Star Wars the Bad Batch Season 1 Episode 5, Rampage has finally released on disney+, and
with it we finally got the origin for Omegas energy bow, and learned how the Bad Batch
will continue travelling the galaxy to survive.
The episode was packed full of easter eggs to the star wars films, books, comics and
games, and there were quite a few interesting pieces inside of Cid’s den.
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The action begins with Tech giving Omega her very own comms device to give her a bigger
role in the group, and allow her to communicate in emergencies.
This comms device used to belong to Crosshair, until he defected.
After this, we learn that the group are travelling the very shady underworld planet of Ord Mantell
in order to find out more info on why Fennec Shand is after Omega.
You might remember that Ord Mantell was first mentioned in the Empire strikes back.
It was also used as a base of Operations for former Sith Lord Darth maul and his shadow
collective during the Clone Wars in the Son of Dathomir comic, where a massive battle
ensued.
Surprisingly, the world actually stayed neutral during the Galactic civil war, but as time
went on the Empire was not happy with how many rebel sympathizers were coming off the
streets of Ord Mantell, and clamped down.
Following this we learn that Echo has a contact on Ord Mantell, named Cid who held a deep
trust in the Jedi…
He was quickly reminded however, that all the Jedi are now dead…
Once they arrive at the very dodgy establishment, the Batch ask a trandoshan who’s working
where this contact Cid might be, and they get no response.
In the back of the place are actually Ithorian and Weequay prisoners from the Clone Wars
Season 7 Martez Arc, who helped trace escape when she was fight off the guards…
Some very nice continuity, and good to see that these guys escaped!
While the Clones are bickering over what to do next and whether there are any more informants
around, Omega looks over at the Trandoshan and instantly knows that she is Syd.
I think we’re getting closer and closer to revealing that she's force sensitive, or
has some other ability that allows her to learn information instantly.
Once the Bad Batch realize that the Trandoshan is the contact, they immediately enter her
backroom den to continue the negotiations.
Very interestingly, inside you can see a few clone trooper helmets mounted on the wall,
which does make some sense considering her good relationship with the Jedi.
On the right is a regular clone helmet, which could belong to anyone, and On the left, is
a Clone Pilot helmet, which could belong to Gold Leader from Anaxes, in the Clone Wars
season 7, or even Oddball, since he had a very similar helmet during the clone wars,
and used a different one in Revenge of the Sith.
So it would be pretty cool if his clone wars helmet which he no longer had at the battle
of coruscant ended up here.
In the very back of the den, you can also see an almost completely white Mandalorian
helmet with a rangefinder attached.
The white reminds me of Gar Saxon’s outfit from Star Wars: Rebels, which in turn was
based on the Original concepts for Boba fett’s armor.
Looking at the poster on the back wall above Cid’s desk, you can also see a pair of WESTAR-34
blasters, which are the same ones Jango Fett used…
The connections to Mandalorian Culture are quickly building up here.
Very cool stuff in this den!
Eventually, the group get a job to rescue a young girl named Muchi, who has been captured
by Zygerian slavers.
Wrecker and Omega are very confident that they can get the Job done, before Syd gives
the group a device with the details of the bounty, a possible proto version of the Pucks
used in the Mandalorian.
On the way to the rescue mission, Wrecker again begins to wince in pain, clutching the
same area of his head that we’ve seen quite a few times now in the previous episodes…
This now completely rules out the theory that he just faked the headache so that he could
make the Room for Omega on board the ship, and very strongly points to an issue with
his inhibitor chip coming up soon.
While scouting out the mission, Wrecker reminisces on the time they did a simple smash and grab
mission just like their upcoming one on the planet Kuat.
Kuat is of the course the planet which hosted the Kuat Drive yards, which manufactures an
absolutely ton of very important ships and other equipment for both the Republic and
Empire.
As the Batch begins the mission, Hunter orders Omega to stay behind on the ship for her own
safety, which upsets her, but she has no choice.
While waiting on board the ship, modifying her little trooper doll, which by the way
is a nice reference to Jyn Erso doll in Rogue one and Rey’s in the force awakens, a group
of Zygerians find the ship.
Luckily Omega reacts quickly once the Zygerrians arrive, telling their droid Gonky to play
dead, while she manages to escape out of the front of the ship…
Unfortunately when tries to contact the rest of Clone Force 99, there is no response over
the Comms unit… because they’ve all been captured by the slavers.
Luckily, they won't be needing comms to contact Omega because she’s already made her way
up onto the nearby rockface above, and slowly tries to figure out a way to rescue her captured
friends.
