Imperial N-S9 Starpath Unit

"I got an untraceable NS-9 Starpath unit. Vector crystals and Imperial seal still intact."

―Cassian Andor, to Bix Caleen^[3]

The Imperial N-S9 Starpath Unit^[4] was an expensive and untraceable box-shaped^[2] piece of Imperial technology that used proprietary Imperial signals and frequencies to coordinate and map the relation of a starship to every Imperial asset, whether it was an installation or a vessel, for nine radial parsecs.^[1] One of these devices, with Vector crystals and Imperial Seal still intact,^[3] was stolen from the Steergard Naval Yard by Cassian Jeron Andor^[1] around 6 BBY.^[5] Both Bix Caleen and Luthen Rael showed interest in purchasing the box,^[3] but it was ultimately lost during a firefight between Andor, Rael, and Pre-Mor Enforcement in a warehouse on the planet Ferrix.^[1]

In 1 BBY, ISB Supervisor Dedra Meero brought the Starpath Unit with her to Galactic Antiquities and Objects of Interest to confront Rael as Axis. She then placed the device back in its case.^[6]

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Behind the scenes

The N-S9 Starpath unit first appeared in "That Would Be Me," the second episode of the Disney+ television series Star Wars: Andor.^[2] In an article covering the highlights of the third episode posted on StarWars.com, the unit is erroneously called both the "NP-95 Starpath" and the "NP-5 Starpath."^[7] The series prop master Martyn Doust originally envisioned the functionality of the Starpath as the "element of the navigational computer that plots the path through the stars." For the final prop shown in the series, Doust modified an old piece of "military junk" from the British Ministry of Defence he had found.^[8]