#guesswork

thank you so much! Ive loved this game since i was a little kid its genuinely surprising theres so little on it,

as for personalities, I am almost certain that determines how hamsters get along, mainly with matchmaking to breed hamsters, for example i tried to matchmake these two hamsters

but the Hamster Club Owner told me about one ingame week later that they are incompatible

itll take me a lot of testing to find out which personalities work and which dont, I'll keep you posted!

Okay, I’m going to go out on a limb here and make a prediction for the Bad Batch season 1 ending.

With only 6 episodes remaining what big thing do they have to bring out for the finale?

There isn’t time to bring in something new, get it established, and make it into a huge and unsuspected threat. It has to be something which has been established from the start.

Right?

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It’s all about Omega.

I can’t guarantee that she’ll turn on the team - but I do think she’s going to.

And when that happens we’ll get the full story on what Nala Se has been up to all this time.

Cut: All right. Out with it. What’s with the girl?

Hunter: She’s a defective clone, like we are.

Cut: Not exactly.

Hunter: What do you mean?

Cut: The Kaminoans don’t create without a purpose.

         You all have one, so what’s hers?

Hunter: It doesn’t matter. She’s just a kid.

But she isn’t ’just a kid’, is she?

She’s deliberately a kid, just like she’s deliberately a girl. Deliberately cute and blonde and vulnerable looking.

You can’t tell me that the Kaminoans “... manipulated preexisting aberrations in our DNA, resulting in your brute strength, Crosshair’s sharpshooting skills, Hunter’s enhanced senses, and my exceptional mind.”  by sheer accident in order to create CF99.

Everything they create is by design, and they’ve had years to perfect their fleshy weapons of war.

So what do I think all this is building up to?

The Empire have stormtroopers, their blank identical masses who operate under absolute control with no free will of their own

The Kaminoans (or, more specifically, Nala Se) have created a single new experimental clone, with the freedom to think and act independently, which relies upon evoking an emotional response in order to infiltrate, study, and take down their enemy.

Total opposites to achieve the same ends.

(Because the Kaminoans were never expecting to make clones for the Empire. They had contracts with the Republic, whose clones were encouraged to show their own individuality with their colours and their names, etc)

Remember in Rogue One where they’re looking through all the Empire projects and they find the reference to War Mantle?

They also mention Mark Omega

Coincidence? I don’t think so.

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What in all fuck are you basing this on?

Well...

Lets look back at Episode 1, from a slightly different point of view:

During the Emperor’s speech Hunter spots Omega standing with Nala Se. Omega is looking up at Nala Se as if listening to her. Then she faces front, squints slightly as if looking for someone in the crowd and then her face brightens as if she found who she was looking for.

Hunter turns to Tech for a brief moment and when he turns back she’s disappeared.

[So, imagine Nala Se told Omega that CF99 were in the crowd. Maybe suggests that she should get down there and go make friends with them after the briefing is over. She dutifully runs off to say hi!]

Omega doesn't talk to them for long before Nala Se shows up, cuts short the conversation before any difficult questions can be asked, and ushers her away. So she can check and see how the interaction went down.

Later on Omega joins them in the mess hall - which we know can be viewed from those huge, upper floor, observation windows. But no one looks that way until Echo sees Tarkin standing there. However, that doesn't mean that Nala Se wasn’t standing there watching beforehand.

It's Omega who starts the food fight. Hunter had already got everything settled down. She's the one who riled everyone up and got a good first look at the team in action.

Omega didn't want the team to go to Onderon without her. Even warning them it'd be dangerous to come back didn't persuade them to take her with them.

Just after they leave, while Omega is still staring out of the hangar after them Nala Se walks up behind her and says:

Nala Se: Omega. Come along. I told you to stay close.

Close to whom? Close to the team, or close to Nala Se? Either way Omega has not done what she was told.

While they were gone she went to snoop around in their personal space. But it's the Empire who stopped that, not the Kaminoans. If the shock troopers hadn't come to clear out their barracks who knows what she might have discovered.

When they do return and they catch up with her in the brig they don't even ask why she's there. They're just relieved to find her and are too distracted by the WTF their lives have just turned into to question it there and then - or later.

Omega helps them escape and after that she just has to stick close to them.

Until we come to the part where she grabs a blaster and shoots a gun right out of Crosshair’s hand with a level of skill she shouldn't possess.

