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Post #1521487

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Kyp_Astaar
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Am i the only one that has a fundamental issue with Clones' Inhibitor Chips?
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28-Jan-2023, 10:25 PM

Spartacus01 said:

I’m Italian too and I understand you perfectly, in our country It’s very difficult to find Star Wars books, because publishers are lazy and never translate anything. Anyway, in the Multimedia Project the Clones were genetically engineered to obey every order without question, just as it’s established in Attack of the Clones, therefore 99.9% of regular Clones obeyed Order 66. However, Clones of higher rank such as Commandos and ARC troopers were more independent than regular Clones, and had the ability to disobey orders. It was necessary to make them more independent than regular Clones, because the kind of missions they were designed to participate in required more independence and free thinking. In fact, most of these Clones obeyed Order 66, but there were also many cases of desertion.

I remember Bly’s story, which actually formed a deep bond with Aayla Secura, after having executed the Order i remember he killed himself once he realized what he had done, was it grim? Sure, but i mean, so is Order 66 and the transition from republic to empire, i don’t expect a boatload of Clones to disobey it, otherwise it would mess up the continuity as far as i’m concerned, but at least show that a good portion of them actually feels remorse for their involuntary actions (if you’re engineered that way and then brainwashed as well with a set of keywords, then that’s what they are in the end), or as shown in the Bad Batch, they might go rogue later, once the empire starts “retiring” clones, i absolutely despise Omega as a character (and consequently them for sucking up to everything she says or asks), but i will concede that the political/world building stuff is surprisingly excellent.

NeverarGreat said:

Giving the clones a chip instantly robs them of any agency they could have had as individuals. Truly one of the worst things to come out of The Clone Wars show.

It’s also quite bizarre from a motivation angle, since there are so many ways in which the clones could have turned against the Jedi. For example, Palpatine could reveal that Yoda and the Jedi are inherently mistrustful of the clones and will intend to take over their peacekeeping duties once the war is over, relegating the clones to ignoble retirement or outright termination once their purpose has been fulfilled. Then the impetus of the clones to destroy the Jedi at the end of the war could grow organically from within their ranks, nurtured by the machinations of Palpatine.

It’s an interesting idea, although extremely hard to pull off imho, the Jedi would just find out at some point, as they should have with this stupid arc, the prequels trilogy (and Clone Wars) already have enough internal logic issues, adding to them would probably break everything to a point of no return, and it is debatable already if such point has been reached (no i’m not counting the disney content, that doesn’t exist at all in my book)