Peregrinus said:
Rhikter said:
Bingowings said:

If the Emperor has a pre-existing and proven weapon (in the form of totally loyal and mass produced armies) why would he surrender that for troops who may change sides against him?

That's because, in the EU, not all of the clones went along with Order 66, and the clone program turned out to be a failure.

I know about the first part of that. I've read Karen Traviss' books. But where do you get the second part? We just know that most "civilised" people in the galaxy disapprove of it -- but there's plenty of stuff that indicates the Emperor kept right on doing it in secret.

Sorry, I'll clarify. The clone project was a failure from Palpatine's POV. He started to get paranoid about the clones betraying him, so he had the program discontinued and that's when the Empire started recruiting and training its personnel.

I read it on Wookiepedia once. Maybe I'll see if I can find and post the exact quote later. I won't right now though, because it's late where I am.