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Andross's career began as the lead scientist of the [[Cornerian Defense Force]]. He was the partner of [[General Pepper]], but they were intense rivals which foreshadowed complications between the two.<ref>"He was Corneria's chief science officer. He was also a close colleague of General Pepper. But they were like oil and water. Their infighting was a precursor to war." — Krystal, ''Star Fox Command''</ref> Andross's research focused on weapons of war, but [[Corneria]]'s time of peace left him unable to truly test his experiments. One experiment got out of hand and destroyed an entire city on Corneria. General Pepper had him banished to the distant planet [[Venom]]. Five years later, when Pepper had sent the original [[Star Fox (team)|Star Fox team]], Andross hired one of their number to betray the other two. [[Pigma Dengar]], the team member he hired, did just that and this led to the apparent death of [[James McCloud]].

=== ''Star Fox 64'' ===

A few years later, Andross began his invasion of the Lylat System. He was challenged by the new Star Fox team, led by the son of James McCloud, Fox. Andross had been experimenting with many things including an array of bioweapons for the war. He had also created several robotic defense weapons and hired the [[Star Wolf]] team to hold off Star Fox. All failed and Fox McCloud himself alone invaded Andross's lair to battle him. When Fox finally encountered Andross, he found that the experiments Andross had conducted had transformed him into a giant, floating head and pair of hands. Fox destroyed this form and Andross was revealed to only be a giant brain and set of eyes. Fox defeated this form of Andross as well, setting off a massive explosion that took out his entire lair. If Star Fox had gotten to Venom from [[Bolse Defense Satellite]], Fox would have encountered a false, cybernetic Andross and Andross's face would appear after Star Fox collected their reward from Pepper, signifying his survival.

Andross apparently survived his destruction at the end of the Lylat Wars and spent his final days on Venom. Andross knew that his fight with Fox had shortened his remaining days and gave up his hopes for ruling Lylat in the hope that he could leave something behind that was beneficial for Venom.<ref>"After Andross fought you, he dedicated his remaining days to planet Venom. He wanted to leave some sort of legacy." — Krystal, ''Star Fox Command''</ref> He built a machine that would neutralize the acidity of the Venom Sea in hopes to begin a terraforming project for Venom, but some event prevented him from initiating his plans and the device was hidden on [[Titania]].

Andross was one of, if not the only, character to have the same role during the invasion of the [[Anglar]] regardless of the story. When Fox and whatever teammates he had at the time went to Titania, they encountered an entity that claimed to be the ghost of Andross. This was probably a hologram Andross left with his bioweapons to guard his acid neutralization device based on the appearance of Andross's appearance. Unable to do anything when Fox and his allies defeated the bioweapon, Andross allowed him to take the device.

His nephew, [[Andrew Oikonny]], remained true to Andross' strange penchant for appearing as a massive floating head by building an airborne vehicle which mimicked Andrew's head and hands. This ship appeared as the first level's false boss in ''[[Star Fox: Assault]]''. Fox quickly dispatched this poor reproduction. The badly damaged craft, presumably piloted by Andrew himself, attempted to escape but was utterly obliterated by an [[Aparoid]] while Andrew delivered a megalomaniac monologue.