Bingowings said:
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You can see why the EU obsessed about clone technology in the early days because like superweapons they are an unavoidable consequence of being introduced as a technology of that universe.

Unfortunately unavoidable consequence often leads to very boring stories.

I haven't ever thought about it in those terms. I'm going to let it soak in a little, but there the EU does have a little bit of a superweapon problem. Outside of Thrawn and Dark Empire, I can't think of any EU stories that use/abuse cloning... But then again I haven't kept up with EU since about '98 or so.

Still... could the prequels have used a superweapon? Or was the clone army the superweapon of its day?