As far as we know she’d never seen a blaster fired until the moment the Shock Trooper stunned her in TBB’s barracks, or the shootout vs Crosshair took place. And it’s accepted as “I guess I got lucky“

And then they're gone.

Infiltration successful!!

And none of them suspect a thing.

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And why would they. Why would anyone ever suspect this sweet little girl of being a threat to them?

Especially when she knows your names when no one else gives a shit what they are, makes sure you have your missing plushy, bravely helps you escape from the brig, etc

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But Omega was so drawn to them. Hunter especially. Why?

Possibly because Nala Se told her to.

Possibly her ‘heightened senses’ make her feel drawn towards him since he has a similar skill.

Maybe just because that's what she’s been programmed to do. Latch on, look defenceless, infiltrate, destroy!

Whatever flash training she's had I reckon it's a new breed. Very different from whatever the standard clones get, likely quite different to what the BB boys got too.

But this is hardly the Kaminoan's first rodeo.

When Taun We is telling Obi-Wan about the clone army in AotC she describes it as 'the finest we've ever made', which has always begged the question of just how many armies they've made previously and exactly how they kept them in check.

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But she’s just a little girl!!!

She appears to certainly be. That said, she appears to only need to see something one time, have a period in which to process it, and then be able to do that thing herself.

So far she’s fired a blaster with no training, got to grips with her energy bow from out of nowhere (she was struggling to hold it steady at the start of the episode, but weilding it like a pro by the end), she watched the patrons of Cid’s bar play dejarik for a while and then was suddenly a master of strategy and holochess and wiped the floor with all comers.

Does this mean disarming a bomb is likely to be in her future? What about all of the other things she’s observed in the BB’s company. Quick draw shooting, spaceship flight, hand to hand combat? At this point idk.

Given her lack of experience of anything outside of Kamino all of her naivety could be genuine - just underlaid with her programming.

But they can probably make her appear as innocent as they want in order to make their plan work.

I really can't tell if her innocence is an act or not, or even an overlaid personality that'll vanish once she's fully activated.

Fully activated? But she doesn’t have a control chip. She said so!

So what! She could say her legs are made of blue milk cheese, it wouldn’t make it true.

Wait a minute - how come she thinks she doesn’t have a chip?

Because that’s what Nala Se told her when she asked, and we know it doesn’t show up on a basic medical scan.

Omega is curious and is listed as official Kaminoan medical personnel, so she presumably can access Kaminoan medical records, she certainly looked familiar enough with the technology when she needed to send a call for help on Bora Vio. And what will be detailed in their records? Everything that happened in the season 6 Fives arc!

The existence of the chips, Tup’s death, Fives removing his chip and going crazy, attempting to kill the Chancellor even! It’ll no doubt also say how risky it is to try to remove the chips, the damage which could occur to anyone who tried it.

One clone died and one was driven insane, after all!

And which Kaminoan was it who was so pissed off at all of that going on?

Nala Se

She did everything she could to halt Fives’s progress and likely took it as a personal offense when he ignored her lies and went behind her back to do what he wanted to regardless.

And how could she stop that from happening again - by creating a clone control method that can’t be removed. By finding a way which doesn’t need a control chip, or by designing a new type of chip which will be so integrated into the brain that’s it’s impossible to take it out once it’s grown in.

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The boys took Omega at her word and totally failed to check her when they had the opportunity – although when Tech was sleeping in his chair (end of ep 9) he did have the chip scanner in his hand, so there’s at least some hope that they’re not entirely blind to what’s going on around them.

Hunter shows signs of suspecting she’s more than she appears to be, imo. Kids may not be their area of expertise but this one is just too good to be true.

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But she’s made from pure source DNA, how can she be an enhanced clone?

Ignoring the pseudo-science of the degrading original sample and the need to replace it with a pure source recreation. Sure she can. She can be enhanced in any way which doesn’t rely on altering her basic genetic structure to achieve.

I’m sure there’s all sorts of possibilities they could put in there which involve tampering with things which don’t alter her DNA structure, but it’s easy to gloss past other options because we know that the Kaminoans are cloners and we know the BB boys have genetic mutations which enhance their skills.

In Lama Su’s eyes Omega represents a pure source base from which they can clone as many others as they want to. He’s happy to get his samples from her and get rid of her.

Mix in the mutated genes from one or more of the Batch boys and they can create whatever flavour of enhanced clone they want.

Nala Se wants Omega returned and alive for her project to continue.

