Star Wars: Shadow Agent

in light of the series finale of the Bad Batch, I have made this Fic set during the time of Rogue One in which CT-9902 “Tech” uses his CX training as CX-2 against the Empire by acting as a Double Agent and considering his exceptional mind, Tech would make sure none of the imperial leadership will ever learn of his double status. In fact he will use the coldness given to him by the late Dr. Royce Hemlock from his CX conditioning to full advantage to the point that as an acting high ranking ISB Agent (rank of Intelligence Marshal), no would dare question Tech. Not of all. Additionally, he would be Luthen Rael’s secret contact! With such demeanor, Tech would weaken the empire from within all while having high security clearance to the most confidential Imperial secrets. Tech would use his CX training to secretly assassinate several Imperial officers who pose a threat to not just him but the rebellion and he would subtly blow many imperial ships just to avenge the Marauder he had blown up and prior to that, he had returned to Pabu to desperately retrieve all past records of Clone Force 99’s highly classified missions that are salvageable and then Tech would have a deep and serious conversation with Shep Hazard with Tech giving a serious look to Shep and apologizing about everything and that the next imperial who tries to arrest will have to go through Tech and that if it comes to that. Tech would use his CX training and his high ranking position in the ISB as a double agent to threaten them with telling Tarkin about their failure and that Pabu is of no interest to the Empire.

Omega: Wrecker, Tech won't come out of his room.

Wrecker: Uhh . . . just tell him I said something.

Omega *confused* : Like what?

Wrecker *thinking* : Like . . . anything factually incorrect.

Omega : Um . . .OK 😀

*Omega then proceeds to go into Tech's room and have a small chat with him*

MINUTE LATER

*Wrecker was relaxing when all of a sudden hears Tech storming out of his room*

Tech *enraged* : DID YOU JUST SAY THE SUN IS A F**KIN' PLANET!?!?!?

Star Wars: The Bad Batch

it’s over. It’s over.

Have I already asked this! Who knows the brainrot is all consuming!

How do you think TBB finale will end? How do you WANT it to end?

I'm exhausted from overthinking about it, to be honest.

I've had theory after theory after theory, and each time an episode has dropped without giving us resolution—in some cases, giving us NEW last-minute plot points—I've wondered more about how it all could possibly end in a single episode.

I still don't think it can.

I think it will end with Tech being revealed to be alive, and he will help the Batch free the clones of Tantiss. They will also find the information that will allow the Force children to be reunited with their families.

I want it to include a "better late than dead" reunion between Tech and Phee, and a continuance in a new series. There has been too much in this series for me to be satisfied with whatever they manage to cram into the finale. Nothing less than another clone show to answer all the open plot points will make me happy to see this series end.

Now and Then - The Beatles

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Bring in the rest of Delta Squad! Boss, Fixer and Sev need to get Scorch’s ass out of Tantiss!

I'm feeling a little gruff about this season.  Specifically regarding Tech.  Two episodes left, and no Tech.  I know all signs point to him being CX 2, and even though I'm loving the fan art results of this, it still itches my brain.  Why wouldn't Crosshair know and how did it work on Tech but not Crosshair.  And if it's not him, and they just strung us along all this time with all these clues and the refusal to say "death" instead of "loss" is just a cruel bait and switch when it's not Tech, I'm going to livid.  If he's really dead, it should have been handled differently.

Also, why have that odd comment from Phee during the goodbye about "don't run off with any pirates", it's so random that it feels like foreshadowing. 

At this point the best case scenarios, that I see are:

 1. CX-2 is Tech and we finally get to see his handsome (goggle-less) face, but there's no time left for anything else.  What's going to happen, either he dies again or some kind of instant snapping out of it? Neither option feels right.

2. CX-2 isn't Tech, it was a bait and switch all along, and "here comes the cavalry" is Tech and a bunch of pirates to the rescue.  There is not enough time left to do this in any way that would make sense. 

And so have I, which is why I have an Imperial Shadow AU where Tech and Scorch navigate their roles together in the face of the empire and of Royce Hemlock!

There's something odd about CX-2...

He is the only Clone X operative who uses the word "I" and he uses it a lot. It seems rather strange to me that he uses the personal pronoun when his identity has been erased. The other Clone-X types we've met stared blankly when asked who they were, their names, as if the whole concept did not compute. Perhaps the erasure and conditioning were not entirely effective on CX-2; perhaps this particular clone was defective to start with.

At this point, by the very end of the of the Bad Batch, there’s going to be a lot of tears! All I can think in my mind, rather then getting killed off; Hunter, Wrecker, Crosshair, Echo and as well as Omega will no longer be the same characters we first knew back in season 1, in my headcanon, the five of them survive but barely. Forcing them to abandon their former cheerful selves and become far more reclusive, wary, traumatized and extremely bitter and cynical which will be their new selves for the rest of their lives into the galactic civil war, even if one of them ends up dying, the outcome will still be the same!

