TMBTM said:

I kind of like the idea of "cloning" being the "macguffin" of the NPT.

The technology everyone (bad guys and good guys) wants to control but...

At one point in time, I thought that it would simplify things if the technology was being fought over, but there were no clones at all. Is that what you mean? I think I gave up on that thought experiment because I think it flew too far in the expectation of what the Clone Wars would be. That, and I think people wouldn't call them "Clone Wars"- rather they would be the "Argonian Wars" if the Argonians were the agressors looking for cloning tech, etc. Like we don't call WWI the Duke Ferdinand War.