hi! i saw your post about clone trooper designations and thought you might be able to help me. hopefully we'll find out once the bad batch series comes out but in the meantime im trying to figure out designation numbers for the bad batch to use in a fic. do you have any ideas about how they could look?
Hi! :D
Ah, cool, thanks for reading my obsessive headcanons, haha! I haven’t thought much about the bad batch, but my guess is that they’re CTs who just happened to have those “desirable mutations” mentioned in the show.
As for the numbers, if you go by the rough system I came up with, there’s really a ton of flexibility. My headcanon is that pretty much all clones after the first few prototype generations, like the Nulls and Alphas, have the letter-letter-xxxx-xxxx designation format. So by that logic, the oldest clones would have the smallest numbers in their first xxxx. Cody’s might be, for example, CC-0603-2224 (6th DNA configuration, 3rd batch from that configuration, and the 2224th clone from that batch [incidentally, my sad headcanon is that a LOT of the first batches didn’t survive to “adulthood” because it took a while for the Kaminoans to tweak the process to get higher survival rates. Additionally, even though in TCW we only know of a couple handfuls of CCs, there had to have been thousands of them, many of whom probably died on Geonosis]).
All that aside, since most clones seem to only use the last 4 numbers of their designation, you can basically give them any 4-digit combination there. That’s what I’ve been doing for stuff I’m writing in the RCAU, anyway. :)
I hope that helps somewhat????
