According to the game, the Empire kept Kamino under tight control, lest anyone else make use of the facilities there. It make some reasonable projections about what might occur in the years leading up to the Battle of Yavin, as well as how and why the Clone Army was destroyed. The Legends event in question is the Kamino Uprising from the Star Wars: Battlefronts II video game. RELATED: The Bad Batch's Latest Revelation Changes Everything We Knew About Crosshair Unfortunately, that runs straight against a major piece of Legends material: effectively eliminating its chances of becoming canon. The Bad Batch Season 1, Episode 15, “Return to Kamino” answers some big questions about the chain of events. As it turns out, that involves the Clone Army. Sooner or later, the Disney+ animated series was going to run counter to a widely accepted piece of Legends lore.

Star Wars: The Bad Batch has seized on the opportunity to develop that vital element in franchise canon, and much of the first season involves the Empire’s almost invisible dismantling of the army that won them the war.īut while The Bad Batch is canon, a great deal of non-canon content has already attempted to answer how the Clone Army was replaced. From at least the movie prequels, it’s been clear that the Empire made a major shift away from clones and towards human Stormtroopers in the period between Star Wars: Episode III – Revenge of the Sith and Star Wars: Episode IV – A New Hope. The question of what happened to the Republic’s Clone Army after Order 66 has been on the lips of Star Warsfans for decades.

WARNING: The following contains spoilers for Star Wars: The Bad Batch Season 1, Episode 15, 'Return to Kamino,' now streaming on Disney+.

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