Stormtroopers are not clones1/23/2023 “I warned you to be careful!” he shouted up at the trooper. Retracted hatch, Vader stamped forward with his gloved hands clenched. When the stormtrooper operating the equipment accidentally allowed theįlattened sphere to bang against the edge of the cargo hold’s 94 (the stormtroopers are loading Darth Vader's meditation chamber onto Tarkin's ship): The stormtroopers are led by a Kamino clone sergeant but all the other troopers are non-clone recruits. In-universe, the canon novel Tarkin confirms this fact since it includes an incident where a group of stormtroopers are seen by Moff Tarkin without their helmets. Video evidence can be found on Youtube (starting at about 2:56 into the video). They have been replaced with non-clone volunteers who are patriotic and loyal to the Empire. The explanation given is that the production of clones has been phased out, and since the clones age at twice the rate of normal humans they are too old to serve as stormtroopers. Out-of-universe, Pablo Hidalgo has confirmed that the stormtroopers are not clones as of the events in Star Wars Rebels (which occur 5 years before the events of Episode IV). Clones were phased out of the Stormtrooper Corps shortly after the end of the Clone Wars, and were replaced with non-clone volunteers.
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