The Galactic Empire - A Star Wars study

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Originally Posted by BoogalooShrimp

In fairness to them their backs were against the wall. They had just discovered an alliance between a sith lord and a separatist army with a seemingly endless supply of droid troops. Were they just supposed roll over and let the separatists conquer them even though they have a huge clone army just sitting there? They didn't create the clones either, Syfo Dias did. I'm sure their #1 priority was winning the war and they can talk about whether a clone army should exist afterward. I also don't remember the Republic treating the clones any worse than any other normal soldier.

I'm not saying they were supposed to roll over, but they could have made signing up voluntary, and, say, allow any of the clones who didn't want to fight to do so without the threat of being put down for treason. They could have halted the clone production and replaced it their own droid army.