WARNING: The following contains spoilers for Star Wars: The Bad Batch Season 1, Episode 1, "Aftermath," which is streaming on Disney+.
The animated series Star Wars: The Bad Batch focuses on the adventures of Clone Force 99, a group of genetically-modified or "enhanced" clones that was introduced in Clone Wars Season 7. However, in addition to bringing back Hunter, Crosshair, Tech, Wrecker and Echo, the show's premiere episode, "Aftermath," introduces a brand-new member to the team in the form of an adolescent girl named Omega.
There's been a lot of speculation about Omega since her appearance in The Bad Batch's marketing, with many fans guessing she's not only an "enhanced" clone like the rest of Clone Force 99, but that her name, which roughly means "last," means she's the final clone based on Jango Fett's DNA. And while those hypotheses were mostly on the right track, they also got some important details wrong.
Upon their first encounter during The Bad Batch's premiere, Clone Force 99 is led to believe Omega is a medical assistant to the chief Kaminoan scientist Nala Se -- hence their identical headpieces. However, after a fight breaks out in the clones' cafeteria on Kamino and Echo is knocked unconscious, it becomes increasingly clear there's more to this mysterious child than meets the eye. Later, when Clone Force 99 is on a mission to Onderon, Tech reveals he secretly studied Omega's DNA and discovered she's an "enhanced" clone like the rest of them (save for Echo). In her case, Omega's genetic "mutation" led to her developing a different biological sex than the other clones.
The Bad Batch cleverly sets up this twist earlier in the episode, when Nala Se mentions there being five members of Clone Force 99. As is later pointed out, though, she was referring specifically to the genetically-modified clones and not Echo, who's actually a "reg" clone with cybernetic implants. And as fate would have it, Omega ends up becoming the squad's fifth full-time member by the end of the episode, after the Empire turns Crosshair against the rest of the team by "intensifying" the still-functioning inhibitor chip in his brain, forcing the others to flee Kamino without him.
In addition to putting an interesting new twist on the clone mythology, this subplot gives The Bad Batch a mostly organic way to incorporate a female lead into the mix. And while she won't be the sole non-male recurring character featured on the series -- what with The Mandalorian's Fennec Shand appearing in future episodes -- Omega is the series' only non-adult hero for the time being. In that regard, she could end up playing a role similar to Ahsoka Tano's in the earlier seasons of Clone Wars, serving as the voice of youthful idealism amongst the more experienced and cynical members of Clone Force 99.
All that said, there's been no indication so far Omega is the last of Jango Fett's clone, as some believed. What's more, according to the video game Star Wars: Battlefront II, the Empire will continue to use clone troopers in its army for the show's foreseeable future. All the same, it's possible The Bad Batch will ultimately reveal Omega and the rest of Clone Force 99 as being a major part of why the Empire eventually transitions away from clone soldiers in favor of birth-born stormtroopers.
Created by Dave Filoni, Star Wars: The Bad Batch stars Dee Bradley Baker, Andrew Kishino and Ming-Na Wen. New episodes premiere every Friday on Disney+.