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superhero Jul 29, 2004

if stormtroopers have the same voice as boba fett, that means stormtroopers are clones of boba fett...meaning that clones become stormtroopers.... GIVE ME TROOPERS I NEED TROOPERS soemthingso...

perrin Jul 29, 2004

See that is messed up because most of the storm troopers by the time new hope started were no longer clones. At least that was the way the story used to be but now who knows.

thatdarngirl Jul 29, 2004

Yeah, Storm Troopers are definetly not supposed to be clones by the time of A New Hope. Clones are re-introduced later in some books but then its like "omg..who could have done this clones haven't...

legacy Jul 29, 2004

around the time of a new hope the clones had become to costly for the empire to be producing so very limited batches were being made and interwoven with conscripts and graduates from the imperial a...

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brothermanOG 2004

The books mean nothing to the movies. Just because Timothy Zaun wrote that the stormtroopers are not clones doesn't mean in the old movies that they are not. Think about it this way, if the Republic could not raise an army in the height of it's power, how is the empire going to raise an army of normal humans out of the destruction of the galaxy caused by the clone wars? That doesn't make sense. The storm troopers are indeed the clones, or else Lucas would not have bothered introducing that idea.

legacy legacyOG 2004

actually its pretty easy for the republic / empire to raise an army of non clone troopers, the original idea was that the emporer came into power using pro human anti alien propeganda to gain support.
humans are found in almost every corner of the galaxy, so it wouldnt be hard to get a bucnha humans riled up and wanting to join the army by saying aliens are attacking or bombing human settlements, but in reality Lucas never intended the stormtroopers to be clones, and he has even admitted this.

origianlly the stormtroopers were going to be left overs of the mercenary army of manderlorians, then he changed the idea to let the mandalorians have been killed off by the jedi but basicly also wiped out most of the jedi, and boba fett was supposed to be the last remaining mandalorian.

however things of course continued to get changed, and lucas scrapped alot of his older ideas thinking his newer ones were cooler, for instance in the original story of a new hope lucas intedned there to be a wookie battle but since he couldnt do it he attempted to mimick it in return of the jedi, with the ewoks. now in episode 3 he is again going to attempt to do it with actual wookies, (interesting side note EWOK is derived from the word WOOKIE) so while now the story has been changed to make storm troopers clones i think that it doesnt neccesarrily mean we have to accept it, perhaps they intermixed clones with recruits from the imperial acadamy, i think at this point since there are so many difrent versions, you can take and pick and choose what you like.

I mean lucas screwed so much stuff up now hes trying to even fix some things like erasing the greedo shoots first, or having han step on jabbas tail.

fivezero fivezeroOG 2003

Having Greedo shoot first was one of the worst ideas EVER put into a special edition. Lucas was nuts for doing that. You had Han Solo kill Greedo in a rather cold blooded manner. Stand by it!

deanh77 deanh77Founder

Ladies and gentlemen of this "supposed" jury... If Chewbacca the Wookie is from Endor, then you must aquit.

iwz iwz

haha, the Chewbacca Defense

perrin perrinOG 2004

Actually the books do mean something because unlike say the star trek books each book is approved and the whole universe is supposed to gel.

legacy legacyOG 2004

very good point, which just goes to prove that Lucas is truly the evil emperor in the galaxy. for example, if any has ever heard of the orginal star wars trading card game it was really awsome and very well researched, it ran for about 6 years then lucas arts bought stock in Wizards of the coast, so they decided to cancel there contract with decipher the company that was making the awsome card game and let the freaks who designed pokemon make a whole new card game which totally sucked, just so they could have a bigge profit margin.

perrin perrinOG 2004

Yeah I have the original and it was great. The new one, well let's just say BAH!

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