After fighting alongside the Bad Batch against a horde of police droids, in order to obtain
the head of a tactical droid, Trace and Raffa Martez return to their ship, The Silver Angel,
where they have Ahsoka’s loyal astromech R7-a7 on board.
They use the little astromech to begin a hologram communication with a mysterious Robed figure
who claims to be fighting against the Empire?
So who is Trace and Raffa’s contact?
Lets break down all the possibilities.
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So to start off the most obvious and probably most likely option is Senator Bail Organa.
Bail Organa served as the senator for Alderaan in the Republic senate all the way up to the
creation of the Empire, where he continued serving in the new Imperial senate.
We already know that Trace and Raffa’s contact is, according to them, someone who wants to
help fight back against the Empire to make the galaxy a better place.
At this point in the Empire, there are not too many people who are fully against the
Empire yet, as you have to remember, the Empire was literally the Republic not too long ago,
and were the ones who managed to put an end to the untold suffering and terror of the
Clone Wars.
We know thanks to the deleted scenes of Revenge of the Sith and the brand new Reference books
that Bail Organa, along with Padme and Mon Motha set up a meeting to begin forming the
roots of the Rebellion.
At this meeting, they began to discuss what they could do to fight back against Palpatine
after he refused to hand back the emergency powers given to him throughout the clone wars.
They couldn’t even speak the words out loud this time because of the huge risk on their
heads.
So there aren’t many people in the fight at this point, and bail is one of them.
This then leads us to the next hint towards Bail organa, which is his robe.
The robe that the man in the hologram is wearing looks like a traditional Alderaanian robe,
which is of course where Bail comes from, and has some striking similarities to the
Robe that Bail Organa wore in Revenge of the Sith.
As you can see on screen now, the patterns match up pretty closely to Bail’s garb.
Overall, I’d say he’s the most likely choice, but there definitely are others it
could be.
After that we have the possibility that the mysterious robed figure is Ahsoka Tano.
This is one is unlikely given what we know, but is still possible.
When the martez sisters began the call with the robed figure, they did say “patch him
through”, pointing towards it being a male, but if we look back at Star Wars Rebels, when
Ahsoka was acting as a fulcrum agent, Hera and the others believed that Fulcrum was a
male.
Now, if this does happen to be Ahsoka on the other end of the transmission, it would be
yet another retcon to the Ahsoka Novel.
The Ahsoka novel at this point in the timeline pretty much has her hiding out on the planet
Thabeska, working for the Fardi Clan as a mechanic, up until she is forced to move to
Raada after getting spooked by some imperial attention on the planet.
After starting an uprising there, she eventually gets the attention of Bail Organa, who employs
her as a spy for the Rebellion, under the name Fulcrum.
The only problem is that most of these events happen after a year of Imperial rule.
There’s no way a year has passed yet in the Bad Batch series, so it would be another
retcon.
Many people have also said that because R7-a7, Ahsoka’s astromech is the one delivering
the message, it must be related to her.
This could be true, but it could also be that she just gifted R7 to the Martez sisters,
after recovering and repairing him following the Venator Crash, we did see the Astromech
with Rex at the Clone Graveyard, so Ahsoka definitely wanted to repair him and put him
back to good use.
So overall, I don’t think it will be Ahsokak, but it can’t be ruled out with certainty.
Next up we have another very possible choice and one that would make a lot of sense given
the context of the show.
That is captain rex.
We know that Captain Rex will be appearing at some point in the show thanks to the trailers
already released by Lucasfilm, but we haven’t had a hint at where he will fit in yet.
The trailers that Lucasfilm are making these days usually only cover the first few episodes
of a show, and at most, the first half of a season, in order to keep all of the big
surprises from the second half hidden.
And given that we only have 2 episodes left in the first half of the season, it would
make a ton of sense to see Rex show up now.
On top of this, Rex has a pretty extensive knowledge of the Battle droid enemies that
he fought against throughout the Clone Wars, so maybe he’s devised a plan to use a battle
droid head against the Empire somewhere in the Galaxy.
We did also see Rex in the trailer at a venator scrap yard, which could be Bracca.
