HUMOR Cosanguinity as a backlash to The Clone Wars

It's been a while since I read them, but I seem to remember the Republic Commando series
of novels establishing the fact that clone troopers can indeed reproduce.

Also, if memory serves, the clones age at twice the rate of a non-clone human. For example,
a 40 year old clone would actually be 80, effectively making average clone lifespans half that
of non-cloned humans.

 

Well I don't remember anything said beyond Growth Acceleration mentioned. It did not say if it continued past maturity. Honestly my guess would be that the clones were in fact a liability to the Emperor. There was a plot in season six of TCW that explored this.

Spoiler

Basically the Clones all had a mental implant that served as the push for order 66. The jedi found it and it caused concern but they buried the evidence because it would destroy the war effort for the trust in the clones to be compromised.

Another possibility is that the Clones themselves could be a scapegoat. The emperor could order all sorts of atrocities and then after all the strategic gains are made could then fain sorrow and reveal that the Clones were deficient or that the Jedi had done something so that the clones were never TRULY loyal.

 

Yeah I would love one of the Spin-offs to be the "Last Stand of the 501st." In which a group of clones get sick of being "Vader's Fist" and do something epic in defiance of orders. The tragic punch to the movie would be the Emperor using it as a PR stunt as if he ordered their daring and heroic sacrifice and the show the new 501st legion of elite troops marching in ranks.

 

Some clone troopers had offspring....

 

But true.

 

In S2 E10(The Deserter) of the clone wars, captain Rex meets a clone that was the last survivor of his platoon and deserted the republic. this clone went on to hook up with a twilek or something and had two children with her. The kids were like 5&6ish, and looked normal for a cross species being. So yes, the clones can reproduce.

 

Its going to be pretty hard for them to have families casually considering they were all castrated.

Those werent his actual children you know... The children were like 5-7 years old, both were older than the total length of the Clone Wars... which, even if the Accelerated Aging was passed on, I dont think would be possible for when that was supposed to be during the show.

Seriously I am pretty sure he just adopted them as his own kids.

 

@Stormagadon and @Grand Master Galen Marek are right, I see it the same way.
I think in ANH there is none clone trooper left, all extinct, but who knows maybe TFA has a surprise for us.

 

Would the offspring of a Clone programmed to obey be more susceptible to suggestion themselves?

Is the awakened Force massing an army of the weak-minded for its own use....

 

If the ones in TFA on the landing craft are more upgraded then we expect them to be more formidable than before.

 

It's not a plot hole IMM, when we consider that the clones were bred for one specific purpose. As part of the play that was the "Clone Wars", they were there specifically to wipe out the bulk of the Jedi, not to be a mainstay of the future Empire. They were also very likely far more expensive to create than to conscript soldiers. Furthermore it's not difficult to believe that Darth Sidious had no wish to be shackled to one group of cloners, regardless if this particular group was the best at it. Another upside would be that the existence of these clones helped establish the hierarchal structure of the new galactic military (first Republic and later Imperial). It's not difficult for me to believe that once they had outlived their usefulness, the clones would be phased out of the military and dealt with in the same manner in which they dealt with the Jedi.