The Slave Army of the Republic - The Brutal Life of Clones [Legends] - Star Wars Explained 

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*_It was an honor to fight with you for something we chose to believe in._* *_- Gregor's final words to Rex_*

when a girl rejects you just like your anxiety said she would *Just like the simulations*

The clones fought for freedom but never had any to begin with. Never knew what living in freedom was like And once it was all over, all they had was each other :brothers

This is another reason I like Mandalorians, they actually helped the clones they taught.

Well the whole point of the Prequel Trilogy is about how everyone screwed up. The Clone Army is meant to be morally dubious. Obi wan's visit to Kamino was designed to be the exact opposite of Luke's trip to Dagobah in every way. To the scenery(Bright,Clean and Artificial vs Dark, Dirty and Natural) aliens(Tall, Elegant Technophiles vs Short, Toadish, Spiritualist) and topics(Artificially Created Clones vs the Naturally Occuring Force). As the Jedi noticed their strength in the force weakened they lost faith in it and adopted the crude matter of the Clone Army to fight for them. Dagobah is all about rediscovering their lost faith in the force.

I knew clone training was harsh, but I didn’t know it was this harsh.

The clones were put through hell and did some of the most important battles of the galactic war

Puts a very different perspective of who the "bad guys" really were

I think the Clones, and by extension, the whole Clone Wars era, is my favorite thing about Star Wars, only just ahead of the Old Republic era. When you think deeply about every facet of their lives, everything they've done from beginning to end, the Clones have the most tragic life of anyone in the franchise. They're born to fight and die for something they don't even understand, yet they're intelligent, flesh and blood human beings. It's not like programming an army of droids, it's creating a slave army that doesn't realize it's enslaved. Imagine how much worse it could have been if they weren't placed under the command of the Jedi. At least they showed compassion, regard for each and every Clone life (the vast majority of them did, anyway). The Jedi gave them the chance to be real human beings instead of unthinking machines, even if they were still fighting a meaningless war for reasons none of them truly understood.

the clones fought for something they didn't have

NOT LIKE THE SIMULATIONS

This really makes you think who the good guys were during the war seriously we’re talking about and elite slave army of soldiers and were just tossed away when there war was over slowly aging into extinction and in this case turned into horrifying frankinstein cyborg

Clone lives matter

Kaminoan: you have one extra eyelash your imperfect!

The saddest destiny in whole Star Wars. So many awesome men and they were treated like droids. I hope they bring the clones back in some way like they did with Gregor Wolf and Rex. Maybe like a village of deserted clones or something like that.

That Vikings Game is horribe.It's nothing like you tell.

"Retired clones were given the bare minimum for their service." Sounds a lot like the VA

Seems the Mandalorian trainers and Jango Fett had the most compassion and love for the clones. Sad they had such a horrible life.

I keep getting reminded about the Hitler Youth when it comes to clones, especially younger ones. Many members of the Hitler Youth where litterally born and raised to server the Nazis, having countless propaganda thrown in their faces. However, the most messed up thing is that many where sent into battle in their teen years, 16-18.

Imagine the making of a movie from a clones perspective called “Geonosis” just an entire movie of a basic cone troopers experience on that planet would be simple and epic

You forgot to note that due to accelerate aging, most of the clones are actually ten years old, leading to a fact that the are in fact children soldiers.

*This* is the clone lore video I've been looking for. BRAVO!

Rex... why are we still here? Just to suffer? Every night, I can feel my leg and my arm... even my fingers... the body I've lost... the comrades I've lost... won't stop hurting. It's like they're all still there. You feel it too, don't you? I'm the one who got caught up with Gregor. A group above the Republic... even the Senate. And I was the parasite below, feeding off Palpatine's power. They came after the Jedi on Utapau... then the Temple on Coruscant... The Empire... just keeps growing. Swallowing everything in it's path. Getting bigger and bigger... Who knows how big now? Boss. I'm gonna make 'em give back our past... take back everything that we've lost. And I won't rest... until we do.

Rex is the best Clone! Fives is my second favourite.

I always hated kaminoans

The clones were slaves to Palpatine when order 66 issued.

"Well if droids could think there'd be none of us here, would there." -Obi wan Kenobi "Clones can think creatively. You will find they are immensely superior to droids." -Prime Minister Lama Su When the Clones March on Kamino the same song is playing as when the Droids marched on Naboo.

Why couldn't the kaminoans just stop the aging process after a clones training was completed?

Clones were the best solders in the galaxy and they never had a choice to choose.

the music is really effective on this overwise upsetting topic

They basically are disposable humans in the Star Wars universe. Nothing more and nothing less.

Jeez where is Geneva convention when you need it

Imagine going through puberty, mid life crisis and PTSD at the same time or right after one another.

