Warning: Contains SPOILERS for Star Wars: The Bad Batch episode 6, "Decommissioned."
The end of Star Wars: The Bad Batch episode 6 teased a mysterious figure giving orders to Rafa Martez - and here are the major theories for who it could be. The Bad Batch's mission to Corellia saw them cross paths with some familiar faces from Star Wars: The Clone Wars season 7, the sisters Rafa and Trace Martez. The two girls grew up on Level 1313 in Coruscant's underworld, and they grew up with a great deal of hostility after the Jedi unwittingly caused the deaths of their parents.
Rafa and Trace encountered Ahsoka Tano in Coruscant's underworld, and she was shaken by their disillusionment with the Jedi. At this point, they were caught up in the galaxy's various criminal enterprises, but it seems the collapse of the Empire has seen their fates change. The Martez sisters now claim to be working for an early Rebel group, who are looking at ways to combat the Empire. Aware the clone troopers have sided with the Empire, they have sought out the precious information from an old Separatist Tactical Droid to help them find ways to beat the clones.
But who are Rafa and Trace working for? The end of Star Wars: The Bad Batch episode 6 saw the sisters report in to someone. The identity of their boss was deliberately concealed, suggesting viewers would recognize them. Here are the main theories on who it could be.
Saw Gerrera was trained as a freedom fighter to liberate his homeworld of Onderon from the Separatists, and he paid a fearsome personal price for his heroism. Star Wars: The Bad Batch accelerated his personal story, revealing he became a Separatist himself almost as soon as the Empire was established, and was forced to flee Onderon due to Imperial assassination attempts. He'd be a natural ally to the Martez sisters, sharing their instinctive distrust of Jedi, and James Luceno's novel Catalyst suggests he would have been moving through the same criminal circles they did. Militant and aggressive, it's safe to assume Saw Gerrera was already planning a violent uprising against the Empire, and he'd have seen the clone troopers as his greatest obstacle. Given his experience fighting on the front lines of the Clone Wars, he'd have quite easily come up with the plan to steal data from a tactical droid in order to defeat the clones. All in all, Saw would be the most natural fit.
He may not have had much screentime in the movies, but Senator Bail Organa has become one of the greatest heroes of the galaxy in other media. Bail knew far more about the Empire than even Palpatine realized, having helped Master Yoda and Obi-Wan Kenobi after Order 66, and he adopted Anakin Skywalker's daughter Leia. Bail followed Padmé's advice in playing the long game against the Empire, gradually building up a network of contacts across the galaxy who he would gradually draw together in order to form the Rebel Alliance; according to E.K. Johnston's novel Ahsoka, the former Jedi Padawan was a key asset in the field for Bail.
Bail worked closely with Mon Mothma in establishing the nascent Rebel Alliance, but he was wiser than his fellow senator, who held out hope of defeating Palpatine through political means right up until the day the Death Star fired on Alderaan. In contrast, Bail understood the Empire would need to be fought, even if he didn't expect that to happen until Anakin Skywalker's children were old enough to be the galaxy's beacon of hope. It's easy to imagine him having the foresight to have some of his agents steal the tactical droid's data, simply because he'd have assumed the Empire would carry on using clones for years to come. What's more, Star Wars: The Bad Batch's writers seems to be going to great lengths to show how the story of Clone Force 99 ties in to the main saga, and a direct link to Bail Organa would fit with that approach.
Commander Rex was one of the few clone troopers to resist Order 66, and Ahsoka Tano successfully deactivated his inhibitor chip, freeing him from his programming. Rex has already been referenced in Star Wars: The Bad Batch - he visited Cut Lawquane on Saleucami before going to ground - and has been seen working with Clone Force 99 in trailers, so he's definitely a possibility. And he'd certainly be a skilled enough tactician to come up with the idea of using the tactical droid's knowledge against the clone troopers. The problem with this particular argument, though, is that the Martez sisters don't appear to have known any of the clones had gone rogue - meaning it's unlikely they were reporting in to one who had. It's likely Rex will be woven into the story of Star Wars: The Bad Batch in other ways, perhaps with the team looking him up in order to deprogram Wrecker.
The final possibility is perhaps the most intriguing, but also sadly the most unlikely; the Martez sisters could be working for Darth Maul. The former Sith Apprentice survived Order 66 - as seen in Star Wars: The Clone Wars season 7, Ahsoka Tano used him as a distraction in order to escape the clones who had previously fought alongside her - and he would surely have attempted to bolster any efforts to undermine the Empire. Maul moved in the same kind of criminal circles as the Martez sisters, and although he was surely focused on setting up his Crimson Dawn organization, he'd have been happy to ensure the Empire had as many problems as possible by boosting Rebel cells too.
This would add a layer of moral ambiguity to the entire concept of rebellion against the Empire, because in its early years important rebel cells were actually bolstered by the dark side rather than the light. It would mean Luke Skywalker's arrival on the scene was more transformative than viewers would ever realize, for he and Leia came to represent the light fighting back against the darkness, claiming the Rebel Alliance as a force for good first and then going on to even redeem Darth Vader. Sadly, right now there's no evidence Lucasfilm want to tell a story that's quite so dramatic in Star Wars: The Bad Batch, so this should be considered a distant possibility.
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