When I was a kid, I didn’t think twice about the clones obeying orders — they were soldiers, after all. But as I got older and rewatched The Clone Wars and Rebels, the tragedy behind their actions started to hit me. Could they have known what they were doing? That question kept pulling me deeper …
Blackwing—also called “the Sickness”—started as a Sith attempt to beat death and later became an Imperial black project. In Legends continuity, its roots run through Old Republic–era Sith alchemy and end up on an Imperial Star Destroyer where a weaponized strain turns crews into coordinated undead. In Canon, the virus surfaces through the mobile game …