Star Wars Doubles Down on Clone Wars’ Huge Plot Hole

Star wars just doubled down on the massive Clone Wars plot hole that goes back to Star wars. Episode II – Attack of the Clones
. Before 2002 Star wars viewers generally assumed that the clones were the bad guys in The Clone Wars. In fact, they were led by Jedi generals and fought on behalf of the Republic – at least until Order 66, when Palpatine turned them against the Jedi.

But there was always one serious problem with the clone army. Star wars The galaxy is huge, with a reported 1 billion habitable star systems. The Clone Wars were largely fought in the Outer Rim, away from the humans inhabiting the Core Worlds, and this was no accident; Palpatine wanted to draw the Jedi away from the Galactic Core and cared little about the End, meaning he didn’t care about the damage done to those worlds. But it’s still a huge area, so How big should a Republic Grand Admiral be?

How many soldiers were there in the Clone Army?

When Obi-Wan Kenobi met with the Kaminoan Lama Su, he was told: two hundred thousand units were ready -“and another million is on the way.“ This was the first generation of clone troopers, and it’s easy to imagine how shocked the Republic would be to suddenly have an army of that size. However, this was not enough, and Star Wars: The Clone Wars there’s an entire arc dedicated to Palpatine’s decision to order five million more clones.

But will even an army of more than 7 million clones be enough for a galactic war? To give some context, on Earth, China currently has the largest standing army in the world, with 2.18 million active troops. India has an army of 1.45 million, the US has 1.33 million, and Russia has 1.2 million soldiers. This is more than 6 million soldiers from just four countries on Earth. Suddenly the clone army looks pretty small.

To make matters worse, the Clone Wars were fought against battle droids. There can be no doubt that the Separatists have turned entire worlds into giant manufacturing plants, deploying a constant production line of droids. A relatively small number of clones would never be able to stop such a tide, simply because the droids would advance on too many fronts.

Fans have been trying to explain this plot hole

Naturally, there have been many attempts to correct this obvious phenomenon. Star wars plot hole. Most notable is the idea that Lama Su had troops in mind when he spoke of “units“Each clone squad consisted of nine soldiers, so that would mean the number of six million would have to be multiplied by nine. That’s over 54 million, which still sounds a little low for a real galactic war.

Some have gone even further, suggesting that Lama Su was referring to clone platoons (four squads, meaning there would be an army of over 216 million). There were even speculations that this unit was a battalion of clones, with a total of 576 soldiers, which would mean that the size of the Grand Army of the Republic would exceed 3.456 million. They seem a little more reasonable, but there’s just one major problem. Star wars just debunked all these theories and explanations.

‘Star Wars’ Doubles ‘Clone Wars’ Original Numbers

Mark Sunerak is great Secrets of the Clone Wars doubles the original number, rejecting any attempt to explain away the plot hole. It is told from the point of view of Captain Rex himself, and he recalls the events Attack of the Clones. “The first generation of clone troopers—200,000 soldiers, including yours truly—are now fully grown, well trained, and ready to deploy.“, he writes. A”unit,“then it is definitely the same as an individual soldier.

Honestly, there can be no doubt that this is what George Lucas intended. He certainly didn’t mean that the word “unit” meant platoons or even battalions, because he wasn’t particularly concerned about numbers. Rather, he simply picked a few numbers that seemed impressively large, without realizing that they were becoming insignificant in the context of an entire galaxy at war. Star wars actually stuck to Lucas’s intentions Attack of the Cloneswhether it makes sense or not.

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