When The Bad Batch returned for its third and final season this week, it made clear its endgame will attempt to tie up something Star Wars has been obsessed with for nearly five years now: how, exactly, did Palpatine return? We’ve long had the answer, but the saga, and now Bad Batch itself, hopes to explain with two simple words: Project Necromancer.
First mentioned in The Mandalorian’s third season, Project Necromancer has now been established as an even longer-running pet project of Palpatine and Dr. Royce Hemlock, spinning out of an Imperial scientific research facility at Mount Tantiss on the planet Weyland. With big ties to our heroes, and even bigger ties to Star Wars’ expanded universe past, Necromancer is slowly but surely making a name for itself as one of the galaxy far, far away’s biggest fascinations of late. But what do we actually know about it already—and what can we infer from what Star Wars has told us?
