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Originally posted by: Yoda Is Your Father
This relates to something i've been pondering recently - By the time of the OT, are all Storm Troopers still Jango Fett clones, or has the empire started recruiting/enlisting? While Obi Wan is messing with the tractor beam on the death star we hear 2 troopers talking about a new landspeeder model on the market, just like a couple of regular joes, not purpose built clones. What does everyone else think? Ordinary people joined the Nazis during the war, why not the empire? You would get to see the galaxy, you wouldn't run the risk of them killing you cos you're one of them, and I bet they have a great retirement plan...
There are some EU stories that back this theory up. I remember the one that came with the game "Tie-Fighter", in which a friend of someone who was enlisting to be a tie-fighter pilot wanted to join the empire and become a stormtrooper.