#ripdominosquad :(

Here's my fan made version of what happened to the clones after the war: After the war ended, nearly the entire majority of all the clones who've survived the war all discovered that they have been wrongly done by the republic, they even realized that the reason for all of their suffering was all because of the kaminoans, their creators who slaughtered, enslaved, frankensteined and abused all of their clones. The clones decided to band together to get revenge against their oppressors so they gathered as many free clone troopers that they could and they secretly infiltrated kamino, they used their military skills to take over the server with the aid of the bad bunch, they had taken over the control room that controlled every clones inhibitor chip and they used it to create their own order 66, every clone in the radius of the signal all started to attack and kill their creators, the kaminoans who were jumped and frightened, immediately went to hit the kill switch for all of the clones in the galaxy but the bad bunch members Jessie and Tech had disabled it, they had disabled everything the kaminoans had to control their clones and soon, their creations were successful and had fully invaded kamino, the clones had taken complete military control over the cloning facilities, they freed all of their imprisoned brothers who were originally meant to be set for termination and the kamino race was completely exterminated on their homeworld. The clones, now in control of the planet that they all had came from, decided to adjust the cloning machines to their liking so that their future generations of clone brothers or sons won't have to be put through the same pain that they have for so long, they created their own clone society and made a treaty with the empire to lend palpatine as many clone bodies as they wish, as long as the clone bodies don't have sentience or is actually living and breathing and will only be used to transfer consciousness, in exchange the empire allowed the clones to have their independence on kamino and promised to never bother them, any kamino that had survived from the clone invasion on their homeworld have now went into hiding, are scattered across the galaxy and their numbers have dropped into the hundreds, meaning that they were now an endangered species. Some thought to band together and retake their world again but the clone army had *DOUBLED* in size, scientific research and they have made allies with the empire, not only that but the empire seized the moment to enslave some of the kaminoan people and they have forced them in secret to build new weapons and medical research to better the galactic empire..... and that's how I think the story should've been like.

Should go into the CIS Remnants.

This just makes it even more impressive that Rex and Wolffe function as well as they do, and makes Gregor's childlike nature more understandable.

It seems to me that Legends Republic is more evil than Canon Republic.

And yet these “clones” had more heart and character then the Jedi they served

#SaveTheCloneWars The Clone Wars>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>Rebels

''Slavery. A great tool it is for the rise of the sith'' -Yoda

THANK YOU. I have been pointing out the *dubious* morality of the jedi creating and maintaining a private army of *child slave soldiers* for years, to no avail...

I remember watching Attack of the Clones back when it came out and being somewhat disturbed by the clone production process. But I was never much of a Star Wars fan, and I never read any books or watched any of the animated series. Recently my son has become obsessed with all things Star Wars so I have been watching both the movies and the Clone Wars series with him, and my heart goes out for the clones all the time. Even though some of the Jedi try to treat them with some compassion, more often they are treated just as much as connon fodder as the Battle Droids on the other side - and with no hope of "going home" at the end of their service. It's interesting how there is this tragic story right there in plain sight of what on the surface is a good guys vs. bad guys space opera. I have actually gained a lot of respect for George Lucas: sure, his writing can be cringy, etc. etc., and as a late-20's protohipster when the prequels came out, I dismissed them as trash. But to show a big Space War where both sides are morally compromised (and indeed, where the same people are behind the scenes pulling the strings on both sides) in a kids movie? That's pretty ballsy...

Every single clone fought for something they didn't believe in and some even sacrificed their own lives for their jedi generals and some even sacrificed themselves to save thousands if not millions of people. But even with all of that the jedi got most or all the credit when in reality they may have been miles away from the actual fight. Even though the clones were sentient beings who had feeling fears and felt pain they still were treated like nothing more then a science experiment. With all of this it makes you wonder if Palpatine was correct about the jedi all along and that they should have went extinct.

Now i'm sad

This thumbnail is fire 🔥

Clones are like any soldiers sent to a foreign planet/country to fight for a war they know nothing about

The Republic Commando game and books are really good at showing this stuff (I noticed you got some stuff from them)

Hey, don't stop doing these Legends videos anytime soon. I look forward to them more than canon. They're great

I miss the old Star Wars. I miss the Clone Wars and the Empire. Now all we have is this incompetent First Order with no real villain that’s menacing as Darth Vader or the Emperor. Back when Han Solo, Chewy, Luke, and Leia were young and saving the Galaxy. Star Wars, to me, died with Darth Vader. These new movies only care about liberal agenda and rely on these good graphics.

This video made me more teary eyed than I expected, the Clones deserved better :(

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So basically they created lives playing God, just to use them as killing machines alright? I always believed the Jedis were the good guys, but knowing the fact they accepted cloning and even used them as their army, I don't know what to say.

Droids were a more humane choice than clones.

What about the Droid attack on the wookies, I'm a wookie I care. Oh wait, I mean rarawraraw

I almost cried rip all the clones we saw die in the clone wars Thor, fives, heavy, hardcase, ect,and we will mis you Gregor

Thank you The Lore Master for keep making Star Wars videos, you are my favourite Star Wars youtuber and i'm always happy too se new uploads from you! Your videos are so beautifully made and your voice is so catchy that sometimes i pass hours watching your videos; please never stop doing what you do, greetings from Italy and may the force be with you my friend! :)

Imagine if the clones rebelled, but instead of like order 66, instead they made their own government, that would make a cool alternative timeline

"the painful reality of the republic commando is that duty must come before brotherhood"

I would argue the propaganda efforts to instill loyalty to the Republic is only a minor factors for why the Clone Army fought as hard as it did. For one, all the clones were grown in a communal training environment, and knew nothing else. Like the allegory of the cave scenario, it's hard to grasp freedom if you don't know or haven't experience it. Second, growing up in a communal system also instilled immense loyalty to both the system you are serving and the Soldier next to you. It's the number one reason why Soldiers in any military across history generally go back to the frontlines even if they have frequently experienced hardships. It's because they don't want to let their unit or Soldier next to them down. So for example, if you were to ask a German on the ground in the waning days of WWII, even when all hope was lost, why he was still fighting, the number one reason was for the person next to them.

