We have writer-arc pairs for S2 on the updated WGA directory.
Tom Bissell is a really interesting choice for the last arc, he’s mostly known for his video game stuff, but his career has largely been in nonfiction as a political journalist and critic, much of his work based around the Soviet Union and the legacy of communism.
The first season was already freighted with historical allegory and sociopolitical themes, but now there’s real researched weight behind season 2, which is so cool. I imagine as we go further into the revolution, this subject matter becomes more pertinent.
Gilroy has also said Bissell was brought in as the Star Wars fan of the staff; that synthesis should actually be kind of perfect for the finale arc overlapping with Star Wars™ proper.
Outside of the obvious stuff his background would bring (political history, Star Wars nerddom), he wrote a book, Apostle: Travels Among the Tombs of the Twelve - a spiritual/academic investigation on the early schisms of Christianity and the historical context of the Bible’s authors. For a show like Andor, it sounds like the perfect framework for developing the Force’s role in the Rebellion, similarly to how I speculated it would eventually factor in a few pages back. I’ve already picked up a copy and am excited to read it lol. hopefully some of this helps inform s2
Tangentially, in the first season, Gilroy mentioned Simon Seabag Montefiore’s Young Stalin as inspiration particularly for the heist and Cassian himself, and I did end up reading that as well. Really interesting book too! There’s a lot of insight in these sources and the writers’ previous work towards what exactly the show is doing, if anyone else was interested in that sort of thing. It only makes the show more satisfying.