Star Wars the Bad Batch Season 1 Episode 4, Cornered has finally released on Disney+, and with it we were given a look at Fennec Shand’s early days in the bounty hunting game, and her hunt for a very important target. The episode was packed full of connections to the star wars films, books, comics and games, so let’s break them all down.

The action begins with Hunter suggesting that the crew land on the planet Idaflor and go into hiding for their own safety from the empire. Wrecker and Omega are upset by this, because they want some action, but the decision is quickly made for them as tech reports that their ship, the Havoc Marauder is running low on fuel. They will instead be forced to divert to the planet Pantorra, leaving Omega in amazement… Idaflor is an anagram of Florida, where Galaxy’s edge is located, and combined with some of the other Galaxy’s edge references in the episode it could hint that we’re going to be visiting Batuu later in the series. Although most likely, this is just a fun little joke from Dave Filloni and the writers.

In addition to that you will course remember Panotorra if you’ve seen The Clone Wars, which is home to the blue skinned panotrran people, including Riyo Chuchi. If you haven’t seen the Clone Wars, you’ll probably also know about the Pantorrans without realizing, as George Lucas played the Chairman of Pantorra, Baron Notluwiski Papanoida in Revenge of the Sith, and his daughter played Chi Eekway Papanoida, the senator who took over after Riyo Chuchi. Following this, the crew land on Pantorra and try to get their ship looked at by a shady, local businessman, and they completely fumble their way through bribing him, not realizing that they actually have to give him credits in order to stay out of the imperial databases… showing that they really don’t have much experience in the dark underworld and being on the run.