Damn, star wars is BRUTAL

Clones were the real victims

If the Reublic was against slavery why didn't they free the clones. The jedi should have freed them.

"In water we are born, in fire we die. Our souls will seed the universe." - Kaminoan Prayer to fallen clones(Essential Guide of Warfare).

Ironic The Republic Outlawed Slavery they used a slave army

So how did Jango react to this?

plo treated his clones like humans

I feel thankful that the 2008 Clone Wars existed to give me a childhood and to flesh out the clones, the 2003 micro series was pretty good, I loved it, but I feel bad that we didn’t get much development for the clones, it’s good we got several hours of development.

One thing I keep thinking about is that, if the republic won the clones wars, how would retired clones be treated. Would they be accepted into societies, or even governments, or would they be segregated, like aliens in the empire, or to compare in our history, like blacks in America

The coolest army is the saddest army

I much prefer the Legends continuity Clones and Mando lore (not counting the CGI Clone Wars series as part of the Legends continuity since it created waaaaaay too many contradictions)

Slick was right

I love Clones.. I'm glad they got to have a bit of revenge on the republic through Order 66, taking down it's Jedi Knights...

Boy i remember when TCW came out when I was 8 years old, me and my buddies viewed them as mentor-likes figure of some sort, we had a certain admiration, watching this video kinda melted my childhood even watching as an adult.

4:45 JUST LIKE THE SIMUL-oh wait, never mind...

I never knew how dark a clone troopers back story could be until now. It's so sad, especially removing 70% of a clones organic body structure and replacing them with machinery.😥

weren't the clones also modified to be more tolerant to stress?

How did the first order deploy their at-m6s

There were treated bad i would treat them good they been through so much

I feel like Geonosis was their version of Vietnam

When I heard that season seven of The Clone Wars was coming out, I started watching the series for the first time since I was ten years old. The series is absolutely depressing with showing the reality of life for the clones. Never before have I been so upset over fictional characters’ treatment.

#CloneLivesMatter

4:47 "The battles that the clones were forced to fight in were nothing like the simulations that they practiced in. Sure the simulations prepared them to physically fight and survive in battle, but it did not prepare them for the true horrors of war as they witnessed their comrades" Random clone trooper in the middle of the battle: "JUST LIKE THE SIMULATIONS"

The Clone Troopers are the neglected Veterans of the Star Wars Universe... Similar to how our own world neglects it's own Veterans... The Star Wars Universe is not a good place to live in... Neither is this one...

*_Do basically a bunch of 10 year olds are fighting_*

4:46 "The Battles the Clones were forced to fight in were nothing like the simulations" Clone: Nothing at all like the Simulations on Kamino. Also Clone: JUST LIKE THE SIMULATION

The Clone trooper Slick had a really good point: He betrayed the Republic because he hated that his brothers were being used for slavery. He wanted them to be free.

At least someone on Kamino cared for them. Shaak Ti was always polite and cared for the Clone Troopers.

I think 99 was better than any other clone. He was only in a couple of episodes in the clone wars, but still he was a heart warming character and his death pretty much gave everyone tears.

But they had awesome armor, state of the art weapondry, massive fleets.

I loved how they showed the clones training in some capacity in the clone wars tv show.

Were men not clones men! quote from captain rex just subscribed to your channel lore master great videos

I just want a good clone wars game like republic commando. But a perfect one. a game where like republic commando, you have the experience of being a clone, but much better graphics and much better mechanics.

Man, war is terrible. The movies and tv show made everything so cool and awesome. Even when a clone died, you never really paid attention too caught up in the battle or with the Jedi. But in the background the clones were dying, suffering, and seeing some of the worst things possible. If only I had stopped and paid more attention to the horrible life the clones were living. Thanks for the video and showing us the truth The Lore Master

You'd think the noble Jedi would have some moral issues with an army of people artificially bred for the sole purpose of making war.

Can you please link those artworks they are amazing!

Clones are the true victimes of the war. Born to die, brainwashed to fight a war they don't understand, used as expendable canon fooders... Too bad that the kaminoans were this evil. The clones were ment to die quickly and get replaced. I think we should all give them a whole minute of silence...

I wish there were more videos like this one. I've always thought the creation of a clone army was cruel and basically like breeding slaves. Something a supposedly democratic state ought to have problems with. Yet canon skirts around this moral quandary.

These boys just needed a hug from time to time because they are humans , but god are they the best thing to come from Star Wars next to the lightsaber