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No bc wtf was the point. Just leave him alone in Legends. We made peace with what game devs had said would've been the plot of a second game post Imperial Commando & it was a good one: Sev joins the Rebellion, Delta squad go get him eventually & they all desert, THE END.
But noooo they had to drag him into a show he had nothing to do with, make him a straw villain and kill him! For fucking what? Like WHY??!!! Nobody wanted that. People who didn't play RepComm or read the books didn't know or care who he was and RepComm fans didn't get why tf his personality was completely different from that of the games & books. And don't give me that "it was the chip" osik bc no it fucking wasn't.
Cody and Wolffe were also Imperial officers, and they didn’t get completely mind wiped. Even Crosshair just became more severe, his core principles didn't change. But Scorch is somehow ok playing prison guard at a facility where they torture and experiment on troopers?!! No. Hell fucking no. He would never. The one time Scorch loses it in the books is when their barracks get attacked & he wants to get revenge *for his brothers*. Everything Delta & Omega do is out of loyalty for their vode. And sure Delta squad do some questionable things when ordered to (eg. robbing banks & killing Jedi). But aiding the clone torture program? No. They wouldn't. They hate Kaminoans for that, they wouldnt stay with the Empire if they knew that's how they treat clones. Especially if they suspect Skirata and the Nulls are running a happy colony of deserters in Mandalore. It just, it makes no sense, and it goes against everything the character was.
And then... on top of that.... they just waste him at the end of the show! They gave zero explanation for the change, he serves very little purpose (all he does is scare children & deliver bad news to Hemlock) and that could've been any Imperial Commando. Like literally anyone, Hilo or a no-name commando. It wouldn't have mattered. Why on earth would they bring him into canon for that?? WHYYYYYY
Like I love the Bad Batch but I hate what the writers did to Scorch. At least Tech had a good run in the show before they messed it up (and yes they did Tech dirty too) but Scorch was just character assassination all the way through... poor vod'ika. New canon can shove it.
A meme many of us can agree upon.
About Sev & Delta squad, Traviss couldn't use them much in the Imperial Commando book because a second game was in development at the time.
Game developers said they were planning for Sev to join the Rebellion & have a reformed Delta squad meet up with him as Imperial Commandos but that game got canceled when the merge happened.
For reasons still unknown, Bad Batch writers added Scorch as a straw antagonist, then killed him for no reason. This effectively also killed off most possibilities that Delta squad as a whole will be seen again in canon, though other individual members Boss, Fixer & Sev could be seen in other media.
Personally, after what they did with Scorch in new canon, I don't want them touching Deltas with a ten ft. pole.
I was talking with one of my best friends about Star Wars characters being brought back and the possibility that Tech might return in a future work, and realized that even though TBB has ended, Star Wars has a really high track record of bringing back characters in other works, set after their supposed "death." Basically, no one ever comes back in the same movie/show/work they "died" in:
Maul: "died" in The Phantom Menace, brought back in The Clone Wars.
Gregor: "died" in The Clone Wars, brought back quite some time later in Rebels (and The Bad Batch, which comes first chronologically)
Echo: "died" in The Clone Wars, brought back SEVERAL YEARS LATER in the seventh season (I'm counting this as a separate show because it was not continuous - the show was revived)
Boba Fett: "died" in Return of the Jedi, brought back in The Mandalorian. DECADES LATER.
Asajj Ventress: "died" (died? like actually?) in Dark Disciple, brought back in The Bad Batch
Palpatine: somehow Palpatine returned
I feel like I'm missing some, but you get the point. The only ones I can think of who have died and come back in the same series are Ahsoka in Rebels and Fennec Shand in The Mandalorian.
There are also a couple characters whose fates have been left purposely open in order to have the possibility of bringing them back. Sev from Republic Commando is one who comes to mind. He is left behind in a war zone on a mission, and while Karen Traviss (author of the RepComm books) wanted to continue his story in a novel, Star Wars told her no because they wanted to keep plans open for Sev at a later time. We haven't gotten any additional Sev content yet, but his fate still isn't sealed.
Another is Mace Windu. I know George Lucas was like "he is dead for sure" but fans really want him back and so does Samuel L Jackson. I can see George changing his mind. Windu is a badass and beloved by fans. Another character who "fell," no body no death, and people are pretty adamant about getting him back because they liked him so much.
What I am trying to say is that Tech is a fan-favorite character whose story felt unfinished to many viewers. I'd say most of us were waiting every episode of season 3 for him to return, and the writers know that. Jennifer Corbett is on twitter and is very aware that "Tech Lives" is a huge thing in the Bad Batch fandom.
There are more animated works planned, as well: we know that Omega will likely appear again as an adult. There's like a 95% chance that a clone rebellion series is in the works, considering that they set it up in The Bad Batch. And Nika Futterman has hinted that Ventress will be appearing in future works. Tech could (and SHOULD) be brought back in any of these!
So yeah.... TECH LIVES