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Good point. Even in reality there are many countries, and even some states in which it's not forbidden, so yeah. *whistle?* :)

RetroAlien said:

Doesn't make sense that Storm Troopers are clones of a bad-ass bounty hunter but are all killed easily in episode IV.

That's a bit of a non sequitur. There's no reason to believe clones of a bad-ass bounty hunter would be good soldiers, or even good bounty hunters. There are a lot of genetic components that contribute to military fitness (above average endurance, strength, stress response, intelligence), but they are not sufficient for being a good soldier. Boba Fett, while crafty, does not seem to have been an especially good close-quarters fighter.

And I don't think they are easily killed in Episode IV. I think we see three die boarding the Tantive IV, and another was shot by a concealed Princess while they were searching the ship for droids. Two were killed on the Millennium Falcon after it had already been declared safe by an officer. After that, the stormtroopers are under orders to permit the safe passage of the Rebels back to the Falcon, so we don't see their combat effectiveness. In the SE, we even see that most of the stormtroopers have been ordered to wait in a TIE hangar, so they don't interfere with the Rebels' daring escape. So there are perhaps three killed in direct combat, three killed in special circumstances, and a number sacrificed for the glory of the Empire. Not enough to draw a conclusion as to the effectiveness of a force that must number in the millions or billions, but the ones we did see were pretty competent and not easy to kill.

Guys, think about all the "badass" clone troopers in II and III. In II it was said that they age twice faster than normal human. So for clones it wasn't 20 years between III and IV, it was 40. Most of them were 20 "clone years" in Ep.II. Now add 40, we got 60, and that isn't a prime age for a soldier. So only young clones, made during  Clone Wars, would become Stormproopers later. So there are two explanations to most Stormtroopers to be not as good: ether the new army of clones wasn't nearly as good as original, or most of them are not clones at all.

EU stated that the cloning facilities were shut down after cloners uprising, which means that only some of the Imperial Stortroopers are clones, while majority are regular humans, who aren't nearly as good.

   RAAAAGE!!!!  I just made a long-er post and the damn thing glitched out! I go to the Dark Side! But first, the question...

   As far as I know clones life can be up to two times shorter than regular humans. Aging process might slow down when they are in their prime, but once they start getting old, aging goes back to fast, or can even become faster than before because of factors like stress. It was Kaminoans way to make clones, there were other. This way was just fine for Sidious' plan, and if not for Kaminos cloners uprising, he'd be making new generations.

  Clones kept serving as Stromtroopers after CW, while younger ones were trained to become them until all was shut. As for new recruits, clones were very displeased with them. Clone CC-2224, older CW veteran, would call new troopers idiots who embarrass once remarkable military force.

   For me OT the non-clone Stormtroopers are like Separatists Battle Droids: not very efficient, but are dangerous because of large numbers.

Darth Id said:

Since when are Stormtroopers clones?

 Just what I am saying, they are not. At least for the most part.

kane1138 said:

DuracellEnergizer said:

Of course, the fact that none of the stormtroopers with spoken lines have Jango's voice or accent doesn't matter in the slightest. 

 

The Stormy who bangs his head has no lines of dialogue. It's possible he was a Jango clone, even though the Stormies with dialogue were not.

I don't understand how head banging is a genetic trait...

I dunno, I think the majority of posters here felt like making Boba sound like Jango was a really bad idea.

Guys... Are you freaking kidding? The head bung was just a joke, a reference, that should not be taken seriously. If you take everything seriously, then the alien from E.T. is a part of SW, because there are few of them in the background in the Senate. But why are they really there? It's an "easter egg", a joke. Don't forget that Star Wars are MOVIES, a fiction, not a freaking documentary.