It also says the Emperor found human-born soldiers more malleable to the Empire’s doctrine, and all stormtroopers were trained to be absolute loyalty to the Empire’s cause. This would then allow for more diversity, as cloning obviously would make the Empire's soldiers all fall under one single unalterable template. Wookieepedia further states that while clones offered unconditioned loyalty, it was decided that a more uniform stormtrooper was established through patriotism rather than genetics. RELATED: The Clone Wars: Ahsoka Tano Deserves Her Own Disney+ Spinoff According to Wookieepedia, the clone factories of Kamino were shut down shortly after the Clone Wars, and then stormtroopers were more regularly indoctrinated from the Empire’s existing population. While Palpatine did use clone troopers to exterminate the Jedi and overthrow the Galactic Republic in Revenge of the Sith, he ultimately ruled against using them as the backbone for the Galactic Empire. There have been quite a few Imperial soldiers who have defected to both the Rebel Alliance and The Resistance, so wouldn’t clone soldiers be the perfect fail-safe for that?Ī recent Reddit post asked this same question, and there are actually a plethora of in-universe reasons for why the Empire prefers non-clone stormtroopers.

Seeing that the Republic produced legions of clone armies during the Clone Wars, and that such soldiers are programmed to be trained from birth and serve their creators in an unquestionably, one would think Star Wars' Empire and First Order would find it in their best interests to stick with home-grown soldiers.

Why did the empire not use clones