With the release of Star Wars: The Bad Batch, Season 1 Episode 16 “Kamino Lost”, the
finale of the show, we got a major look at the future of Nala Se, and the ominous plans
that the empire have for her after the age of the Clone Troopers.
After snatching Nala Se however, she was taken to a mysterious facility, recessed deep within
the mountain ranges, which actually may have some huge Connection to one of Palpatine’s
secret storehouses along with his cloning plans, and even Grand Admiral Thrawn.
So, lets break down the story of Mount Tantiss, on the planet Wayland, and how it will probably
connect to the Mandalorian, Bad Batch and heaps more.
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So as the finale of the Bad Batch comes to and end, we see Nale Se being escorted off
of an imperial shuttle by a Squad of Clone Commandos, on a lush, mountainous planet with
imperial facilities taking up space in almost every mountain face.
As Nala Se steps off, she is greeted by an imperial operative who immediately tells her
that they are very impressed with her scientific talents, as well as menacingly telling her
that the Empire have big things planned for her.
Now this is obviously referring to her cloning skills, which Palpatine is very, very interested
in at this time, in order to further his quest for immortality, along with the obvious connections
to snoke.
If you compare the look of this planet to Wayland in the comics, you can easily see
the similarities, on top of the fact that it also housed a top secret cloning facility
for Palpatine, deep inside the mountains.
So with Nala Se being brought here, its pretty clear that the reason is to assist in future
Cloning projects.
To further back up that this is actually a cloning installation, is the fact that this
Imperial Operative has the patch of the Imperial Cloners on her arm.
This is the exact same patch that you can see on the the young Clone Troopers in Attack
of the Clones, as well as Doctor Pershing in the Mandalorian, who we already know is
heavily involved in cloning, midichlorian science and pretty much everything to do with
the creation of new life.
On top of that, the entire rest of the uniform is pretty much identical.
To be honest, I wouldn’t even be surprised if this Character’s model has been based
off someone that Dave Filloni and Jon Favreau have already cast for the Mandalorian Season
3, and will have some connections with that.
So this right here pretty much confirms that the facility Nala Se was just taken to is
involved in Cloning and exotic sciences.
Now another place that had deep ties to cloning and Palpatine was the planet Wayland from
the Thrawn Trilogy.
So although it was introduced in the old EU, Wayland has actually been brought back into
the new Canon through the Vader Immortal VR games, which you can see on screen now.
In the game you can view different HOlograms of some of the Galaxy’s planets, and when
you view Wayland, you are specifically told that Emperor Palpatine has storehouses of
treasure and other exotic goods on the planet, meaning they definitely have been thinking
about these connections for a while.
And if you do have a VR headset, you should definitely check out these games as they’re
probably up there with the best Star WArs VR Experiences.
If you’d like to see some videos on that, let me know down below!
Wayland was discovered and colonized all the way back during the time of the Old Republic,
serving as a crucial field hospital during the Mandalorian wars.
After this however, a filing error removed all records of the planet from all galactic
maps and databases, meaning that it was lost to memory for a very long period of time.
Centuries after this however, the planet Wayland was rediscovered by Palpatine, in the time
just before the sepataist crisis.
After realizing that this planet was uncharted and almost completely isolated from the rest
of the Galaxy, he began hollowing out it’s mountains and turning them into storehouses
for arcane artifacts, force relics and many different forms of exotic technology, including
Cloning.
After the Clone Wars kicked off at Geonosis, Palpatine’s storehouses on the planet came
under very slight threat when the Separatists invaded the planet and took control of it,
despite the fact that he was controlling them.
If anyone from the confederacy went prying too deeply into the storehouses and secret
installation on Wayland during the war, you can be sure that Palpatine would have taken
them out in a heartbeat to keep his plans from leaking.
At one point during the war, a Jedi Knight made it into the atmosphere of the planet,
but was quickly taken out before he could do much digging.
In the very late Clone Wars, Palpatine then established multiple top secret research stations
across the planet, including a new storehouse into a mountain called Mount Tantiss.
Now mount Tantiss is very interesting and has some huge connections to the bad batch,
the mandalorian and Palpatine’s and his attempts at resurrecting himself, which I’ll
get straight into.
Mount Tantiss originally was the site of an Old Republic fort, which laid dormant for
many, many years, until being reestablished by Palpatine late during the Clone Wars.
inside, Palpatine began to stockpile and store numerous objects of unspeakable evil, as well
as later storing trinkets and other objects from the planets he conquered during the reign
of the Galactic empire.
Basically, after the Empire conquered culturally rich and historically important planets, Palpatine
would plunder anything of historic value and bring it to mount Tantiss.
As you can see from the map on screen now, the facility contained many rooms, including
a barracks, hangar bay, security stations, a brig, a war room, royal chambers, emergency
shuttle hangards and most interestly for the Bad Batch, a huge Cloning chamber placed right
in the centre, with many science and observation rooms placed below it.
Inside these rooms, Palpatine had dozens of Spaarti cloning cylinders which allowed for
the creation of personal clones.
And as you can probably tell, this is where Nala Se and snoke cloning plans come in.
It’s very possible that the Imperials will bring Nala Se in to use her knowledge and
expertise on the Cloning process from her years of experience with Jango Fett Clones,
to help begin the new program of bodies for Palpatine.
In addition to that, not only did Palpatine use these facilities, but Also Grand Admiral
Thrawn, who we already know from the Ahsoka Episode of the Mandalorian will be a massive
part of the upcoming Mandoverse content.
In time after Return of the Jedi, Thrawn managed to use Mount Tantiss’ cloning facilities
to build up his new fleet and wage war against the new Republic, as part of “The Mount
Tantiss Project”, yes very Creative name from Thrawn.
Basically, after losing almost all military personal, like officers, pilots and soldiers
to the various Imperial Remnants and warlords, Thrawn set out to find new ways to increase
his own military strength.
AFter discovering the facilities on the planet Wayland that were established by Palpatine
before his death, Thrawn was able to add thousands of cloning cylinders to generate a new army.
Some of the templates that Thrawn had access to were Soontir Fel, Creb, Terkuss and the
famed General Veers.
It’s pretty clear that Gideon is most likely working for a higher power, which is likely
grand Admiral Thrawn himself.
So that begs the question of whether or not Gideon is pursuing the Cloning Technology
for himself, or for a higher power like thrawn, who wants to rid the galaxy of the new republic.
And it’s fully possible that Gideon does want it for both himself, and to create a
new fleet to defeat the new republic.
So with all of this information, it seems pretty clear now whether we like it or not,
all of the shows that are in the pipeline right now will have some connection to Snoke
and Palpatine.
The Bad Batch has already shown us old, abandoned Kamino Cloning Facilities on Bora Vio, now
possibly Wayland, the Mando has shown as the hidden tanks on Nevarro, the Darth Vader comics
have shown us cloning on Exegol, and of course we see them in the rise of Skywalker.
Knowing all of this, it seems that Nala Se is simply one piece of the puzzle, with Grogu
being another piece, which will obviously take them much, much longer, all the way until
the time of the Mandalorian to find, since we know he went into hiding, and then Snoke
is probably another piece, which are palpatine’s early attempts and conducting the highly complex
process of Cloning with high Midichlorian counts.
So tell me down below how you think it will all tie in to the upcoming Book of Boba Fett,
Mandalorian Season 3 and all of the upcoming content from Jon and Dave.
So that is how we probably just got our first up close look at the planet Wayland in the
new Canon, as well as a possible glimpse into Mount Tantiss, a well known location for Palpatine’s
collection and Cloning activities in the old EU.
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