Isto é abordado na novelização que contém algumas linhas extras de diálogo. Em resumo, os Guardiões são zelotes. Embora sua causa esteja mais ou menos alinhada com a Rebelião, eles não são confiáveis e provavelmente derrubarão a atenção do Império.
She frowned. “What kind of trouble?”
Cassian turned his head in a slow arc as if checking for pursuit. “For the Guardians, anyone who’s not a pilgrim is intruding on holy ground. The Empire calls them strays…used to be domesticated, still beg for scraps, but they’ve really gone feral. Look at them wrong and they’ll bite your hand in a second.” “You’ll make me like them,” Jyn said.
She tried to push their faces, Chirrut’s voice, out of her brain. They probably were con men, even if they’d been zealots once. Beyond that, she didn’t know enough about the local religions to speculate; pilgrims from a hundred faiths came to the moon from across the galaxy, and all of them blurred together into the same pathetic cult, chanting and moaning and squirming under the Empire’s boot.