If this is bracca, maybe the person in the hologram is Captain Rex, but wearing one of
the classic ponchos that the workers were there…
The only problem with this theory is that Captain Rex didn’t really join the fight
against the Empire properly until he was discovered on Seelos by Kanan jarrus and Ezra Bridger,
and by the sounds of it, they were on pretty good terms with the Empire while stationed
there.
Commander Wolffe even reported the presence of Kanan and Ezra once they arrived.
Another thing that goes against this theory is that when Hunters tell Trace and Raffa
that the bad Batch are different, they respond “I’ve heard that before” in a distrusting
manner.
If they’ve met Rex, then they’d have no reason to respond like that because Rex has
his chip out and is no longer with the Empire.
Following that we have another very important figure in the Galaxy, who doesn’t exactly
fit the description, but could still be a surprise Twist, Darth Maul.
Just looking at Maul’s clone war robes, you can definitely see some similarity between
those and the ones in the shot.
The maul theory does however go against Raffa’s line about this mysterious figure being someone
who is fighting back against the empire.
But to be fair, these two sisters were never the brightest, and were actually pretty naive
in their Clone Wars arc, so it could easily be Maul deceiving them, making them believe
that he is fighting against the Empire.
Or another possibility is that maybe Maul literally is fighting against the Empire with
the power of the Crimson Dawn, because he’s certainly no friend of Palpatine at this point,
and the Empire definitely has no love for criminal syndicates running around and disturbing
the order which they preach so highly.
We’ve seen on many occasions that Crimson Dawn are very anti-imperial and will do whatever
it takes to strengthen their grip over the galaxy.
So included in this theory, you can also throw Dryden Vos in there since he’s a high ranking
member of the Crimson Dawn Crime syndicate, and the Lucsfilm animators have shown time
and time again now that they don’t waste money to make a model and then only use it
for 2 seconds.
As for why Maul might want a tactical droid head, he may want to know how to defeat the
Imperial clone troopers just like Cid suggested.
he could also simply want a glimpse into Palpatine’s tactics or testing, as we know that Early
versions of Order 66 were tested on droids at various battle during the war.
It would be pretty funny if Maul ends up being a major figure in the creation of the Rebel
Alliance just by sharing an enemy with major Rebel figures.
Next up is another possibility which is actually pretty high up on the list, Saw Gererra.
Saw automatically makes a lot of sense considering he is a major player in this series and will
do almost anything to take down the Empire…
He’s an extremist.
Saw would have many reasons to want to delve into the head of a tactical droid, including
military strategy, past communications and trying to figure out how to beat the Empire
at their own game.
With saw being as extreme as he is, it’s pretty safe to assume that he’s already
planning a huge uprising against the Empire somewhere in the Galaxy and is making the
preparations for it now.
From the Catalyst novel, we also know that Saw was moving through many of the same crime
and underworld circles as the Martez sisters were in season 7 of the Clone Wars, so that
is a massive connection between them.
After that I want to throw in one Jedi pick which isn’t the most likely, but can work
with what we know in Canon.
That Jedi is Quinlan Vos.
We really have no idea what he did in the time after the Clone Wars, but we do know
for certain thanks to the Darth Vader comics that he did survive.
In one of the Vader comics, the inquisitors pull up a list of Jedi survivors who they
are searching for, and on that list is Quinlan Vos.
Based on what the Jedi did to the Martez sisters before the war ended (most likely luminara),
I don't think they’d work with a Jedi, but I just wanted to throw him in here as a dark
horse pick…
With Dave Filloni and this writing team, you honestly never know.
And finally, I’ve seen so many people saying Mace Windu is the contact.
While this would be absolutely awesome and would be completely unexpected, I don’t
think the Bad Batch is the place that they will bring such a major character back, if
they ever do at all.
They’ll almost certainly save a big revival like that for the new live action shows which
are in production right now.
And to cap it off, I’ve seen heaps of Predictions like Obi-Wan, the Kaminoans, Lux Bonterri,
but I think these ones are much less likely.
So those are pretty much all of the main possibilities for who was in the hologram at the end of
the bad batch episode 6.
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