Palmo Plaza hotel

"Holo-screen, air flow and window blinds, they all work through the single console on the nightstand."

―Thela, showing Cassian Andor his room in the hotel^[1]

Palmo Plaza hotel was an upscale hotel on the planet Ghorman. By 3 BBY, a male Ghorman Thela worked as a bellhop for the hotel. Later in that same year, Cassian Jeron Andor stayed at the hotel while under the alias "Varian Skye" for a planned meeting with the Ghorman Front regarding the Imperial occupation of the planet. The next year, in 2 BBY, Andor returned to the hotel under the alias "Ronni Googe" to assassinate Supervisor Dedra Meero of the Imperial Security Bureau. The next day, at least the main lobby of Palmo Plaza hotel was destroyed in an explosion due to a C-25 fragmentation grenade thrown by Thela during the Ghorman Massacre to fight against the Empire.

Description

Palmo Plaza hotel^[2] was an upscale hotel located at Palmo Plaza within the capital city of Palmo on the planet Ghorman. Rooms at the hotel were equipped with a Holo-screen, air flow, and window blinds, all of which could be controlled from a console on the nightstand.^[1] Some rooms came with views of the circular plaza and the Monument to the Fallen at its center. The hotel lobby included a small bar where guests could get drinks.^[3]

History

Thela, a male Ghorman started working as a bellhop at the hotel,^[4] by 3 BBY,^[5] even though the nearby plaza being the site of the his father's murder during the Tarkin Massacre.^[4] The hotel asked its staff not to discuss the massacre with guests. During 3 BBY, Cassian Andor checked into the hotel while posing as a Coruscanti fashion designer named Varian Skye. Thela showed him to his room and outlined its features to Andor.^[1]

During the following year, the Galactic Empire's control on Ghorman increased and began requiring the hotel to turn over their guest list each afternoon. In 2 BBY, Andor once again checked into the hotel but this time under using the alias Ronni Googe, a journalist from Mid-Rim News. In reality Andor was there to assassinate Dedra Meero, and ISB Supervisor overseeing the Empire's efforts on Ghorman. Thela, having remembered Andor, warned him that the other hotel clerk that checked him in would send his information to the Empire.^[3] Andor was given the same room he used the previous year with overlook the plaza and gave him a good view into the Imperial office complex. As he checked out his room, he realized that two stormtroopers were positioned on the terrace above^[6]

The following morning as Andor was assembling a rifle in his room, a squad of Imperial security troopers began removing the barricades around the plaza to allow Ghorman protestors to assemble. Realizing he would not be able to successfully take a shot from his room, Andor made his way out of the hotel. Before leaving the lobby he handed his keycard to Thela and wished him well. Soon after the Empire began a massacre of the Ghroman people. Members of a local rebel cell called the Ghorman Front fought against the attack resulting in a chaotic shootout near the hotel. During the attack, Thela waved at a group of hunkered guests at the front window of the of hotel to move away from the violence and further into the hotel. As the battle continued, a number of stormtroopers fired from a position near the front of the hotel. Seeing this, Thela activated a C-25 fragmentation grenade and threw it from his position behind the lobby check-in desk toward the hotel's windows where it exploded killing a number of troopers and destroying the front of the hotel.^[7]

Behind the scenes

The hotel appeared in the second season of the live-action series Star Wars: Andor, first appearing in the series's fifth episode, "I Have Friends Everywhere," which was released on Disney+^[1] on April 29, 2025.^[8]