With the release of Star Wars: The Bad Batch, Season 1 Episode 16 “Kamino Lost”, the finale of the show, we got a major look at the future of Nala Se, and the ominous plans that the empire have for her after the age of the Clone Troopers. After snatching Nala Se however, she was taken to a mysterious facility, recessed deep within the mountain ranges, which actually may have some huge Connection to one of Palpatine’s secret storehouses along with his cloning plans, and even Grand Admiral Thrawn. So, lets break down the story of Mount Tantiss, on the planet Wayland, and how it will probably connect to the Mandalorian, Bad Batch and heaps more.
So as the finale of the Bad Batch comes to and end, we see Nale Se being escorted off of an imperial shuttle by a Squad of Clone Commandos, on a lush, mountainous planet with imperial facilities taking up space in almost every mountain face. As Nala Se steps off, she is greeted by an imperial operative who immediately tells her that they are very impressed with her scientific talents, as well as menacingly telling her that the Empire have big things planned for her. Now this is obviously referring to her cloning skills, which Palpatine is very, very interested in at this time, in order to further his quest for immortality, along with the obvious connections to snoke. If you compare the look of this planet to Wayland in the comics, you can easily see the similarities, on top of the fact that it also housed a top secret cloning facility for Palpatine, deep inside the mountains. So with Nala Se being brought here, its pretty clear that the reason is to assist in future Cloning projects.
To further back up that this is actually a cloning installation, is the fact that this Imperial Operative has the patch of the Imperial Cloners on her arm. This is the exact same patch that you can see on the the young Clone Troopers in Attack of the Clones, as well as Doctor Pershing in the Mandalorian, who we already know is heavily involved in cloning, midichlorian science and pretty much everything to do with the creation of new life. On top of that, the entire rest of the uniform is pretty much identical. To be honest, I wouldn’t even be surprised if this Character’s model has been based off someone that Dave Filloni and Jon Favreau have already cast for the Mandalorian Season 3, and will have some connections with that. So this right here pretty much confirms that the facility Nala Se was just taken to is involved in Cloning and exotic sciences.
Now another place that had deep ties to cloning and Palpatine was the planet Wayland from the Thrawn Trilogy. So although it was introduced in the old EU, Wayland has actually been brought back into the new Canon through the Vader Immortal VR games, which you can see on screen now. In the game you can view different HOlograms of some of the Galaxy’s planets, and when you view Wayland, you are specifically told that Emperor Palpatine has storehouses of treasure and other exotic goods on the planet, meaning they definitely have been thinking about these connections for a while.