In the years and stories that followed 2019 Star Wars: The Rise of Skywalkerthe Star Wars the franchise worked to explain how Emperor Palpatine’s resurrection happened with the Necromancer Project. First identified in The Mandalorian Season 3, Project Necromancer has already been developed in Star Wars: The Bad Batch Season 3, identifying Doctor Royce Hemlock as the main scientist responsible for discovering how Palpatine could return from the dead through cloning. The timeline for this project, however, remained in flux – but its starting point was finally identified.
In the new Star Wars Encyclopediait is revealed that Palpatine sought to initiate his cloning contingency plan for survival in the midst of the events of The bad lotsetting things into motion around the time Kamino was destroyed by Vice Admiral Edmon Rampart. Using Rampart as a scapegoat, Palpatine managed to secretly appoint Hemlock as the chief scientist in charge of the Necromancer Project on Mount Tantiss in Wayland, silently transferring all Kaminoan cloning operations to the Empire. This means that the Necromancer Project timeline has moved closer to The bad lot first season than previously thought.
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What Project Necromancer means for Star Wars
Explaining one of Star Wars’ biggest plot twists
Overall, Project Necromancer has become a fascinating way to Star Wars to fully explain how Palpatine’s resurrection occurred, and did so with incredible storytelling in both The Mandalorian and The bad lot. As for your timeline, Identifying the starting point of this Imperial project allows viewers to understand not only how important this contingency plan was for Palpatine, but also to get an idea of how long this tiring process took. – thus explaining why it took so long for Palpatine to reveal himself again. Nothing about Project Necromancer was simple.
Our opinion on the Necromancer project
There are still many unanswered questions
While Star Wars currently made great strides in explaining the Necromancer Project in The Mandalorian and The bad lotThere are still a lot of questions about him and his full schedule, especially between these two TV shows. The bad lot The season 3 finale reveals that Clone Force 99 has put an end to the Necromancer Project for now, effectively destroying parts of Tantiss and killing Hemlock. Governor Tarkin then instructed the Empire to divert Tantiss’s resources to Project Stardust, leaving the fate of Project Necromancer undetermined.
What, then, did Palpatine do after this facility on Wayland was decommissioned and its chief scientist was killed – and all of his research was destroyed? There are certainly still many stories to tell about this fundamental project, but These seeds have just been planted, which very well means more stories will fill in the gaps over time. It may even be revealed that Grogu has been a desirable target for this project for even longer than the public realizes. Either way, there is still a lot of potential for Star Wars regarding the Necromancer Project, although knowing its beginnings is a good start.