Andor Episode 10 gives us a better idea of ​​the Rise of the Empire timeline

As Luthen Rael stands on this trackless gantry, deep underground on Coruscanti, letting his mole inside the ISB have him, he gives us a clue to the time that it goes there. In this moving monologue that closes the episode, he talks about all he had to let go of and there's a moment of frustration where he says he's working from a decision he made 15 years before. , from a solution to an equation he found then. It has dictated his life ever since.

With the Battle of Yavin five years away and Luthen looking back 15 years to see tyranny and the rise of the Empire and the need to fight against it, this actually puts his calculations in the final year of the clone wars and before Palpatine's real rise to power. This implies that Luthen saw what was coming from Palpatine before it happened and began to put in place elements to combat it even then, showing him to be both cynical and prescient. What did Luther see that showed him the future? Was the mask he wears when showing people his shop artifacts the real Luthen before this equation destroyed him?