Bad Batch Season 3

I was asleep for a good moment. Then I saw visions of Hunter and Wrecker being the ones to die at the end of the season while Omega, Crosshair and Echo are too survive.

another thing is that in another part of my bad batch dreams is that Tech, as CX-2 had Hunter in binds whole guiding him to the shuttle silently before holding a deep conversation with Hunter.

then, Wrecker would seize Tech aka CX-2 much to the latter’s displeasure while, an unusually alive Plo Koon watched!

Star Wars: Imperial Shadow

in light of the third season of the Bad Batch, this is how I will think how Tech potentially operates as the shadow clone assassin known as CX-2, I must remind you there will be angst in this.

After his fall to his near death on Eriadu following his noble enactment of Plan 99, Clone Commando CT-9902 “Tech”, the brains of the Bad Batch and second in command to Hunter is rescued by Dr. Royce Hemlock of the Empire’s Advanced Science Division

however, Tech will have to feign compliance to Hemlock’s wishes!

He is taken to Tantiss on Weyland where he will undergo some reconditioning, however due to Tech’s brilliant exceptional mind it doesn’t work the way Royce expects. Scorch knows this, as he and Delta Squad had history with Clone Force 99 during the clone wars

instead, the reconditioning just made Tech more cunning and smart.

like Tech, Scorch has no choice in what he does and it’s something Scorch really regrets, he doesn’t want to hunt down his rogue brethren but he has no choice.

normally, Tech would leave the handling of knives to Hunter and Wrecker, but with his rigid training to be a Shadow X assassin operative, Tech will find this in handy so that he can know and understand how Hemlock’s Clone X program works and operates

And so, Tech and Scorch will navigate their roles all while masking their true intentions from Dr. Hemlock, Emperor Palpatine and the rest of the Empire!

Imperial Tech

just for the record, I have woken up from a dream where Tech was dressed up in the Armor of the Empire’s Inferno Squad. The armor was black and red. Tech’s Inferno Squad helmet came with a red visor. He commanded a large number of Natborn troopers alongside clones. Regardless of what conditioning he went through, he still cares for his brothers and Omega. This further has shown and proven to me that it is the basis of my newest AU Fic. Star Wars: Imperial Shadow! With all his brilliant exceptional mind, Tech will play the long game with the Empire just so he can make it vulnerable from the inside as long as he manages to act like a stone cold Imperial Loyalist!

when I fell asleep at 3:00 in the afternoon and awoke at 8:00, I dreamt that Scorch is actually a deep-cover agent for Rex. And being a trained clone commando, he hides his intentions very very well. What I can recall is that Scorch has hidden guilt about taking Omega away but he had no choice but to do his duty and that he was secretly glad she and Crosshair had escaped Weyland and Mount Tantiss. What I can recall is that, as Omega escaped; Scorch would mutter to himself “stay safe sister. Run away and never look back. It’s a dangerous galaxy out there.”

this could be the start of an idea of mine of which Scorch plays his role as a seemingly subservient clone commando very well!

this is why Tech is the central figure of a few AUS I am planning one of them features Delta Squad! Tech will always remain my favorite clone commando!

Let's Talk About Tech (Or Not)

Tags for people who I feel like would have some interesting thoughts about this: @eriexplosion @nobody-expects-the-inquisitorius @inkstainedhandswithrings @saturn-sends-hugs @the-bi-space-ace

One of the most frequent comments I see about season 3 so far is the lack of discussion surrounding Tech and what happened, and I want to look at this from two angles: the personal aspect and the context within its position in the show. Because while we're all getting frustrated about it, I think it's something that definitely deserves a closer look.

The Personal Side

One of the biggest questions people have so far is why are the Batch not talking about Tech? Losing a brother is very significant for them and it seems like it would be something that they would talk about more. They discussed the issues they were having following Echo's departure from the group, so why are they not talking about Tech?

I think one of the key things to consider here is time. When we see the Batch talking about Echo, it is only a matter of hours if not days after he went. It would make sense for them to be getting to grips with the situation because they haven't really had time to process it. On the flip side, at the point when we see Wrecker and Hunter, it has been at least 150 rotations from Omega's capture and therefore around 3 months from Tech's fall. A lot of the discussions that they would probably be having about it have likely already happened.

3 months isn't really that long, but in the context of losing someone, and in the context of the lives of these characters specifically, it can be enough time to start moving on. Not to forget it, or to not have it affect them, but to not really discuss it anymore. While I've never lost a sibling, I have lost family members on more than one occasion, and it surprises me how little time it can take for things to go back to "normal". Not to not be thinking about it, or to be 100% okay, but to be able to live life without ever discussing it. This happens particularly when something else significant is going on.

