What REALLY Happened During the Clone Rebellion - Kamino's Darkest Day

The Clone Rebellion on Kamino started off a simple act of resistance against the horrific treatment of their world by the Empire. This quickly changed when the 501st, led by Boba Fett was sent to the planet to destroy the rebellion once and for all, turning clones against clones, brothers against brothers. So, I’m going to break down everything that happened on Kamino’s darkest day.

In the years following the events of Order 66 and the Rise of Chancellor Palpatine to the position of Emperor, Kamino was kept under close surveillance by the empire, to ensure that the cloning technology and facilities on the planet were kept under imperial control.

Because of the harsh and strict restrictions placed on Kamino by the Empire, a small group of outraged Kaminoans known as the “Clone Masters” began to grow an army of clone troopers in their cloning laboratories, in hopes of fighting back against the harsh rule of Palpatine. The secret clones created by the rebellious Kaminoans were known as Clone Anti-troopers and were mostly made up of clones who specialized in airborne combat with jetbacks. Because the Kaminoans knew that the Empire would eventually discover their secret project, they also began to create a small force of Clone-Anti Arc troopers, who would be given the tough task of defending the Clone Production laboratories from imperial invasion.

The day that the rebel Kaminoans always feared the finally came, on one gloomy, rainy Kamino morning. The emperor became aware of the plan to remove the Empire’s tight grip from Kamino, and sent the 501st to put down the Rebellion, quickly and quietly. Tragically, a Clone himself, Boba Fett was placed in command of the 501st before the invasion, making this a pure battle between imperial Clone Stormtroopers and Kaminoan Anti-clones. Boba Fett was placed in charge of the 501st for the mission because he had been created there as an exact copy of his father, and had an incredible knowledge of the facility. Let me know down below how you feel about Boba Leading the 501st into battle against his own brothers. Even though he wasn’t created to be a soldier, Boba is still as much a clone as they are, so it is really heartbreaking to see.

As the 501st and Boba landed on the rainy world of Kamino in their sentinel-class landing craft, Boba Fett travelled swiftly, but alone towards the Cloning facility, beginning the tragic story of the Clone rebellion. He quickly destroyed a door control console which was keeping the entire facility on lockdown, and was able to break his way inside. Boba killed countless anti-clones as he made his way down the hallways of the Cloning facility. As boba continued to stom closer and closer to the laboratory storage area, he could see that he was killing his own brothers, but ruthlessly continued on. His primary mission was to discover the DNA template of his father, Jango Fett, which was being used by the Kaminoas to create the Rebel Clones, and return it to the Emperor so that it could not be used any further. Boba was eventually successful in locating the DNA template, stealing it from the Kaminoan storage and returning it to his landing craft. The landing craft quickly took off with Jango Fett’s DNA template on board, on a direct path to the Emperor on Coruscant, but Boba himself remained on the planet to lead the troopers of the 501st into battle.

Boba then ordered the 501st to force their way into the cloning laboratories themselves, where the anti-Clones were being created inside of the tubes. Boba and his men fiercely marched towards the cloning tubes, but came up against a specialized group of Clones created by the Kaminoans rebels, called Rail-Class ARC Troopers, or anti-ARC Troopers. I recently did a full video on their armour, weapons and story, so if you want to know more about them, check out the card on screen now or the pinned comment down below for a link. The sole purpose of these anti-ARC troopers was to protect the anti-clones that were currently growing inside of the tubes of the laboratory. Unfortunately however, Boba and the 501st were simply too powerful and too experienced in combat for the anti-ARC troopers to come up against, and they quickly defeated and slaughtered almost every single one of them. Once they had killed the last remaining resistance inside, they smashed the tubes where the unborn anti-clones were growing and destroyed the life support systems, rendering the Kamino cloning facilities completely useless and no longer able to produce Clones of anything.

[tgtterrorizor]

"To this day, I can't understand what motivated our creators to rise up against us. Had they gone mad? Had we failed them in some way? In the end, it really didn't matter. The Kaminoans had to be stopped, and their army of treacherous gene cousins destroyed. The first few kills were the hardest. After all, it's hard not to get a little spooked when the enemy screams with your voice. But we shook it off and did our job. Most of the troopers never knew about Kamino. Like a lot of things in the Empire, it never really happened."

Scrapped 501st Journal Entry, SWBF2 2005

[giggles]

The Kamino Rebellion is what I was looking forward to the most in the Bad Batch. RIP.

[dwightwashere]

This story is very interesting. Not only were the 501st fighting their brothers, but so was Boba Fett. This shows how much Order 66 dehumanized the clones.

[RyanTheDark]

I love this more now after what the Kaminoans did against Fives. Thought you were going to get money, huh? Well guess again.

[brickempire]

The mission. The nightmares. There finally.... *Over*

[TheHawkeye]

Kinda wish it was successful. Would’ve been cool to more clones fighting with the alliance.

[nazirulnaim]

Bad batch ep15: unfortunately history won't see it that way.

[FalkenWolf]

Are we not gonna talk about the Kaminoan with the MASSIVE honkers at 4:44?

[louisianaboyjames]

I missed Kamino and the clones. It's time for me to write a fanfiction.

[GalvatronStudios]

This clone vs clones thing makes me lose my hunger ☹️☹️☹️

[andresherrera]

Well technically I guess Boba Fett could consider the clone anti troopers brothers but, remember in the clone wars when he destroyed the Vendor he told the trooper that he was not his brother. So in reality he probably didn't care that he was killing them because he never considered clones to be his brother.

[brodex]

Love or hate the kaminoans you got to feel bad for them.

[jqxc]

Officially a clone rebellion on Kamino never happened. It's official.

[CarlosRodriguez-nugj]

This mission was the most sad, and tragic, truly heart breaking to watch, let alone play. I can still hear the mission logs for Changing of the Guard.

[FoltestAnimations]

I guess this isn’t canon :(
Rest in Peace Kamino

[AstinCrow]

Nothing happened on that day. There was no official rebellion.

[at-tegreatest]

Everyone this is a lie. Officially there never was a clone rebellion on Kamino. Don’t believe these lies. Propaganda

[theshadowhuntero]

When you think the death of fives was the most painful experience in Star Wars lore, this breaks the ice 100 times rip the clones who fell

[Shadowhunt]

I REALLY hope we get to see an alternative timeline where the Anti Clones won and were a very deadly threat to the Empire and allied with the Rebellion, intimately being the frontline against the First Order.

[jackwhacker]

Bad batch missed a pretty good opportunitie here