, but we know a little more about it thanks to the 1998 novel I, Jedi by Michael Stackpole, the only other story where this device has ever been mentioned. There we can read that the Starpath was the navigation system on the Errant Venture, which was a liberated star destroyer owned by the smuggler Booster Terrik in the years following the Battle of Endor. So we can assume that the box Cassian stole from the Empire was meant to be installed as the navigation system for a star destroyer. It likely had far more functions than tracking Imperial coordinates, but that would be the primary reason a rebel fighter like Luthen Rael would want to have it.
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