Clone Trooper vs. Storm Trooper Armour Question....

[Solo4114]

I tend to think the real flaw was in pretty much the entire Clone Wars and clones-as-troopers storyline. It never made a ton of sense to me and always seemed at once convoluted and disjointed.

 

[pengbuzz]

The answer:


So when they did their laundry, they didn't have to worry about using color-safe bleach

 

[Tremas]

Another mystery solved!

 

[tubachris85x]

I tend to think the real flaw was in pretty much the entire Clone Wars and clones-as-troopers storyline. It never made a ton of sense to me and always seemed at once convoluted and disjointed.

Not necessarily though, as Palpetine clearly had the resources and the available technology to carry out his plans. It was made clear to Obi-wan that the entire clone army was a complete surprise and unknown to them. It was the quickest method to build an Army and maintain complete control of those within it's ranks, hence, "Order 66" was established with clones with complete and total loyalty to his command, therefore enabled him to kill off a good number of Jedi, while taking complete control at the same time.

Simplifying it, it was because:

-Completely controlled development and creation of an entire army
-All clones means no conscripts or any issues that comes with enlisting others
-Completely done in secrecy
-All the clones are identical, that means that after the genetic re-configuration and aging control, medical and physical attributes are modified, essentially every clone wears the same exact sized everything, eats the exact same diet, etc. which saves a considerable amount of cost associated with it

 

[Sluis Van Shipyards]

I really liked the Clones. I think Palpatine made the ultimate kill switch for the Jedi. You make a bunch of soldiers who follow legal (in their minds) orders without a second thought, then label your enemy someone who has to be dealt with using deadly force. It's a perfect solution. I don't think there's any other way, that would make sense, that would let you kill a lot of Jedi that easily.

Then if you like the EU, the fact that Jango was the template and trained some, adds another layer. The underlying scenario is that Jango got revenge for the Jedi mistakenly killing his unit of Mandalorians.

 

[Curmudgeon]

I always assumed that Clone officers wore the colored armor because they were participating in battle. In the OT I assumed the troopers were basically the grunts and lowest rank because the officers wore the grey uniforms with the colored rank badges. Perhaps they adjusted their training so that accurate order could be given from the officers safely on the star destroyer above the planet so as not to put them in danger. That way only the lower ranking soldiers are in the field and in danger of being killed. This also makes sense considering the officers in the OT do not seem to be a form of clone while the stormtroopers likely are.

 

[Riceball]

I always assumed that Clone officers wore the colored armor because they were participating in battle. In the OT I assumed the troopers were basically the grunts and lowest rank because the officers wore the grey uniforms with the colored rank badges. Perhaps they adjusted their training so that accurate order could be given from the officers safely on the star destroyer above the planet so as not to put them in danger. That way only the lower ranking soldiers are in the field and in danger of being killed. This also makes sense considering the officers in the OT do not seem to be a form of clone while the stormtroopers likely are.

That wouldn't work very well and runs contrary to how pretty much every military has done things for ages because officers running things from the rear doesn't work very well. You can get away it at a certain level, about battalion on up but company on down the officer not only needs to be in the field but needs to be there in the thick of thing with their troops in order to access the situation and give timely orders without having to wait for a report first. Even assuming that some of the personnel that we see in either green or black uniforms are Stormtrooper officers it's been shown in Jedi that the officers do go into the field.

 

[cboath]

I just figured that there weren't all that many suits made for the originals so they had to be interchangeable and with physically different guys they all looked the same but different because of it.

In the prequels they were all identical models and the colors simply gave them variety.

I know that's not the in-universe answer, but i never gave in universe much thought.

 

[Sluis Van Shipyards]

In addition if you assume the Clonetrooper's helmet have electronic targeting and such, then they should surely be able to point them to the sergeants and officers on their visors. If you assume that, then you have to assume they would have been given orders that would pop up in their FOV in their visor. So that would make having sergeants and officers visually different redundant to the clones. It may have helped the Jedi or other observers ID them though. I remember one of the RC novels mentioning the Jedi could pick out individuals, once they got to know them, through the Force.