Libk
Spaceballs: The Mafia Player
So I recently watched the movie, Clerks, and the Death Star Politics scene got me thinking about a lot. Clone politics in particular. In the clone wars, as they were referred to at that time and the era is named, Clones of Jango Fett were bred for the sole purpose of fighting as an army for the jedi against the sith and the droid army. The coning and training process takes 10 years to complete, and a soldier is made. Clones, in their DNA, have been manipulated to grow faster to train and get deployed quicker. Their training isn't easy however and clones do die during it. A lot of their training is of mandolorian techniques for battle and some clones had the luxury of being trained by a mandolorian. By the end of their training, clones had usually developed nick names for themselves Like Sev, Fixer, Scorch, and had also had unique personalities, really making them seem like they weren't clones at all. If trained by a mandolorian, the trainer generally named his clones and treated them as his sons. Mandolorians were a very proud race of mercenaries who would frequently "adopt" children who had impressed them on the battlefield. They would then take them with them for training and they would become Mandoa.
Many Jedi were puzzled by clones the first time they saw one. Their eyes show them a 20 year old man, heavy armor, fighting as if they've had more experience than most veterans, but the force tells them there is a 10 year old child standing in front of them. Not only that, but with the force they are able to tell clones apart, able to know one is named Sev and the other is Scorch just by the mediclorians in their body. A lot of jedi saw them as people. A few didn't trust the clones and kept their own guard instead of a clone army, but could still see them as people. There is an account of one jedi having a child with a clone(a lot more extended universe stuff). But the jedi were not the only ones who saw clones. Many citizens of the republic saw clones as mere droids. they, unable to possess the abilities of force adepts or jedi, could not tell one clone from another unless they had grown up with or spent quite some time with the clones, like their Trainers had done. To the citizens, it was generally viewed as droid army fighting a more human looking droid army.
So this is where I ask you guys how you feel. Do you think Clones should be treated as normal citizens of the republic and see them as individual human beings, or are they mere tools used in war and only for war? After the war, what would you have done with them? Knowing that most jedi were killed, do you think the citizens would have wanted the cones killed too, or would they have let them live as a normal human being? And is it right for people with the mind of 10 year olds, yet the body and experience of older men to be going into war?
Many Jedi were puzzled by clones the first time they saw one. Their eyes show them a 20 year old man, heavy armor, fighting as if they've had more experience than most veterans, but the force tells them there is a 10 year old child standing in front of them. Not only that, but with the force they are able to tell clones apart, able to know one is named Sev and the other is Scorch just by the mediclorians in their body. A lot of jedi saw them as people. A few didn't trust the clones and kept their own guard instead of a clone army, but could still see them as people. There is an account of one jedi having a child with a clone(a lot more extended universe stuff). But the jedi were not the only ones who saw clones. Many citizens of the republic saw clones as mere droids. they, unable to possess the abilities of force adepts or jedi, could not tell one clone from another unless they had grown up with or spent quite some time with the clones, like their Trainers had done. To the citizens, it was generally viewed as droid army fighting a more human looking droid army.
So this is where I ask you guys how you feel. Do you think Clones should be treated as normal citizens of the republic and see them as individual human beings, or are they mere tools used in war and only for war? After the war, what would you have done with them? Knowing that most jedi were killed, do you think the citizens would have wanted the cones killed too, or would they have let them live as a normal human being? And is it right for people with the mind of 10 year olds, yet the body and experience of older men to be going into war?