so i've been rewatching SW:Rebels in light of finishing Andor, and i had a thought. Andor and the first seasons of Rebels occur at roughly the same time.
in Andor Season 1, Episode 10 "One way out", we see Andor instigating a massive breakout of prisoners from an imperial prison where the empire 'disappears' prisoners to.
in SW Rebels, Ezra's parents were arrested by the empire for anti-empire radio broadcasts, and then sent to a prison. a prison where their names and identities were completely hidden from public records. in Rebels Season 2 episode 11 "legacy", we find out that a mass breakout had occured in the prison they had been sent to, and we see Ezra using a force meditation method to divine form the list of prisoner numbers and records an individual he'd seen in a vision.. he paged though thousands of names scrolling by rapidly before stopping. this leads him to a person who knew his parents, and which had been in the same prison.. who tells Ezra that his parents had helped plan the mass escape, and in helping everyone get out, ended up being killed before they could escape themselves.
surely the mass escape of thousands of prisoners from a secure imperial prison complex isn't a common occurrence for the empire? could the Bridger's have been in the same Narkina 5 prison complex Andor was, and part of the same breakout? it would require sliding the relative timelines a little compared to the current assumptions, but it would make for an interesting stealth connection. the bridger's being said to be involved in planning it would be explained by them being part of one of the other isolated shifts we see, and them doing much like Andor and Jemboc did, figuring out how they'd go about breaking out should they get an opportunity. Andor and Kino's little revolt becomes the spark that allows the Bridgers to get the workers of their shift to freedom, perhaps them taking up the rear to help stragglers, and end up getting caught by the Imperial security response teams from the other complexes.
