Clone trooper

Clone troopers are fictional soldiers from the Star Wars franchise created by George Lucas. First introduced in the film Star Wars: Episode II – Attack of the Clones (2002), they have since appeared in various other Star Wars media, including Star Wars: Episode III – Revenge of the Sith (2005) and the animated series Star Wars: The Clone Wars (2008–2014; 2020), Star Wars Rebels (2014–2018), Star Wars: The Bad Batch (2021–2024), and Tales of the Jedi (2022–present) as well as comics, novels, and video games set in both the Star Wars Legends expanded universe and the current canon. In the Star Wars universe, all clone troopers are identical, artificially produced soldiers, created at secret cloning facilities on the planet Kamino from the DNA of bounty hunter Jango Fett to serve as the military of the Galactic Republic during the Clone Wars, which takes its name from the troopers. The clones are genetically engineered to age at twice the rate of a normal human to be ready for deployment quicker, and be unquestioningly loyal. They are trained for war from birth, receiving an education focused on martial theory and participating in combat simulations from a young age. During the Clone Wars, the clone troopers serve under the command of the Jedi Order and fight against the droid armies of the Confederacy of Independent Systems (CIS), a movement organized by numerous planets that sought to secede from the Republic. At the end of the war, Sheev Palpatine, the Republic's Supreme Chancellor and secretly a Sith Lord who orchestrated the conflict to gain political power, issues Order 66, which brands the Jedi as traitors and forcibly compels the clone troopers, under the control of inhibitor chips implanted in their brains, to execute them. After the formation of the Galactic Empire and the destruction...