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The Clone Army

posted 8 years ago by danmax67
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I don't quite understand how this works. Someone orders a clone army for the Republic. Then 10 years go by while the army is being prepared, but there is no communication with the buyer?

Wouldn't there be payments to be made? Progress reports? Maybe some exchange of information about the goals and political situation of the Republic so as to train the army appropriately for their needs?

How does a massive army get assembled over 10 years without any sort of back and forth communication? It would almost be like paying a contractor $500,000 up front for a house to be built and not having any progress payments or input as to what kind of appliances should be installed. Just give me the keys when it's done.

[–] chriscougar7 8 years ago

Payment was paid up front and it seems like everything was handled by the Kaminoans in terms of specifics, their planning and style. For the communication it seems like the Kaminoans were told Syfo-Diaz would return for updates but he just never did, IIRC the conversation with Obi-Wan starts that they had been expecting the Jedi for a while

[–] President_Ackbar_Impeached 8 years ago

It would almost be like paying a contractor $500,000 up front for a house to be built and not having any progress payments or input as to what kind of appliances should be installed. Just give me the keys when it's done.

Not only am I 100% sure that has been done before, it also happens to be exactly the way I would do it.

[–] danmax67 8 years ago

I take it you've never dealt with contractors. That's a recipe for the job to be finished sub-par and extremely late, if it gets finished at all.

I just don't see how the formation of a large army can be done without any contact. Would the US Army order 50,000 tanks, even assuming one large up front payment, and not have any input or status reports during the progress? No chance.

[–] otter 7 years ago

Maybe the Kamino were known to be scrupulously honest and able to follow directions, unlike Earth contractors. Maybe somebody claiming to be a Jedi employee had been checking in for years, and nobody followed up on that when war was declared. Maybe "Sofo-Dyas" told them to route questions or updates to a third party, like a financial institution or a military officer.

As to the original question, which is how Palpatine made sure that the clones were discovered just in time for his war, I have no doubt he was planting clues everywhere he thought the Jedi might find them. If it didn't look like anyone was catching on, he would have started making the clues more obvious, because he needed the Jedi to find "their" army on their own.

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[–] FootOfDavros (6719) 4 years ago

Maybe the Kamino were known to be scrupulously honest and able to follow directions...

Ha ha, yes!

Perhaps Palps checked them out on rateacloner.com first before handing over the cash...

[–] KingCobra686 7 years ago

Would the US Army order 50,000 tanks, even assuming one large up front payment, and not have any input or status reports during the progress? No chance.

Exactly. The government would never give that much independence to a contractor, for good reason.

This movie would have been more realistic if Obi Wan had showed up at the Kamino cloning facility and was met with a group to tell him that the cloning was 50% over cost and 5 years behind schedule.

[–] death-lord 8 years ago

Banditincoroorated did this thing better by

Making the clones the enemy and the stormtroopers the allies

This would have made the clones much more terrifying and given us a twinge of sympathy for the stormtroopers

[–] Kojiro_Vance 8 years ago

Don't think about it. This movie was written by a mad man.

I'm just on my way up to Clavius.

[–] Volley2020 7 years ago

And we definitely know that there was zero contact between I and II regarding these clones. The Kaminoans take ten years to create thousands of clones, with several hundred thousand more units on the way.

Way short of the billions of clones that would be needed to secure Republic space in the Star Wars galaxy.

[–] kenburke (2280) 5 years ago

Don't forget, Palpatine was keeping everything under wraps. He didn't want anyone to know about its existence or his own plans for power.