#I really think it was deliberate that Clone X was similar to Crosshair

[im-no-jedi]

I completely forgot to write this up after watching The Outpost but I have Theories™️ about what’s going on with Crosshair 👀

to start off, I think he’s been at Mount Tantiss longer than we think.

the end of The Solitary Clone involved Rampart assigning Crosshair to a new commander after Cody went awol. and the beginning of The Outpost takes place on Coruscant, where Crosshair has been staying ever since being rescued from Kamino. I think The Outpost takes place right after The Solitary Clone, despite it airing later in the season. the new commander Crosshair was assigned to was Mayday, and Nolan was simply escorting him there.

this makes Crosshair’s actions make even more sense considering he’s just “lost” Cody. he’s still reeling from that, which makes him bond with Mayday faster.

and Cody’s words fresh on his mind about living with the consequences of your actions? as he’s pointing his gun at Nolan, ready to shoot him? yeah…

another thing is the Clone X problem we’ve already seen. show of hands, who else thought he was Crosshair when we first saw him? I certainly did! and I think that was deliberate. even more so than we think.

again, going off the thought that the timeline is weird here. but… seeing as how Crosshair is on Mount Tantiss now, and there’s clearly some weird experimentation going on with him… what if he IS the Clone X program?? what if the Imperials, who’ve already witnessed him surviving over a MONTH on that platform on Kamino, also saw him return to that base, knowing full well he just survived TWO DAYS out in the cold tundra, helmetless, AND carrying another body with him the entire time??

I think they’d want to study that guy! maybe possibly even try to replicate that somehow!

I theorized that Crosshair had something to do with Clone X back when we first saw him, and now I’m even more convinced. what if the Empire is brainwashing Clones and enhancing them with Crosshair’s abilities to try and create advanced soldiers?

ALSO! I’m definitely not the first to notice this but! there just so happens to be advanced soldiers that already exist in canon! ones that have VERY similar armor designs to our beloved sniper! 👀

y’all, I think the “Clone X” project is the early stages of the Death Trooper program. they’re using Crosshair as a template for this and testing it out on their now useless Clones. and it’s only going to get worse once Nala Se gets involved…