What Is an M-Count?
One of the few tidbits we learn in The Bad Batch’s season three premiere is that Necromancer needs a clone sample with a suitable “M-Count” if it’s to work. While most of the characters we follow in the show are unfamiliar with what that term means beyond Hemlock and Palpatine—and subordinates like Emerie Karr, herself a clone, and Kaminoan scientist Nala Se—it’s one that will immediately set alarm bells ringing for a Star Wars fan. What else could M-Count be about, if not midi-chlorians?
The biological component first introduced in The Phantom Menace as a way to quantify an individuals capacity for Force sensitivity, midi-chlorians are the tiny, intelligent beings that bind the organic beings of the galaxy, through which the power of the Force flowed. Palpatine and Hemlock’s search for a test candidate with a high enough midi-chlorian count is obvious, all things considered: Palpatine desires a suitable vessel for his own power.
