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Does anybody know when the empire began calling the clone-troopers: storm-troopers? (i was thinking when they began cloning different officers) and also why did they begin cloning imperial officers instead?

Well i think they started calling them storm troopers in A New Hope maybe im wrong lol.

What I wanna know is, if the stormtroopers are Clones, then why are there so many Imperial recruiting places? (I'm not naming any place since EU isn't allowed in this forum)

Because not all stormtroopers are clones.

all the clones have something that makes them age twice as fast. after a while ( AOTC - ANH ) you'd think a lot of them died either from getting killed or age.

Palpy would still keep the clones going on Kamino.

yes but.... why didnt they make more? did kamino get destroyed or something?

after the war is there really a need for more clones ?

Clones would be cheaper than brain-washed recruits.

Yeah, true.

how so ? you dont have to keep paying an entire planet who knows how much to build you people and just give some low life a pocketful and hes on your side

Actually, no. Supposedly, just recruiting people off the street and training them is cheaper and easier than creating vats of clones.

Clones are more loyal, and just make the Kaminoians afraid.

but didnt they realize the clones of Jango Fett were alot smarter and stronger?

i guess. i would pay for having real people though. they live longer

(i just thought of this maybe they couldn't clone anymore since Jango Fett died... unless they could have made clones off the clones

is that possible? to make a clone of a clone ? hmm interesting

if it isn't, maybe thats why they stopped

could be. but i think jango would be like dead if they needed a sample of him for every clone they made

lol, good point, but still there would most likely have to be a limited supply of DNA to make a certain amount of clones every so-often

Originally posted by StinkFist462
is that possible? to make a clone of a clone ? hmm interesting

It'd be like photocopying a photocopy. Every time you do it, it loses more and more quality. It's better to just keep making copies of the original.

By the way, Sidious had all the clones programed to take out all the Jedi on his command. What's stopping somebody else from programming them to kill him on command? Maybe he thought of this and decided not to make anymore clones.

so after jango gets owned then the rest of the clones are crappy is what your trying to say ?

Originally posted by StinkFist462
so after jango gets owned then the rest of the clones are crappy is what your trying to say ?

Kind of. Say that when you clone somebody, there are always minor distortions. So if you clone a clone, the new clone will be getting those distortions that the first one got plus some new distortions. A clone of that clone would get both sets of earlier distortions plus some more of its own. etc, etc...

oh yea. couldnt they use Boba Fett for some clones ?

They could have, but would he have gone along with it? It's my understanding that after Geonosis he kind of goes off on his own.

i believe that lucas himself said that Jango's DNA is still used for clones, but other imperial officers who excel at what they do are cloned and used as stormtroopers as kind of an honour so they maintain a kind of legacy in the empire. Unfortunately, it appears that Jango was the perfect specimin and the rest just aren't as good. though the trooper that bangs his head in ANH is definitely a clone of jango

Heh, so much for perfect specimen eh?

The cloners can make loads of clones, but The Empire grows and becomes much bigger. Palpatine needs more recruits to police the galaxy. It's so damn obvious they are recruits, they chatter amongst themselves about cars and stuff, as if they have a home and have hobbies. Those aren't clones. Some maybe clones, but it's obvious a lot are just recruits by A New Hope.

I've always wonderred how Obi-Wan knew what an "Imperial Storm Trooper" was, to be honest. Oh well, I'm sure he came across The Empire's troops at some point on his stay on Tatooine.

George Lucas says the stormtroopers are all Clones, so that is that.

The academies would be for officers and the like.

Yeah, but not all clones of Jango.

It's a mess of DNA pools by ANH it seems.