Star Wars Sets Up A Legends Clone Rebellion Finally Happening In Canon

Star Wars: The Bad Batch has featured clone troopers resisting the Empire’s control. Could the Uprising of Kamino return to Star Wars canon?

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Warning! Spoilers ahead for Star Wars: The Bad Batch episode 12, “Rescue on Ryloth”

Star Wars may be setting up an old Legends clone rebellion, bringing it back into the main canon timeline thanks to the animated show Star Wars: The Bad Batch. Taking place just after the events of Star Wars: Episode III – Revenge of the Sith and the end of Star Wars: The Clone Wars, the series has been providing new insights into the transitional time for the galaxy with the fall of the Republic and the rise of the Empire in its place. While the series follows the uniquely rogue Clone Force 99 as fugitives from the Empire, it has also seen standard clone troopers beginning to resist as well. As a result, The Bad Batch could be setting up the currently non-canon battle known as the Uprising of Kamino.

In The Bad Batch episode 12, Clone Force 99 has agreed to help young Hera Syndulla save her parents from the Empire’s harsh and oppressive occupation on their homeworld of Ryloth. The Syndulla family are hugely influential freedom fighters on the planet, and they fought alongside Republic forces for years to keep their people safe from the oppression of the Separatists (only for the Empire to cruelly take its place) As a result, Clone Captain Howzer is unable to stand by any longer, and he assists the Syndullas in their escape. Not only that, but he appeals to his men before being arrested that what they’ve been doing for the Empire is wrong. Remarkably, there were a handful of clones who agreed with him and laid down their arms (only to be arrested as traitors as well). That being said, there may be more clones than just these few on Ryloth who could be led to rebel, and the Uprising of Kamino from 2005’s Battlefront 2 videogame could certainly come to pass for the series finale.

Battlefront 2’s story mode followed the campaigns of the 501st Legion, being narrated by one of its soldiers (voiced by live-action clone trooper actor Temuera Morrison). According to the narration, there was actually a clone rebellion on Kamino after Revenge of the Sith that could certainly be adapted for The Bad Batch:

“Officially there never was a clone rebellion on Kamino. Unofficially, approximately 20 years after we were created, a special detachment of the Imperial 501st Legion was dispatched to Kamino with orders to eradicate an army of clones that had been bred to take arms against the Empire. Our mission commander, an expert on the inner workings of Kamino, was a young bounty hunter named Boba Fett.”

If a new and canonical Uprising of Kamino were to take place in The Bad Batch, it would instead be shortly after the events of Revenge of the Sith rather than being during the heart of the Empire’s rule as the narration suggests. Other than that, it does seem ripe for adaption based upon what’s been seen from certain clones thus far in the new series, the Kaminoans themselves, and even a possible appearance from Boba Fett. The Empire is already considering using enlisted Stormtroopers rather than continuing the production of clones, though it seems doubtful that they’d just allow the cloning facilities to continue without their control and supervision, lest an army be created to stand against them. As such, it’s quite possible that a veritable civil war of clones could take place as the Empire continues to tighten its grip on the galaxy.

While the Uprising of Kamino would certainly be a dynamic way to end The Bad Batch’s first season, there’s any number of ways the finale could go and this is purely conjecture. However, it would be cool to see some of the clones resisting the Empire to the point where they’re willing to fight back, shining a major light on the fact that the clones didn’t all just turn evil after Order 66. Star Wars: The Bad Batch proves that the lives of the clone troopers were much more complex, especially with the rise of the Empire in the Star Wars galaxy.

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