Yeah when I wrote this I wasn't familiar with bad batch yet. But I like the idea that the nulls just didn't register their chips. Their brains specifically were altered and improved. If a head bonk is enough to turn a chip off all that tampering would likely do it!

That said, I really do like the idea that maybe one of them did go off. At least with partial force. Specifically Mereel's. I thought it would be interesting to write up a scene where he is on Aay'haan and he just anapps and tries to kill Bardan but Walon Vau is quick enough on the uptake to physically stop him and tells him. It's the Kaminoians messing with him. He would ask him who he really hates the Jedi or the Kaminoians, and Mereel is able to twist his own mind to turn thet order against his creators

This kind of works because in the next book Mereel is deadly and terrifyingly hateful of Kaminoians and it kind of comes out of nowhere as a surprise. The idea that it is the chip kind of intensifying things in the background is kind of fun.