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…

Wading Through the Cultural Stacks
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/?)
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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/?)
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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/?)
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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/?)
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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/?)
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This is far from the reality. In the second episode, things go even farther off the rails. (6/?)
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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/?)
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While both perspectives are right, the Kaminoans are also revealed to be literally collaborating with Lord Tyrannus (actually Count Dooku). (8/?)
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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
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They only deal with the Jedi because it is a condition of working with the Republic. (10/?)
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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/?)
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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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By the end of the episode, AZI-3 and Fives learn about the "tumor," with Nala Se denouncing the tumor's existence, and Tup dies. (13/?)
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The episode ends when Nala Se supports Palpatine's decision to send the "tumor" be sent to a #medical facility rather than the #Jedi Temple, something which Shaak Ti has to agree with. (14/?) #starwars #fiction
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The third episode is the one which has the most direct #archivy themes, even more than the first two, which set the stage for this one. Fives is on the run, with AZI-3, after he learns that a #medical droid swaps out the cases to be tested, and avoids #memory erasure so he can be place on sanitation duty. (15/?)
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In the process, Dooku is disturbed by Fives' actions (stealing the inhibitor chip), leading Nala Se to say the Jedi instilled "creative thinking" in #Clones, and warning the #Jedi should not learn the chip's true purpose. (16/?)
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It is in this episode that the Genetic Records Hall is shown, and it is revealed that the DNA of the "tumor" does not share Jango Fett's DNA and is not completely organic. Due to this, AZI-3 removes the chip from Fives' head despite the risks to his own life. (17/?) #starwars #clones #clonewars #fiction #archives
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They later learn, in the #embryo room that these chips were implanted in every clone at the third-stage of their development of every clone there. (18/?)
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While Nala Se lies, saying the purpose of the chips are to inhibit #aggression of Jango Fett. She later declares that Fives must die because all #clones are Kaminoan property. Shaaki Ti defends him, saying clones belong to the Republic and then orders him and the two inhibitor chips (his and Tup's) to be sent to Coruscant. (19/?) #starwars #propertyrights #fiction #clonewars
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These chips, organic implants into the clones themselves, are surely an effective form of #mindcontrol, forcing clones to carry about Order 66 (i.e. the Jedi #genocide) above any other tasks, for the "treason" these religious warriors engaged in against the Republic. (20/?) #starwars #clones #clonewars
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It is also shown that these chips gave clones nightmares, relating to this. Only if the chip was removed completely could a clone be freed from carrying out this order. (21/?) #clones #starwars #fiction #nightmares #dreams #analysis
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Some other clones are genetically defective and effectively immune. The chips are meant to control the clones so that the #genocide could be carried out. (22/?) #clonewars #starwars
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These chips were later used by the Empire to keep the #clones in line so they would follow dictates without question. This is why the clones of the Bad Batch (also known as clone force 99) removed their chips. https://archivyrep.wordpress.com/2024/06/12/chain-codes-restricted-records-and-data-erasure-in-star-wars-the-bad-batch/ #chaincodes #restrictions #records #dataerasure #data #starwars #thebadbatch (23/?)
Chain codes, restricted records, and data erasure in “Star Wars: The Bad Batch”

On this blog, I’ve often written about the Star Wars franchise. In fact, before this post, I’ve written about it over 30 times! However, far fewer times have I noted series like Star Wa…

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Show threadBurkely HermannNov 6
Those who didn't, like Crosshair, remained under control of the Empire itself. The clones become the "pawns of the bad guys" as Jennifer Corbett, head writer of Star Wars: The Bad Batch put it well in an August 2021 interview. https://www.starwars.com/news/brad-rau-jennifer-corbett-interview-the-bad-batch #clones #starwars #mindcontrol (24/?)
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What is not stated directly, since the Genetic Records Hall only appears in the aforementioned episode ("Fugitive") and in no others, it was undoubtedly destroyed when the Empire's Star Destroyers fired upon Tipoca City on order from Admiral Rampart. https://starwars.fandom.com/wiki/Attack_on_Kamino#Aerial_bombardment #starwars #clonewars #archives (25/?)
Attack on Kamino

The attack on Kamino, which included the destruction of Tipoca City and decommissioning of the Kaminoan cloning facilities, was carried out by Vice Admiral Edmon Rampart and the clones under his command around 19 BBY following an operation to withdraw all useful assets from the planet, leading to the majority of the Kaminoan population being killed. Though the attack was secretly part of his plans to expand the Imperial Military and control the Kaminoan's cloning technology, Galactic Emperor...

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While he was later blamed for the event and Emperor Palpatine was shown to be "blameless," the fact remains that the data about original #DNA of every #clone was likely lost. https://starwars.fandom.com/wiki/Genetic_Records_Hall (26/?)
Genetic Records Hall

The Genetic Records Hall was a room within the Tipoca City Military Complex, a military complex operated by the Galactic Republic on the planet Kamino's capital city Tipoca City. The hall contained data on the original DNA of every clone which was cloned by the Kaminoans. In the late stages of the Clone Wars, the droid AZI-3 and the clone CT-5555 traveled to the room in order to gain more information on the so-called tumor which was found in CT-5385's brain. There, AZI-3 and Fives discovered...