And who knows how far Nala Se is willing to go to achieve her goals. She was already willing to contract Fennec, twice, and have her kill Taun We to keep Omega breathing. She’ll make her move to get her back before long.

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But why did Nala Se let her go off with them?

Why? Part test run - easier to test her out on some of their own than a bunch of randos.

Also opportunity.

The Kaminoans couldn't have predicted Order 66 occurring and getting in the way of their plans, and if the Empire find out about her before they’ve finished their test phase they might shut the project down, destroy their pure sample, or simply take her away for their own use before their project is complete.

And there’s this exchange between Lama Su and Nala Se in episode 3:

LS: If Rampart has his way, conscripted soldiers will make clones obsolete.

I fear for the future of our operation.

We must ensure our clones remain essential.

NS: The original genetic material from Jango Fett continues to degrade.

LS: Then it is time to begin the next phase.

If your experiment can yield a superior clone, it will secure our relationship with this Empire.

NS: Such a contingency cannot be created without a direct source.

The clones required will not return willingly.

LS: They are Kaminoan property, and we only need one.

Our survival hinges on it.

Let's review this bit again too:

Shit, we're running out of time to make a success with our original donor sample. We'd better hope like fuck that this plan works because we might not get another shot if it doesn't.

If this kid works out and we can replicate a new batch of even better clones with her DNA as a base then we're in the clear and the Empire will keep on paying us.

Stubborn buggers aren't going to come back willingly though, not with the Empire here. Well, we only need one of them to supply us with their DNA to blend with the kids. They're all modified from the same batch and we can't use the one the Empire have, they're already super suspicious of us and he's going to report every damn thing we do to him back to them.

We're screwed if this doesn't work out.

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But the phrase “ If your experiment can yield a superior clone” suggests that neither Omega nor the boys are good enough on their own - they need to blend them together to get what they’re really looking for.

The boys for their mutations and Omega for a better control system? Maybe.

The Kaminoans purpose is to keep creating bigger, better clones which they can keep on selling to whoever is buying. It's ALL about the money.

But, this also establishes that, while she’s willing to go behind his back in order to keep Omega alive long enough to accomplish her goals, Lama Su is aware of Nala Se’s special super-clone project.

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Whether or not Omega will survive this season I can only guess at.

(For the record my guess is no)

Whether the Empire will take her as she is or just have the Kaminoans use her as their base to create the Death Troopers is also unknown.

Even if she does survive, and is in a position to leave with them, the boys may never be able to trust her again and might have to leave her behind.

But unless the solution is as simple as removing a control chip from her brain then I suspect we’ll be losing her at the end of this season.

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But what about Crosshair?

Isn’t he supposed to be the big villain of this piece?

Well, I have things to say about that too.

Latchet (or Angela or Rachel), Lombax Freedom Fighter: 

From: Ratchet and Clank: Rift Apart. 

(Note: I’m not sure about EVERYTHING for this character. Most of it is guesswork).

Background:

Living in a world where the evil Dr. Nefarious rules is a pretty bad existence, to say the least. For this reason, Latchet hoped to use a device called a “Dimensionator” to escape. Unfortunately, things didn’t quite work out the way she’d planned, resulting in different universes crashing into each other.

Now, she finds herself working with a robot named Clank (from another dimension) to save EVERY universe. Perhaps she might even meet that other “last Lombax” (Ratchet) that Clank mentioned.

must have been a big part of Catra's life.

Maybe she was thrown out of her family, as the runt of the litter. Left in the Whispering Woods, given up for dead.

or maybe her mother had some terrible feud with Shadow Weaver. Shadow Weaver managed to steal one of the litter in an attempt to exchange the child for something precious Catra's mother had taken, but upon realizing WHICH child had been robbed from its cradle her mother laughed. 'That's the runt. you can keep her.'

Every time Shadow Weaver looks at Catra she is reminded of what she lost.

Children, of course, take cues from adults. It's easy to see how her fellow cadets could grow to hate her.

Rejected by her real parents, rejected by her pseudo mother, rejected by her peers. A recipe for self hatred.

Then along comes Adora.

And it's easy to see how Catra could become emotionally dependent on her. The only person who offered her even a scrap of compassion (it was, of course, significantly more than a scrap).

So to be left again, to be, in her eyes, rejected AGAIN... she decides to wound Adora with the worst weapon she knows of: rejection. Catra refuses to go with her. She refuses everything Adora has become. To wound as badly as she has been wounded.