The cost of ordering, growing, and training clones was exorbitant, and the timetable for them to become full soldiers was lengthy. The main motivation for the switch to Stormtroopers was simply that cloning became too expensive. Clones served as high-level shock troopers and remained a significant military asset for years after the Republic’s dissolution, though eventually they began to be replaced with ordinary recruits. In the Legends timeline, the Empire conducted various experiments with cloning after the end of the Clone Wars, including some projects meant to create Force-sensitive soldiers. Related: Star Wars: Every Type of Stormtrooper In Canon Explained The exact timeline of the Empire’s phasing out of clone troopers is different in Legends than in the Canon, but the root motivations remain the same. Though the clone troopers served Palpatine’s purposes perfectly during the Clone Wars, they became a liability in peacetime for a few reasons. The Jango Fett clones who comprised the Grand Army of the Republic were one of those remnants. This process was slow and continued up until the events of the original Star Wars, when the last remnants of the Republic were swept away. In the wake of the Empire’s formation and the events of Order 66, Palpatine’s regime began a gradual expansion of centralized power throughout the galaxy, shifting the old systems of the Republic more and more towards a dictatorship. At the end of the Star Warsprequels, the Empire had a full army of clone troopers, but that army was eventually replaced with normal human Stormtroopers.
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