Related: Star Wars' First Stormtroopers After The Clones: How They're Different From The OT ![]() The narrative of Republic Commando is no longer canon, Delta Squad made a brief appearance in Star Wars: The Clone Wars season 3, episode 14, "Witches of the Mist." There, they were seen recovering the bodies of two fallen Jedi who had been slaughtered by Savage Oppress (the brother of Maul). ![]() The Bad Batch Season 1 is streaming right on Disney+.Belonging to Delta Squad, the Republic Commando game saw players taking control of its squad leader Boss, allowing them to enter the battles and firefights of the Clone Wars while giving orders to the rest of Delta's commandos. Now, all that needs to happen is for Mando Season 3 to bring it all home. And what The Bad Batch finale did, subtly, is connect that deathly resurrection to the world-building of The Mandalorian. We know that, somehow, Palpatine returned. It’s also possible this Imperial cloner who greets Taun We in “Kamino is Lost” has no idea what the endgame actually is. The larger theory here is that the existence of a Mando-era cloner in the Bad Batch suggests Palpatine was putting certain clone-tech pieces into place long before anyone was aware of what was really going on. We don’t see any Kaminoans working on Palps’ body in The Rise of Skywalker, but that’s not super-surprising. Palpatine says, “Let’s pour one out for Taun We.” LucasfilmĪssuming Palpatine was planning his Rise of Skywalker clone-body contingency plan for a long time, it’s now conceivable that he only financed the cloning tech from Kamino with the intention of stealing it much later. (At this point in time he’d be an even babyier Yoda.) Why does the Empire want Baby Yoda? Because Grogu was rescued from the Jedi Temple before or during Order 66, it’s possible the cloners are looking for him even during the era of The Bad Batch. But what we do see is that the Empire’s cloning operations were in place almost thirty years before the events of The Mandalorian. Whether or not Nala Se cooperated after “Kamino is Lost” remains to be seen. In Attack of the Clones, Taun We was around for the creation of Boba Fett, and is revealed in The Bad Batch, helped create Omega, too. The Imperial cloners, who operate from 19 ABY (right after Revenge of the Sith) to at least 9 BBY (post- Return of the Jedi), directly enlisted the help of Taun We. The people working there have the same cloning insignia as Dr. LucasfilmĪt the very end of the episode “Kamino is Lost,” we see the Kamoinoan scientist Nala Se being escorted into an Imperial cloning facility. ![]() This cloner is clearly a forerunner to Dr. How The Bad Batch finale changes Star Wars cloning Or, at the very least, clarify a few outstanding questions everyone has about both Baby Yoda and Palps. And yet, because Imperial cloners were stealing Baby Yoda’s blood in The Mandalorian and Palpatine apparently came back to life thanks to a contingency plan involving clone bodies, it seems like every small puzzle piece about cloning within Star Wars might matter a lot. Seemingly, Star Wars canon both does and doesn’t want you to think about this stuff too hard. Is DNA in that galaxy far away the same as it is in ours? What’s up with cloning someone with midi-chlorians? Do midi-chlorians live in blood cells only or in other cells in the body? How does Star Wars DNA connect with all that? After this scene in Episode II: Attack of the Clones, the idea of replicating exact copies of people using their DNA entered Star Wars canon forever.īut the science of Star Wars clones has always been hazy. In a booth of gaudy space diner, Dexter Jexter leaned in close and told Obi-Wan Kenobi that the Kaminoans were “damn good” cloners. Spoilers ahead for The Bad Batch Season 1 finale. ![]() In fact, it’s even possible that The Bad Batch just set up was a specific way to solve one big Baby Yoda mystery in The Mandalorian Season 3. And, in all of that, we may have gotten a huge clue that finally explains what the heck is going on with the Empire in The Mandalorian. Just before the episode ends, we also get a clue as to how the legacy of those cloners is connected to the Imperial era. Clone Force 99lives to fight another day! But, at the end of the Season 1 finale of Star Wars: The Bad Batch, the cloner planet of Kamino is decimated by the Imperial fleet.
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