After being captured by Cad Bane, and put into a cell on Cad Bane’s new ship, the
Justifier, Omega was transported to the abandoned, cloudy world of Bora Vio, where the Kaminoans
used to conduct cloning operations and experiments.
Omega was eventually cornered, leading her into a room with ominous green tanks, filled
with mysterious and horrifying creatures.
So what was inside of these cloning tanks?
Lets find out.
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So to start off, we’ll cover the most obvious and honestly least creepy looking Clone in
the tank, the one that fell on Fennec Shand, and drenched her in Cloning juice…
This creature is an early prototype Kamino Clone, which didn’t quite make it to full
growth.
For those of you who don’t know, the Kaminoans originally turned to cloning after their planet
was ravaged by rising flood waters, and the only method they could use to keep their populations
at the point of survival was cloning.
Because of this, they did everything in their power to learn the ways of Cloning, and to
perfect the process so they would never go extinct.
After this, they went a little bit crazy with the cloning, and started tinkering with more
extreme clones, as well as taking orders for customers around the galaxy, to keep their
economy afloat, now that their world was ravaged by floodwaters.
The Kaminoans absolutely would not still be around during the time of the Empire if it
wasn’t for their Cloning efforts, so this is clearly a very early attempt at it.
And compared to the other creatures inside the tank which I’m about show you, this
one came out surprisingly normal looking.
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dark history with Cloning and how they were driven to do some pretty horrendous things
to survive.
Following that, we have the creature that Omega was starting at in horror, hoping she
would not have the same fate.
This one is just plain creepy to look at, and appears to be an early attempt at cloning
Sullustans.
Just based on the curve in the nose and mouth Area.
If you look at other sullustans from the Battlefront games, the Clone Wars and of course the movies,
you’ll see a very similar shape to their faces.
Obviously, this attempt went horribly wrong, meaning the Kaminoans were likely pretty early
on in their cloning history when developing this one.
It could be that Kaminoans were completely inexperienced when producing these clones,
making them daily miserably, or it could be just one bad clone from a batch, which has
been left here for many years after the operation ended.
Either way, this is giving us a fantastic insight into Kamino’s early cloning history.
Following that, we have a Clone inside the tanks that is absolutely horrifying to look
at, and is pure Nightmare fuel…
This creature could be a botched attempt at replicating the Kitonak species, from the
planet Kirdo 3, who had a very… interesting head shape.
The Kitonaks lived in nomadic tribes of about 100 and were generally seen as a very calm
species.
Many of them would be abducted from their homeworld, due to their lower awareness, and
sold to slave trades, who would force them to play instruments and work in very shady
cantinas.
The Kitonaks didn’t really have big, visible eyes, which can be seen on the Clone in the
tank here, so you can definitely see the mistake in the Kaminoan’s cloning process.
And with pretty much all of the clones in this tank, the one big problem the Kaminaons
seem to have is that they can’t seem to edit the part of the process which puts eyes
on their clones.
Almost every single one is growing at least one eye….
After this we have a cloning attempt which looks pretty similar to the other one, but
has some pretty notable differences with the head shape and having 2 eyes instead of 1.
This honestly could be a second attempt at cloning the Kitonaks, just based on the nose
position, but it does also look like it might be a very botched attempt cloning a mon calamari.
The twi, decently spread apart eyes, with the semi-curved mouth and large mass behind
the head could have come from the Mon Calamari.
There are a few others it could be also, so let me know down in the comments below what
you’re thinking.
Following that, we have a lizard like creature.
This is actually one of the better attempts that the Kaminoans have inside of these tanks.
It definitely has similarities to the Ysalimari lizards, one of which was used by Thrawn when
going up against force users.
These lizards were known for creating force-neutral bubbles, which didn’t fully eliminate the
force inside, but instead made it so that nobody could exert their will over the force.
A single force-neutral bubble created by one of these creatures would span about 10 metres
in radius, but when they joined forces, these bubbles could span kilometres, being very
dangerous force users who were unprepared.
It
would be pretty cool if the kaminoans started their attempts at force-related cloning with
the Ysalamiri, but it could also foreshadow that they will be deeply connected to Palpatine
cloning plans with Snoke, despite having a lot of it done on exegol.
We’ll just have to wait and see on that one, but now with various tanks showing up
in the Mandalorian Season 2, the Vader comics and now where, it’s looking like things
might indeed be connected.
Next up, we have a creature which almost reminds me of a Bith, because of the massive head
size, but really this could just be any creature or species.
They could also be from the Siniteen species, which have massive heads, and are known for
their hyper intelligence.
These guys could even calculate hyperspace jumps without any assistance from droids or
a computer, so it’s pretty easy to see why the Kaminoans would have valued cloning them
and may have wanted to produce them for their own purposes.
You would also probably remember the Siniteen trainer on Kamino, who was overseeing the
domino squad.
After this, we have one clone that almost looks like a pretty close attempt at cloning
a Hutt.
The body shape is pretty much the same, and you can definitely see some similarities with
a young Rotta the Hutt.
Obviously the face is very off, but again that could be down the Kaminoan’s not having
too much experience in the cloning game at this point.
With the amount of wealth, power and resources the Hutt cartel had behind it, it would not
be surprising whatsoever that they would want clones of either themselves, or stronger variants,
to help strengthen their criminal empire.
Next is a just a pure abomination with no explanation.
You can pin any species you want to this, but this is jus a complete and utter mess
from the Kaminoans.
Whoever created this one should be thrown into the depths of Kamino’s ocean.
If you have any guesses or predictions for this monstrosity, let me know in the comments
below.
After this, we have a pretty tiny creature, with no visible features except and eye poking
out from the front.
This could honestly be excess biomaterial that happened to grow and eye during the replication
process.
Something pretty similar happened with Lanoree brock as she worked on her Alchemy of the
Flesh experiments on board her ship.
Alchemy of the flesh was looked down on by many in the Je’daii Order of the time, but
it did produce results that looked an awful lot like this one.
And for the final cloning attempt inside the tanks, there we have a weird failed creature
that again has an eye, just like the others, but seems to be growing a mixture of fingers
and toes from each piece of flesh coming out of it.
I’ll leave this one down to you guys, because it could be made from the DNA of absolutely
any species which is capable of growing nails.
So that is everything we know about the cloned alien species inside of the tanks of the abandoned
Kaminoan cloning facility on Bora Vio.
Let me know if you think there’s going to be a connection to snoke
and Palpatine’s cloning plans
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