are the stormtroopers clones?

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I don't really like clones to be honest, plus, if Morrison did a voice over for every trooper that takes away the Troopers state of being. They weren't intended to be Clones in the first place.

In addition, the Empire is too cheap when it comes to soldiers. They could just as easily train Humans than buy clones from Kamino.

Huh, so thats why they sound different. I always thought that they were just a mix of humans and clones.

I think that's exactly the way it went. Remember Davin Felth? He was a stormtrooper recruit, the one who found the evidence of droids at the crashed escape pod. He certainly wasn't a clone.

And for one reason or another, according to the Thrawn trilogy, the Empire lost the ability to grow clones. Zahn didn't get too specific on it- probably because Georgie wouldn't let anyone touch the Clone Wars- but it wasn't until Thrawn discovered the ysalamiri on Myrkr that the clones went back into production. Something happened there that remains a mystery, and the cloning technology was lost. It only makes sense that they would resort to recruits (though apparently they 501st was still made up of original clones, for a long time at least)

Yeah, after the Empire took control they started to find other sources for clone templates and also supplemented their ranks with regular human recruits.  They also dispersed the cloning operations, so that there wouldn't be one single source of cloning operations.  That way if one facility was destroyed, it wouldn't really have a major effect on troop strength requirements, because they'd have other facilities to supplement their forces.  Otherwise, the Rebellion could've just targeted Kamino from the get go, and really did a number on the Empire. 

I had always heard the reasons the Commando's had different accents, was because of the different dialects they picked up from their Mandalorian Drill Sergeants.  Since most weren't all from one single planet (Mandalore), but from all over, they would have had different inflections.  Jango's was supposed to have been a Concord Dawn accent, supposedly.

You know, money isn't the only way to coerce people to join an army if you catch my drift.
So the Empire could put all that saved cash into the Death Star fund. Which had to be quite a large sum of money.

I dont think they use the clones, and if they do then why would they be terrible at fighting compared to Fett, i always had this theory that all the clones for some reason were a bit worse than Fett would be otherwise why would so many die ?

And droids happen to be a better shot. Supposedly.

One of my favorite lines from the Spyboy comics was *After dodging a spray of bullets*

-"For the world's greatest spy, you shoot like a star wars stormtrooper!"
---"I was shooting to injure, but that didn't seem to work either..."