5 things you need to remember before season 2 of Star Wars: The Bad Batch

4. Kamino was destroyed

After Order 66, Wilhuff Tarkin was appointed to a high position in the Imperial chain of command. In the first episode of The Bad Batch, he arrives on Kamino to inform Prime Minister Lama Su of his reluctance to continue producing clones. Tarkin tells Su that the Empire would instead start using a conscripted army, and that the cloning contracts the Kaminoans had with the Republic were void under the Empire.

With the Empire dismantling the clone program, the Kaminoans were in a tough spot. Lama Su ended up getting arrested and scientists like Nala Se were forced to serve the Empire. The final shot of the first season is Se being moved to an Imperial facility on Wayland.

During the mission to rescue Gregor, Hunter is left behind and captured by the Empire. Crosshair, who earlier decided to stay loyal to the Empire and made it his mission to capture the rest of his former group, moves Hunter to Kamino and then uses his transponder to lure the rest of the Bad Batch. By this time, the Empire had evacuated all facilities on the planet and Tarkin ordered the destruction of Tipoca City. Knowing Crosshair and the rest of the Bad Batch were in the city, Admiral Rampart carries out an orbital bombardment on Kamino.

5. Crosshair stays loyal to the Empire

Throughout season 1, Crosshair was the main antagonist for the Bad Batch. The former member of the team did not see eye to eye with Hunter after Order 66. Crosshair correctly assumed that Hunter let the Jedi Kanan Jarrus live in the first episode, which rubbed him the wrong way since they had direct orders to kill the Jedi. Because of the Bad Batch’s enhancements, the inhibitor chips that were supposed to make them kill the Jedi did not work.

The rest of the team presumed that Crosshair’s chip was the reason he chose the Empire. After spending the entire season trying to capture his former crew, Crosshair is betrayed by the Empire in the final arc of the season and is left for dead with his old crew. While working together to escape the ruins of Kamino, the Bad Batch find out that Crosshair did in fact remove his inhibitor chip at some point, meaning he betrayed them out of his own free will. Crosshair also tells Hunter how hurt he was that they left him behind, but Hunter explains that they could not serve the Empire after they ordered the Bad Batch to kill civilians.

The reunited Bad Batch successfully escapes the ruined Kaminoan facility. Despite Omega saving his life and him returning the favor later, Crosshair still decides that he is not going with them when they reach their ship. The last we see of him, Crosshair is standing on the landing platform on Kamino.

Even though they tried to kill him, it seems likely that Crosshair goes back to the Empire in The Bad Batch season 2, because he is seen talking with Commander Cody in the trailer for season 2.

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