When you have another goal to focus on (in this case, rescuing Omega), you can't always focus on the loss. It sounds stupidly harsh and very much like an arsehole thing to say, but realistically, that is what happens. When you lose someone, you want life to stop, you want everything to pause so that you have time to grieve before you go back to living again. But life doesn't work like that. Things keep moving and sometimes the only thing you can do is focus on the events happening now, not the ones that you have no control over.

I don't think the Batch are ignoring it, or have forgotten about it. I think they've simply started focusing on what they need to be doing: rescuing the people who are still here. They can't get Tech back (as far as they are aware), they can't change anything and so at some point they just have to accept it. They probably did talk about it, did cry about it, but we're 3 months along at this point and they've probably said all they can. And Wrecker and Hunter have only just reunited with Crosshair and Omega. They're not going to instantly jump on that discussion again.

And we don't necessarily need to see the discussions to see how it's affecting them either. Tech's death and Omega's capture have made Hunter more impulsive and reckless. He isn't thinking as clearly as he should and now Wrecker is having to step in as the mediator. Wrecker, who was always the one to jump into a mission and ignore the plan, is having to hold Hunter back from running headfirst into things without thinking. The situation has affected them and is still having lasting effects. Even if they aren't talking about it, it isn't like it's just been totally ignored in the show. Of course we'll have to see if this changes now that most of the Batch are together again, but this is already more than we got with a lot of the other clones (Fives never seeming any different following Echo's "death" for example).

And then there's the matter of Crosshair never questioning why Omega only talks about Wrecker and Hunter. This may be because he already knows about Tech. If Omega has been talking to him on Tantiss, he may already know that his brother is gone. But once again, we are watching the events happening 3 months on at this point. He may have had to compartmentalise that fact the same way that everyone else has. We're saw him and Omega briefly discussing Tech and how he made sure Omega memorised all of the plans. Sure, there was more softness there than sadness, but that's what happens sometimes. Sometimes reminiscing about someone that you lost doesn't make you cry, it makes you smile, because you're remembering the little quirks about them that you love. So no, Omega and Cross haven't been shown talking about Tech's death, but I wouldn't be surprised if he already knows.

In the Context of TV

And now onto the other matter. The fact that all of this is happening as part of a narrative.

I think this is where the lack of conversation about it becomes frustrating: not because it doesn't make sense in the context of the characters themselves, but the fact that we are watching this as part of a show. It doesn't feel right to have something that significant happen only for it to never be mentioned again. We can't really ignore the fact that that happened and move on because while the characters have had time to process things, we haven't seen that. That chunk of the story is missing to us and so it feels unfulfilling to have that turn of events not have enough closure.

Imagine if you lost someone in your life and then you automatically skipped to the point where you were starting to feel somewhat okay again, while removing the entire chunk in the middle where you actually processed things. That is effectively what has happened to us as an audience. Yes, we've had months between seasons, but we have this gap of narrative nothingness between the season 2 finale and the beginning of season 3 where the actual processing would have happened.

So our frustration is justified. Not because it doesn't make sense narratively, or that it doesn't seem right for the characters to be acting the way they are, but because we haven't been able to process the events in the same way that the characters have. The characters aren't discussing it because they don't necessarily need to at this point in time. But we need them to discuss it because that part is missing for us. We haven't seen that bit so we can't fully compute the events.

Yes, it's annoying. Not because it doesn't make sense in the story, but because it doesn't make sense to us. Because as an audience the context is different to that of the characters within the story we are watching.

I have come to the darkest and most heartbreakingly and horrifically tragic realization about the fate of Commander Cody after the BB S2 episode “The Solitary Clone”.

As much as eager as I am to find out about Tech becoming an Imperial, there is still a chance that Cody is in a tragically horrific position. He had deserted not long after speaking to Crosshair and nothing was known of Cody since then.

as darkly fascinating an Assassin!Tech would be. His superior intellect could put him in any position should the Empire take advantage of that, most notably Hemlock and the ASD! All Hemlock would need to do is coerce Tech with a cunning level of skill in persuasion!

and this my fellow Bad Batch fans is how I have come to this realization of what is to become of Cody.

Just Five More Minutes Till Bad Batch Season 3!

Four….

Three..

Two…

One…

Happy Bad Batch Final Season Day!!!

This has promptly started me on further continuing on my own Imperial!Tech AU on top of already having an idea where Royce Hemlock coerces Tech to work for the Empire’s Advanced Science Division. To Hemlock in that idea, turning Tech into an assassin would be a waste, as his enhanced intellect is more important; as a result. Tech would be an unwilling Imperial Scientist up until to the time of the Return of the Jedi; This idea would be loaded with tragic angst regarding Tech encountering this fateful position! And so with that idea, Tech becomes an unwilling Scientist for the empire without the need of a chip and is always on guard as to not let any higher ranked imperial know what he plans to do.

Imperial Tech