What was your Clone Theory?

I always thought it was a war between clone soldiers and the Jedi Knights from the very beginning. The Jedi being defending the Republic and the clones performing a coup d'état to establish the Empire.
The whole idea of the clones fighting along the Jedi against another group, and then betraying the Jedi, took me off guard.

 

Never really thought about it because I grew up you did as a Prequel kid. In the old 90s EU novels did they make any mention of this?

 

The Thrawn trilogy did. It was quite different they had to retcon it. Something about Clones being the bad guys fighting the Jedi under orders of "Clone Masters" or what-have-you.

 

Clones I thought were evil...some other group that died off

 

I wasn't a big EU fan and always wanted the ST instead of the PT, but one of best friends is the exact opposite. He was convinced that Emperor Palpatine was a clone when they announced the Episode II title in 2001. I'll have to ask him, but I think he said that came from the Thrawn Trilogy Novels?

 

Yeah, I thought the clones were fighting against the Jedi too. I also thought there was a chance that all kinds of different creatures would be cloned for warring purposes, like big dinosaurs.

Here's another theory I had: I thought Palpatine was a clone of Darth Sidious. Shows what I know...

 

Thanks for this thread, great idea!

I actually thought it was the Jedi vs the Mandalorians. I can't say precisely where I got that from, but it may have been from an early Star Wars encyclopedia. Although I'm not sure what Mandalorians have to do with clones, but the thought of those battles to me is epic. So when I saw the magazine cover of Jango, I thought for sure there would be more Mandalorian involvement.

Now, this thread actually gave me a prequel rewrite ephiphany. What if the clones were the subject of the war, but not in the war itself. Why not increase the political intriege aspect by having a conflict between the Mandalorians and the Republic over the ethics of clone usage i.e. clones are still people, you can't just enslave them or send them to die in war etc. The irony would be that the 'Jedi' had a clone army made for the republic without its consent, illustrating the hypocracy of the Jedi and furthering the conspiracy that they are trying to take over. The republic soldiers being made up of clones would actually be a reveal later on rather than an explicit plot point.

I'm curious of what others think of this idea and how you may expand upon it.

It always bothered me in the prequels how explictly stated things were or how certain aspects were either forced or glossed over. Yoda's declaration of the clone wars was not the worst offense, but it always bothered me how forced it felt. What if an arguement in the senate with the Mandalorians led to this statement.

"You sir have condemed us to war, over clones...a clone war."

 

I know I didn't specify very well, but my thought would be that the Mandalorians would be the ones that would want to use clones, not the other way around. The Mandalorians would basically be employing social Darwinism to objectify the clones for use in war and as industrial slave labor, with the righteous Republic opposing such oppression. This would allow Palpatine to compromise the credibility of the Jedi and frame them for hypocritical clone usage. It could also be revealed later that the Mandalorian senator was actually working with Palpatine all along and was 'encouraged' to endorse cloning.

However, I like your idea also, it makes a lot of sense.

In reference to both sides using clones, I figured the droid soldiers would constitute clones of a sort. I actually imagined that the standard battle droids would be the torture droid from Jabba's palace and the super battle droids would be Ig-88s. Because after all, why would the droid armies not be reprogramed for other uses and be visible around the galaxy? Not to mention the torture droids have a more imposing aesthetic.

 

Unfortunately I didn't have the opportunity to create a theory about the Clone Wars after watching A new Hope. Yeah, I just started to watch and like Star Wars in 2011. But I did watched a few episodes of The Clone Wars in 2009 and I loved.

 

I never thought about the dear doctor before.

"I have the death sentence on twelve systems."

He must have commited great crimes to be wanted in tweleve systems. Interesting...

Now that you have me thinking about it, could he have been involved in genetic manipulation i.e. what if rancors are not a natural species. He may have even sold them on the black market. Imagine that...

 

Growing up with only the OT to inform me I thought it was Jedi Knights leading brigades of soldiers against clones of themselves lol shows what I knew. I never saw what we got coming.

I never understood how Sifo Dyas could afford to order clones in the first place? The explanation of that in the movies was never explained enough for me; were they ordered by Sifo Dyas, or did Sidious order them?

 

After reading The Empire Strikes Back I thought the clones would all be wearing Mandolorian armor. I always pictured a massive army of them that the Jedi fought against, not fighting along side of.

Before The Phantom Menace came out and seeing the action figure line that were to accompany it, I thought Queen Amidala had cloned handmaidens serving her with one being Padme. I believed that Naboo held to secret to cloning and that is why Sidious wanted control over it, with Palpatine coming form the planet he knew of the secret but not the technology.

 

I always assumed that the clones were the soldiers of whatever evil faction came before the Empire (I was kinda right though). Although before that point I always assumed that Palpatine and Darth Vader had exterminated the Jedi using their own powers (we didn't know how many Jedi there were back then).

 

You see? The prequels surprised everyone with the Clone story.