Clone stormtrooper

Clone stormtroopers were stormtroopers cloned from various templates, including the Mandalorian Jango Fett, whose genetic material was used in the creation of clone troopers during the last years of the Galactic Republic. In the aftermath of the Clone Wars, Emperor Palpatine redesignated the clone troopers as Imperial stormtroopers in his newly-formed Galactic Empire. In addition to the cloning operation on Kamino, where the Republic's clone army was grown, the Empire developed clone stormtroopers through its use of Spaarti cloning cylinders belonging to Arkanian Microtechnologies as well as the GeNode program.

The Stormtrooper Corps became more diverse in the aftermath of a failed rebellion on Kamino; although the 501st Legion succeeded in defeating a force of anti-Imperial clone troopers, Palpatine decided that the Empire would no longer rely solely on genetically-identical soldiers. Clone stormtroopers were henceforth bred from new genetic sources, reducing the Fett-based clones to a minority status in the Imperial Military. In time, the Empire turned increasingly toward recruitment and conscription, using birth-born Humans to supplement the clones in the Stormtrooper Corps.

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