While on Pantorra, renowned bounty hunter Fennec Shand was sent on a mission to hunt
down and Capture the escaped Medical Assistant of Nala Se and enhanced Clone, Omega, after
she escaped Kamino and joined the Bad Batch.
Fennec Shand ultimately failed in her mission to capture the young girl, was forced to report
this to her superiors…
But who were they?
Who sent Fennec Shand to hunt down omega?
Before we dive into it, make sure you’re subscribed for more awesome Star Wars lore
content.
So after a pretty brutal chase through the streets of Pantora, where Fennec killed a
few innocent men, and a fight in the sewers where she absolutely bodied Wrecker, trying
to defend his young friend, Fennec lost track of her target.
This lead her to menacingly walk back to her Sullustan contact, in the docking ports of
Pantora, making him believe that he was about to get a bullet between his eyes, but surprisingly,
Fennec paid the man and told him to contact her if he ever sees or hears even the slightest
bit of information about Clone Force 99 again in the future.
A Very honorable act compared to some of the stuff she was doing during the chase.
After paying the Sullustan man, she then walks outside and contacts her mysterious employer,
letting whoever it is know that she has failed the mission, but won’t be giving up.
So this leaves us with one big question…
Who was on the other end of the line?
There is one very obvious possibility which is the most likely, but there are a few possibilities
which make a lot of sense and would connect to the other Star Wars stories being told
right now…
So lets break them down.
The first and one that most of us believe is that Nala Se, Lamau Su and the Kamioans
are after Omega back for their new cloning experiments, and have gone as far as to send
a bounty hunter to get her back.
We already saw previously that the Kamioans fully understand that the Jango Fett Genome
at this point has degraded past the point of being useful, and definitely would not
be suitable to create another army with…
Especially not one with the same skills and combat proficiency as the original clone army.
The only problem with this is that the Kaminoans already let Omega go…
It’s pretty short sighted when they already knew that the Empire was considering other
options, and even before the war ended, there was many calls to use natural born soldiers
instead of clones.
We were given so many lingering shots of the Kaminoans, looking more and more upset with
the Empire’s decision to pursue natural born, enlisted soldiers, as part of project
War Mantle, rather than the cloned soldiers that the Kamioans provide, strongly pointing
towards them.
The Kaminoans know by this point, that if they can’t produce a soldier far superior
to the natural born recruits that the Empire are putting on display, and even superior
to the original clone army, they’re going to be left out of the Empire’s good gracese,
which is a very dangerous position for them.
And we can be pretty much sure that Omega is the only enhanced Clone that they are interested
in, because if they weren’t they would just take a sample from Crosshair and have the
whole army incredibly aimers…
But its pretty clear that’s not going to cut it for the Kamioans at this.
We still dont’ really know what exactly Omega’s enhanced power is.
She could be force sensitive, which would be very interesting, but that would actually
point away from the Kaminoans, and more squarely at Palpatine at the empire.
Alternatively, her enhancement could be that she can easily learn any skill in a very short
span of time.
We see some evidence for this on the Ordo Moon, where Omega immediately begins learning
to Track with Hunter, the moment she gets the opportunity.
She also performs incredibly well under pressure inside of the cave, when facing down the Ordo
Moon dragon.
Most children her age would panic, and not have the foresight to use a torch to feed
the beast’s hunger…
Another theory for her power, and one that I’m a massive fan of is that she has or
will eventually develop all of the Bad Batch’s powers.
We have already seen her take some amazing accurate shots with a blaster, she’s shown
the ability to track and clearly has heightened senses, she’s shown a strong fascination
with technology every time she gets on the Havoc Marauder, and as for strength, I think
we’ll have to wait for that one..
Although she did literally break through the vent when the Bad Batch were thrown in the
brig, so there’s something to think about.
But either way, the Kaminoans are facing the very serious possibility of losing their cloning
contract with the Empire, which is not only going to cost them very dearly, but also going
to remove the crucial influence they hold with the empire right now…
Without that influence, they can’t really stay a float, because Kamino is not even in
the main galaxy.
