Omega is understandably devasted by the loss of Kamino’s Tipoca City in Empire’s rejection of Kamino’s Jango Fett clones, and an emotional gut-punch for viewers and clone troopers alike, even those brainwashed into Imperial service. Omega’s melancholy is more than justified, but the most important aspects of her home endure, regardless of Kamino’s fate.
The clone homeworld of Kamino was the site of a massive Separatist offensive, which the Jedi and clones successfully repelled. For the clones, it was more personal than any other battle, as they were defending their home, demonstrating the free will of the Republic’s clone army. Unfortunately, The Bad Batch season 1 gradually shows the process of the clone troopers’ replacement by recruited stormtroopers. By the end of the season, mind-controlled clones still served the Empire, but production of Jango clones ceased, and all Kaminoans who weren’t useful to the Empire were disposed of.
In a final, heartbreaking moment, Tipoca City’s interiors, once bustling with heroic clones and Jedi preparing to defend the Republic, are shown empty before a fleet of now-Imperial Venator-class Star Destroyers obliterate the facility. Kamino was Omega’s home, as it was for all other clones, so seeing the annihilation of Tipoca City was devastating for her and, whether they verbalized it or not, her brothers. Omega mournfully says “It’s all gone,” but this isn’t entirely the case. While Kamino’s destruction after the attack left her and every other clone without their home, she still has her brothers within the Bad Batch. Tipoca City may have had high sentimental value, it was the clones who made it a home, rather than simply a cold cloning facility and military base. Omega can never return, but she and her family still have each other.
Omega’s experience is not unlike that of many other heroes in the Star Wars: Episode I – The Phantom Menace. In all three instances, the protagonists could never return to their former lives and were forced out of their comfort zones. But all three formed families in a symbolic sense (and, in Omega’s case, a literal sense, given her relation to the rest of the Bad Batch). A place may have sentimental value, but people are far more important.
Unlike most clones, Omega spent nearly her whole life on Kamino, working as Nala Se’s medical assistant while the rest of the clone army received intense training before deployment to various worlds to fight in the Clone Wars. Because of this, the destruction of Tipoca City was likely far more upsetting to her than any other clone. Even before the destruction of Tipoca City, however, Omega’s new home became the Havoc Marauder with her fellow Bad Batch . Kamino’s fate under Imperial rule in Star Wars: The Bad Batch may have been devastating, but Omega is, thankfully, wrong to say that it’s all gone.
