Because the Supreme Chancellor refused recommendations that the Grand Army should annihilate key Separatist strongholds in an attempt to finish the war early on, the clone troopers saw action on hundreds of thousands of planets. The Clone Wars began.Ĭlone troopers fought on numerous fronts against the CIS droid armies and organic militias, in tandem with the Republic Navy and pro-Republic planetary defense forces. While the battle was won, the CIS and their leadership still escaped and the Republic's front line had suffered heavy casualties. The clones were deployed to Geonosis in an attempt to destroy the Separatist Alliance, which later became the Confederacy of Independent Systems, and rescue Kenobi, Anakin Skywalker and Padme Amidala. "Hey, Twenty-Eight, one hundred credits says he doesn't make it halfway." - A Clone Trooper, after their Jedi officer charged a CIS battle line. Informing the Jedi Council, Kenobi pursued Fett and followed him to Geonosis where he was captured by the Separatists. To speed up the process, the cloners had the clones age at twice the rate of ordinary humans, so that the army would be ready quicker.Ībout a decade later, Obi-Wan Kenobi, in pursuit of Jango Fett for the attempted murder of Senator Padmé Amidala, was led to find Kamino, and as such the Clone Army.
Tyranus recruited the Mandalorian bounty hunter Jango Fett to become the clone template for the army.
The Clone Army was originally commissioned in 32 BBY by Sifo-Dyas, who believed that the Galaxy would soon see galaxy-wide war and, without the support of the Jedi Council, he secretly commissioned the Kaminoan cloners to create a clone army for the Republic.ĭyas was later killed by the Pike Syndicate, on orders from Darth Sidious (secretly the Chancellor of the Republic) and Darth Tyranus, who then took over the project. All remaining troopers were then integrated into the Imperial Army's Stormtrooper Corps, and all new Imperial recruits were volunteers. After wiping out the Jedi Order, and the Galactic Republic transitioning into the Galactic Empire, the clone troopers saw little service to the New Order, as the Kaminoan cloners rebelled against the Empire and the cloning projects were shut down. This order compelled the troopers to kill their Jedi leaders and was used at the end of the war.
During their creation, all clones were implanted with control chips in order to make it impossible for the troopers to refuse Order 66. The clone troopers fought for the Galactic Republic for the next four years, led by Jedi Commanders and Generals on the battlefield, but most of their loyalty was directed towards The Supreme Chancellor, Sheev Palpatine. They were formally introduced to the Galaxy during the First Battle of Geonosis, which spawned the Confederacy of Independent Systems and began the Clone Wars. Clone Troopers were bred on the aquatic planet of Kamino, beyond the Outer Rim, by the native Kaminoans who used the Mandalorian Bounty Hunter Jango Fett as a template. Clone troopers, nicknamed "Boys in White", "Men in White", "Meat Droids", "Wet Droids", and "White Jobs", also known as Republic troopers, Republic troops or Republic soldiers, were highly skilled clone soldiers that served within the Grand Army of the Republic.