Luckily, echo is smart enough to shout out about not having their gear, covertly signalling
Omega to go looking for it.
While this is going on, Cid receives a transmission from a mysterious figure, speaking Huttese…
This is Bib Fortuna, Jabba’s right hand man, who’s seeking Muchi for his boss…
We’ll get into how this connects to to Jabba’s Palace later in the video.
Eventually, Omega is caught, but not before she unleashes a ravenous young Rancor, who
begins tearing through the slave camp and causing a ridiculous amount of Chaos…
The batch then try to free the girl they think is Muchi, when they get the unfortunate news.
She’s not muchi, the rampaging rancor is instead.
As the batch begin to chase Muchi, Tech awesomely lowers his visor and uses the same translation
feature as he did with the Poletects on Skako Minor in the Clone wars season 7.
Great to finally see the other uses of Tech’s equipment slowly coming back.
Following this, Muchi begins brutally slamming the Zygerians slavers into the ground and
rampaging through them, managing to evade everything the slavers throw at her.
Eventually, Muchi runs off in an understandable rage, leaving the Zygerian leader to fight
Hunter one one with his infamous electro-whip.
The electro-whip is a very common tool used by almost all slavers in the Galaxy, in order
to keep their slaves in line, without causing permanent damage to them, because that would
drop their value.
Hunter makes very quick work of the Zyugerian slave boss, with hand to hand combat being
one of his specialties managing to finally subdue the threat.
Meanwhile, on the chase for Muchi, one of the slavers drops his energy bow, allowing
Omega to pick it up.
The energy bow seen here is not exactly the same as the one that the Dathomirian nightsisters
used, but the same technology and general design is definitely being used.
We know that Omega will keep this bow for quite a while yet to come, as we see her with
it in the trailer, and even at the venator scrap yard with rex, so it’s possible Omega
will want to find the origin of energy bows, possibly leading them back to Dathomir.
There is so much potential for storytelling with Dathomir and the Nightsisters at this
point in the timeline, so it would be a big missed opportunity if we don’t return there.
Following this, Tech informs wrecker that in Rancor society, one must challenge the
alpha in order to gain authority… as you can guess, Wrecker has absolutely no problem
with this, charging full speed ahead at the massive beast.
Unfortunately, he literally takes ANOTHER hit to the head, luckily with his helmet again
this time…
For a guy like a wrecker, these head hits are probably pretty common, but they definitely
can’t be good for the inhibitor chip.
Eventually, both Wrecker and Muchi get tired out, allowing the Bad Batch to finally capture
her and take her back to Cid.
Once we get back to Cid’s den, we get a massive reveal, as Bib Fortuna and two Gamoerrean
guards enter, revealing that the mysterious figure from earlier was Bib.
Jabba’s right hand man is here to pick up Muchi and deliver her to his boss as a gift.
Now this could be the origin story for Jabba’s rancor, which luke Kills in return of the
Jedi, but that would be another major retcon from the series.
In current canon, Jabba’s rancor was named Pateesa, and was given to him as a birthday
gift from Bib before the year 32bby, obviously way before this point.
So the only other possibility is that this is a different Rancor which Jabba had and
kept somewhere else.
Either way, I hope we get some clarification on this in the next few days!
Some people were even saying that if this does happen to be a retcon and, this is the
Rancor that Luke killed, then the human captured by the Zygerian slavers might actually be
Malakili, who was Jabba’s beastmaster and the man who looked after his rancors.
After Bib Fortuna leaves to bring the Rancor back to Jabba, Cid gives the Bad Batch their
first bit of information about the bounty hunter after them, revealing that her name
is Fennec Shand, and that she’s pretty new to the bounty game.
The Batch also learn that she’s on a direct commission, keeping the people or person who
hired her very mysterious.
The most likely option is still Nala Se at this point, but really the way they’re keeping
this vague could point to someone far more nefarious…
Following this, Cid tells hunter that they’re going to need a lot of two things.
Money and friends.
Obviously they haven’t got much of either, so she offers to keep giving them jobs in
the future, to keep them going…
And the reference to friends is a nice little nod, telling us that we’ll probably be seeing
Rex in the next episode or two, especially since we’ve now eaten through most of the
trailer content at this point.
Usually, Lucasfilm only put content from the beginning of seasons into their trailers these
days, so it’s looking good for a rex comeback soon.
So that is my full breakdown of Star Wars: The Bad Batch season 1 episode 5, Rampage.
Thanks so much for watching, really hope you enjoyed the video.
Cheers guys, hope to see you in the next one!