The following episode contains spoilers for Obi-Wan Kenobi "Part VI," streaming now on Disney+.

By the time of Star Wars original trilogy, the Rebel Alliance was a cohesive movement working against the Empire's tyranny. However, this cohesion was actually a more recent development. Originally, the Rebellion consisted of smaller groups working on their own to fight against the Empire. These smaller movements became the backbone of the Alliance, but they became much more effective once they had more solid infrastructure behind them.

In Obi-Wan Kenobi, the disconnect between rebel groups was apparent. Still, the series celebrated the bravery of these units both overtly and covertly through Roken's Path and Beru Lars' subtextual training. With these movements, Obi-Wan Kenobi laid the building blocks for the upcoming series Andor to showcase the growth of the Rebel Alliance and the strengthening of the bonds of the movement.

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Roken Addresses the Refugees in Obi-Wan Kenobi

The most overt Rebel movement featured in Obi-Wan Kenobi was The Path, led by Roken. The Path's main purpose was providing passage for surviving Jedi and other Force sensitive individuals. The impact of the Path cannot be understated. In Obi-Wan Kenobi alone, dozens of people were taken to safety due to the Path and Obi-Wan, and far more people were likely saved due to the Path's efforts. Obi-Wan encouraged Roken to become a leader in the larger Rebellion, further underscoring just how remarkable the Path's operation was in the face of the Empire's tyranny.

The Path also made the disconnectedness of the Rebellion abundantly clear. When the Empire found the Path on Jabiim, there did not appear to be any larger structure that Roken or the other members of the Path could call upon to save them. With Obi-Wan's help, they still survived and helped the refugees reach freedom, but a more cohesive Rebellion could have made it much less of a close call.

However, the Path was not the only Rebel movement to have an impact on Obi-Wan Kenobi's story, and the other movement was far more subtextual. In the season finale, Beru Lars was already prepared to fight off any forces that tried to take Luke Skywalker from her and Owen. This experience was a subtle reference to Beru's time spent with the White Sun movement, a rebellious movement on Tatooine focused on ending the slave trade on the planet. As E. K. Johnston's Queen's Hope showed, the White Sun movement actually started long before the Empire's rise, but this planet focused movement could have easily been incorporated into the larger Rebellion later, like Saw Gerrara's Onderon forces were incorporated after the Empire's rise.

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Beru on the Lars Homestead in Obi-Wan Kenobi

The White Sun actually had many parallels with the Path. Rather than fighting overtly, the White Sun focused instead on getting freed slaves to safety. Beru's own role in the White Sun might have seemed small on the surface, but she had a larger impact than she realized. In an interlude in Queen's Hope, Beru helped Shmi Skywalker get free of Watto, and she also aided in the creation of a scanner to disable the chips that slavers put into people to keep them from escaping. She was the one to actually remove Shmi's chip herself in the first successful test of their work.

After Shmi's death, Beru took a step back from the movement. As Queen's Hope's narrator explained, "Others took over the technical aspects of freeing enslaved people on Tatooine, but it was the girl who fed them when they were no longer bound. It was the girl who comforted them if tragedy struck." Beru's nurturing role became her primary focus, especially when raising Luke, but her time working with the White Sun movement clearly also helped her know just how to prepare for the worst.

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While her weapons and hiding places could have been added to the Lars homestead after they adopted Luke, they likely were remnants from Beru and the Lars family's time helping the White Sun movement. She and Owen might not have been entirely successful in fending off Reva, but they did put up far more of a fight than anyone anticipated, due in large part to Beru's preparations.

Despite the disconnectedness of these Rebel movements, Obi-Wan Kenobi still showed how small groups could have a big impact even against overwhelming evil. Both Beru's past and the Path might be clues to a larger focus in Andor on the early days of the Rebellion and the Rebellion's possible expansion. Andor might build upon Obi-Wan Kenobi's set up to show in more detail how these groups came together to form a more cohesive Rebel Alliance that was able to finally defeat the Empire and free the galaxy.