Burkely HermannNov 2

My latest post on Wading Through the Cultural Stacks--> "Good soldiers follow orders": #Mindcontrol, #secrets, intrigue, Kaminoans, and the Genetic Records Hall

When I ordered the box set of Star Wars: The Clone Wars last year, one of the disc sets was something entitled "The Lost Missions." I soon learned this was the sixth season of the series, which only aired in #Canada, but never aired in the U.S. (only on #Netflix)... read more here:

https://archivyrep.wordpress.com/2025/11/02/good-soldiers-follow-orders-mind-control-secrets-intrigue-kaminoans-and-the-genetic-records-hall/ #starwars #fiction #dvd

“Good soldiers follow orders”: Mind control, secrets, intrigue, Kaminoans, and the Genetic Records Hall

When I ordered the box set of Star Wars: The Clone Wars last year, one of the disc sets was something entitled “The Lost Missions.” I soon learned this was the sixth season of the serie…

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Show threadBurkely HermannNov 6
In the first episode, Tup murders a Jedi general (Tiplar), as his Order-66 brain chip (also known as an inhibitor chip) activates prematurely, causing the clones to retreat, even though they had pushed the Separatist forces to the breaking point. Tup later keeps saying the same phrase over and over again: "Good soldiers follow orders." (1/?)
Show threadBurkely HermannNov 6
This is later repeated by Crosshair in Star Wars: The Bad Batch when he wants to help the Empire do terrible things (he later regrets them). Predictably it is thought that Tup is under a trance, and even utters "Kill the Jedi!" (2/?)
Show threadBurkely HermannNov 6
He is brought to the #medical bay, while Count Dooku tells Darth Sidious that Order 66 has been activated in this #clone before it was planned. Sidious orders Dooku to seize the clone so their plans can't be ruined. #starwars #fiction #genocide #jedi (3/?)
Show threadBurkely HermannNov 6
While the #clones believe this is a combat-related #stress and that Tup is losing his mind, they aren't aware that what Tup is going through is only set to come for all of them (except a select few) (4/?)
Show threadBurkely HermannNov 6
They rescue him from Separatists who have kidnapped him, on the orders of Count Dooku, to see what is "wrong" with him. As a consequence of this, they believe that there isn't something internally wrong with him, but that it is a Separatist plan. (5/?)
Show threadBurkely HermannNov 6
This is far from the reality. In the second episode, things go even farther off the rails. (6/?)
Show threadBurkely HermannNov 6
There's even a debate over who "owns" Tup, with Jedi Shaaki Ti saying that because the Republic is paying for the contract, they have the responsibility to care for the clones, while Nala Se asserts that clones are Kaminoan property. #propertyrights #clones #starwars (7/?)
Show threadBurkely HermannNov 6
While both perspectives are right, the Kaminoans are also revealed to be literally collaborating with Lord Tyrannus (actually Count Dooku). (8/?)
Show threadBurkely HermannNov 6
He claims the inhibitor chip is a way to keep "rogue Jedi" in line, the original purpose, not revealing its true purpose: to cause a #genocide of the Jedi, a group of religious warriors which Nala Se and Lama Su see as a "curious" and spiritual #cult which is not of their taste. (9/?) #jedi #starwars #order66
Show threadBurkely HermannNov 6
They only deal with the Jedi because it is a condition of working with the Republic. (10/?)
Show threadBurkely HermannNov 6
While it is first theorized that Fives has a "virus," which he "contracted" from Tup, it is later revealed that a "tumor" is causing Tup's condition, which ends up being the control chips, while Shaak Ti believes this is a form of Separatist "brainwashing", i.e. #mindcontrol (11/?)
Show threadBurkely HermannNov 6
Only the Kaminoans, Dooku, and Palpatine/Sidious know the true nature of the control chips. This is why they want to terminate him, an order which Dooku backs up when talking with them. (12/?)
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