What Is Project Necromancer’s Legacy Beyond Palpatine?
It’s hard to say just yet how much this will, if anything, spiral beyond simply following a trend of what Star Wars has done regularly in recent years—attempt to retroactively lay in context and connections to the events of The Rise of Skywalker across multiple generations and periods of Star Wars that came before it. But it’s not like there aren’t seeds.
We already saw Moff Gideon experimenting on his own smaller scale version of Necromancer by creating clones of himself that harvested material from Grogu in an attempt to create force sensitive soldiers in The Mandalorian. And now, in Omega, we have another story to see unfold beyond Palpatine’s machinations as Bad Batch season three progresses. But it doesn’t stop there, especially with Mount Tantiss in play—even more elements from the Heir to the Empire trilogy like the aforementioned Luuke and Joruus are potentially on the table given that we know Dave Filoni’s Imperial Remnant vs New Republic movie is going to lean on inspirations from those iconic books. Hell, it doesn’t just have to be Palpatine, either—that could lead to even more wild stuff with Thrawn from the old EU, like his own cloning plans and the Empire of the Hand.
Suffice to say, Necromancer opens up a lot of interesting potential beyond paving the way to The Rise of Skywalker, should Star Wars actually want to use it beyond that. Time will tell…
