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[QUOTE]Originally posted by Mighty Blogger Snay: [QB] [QUOTE]They had contact with Sifo Dias (whoever that turns out to be... I'm guessing a Force halluciantion created by Palpatine himself).[/QUOTE]No, I think Sifo Dias was a real Jedi, who Dooku impersonated to place the clone order - remember, it was Dooku who recruited Fett in the first place. The implication is that Dooku - who may have still been on the Jedi Council at that point - either arranged for Sifo Dias' death, or simply took advantage of Sifo Dias' tragic (but unrelated) demise. [QUOTE]I'm not so sure this is a warranted assumption. Weren't the clones on some sort of accelerated growth/learning by direct brain injection program? That probably cuts down on teacher salaries, at the very least.[/QUOTE]I disagree. In an organization as big as the Republic - and soon to be the Empire - you're bound to have a lot of young males eligible for military service. You'd have to pay for their training and housing anyway, but by going away from clones, you don't have to pay for their growth. Besides which, pre-adulthood education expenses would most likely be chalked off as a regional planetary expense associated with any populated world, and not counted towards the cost of raising and maintaining a military force. [QUOTE]I believe this was dealt with in Timothy Zahn's novels, the Heir to the Empire trilogy. [/QUOTE]I don't think we can take anything from Heir to the Empire and assume it to be fact. Remember, according to the Zahn novels, the Old Republic had a standing military, and also that Darth Vader lost his right hand as punishment for trying to coerce Luke into overthrowing the Empire -- not because as a young, headstrong Jedi padawan, Anakin attacked a Sith Lord. Last ... [b]Jason Abbadon[/b] and [b]The Mighty Monkey of Mim[/b]. Fuck you both. I like you both, but please understand that I have been trying to avoid all spoilers of the film, or at least as many as I can, and I don't appreciate either of you just sprouting them out willy-nilly. There's a difference between knowing that Anakin turns into Darth Vader -- because that fact is made very clear in The Empire Strikes Back (you remember that scene? "Luke, *I* am your father!") -- and that Amidala dies, which to those who remember Leia's lines in Return of the Jedi, might come as a true shock & surprise. So please try to be more considerate in the future. [/QB][/QUOTE]
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