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HES SHAKING IM GONNA SOB HES GIVEN UP

SHAKING NOT GOOD FOR SNIPERSSSSSSS

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“Here at the bottom. At the end. .”

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early morning repairs on the marauder

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clones as headlines

jedi ver.

cody

crosshair

echo

fives

fox

hunter

rex

tech

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My Tech Theory

Hi everybody. I'm new here. I just marathoned all of the Bad Batch in like three days. I'm absolutely broken up over Tech, but as I've been digging into the theory-crafting and surveys going around, I haven't seen my main theory mentioned, so I feel the need to add it to the pile. I want to start by saying I badly want to get Tech back, but I also am not willing to commit to the idea that he's definitely coming back. I am not making myself any promises. Instead, this is specifically what I think is the most likely way he might come back, based on the Season 3 trailer. The big thing the trailer tells us is that Palpatine is really interested in getting Nala Se to do some specific new, different thing with cloning. Something she says is impossible. What could that be? Well y'all, I am an ancient Star Wars fan. And I have at least a vague idea of how Palpatine's clones work. Or how they worked in older continuities, anyway. Palpatine wants clones who can get his memories and powers after he dies. I don't know precisely how this works in canon. I don't think the specifics have been established in the current canon yet. But what has been established is that somehow Palpatine returned. He definitely has access to extra life clone bullshit in the future. And future Palpatine has all his powers and memories.

That's what I think Nala Se is working on: a method to make a clone that has (or gains) the memories of a dead person. So if Tech is dead, he'd be a perfect candidate for this specific experiment: can a dead person's personality and memory be re-uploaded to a newly cloned version of their body? Now, even if my theory is true, here are the reasons this might not work to give us our happy ending: Palpatine's clones might require the memory backup to occur BEFORE death. It could be that they TRY to do the cloning trick on Tech, but they just produce a clone of his body, and can't upload his memories. This gives us... something at least, but it's still very sad. Tech2 could be a failed attempt at making a vessel for Tech's memories, after which Nala Se figures out that you have to get [Something] from the body before death to get the results that Palpatine wants. I'm guessing that we will at least see someone who is a clone of Tech, even if they aren't ACTUALLY our boy. We may even see several. Why else would they let us know that Hemlock has Tech's body? Even if Tech's dead, that's a real Chekov's corpse right there. Will the person who looks like him actually BE Tech? I'm not willing to promise that. But dang I hope at least one of them will be.