Bad Batch “Kamino Lost” Concept Art Confirms Legends Tie In

The "Kamino Lost" Concept Art Gallery on the Official Site confirmed what many fans were suspecting. At the conclusion of the episode, Kaminoan cloner, Nala Se, was brought to an Imperial Base that was carved into a mountain:



On the landing pad, Nala Se is met by an Imperial scientist wearing a uniform similar to the Imperial cloner, Dr. Pershing, from The Mandalorian. Fans began connecting the dots. They saw a mountainous Imperial stronghold responsible for cloning, and wondered if it was Mount Tantiss from the Heir to the Empire trilogy. Wookieepedia writes the following about Mount Tantiss:

The mountain and its storehouse were guarded by a Dark Jedi referred to as "the Guardian" until he was (presumably) killed by the insane clone Joruus C'baoth.

The mountain also held the twenty-thousand Spaarti cloning cylinders which were used by Grand Admiral Thrawn to create a crew of clones for his new fleet of Dreadnaughts, and the schematics for the cloaking devices that he would install on those very same ships and would make their way into much of the Imperial Fleet as time went by.

The storehouse was destroyed at the end of the Thrawn campaign by Luke Skywalker, Leia Organa Solo, Lando Calrissian, Talon Karrde, Chewbacca, and Han Solo after Luke and Mara Jade killed the clones Luuke Skywalker and Joruus C'baoth.

Those dots seemed to connect, and the Official Site confirmed it. On the credit for the base's concept art, it designates it as Mt. Tantiss, and the planet name is changed slightly from "Wayland" to "Weyland":



The original Thrawn Trilogy has been been relegated to "Legends" status and is non-canonical. Thanks to Grand Admiral Thrawn's appearance in Rebels, the events of Heir to the Empire, Dark Force Rising, and The Last Command could never be told as is, but perhaps we have inched closer to the Luuke Skywalker clone.

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