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Show threadBurkely HermannNov 6
On the other hand, it may have been backed up somewhere, as the Empire may have had use of the data, even when they switched to volunteers rather than #clones, as the basis for the Imperial Army, while exploiting remaining Kaminoans. (27/?)
Show threadBurkely HermannNov 6
#Mindcontrol remains a hotter topic (with over 31,000 fan fiction works on the topic), with the 18+ subreddit /r/mindcontrolstories having over 13,000 subscribers, and many documents on Internet Archive on the topic, more than #memory erasure. (28/?)
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The latter is a theme in series like Glitch Techs (with gauntlets): https://archivyrep.wordpress.com/2025/10/02/video-games-memory-erasure-and-archivy-implications-in-glitch-techs/ #glitchtechs #animation (29/?)
Video games, memory erasure, and archivy implications in “Glitch Techs”

When I first watched Glitch Techs on Netflix, I only thought of it as a rad animated series about two teens who join those secretly taking care of glitches which result in video game characters com…

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Show threadBurkely HermannNov 6
And in films such as Steven Universe: The Movie (a scythe-like tool which returns Gems to their "original" compliant nature) https://archivyrep.wordpress.com/2025/09/02/keeping-gems-in-line-memory-recovery-and-amnesia-in-steven-universe-the-movie/ (30/?) #stevenuniverse #animation #memory #mindcontrol (30/?)
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As Bismuth puts it in the film, "Homeworld used to use these things on Gems that started steppin' out of line. One hit with this and you're back to how they made you." #memory #mindcontrol #compliance (31/?)
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There's also #memory erasure in The Incredibles by a CIA-like agent or the memory-easing pens in the Men in Black series. https://archivyrep.wordpress.com/2025/02/05/old-television-broadcasts-radios-classified-missions-and-record-manipulation-in-the-incredibles-franchise/ (32/?) #meninblack #theincredibles #animation #cia
Old television broadcasts, radios, classified missions, and record manipulation in “The Incredibles” franchise

Some time ago, I decided to rewatch the two films which comprise the main part of Disney’s franchise for The Incredibles, [1] specifically The Incredibles (2004) and The Incredibles 2 (2018),…

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Show threadBurkely HermannNov 6
There is no such "system reset" for clones, but the control chips allow for them to follow orders without question. #starwars #clones #compliance (33/?)
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Consider what Lama Se tells Obi-Wan in Attack of the Clones (related post below):

...Clones can think creatively. You’ll find that they are immensely superior to droids...You’ll find they are totally obedient, taking any order without question. We modified their genetic structure to make them less independent than the original host.

https://archivyrep.wordpress.com/2020/08/02/if-an-item-does-not-appear-in-our-records-it-does-not-exist-star-wars-and-archives-in-popular-culture/ #starwars #records #archives #clones (34/?)

“If an item does not appear in our records, it does not exist”: Star Wars and archives in popular culture

On the night of March 11, 2019, partially in preparation for the next week’s discussion, on March 27th at 8 PM, of the SNAP (Students and New Archives Professionals), a division of the Societ…

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Show threadBurkely HermannNov 6
It is also implied, by Lama Su, that the Kaminoans tampered with genetic structure to make the clones "more docile" and noted they engaged in "growth acceleration." http://starwars.rossiters.com/binaries/AOTC_3rd-draft.pdf #attackoftheclones #starwars #clones #mindcontrol (35/?)
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As for mind control itself, it is a psuedoscientific theory that humans can be indoctrinated in such a way that someone's autonomy is impaired, think independently, and disrupt their affiliations and beliefs. https://www.theblackvault.com/documentarchive/mind-control-collection/ #mindcontrol (36/?)
Mind Control Collection - The Black Vault

Background Mind control (also known as brainwashing, reeducation, brainsweeping, coercive persuasion, thought control, or thought reform) is a controversial pseudoscientific theory that human subjects can be indoctrinated in a way that causes "an impairment of autonomy, an inability to think independently, and a disruption of beliefs and affiliations. In this context, brainwashing refers to the

The Black Vault - Discover the Truth
Show threadBurkely HermannNov 6
It is something the U.S. government itself has explored with Projects such as #MKUltra and #Artichoke, either using #LSD, #hypnosis, or other methods. https://web.archive.org/web/20220418192243/https://hightimes.com/culture/from-the-archives-mind-control-u-s-a-1979/ (37/?)
From the Archives: Mind Control U.S.A. (1979)

DON'T FORGET TO WASH BETWEEN YOUR EARS.

High Times
Show threadBurkely HermannNov 6
By the fourth episode of this season, the arc involving Tup, the control chip, and subsequently Fives, comes to a gory end. (38/?)
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This begins when Nala Se drugs him with the equivalent of an depressant, making him uneasy and woozy. He first claims that the control chips are a Separatist conspiracy to cause aggression rather than "inhibit it." (39/?) #mindcontrol #starwars