Who is Luthen Rael?

[unspeakablehorror]

Some speculation about Luthen Rael. I've put it under a cut in case people want to avoid that kind of thing as a 'possible' or 'unintentional' spoiler. But since I have yet to see Season 2, I have no idea if this is the actual direction they'll go or if they'll go with something entirely different. I like it though, and I think it has a certain narrative completeness to it.
 

For a while now, there's been a tension for me between my desire for different levels of payoff and sense-making in this story. On the one hand, I'm very much on board with Andor being a story about the ordinary people of the galaxy far, far away. On the other hand, I feel the impulse of Chekov's Gun very strongly, or shall we say--Luthen's lightsaber. By which I mean not only that I want to see him skewer someone with that wicked-looking bit of pointy metal he has in there, but that I want a satisfying payoff for all the Jedi and Sith iconography we see around Luthen.

And since Luthen doesn't strike me as a Sith despite his ruthlessness, I'd thought the only way to pay that off would be to reveal he was a Jedi, though preferably posthumously since I'd prefer not to see any explicit  Force shenanigans saving the day here. At the same time that does undermine the story being about ordinary people in a big way, even though Luthen's not the main character of the story.

But there's a different, and imo better, way to payoff both the Jedi iconography and the theme of ordinary people. Because Luthen is a spy, and he is good at what he does. What if he was always a spy? But what if...he used to be a spy for the Separatists? This not only makes his speech to Lonnie both a truth and a lie and shows his sacrifice of Kreegyr in a different light, but it pays off the Jedi iconography in a big way.

This is how. 

Luthen is a spy. And spies lie. But not just with words, but in so many other little, intentional ways. We see it when Luthen dons his antiques shop dealer persona, when he changes the numbers of Kreegyr's men depending on who he's talking to. But there's no reason for the antiques dealer persona to be his only false self. I contend that we've never seen Luthen's true self, because the grim rebel he presents is just as much a persona as his shopkeeper persona. The difference is that what's fake about his rebel persona is not that he's a rebel, but that he has any allegiance to or love for the deposed Republic. 

Instead, as his speech to Lonnie implies, he has forsaken his core values (because he's just betrayed Kreegyr, a fellow Separatist) for that sunrise he will never see. A truth wrapped in a lie implying a Jedi pedigree, just as his cloak and his kyber crystal and his defunct lightsaber similarly imply. And thus cloaked in the symbology of his former enemies' and current allies most powerful representatives' of an age they long for, he seeks to implicitly evoke their trust.

One must wonder how he looked to Kreegyr, when he talked to him, as he almost assuredly did (despite his protestations to Saw that he did not). Though that might not get us any closer to a 'true' self for this most enigmatic of characters.