The Most Outlandishly "Extra" Storyline from The Clone Wars and the Technology it Introduces

So I was thinking about this arc of the TCW recently when I realized how absolutely out-there it gets- particularly with the tech.

I’m talking about the arc where Obi-Wan fakes his death and afterwards precedes to swallow a little electronic ball-shaped device that sits in his throat and alters his voice to that of the bounty hunter Rako Hardeen, gets an injection that reconfigures his bone structure to that of Hardeen, competes with other bounty hunters in a giant Rubik’s Cube of death, all in an attempt to infiltrate the group and stop them from assassinating the Chancellor. Oh, and during the actual attempt, the bounty hunters use holographic technology to completely disguise themselves as blue senate guards.

It makes you wonder who makes this technology and where else it could be implemented. I mean, I assume its expensive, but if there’s a serum that can literally alter your bones who knows what kind of crazy things can be done with it.

The Star Wars: The Old Republic video game has a mission called “The Face Merchants” set in the Coruscant underworld where Black Sun has been operating a similar operation. Though the technology back then seems way more archaic as it required invasive surgery from specialized droids/software to reform the faces of the criminals, the concept of altering facial appearances has at least existed in Star Wars aside from this one TCW episode.

https://swtor-archive.fandom.com/wiki/Mission:The_Face_Merchants

Acbagel said:

The Star Wars: The Old Republic video game has a mission called “The Face Merchants” set in the Coruscant underworld where Black Sun has been operating a similar operation. Though the technology back then seems way more archaic as it required invasive surgery from specialized droids/software to reform the faces of the criminals, the concept of altering facial appearances has at least existed in Star Wars aside from this one TCW episode.

Wild, it honestly sounds like something from a horror movie. Nice to see the idea explored a bit.

-disregard (Comment posted twice)

It sounds like something from Star Trek when they surgically alter humans to pass as Klingons, more than it does from Star Wars. I’ll have to give that Kenobi arc a re-watch soon.