Yes, That Bad Batch Location Is Exactly Where You Think It Is

You know the way it’s with these wars within the stars. If you may have even the slightest inkling that a spot seen in a brand new tv collection is perhaps associated to a spot from the previous expanded universe, odds are you’re going to be proper.

The remaining episode of Star Wars: The Bad Batch’s first season primarily targeted on its titular heroes studying that not each household squabble might be solved so simply. The brothers realized that not even escaping the ruins of their homeworld with Crosshair was going to be sufficient to get him to flip again from the Empire. But it ended with a not-quite cryptic tease past the scope of our clones. Kaminoan scientist Nala Se was delivered to a mountainous new secret Imperial facility and met by a younger scientist very longing for the Kaminoan to proceed exploring their work within the Empire’s identify. Star Wars followers, being Star Wars followers, instantly bought considering. Not only for the truth that this Imperial scientist was clad in the identical type of medical analysis uniform as The Mandalorian’s Dr. Pershing, suggesting some type of connection to the broader collection’ intrigue over Palpatine’s true plans. No, they had been extra within the mountain itself—in any case, you don’t simply embody a secret Imperial lab that will or is probably not as much as some cloning shenanigans and never have these followers marvel the place they’ve seen this all earlier than.

“What we’ll say is, where Nala Se is, what Nala Se is doing, should be a mystery to the audience, and we hope to explore that in the upcoming season,” Bad Batch government producer Jennifer Corbett teased in a brand new interview with StarWars.com in regards to the present’s plans for the Kaminoan. However, she didn’t need to say rather more when accompanying idea artwork for the episode launched alongside the interview confirmed suspicions that Nala Se had taken a visit to the planet Wayland (or Weyland, because it’s famous within the new paintings)—particularly Mount Tantiss itself, an essential locale from the previous Star Wars expanded universe.

First launched in Timothy Zahn’s seminal novel Heir to the Empire, Mount Tantiss was considered one of many secret storehouses of expertise, Sith artifacts, and normal sinister tat saved by Emperor Palpatine throughout the galaxy, a reserve of energy and data saved largely hidden from the remainder of the Empire after his (not so remaining) loss of life in Return of the Jedi. Mount Tantiss was additionally residence to the crazed, cloned Dark Jedi Joruus C’boath. He guarded the ability and its repository of Spaarti cloning cylinders, flash-clone expertise utilized by Grand Admiral Thrawn to create workers for his fleets. But C’boath usurped Thrawn in flip, utilizing Tantiss as his personal base and cloning Luke Skywalker—creating the evil clone Luuke out of genetic information from the hand the younger Jedi misplaced on Cloud City—as a part of his personal plans to reclaim the Emperor’s legacy. It all ended poorly, in fact: Luke and the previous Emperor’s hand, Mara Jade, killed Joruus and Luuke in a duel on the coronary heart of Mount Tantiss, and the ability was destroyed within the remaining battle of the Thrawn marketing campaign by the New Republic.

Obviously, in shifting our view of Mount Tantiss to earlier than the occasions of Return of the Jedi in Disney and Lucasfilm’s revised canon, not all the pieces in regards to the facility goes to stay the identical as we start to discover it extra in The Bad Batch (and maybe past). Time will inform if C’boath and Luuke will make it over alongside the planet and Tantiss. But its look, and Star Wars’ newfound fascination with retroactively laying the historical past for Palpatine’s return in The Rise of Skywalker all through initiatives like this, The Mandalorian, and maybe even future collection just like the Ahsoka present, is sensible as a connection to leverage. Even if we’d get a model with the superfluous cloned “u”s and Spaarti cylinders filed off.

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