Without providing a crucial service to the Empire, there’s nothing stopping Palpatine
and Tarkin from crushing the Kamioans, so that they can’t pose a threat…
And that leads us straight to a path that I think we’re already going down…
The Kamino Rebellion.
If the Kaminoans do manage to produce a new clone army, with either Omega or someone else
as the template, and the Empire doesn't use them for their military, there’s no chance
Palpatine is going to allow them to stand.
And that is the point where the Empire will invade Kamino in order to put down the new
Clones, bringing us straight back to the Kamino uprising from legends, where the Kaminoans
bred anti-clones to fight the Empire.
Although officially, there was no rebellion on Kamino in the eyes of the rest of the galaxy,
the uprising that took place that day was Kamnio’s darkest day.
If the Kamino uprising does happen with an army of new anti-clones to figt the empire,
they’re almost certainly going to be fully wiped out because we don’t see them, and
have no reference to them in any of the other star wars content in the time after the Bad
Batch.
Obviously, that’s because the Bad Batch is created after all of that other content,
but it’s pretty hard to brush away, unless they are all killed off during the uprising,
and the Empire suppress any knowledge of it happening.
Now following that, the next possibility is that Palpatine, or someone on his behalf is
on the one who hired Fennec in order to use her for his Cloning program.
We already know thanks to the new reference books and other stories, that the Cloning
process is well under way by this point in the timeline, so it would make perfect sense.
The only issue is, that as far as we know, the Empire still has no idea about omega’s
true potential.
If Palpatine has somehow discovered that she has unique abilities, or that she is force
sensitive, then its certain that he would want to get involved and try to use Omega
for his future plans.
We also know that one of the top secret projects stored at the imperial vault on Scarif is
called Mark Omega.
This could be a reference to his cloning program and his attempts at capturing omega as part
of it.
Now that we’ve seen the project war mantle explained by the Bad Batch, another project
that was stored on Scarif, it's looking more and more likely that Mark Omega will be connected
to the Bad Batch and Palpatine’s cloning attempts..
The way Omega spoke to Crosshair on Kamino could be a hint that she has at least some
very light force sensitivity.
She is instantly able to sense Crosshair’s emotions when she says “you’re angry”,
she says “I know what you’re going to do, but please don’t”, demonstrating knowledge
of the future, and she even says “I know it’s not your fault”, which could show
that she is looking deep within crosshair through the force and discovering what he
truly feels.
We even had a hint that he’s not really on board with the Empire’s new plans, after
he got back to his barracks with the Elite Squad, but is being forced to comply because
of the inhibit chip.
Although this little line from Omega could just be because she knows all about the inhibitor
chips, from her time as Nala Se’s medical assistant.
And just on that note, Medical assistant is such a weird role for someone as young as
Omega to have.
Either there is a more dark and sinister meaning behind the title, and Omega is actually the
one having cloning experiments done on her, or she possibly has some sort of healing ability
which we’re yet to see, and is able to use it to help the Kaminoans.
Because apart from that, there’s no way a very young child like Omega would have been
able to learn enough about medicine and the cloning process to take part it in… so what’s
the deal with that title?
If she really was helping out with the medicine, then that could further back up the theory
that she has the ability to learn any skill with ease, in a very short amount of time.
But I don’t know, I just don’t see it being likely that Omega is an expert in medicine.
Personally, I think it’s the darker, and much more mysterious option that she is the
one being subject to these cloning experiments.
And for a final possibility, maybe it was just another high ranking criminal organization
who sent Fennec After Omega, like Crimson Dawn with Dryden Vos and Maul at the helm.
I’m not sure how they would have any idea who Omega is just yet, but it’s possible
that Maul knows a lot more than anyone expects.
But really, this is easily the least likely one, because although yes Omega would be an
absolutely amazing asset for any crime lord to have in his syndicate, there’s almost
no way anyone knows about her yet…
But either way, tell me what you think down below.
Will omega be captured and brought back to Kamino in the next few episodes, or will she
end up in the dark clutches of Emperor Palpatine.
Thanks so much for watching, really hope you enjoyed
the video.
Cheers guys, hope to see you in the next one