When the city, bombarded by the Empire, sinks beneath the waves in Friday’s first-season finale, it takes Omega and her brothers with it, nearly dragging them down to their deaths. Less obvious, perhaps, is why she would mourn Kamino’s capital’s destruction. It’s also apparent why she would make Hunter, her brother and the leader of Clone Force 99, promise not to bring her back. It’s understandable, then, that Omega, the enhanced clone created as a pure replication of Fett, would want to leave Kamino in the premiere of Star Wars: The Bad Batch.
It’s an artificial, antiseptic place without a solid surface-a soldier assembly line. Kamino, the homeworld of countless clones who shared the genes of Jango Fett, is where the future fighters were decanted, but not delivered trained, but not raised valued, but not loved tested, but rarely rewarded. You’d think it would be hard for clone commandos to get homesick.
