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He lives and dies for Avatar: The Last Airbender. By Rick Stevenson Published Jun 27, This would certainly explain why Rex looks so much older in Star Wars Rebels , which is set almost two decades after the Clone Wars.
We do know that Rex was part of the strike team that infiltrated the forest moon of Endor in Return of the Jedi , which is set 4 years after A New Hope. That would make Rex about 72 in clone years, the fittest old man on the battlefield. That said, this is a retcon introduced at the end of Rebels , so the same rules may not apply to him.
Still, the fact that no clones appear in the entire Original Trilogy except Rex and another retconned clone named Crag, the stormtrooper Obi-Wan uses the Jedi mind trick on in A New Hope probably means that most of them — but not all — were already dead by the time Luke Skywalker went on his grand adventure and defeated the Empire.
Dead or alive, they were certainly forgotten by then. Get the best of Den of Geek delivered right to your inbox! John Saavedra johnsjr9. So it takes them 10 years to reach peak form, and then they only have 5 years of actual combat duty during their physical peak. And then less than 5 years later, they're effectively years-old.
Though they'd probably have to retire from the military before their 25th birthday having only served 15 years in the military. Well, Joruus C'baoth was created around 27 BBY, aged to an adult human aged to the real Jorus C'baoth's age and still lived until several years after the battle of Endor.
He did not appear to be near his natural death when he was killed, nor did he seem to believe he would die any time soon. It's therefore likely that Spaarti clones will age at a normal rate after their rapid-growth period. I have no similar data for Kaminoan clones, however it is not difficult to believe that, if the Spaarti clones can age at a normal rate after maturation, the Kaminoans would be able to do the same with theirs, or possibly even slow their rate of aging.
There's also scattered references to surviving clone troopers being active Stormtroopers through the battle of Endor at least. The Empire wouldn't keep them as active troops if they couldn't do the job. Therefore, it's logical to assume that clones have at LEAST the normal lifespan, starting from when they reach the desired age and the rapid aging is ceased. In the novels it's stated that they were programmed to age at an accelerated rate, although it doesn't state the rate. There were live Kamino clones well after Yavin as Boba Fett is still alive in a village and meets then the legacy series.
Not consistent source material. Clones seem engineered to age at roughly double the rate their entire lives, as seen in Star Wars: Rebels.
So the better question is what is the average lifespan of a human in Star Wars. Leland CHee has stated that while in Legends the average lifespan was stated to be years old, new Canon has changed that to match "Real World" of an average of 71 years old with obvious exceptions for individuals.
However, in the new canon, Holocron continuity database keeper Leland Chee has stated that humans lived the same real-world average lifespan, which is estimated to be 71 years old.
So figure a Clone who survived the Clone Wars could expect to live anywhere from years or so, depending on medical care and the like. Well clones from the clone wars fought well into the battle of hoth at least, so assuming they continued to age at 2x speed they would be well over 60 years old by the time they fought at hoth.
A young clone of Emperor Palpatine, serving as a temporary vessel for the Sith Lord's spirit. At some point in his life, the Sith Lord Darth Sidious sought to discover a way to extend his lifetime in the hopes of avoiding death.
Though his ambition ran contrary to the teachings of Darth Bane , who emphasized the importance of the Sith Order over the individual, Sidious had little intention of being succeeded by a Sith apprentice long after he had established his rule as emperor of the Galactic Empire. Thus, he looked to the science of cloning as a possible solution to his dilemma as early as the late phase of the Clone Wars. He had hoped that her achievements as a cloner would yield some sort of discovery on how to extend his own life.
Darth Sidious's desire to extend his lifetime gradually developed into an obsession to live forever, causing him to develop a powerful sense of paranoia over death. Nevertheless, he finally discovered a way to cheat death, but at a great price. Through his new-found Force power , Essence Transfer , Sidious literally had the power to project his spiritual consciousness into another body.
While still alive in his original body, Sidious secretly commissioned a large batch of clones that were based on his own genetic template.
The clones were kept in stasis and maintained on the planet Byss in the Deep Core of the galaxy. However, the Dark Lord of the Sith was forced to pay a heavy price for immortality. In the Telos Holocron, he lamented on the shortcomings of cloning. Due to the fact that clones were one step removed from the natural life process itself, they were easily susceptible to the damaging side effects of the dark side.
A living being of natural birth had a difficult challenge of trying to control the dark side, but was ultimately doomed to experience the lethal consequences of being heavily immersed in the dark side's energies after a long period of time.
A clone's body was almost utterly defenseless against the negative aspects of the dark side, thus subjecting the clone to rapid aging and decay. Thus, he was forced to duplicate his body many times in order to transfer his spirit from one clone body to another as each host swiftly decayed under the unbearable pressure of the dark power that became intertwined with Sidious' own spirit.
Up until the year 4 ABY , over two decades into his reign as emperor, Sidious never had the opportunity to test his experiment.
But at the decisive Battle of Endor , the Emperor was betrayed and killed by his apprentice on the second Death Star. Though Vader was fatally wounded in the attempt, he succeeded in killing Darth Sidious, thus bringing an end to the Order of the Sith Lords.
With his mortal flesh destroyed, the Dark Lord's spirit endured the maddening experience of being disembodied. After painstaking efforts, he succeeded in reaching Byss where he entered one of his clone bodies. By awakening as the young man that he once was, Sidious achieved his great desire to avoid death, even if his clone bodies were only a short-term solution.
Due to the fact that the clones could only sustain their progenitor's life force for barely even a year before experiencing complete destabilization, the Kaminoan process for engineering mature clones was out of the question.
The Dark Lord needed many adult versions of himself on standby in order to consistently transfer his spirit into another temporary host again and again, thus forcing him to depend completely on Spaarti technology. For six years after his first death, Sidious allowed the Galaxy to believe that he was dead. In all that time, he concealed his existence on Byss, all the while constantly enduring the painful experience of dying and transferring his soul into another clone of himself.
Through the use of the facility's Spaarti cloning cylinders, Thrawn was able to engineer an army of stormtrooper clones in less than a year. The clones served as the Chiss Grand Admiral's soldiers in a campaign to reclaim the Galaxy from the fledgling New Republic.
The experiment, however, resulted in the creation of an intelligent soldier rather than a leader, thus failing to meet Thrawn's expectations. Thrawn's reliance on cloning also led to the creation of a clone based on his own genetic structure, mainly in the hopes of ensuring "his" survival in the event of his death. The clone of Thrawn was hidden within the Grand Admiral's fortress on Nirauan. The clone was engineered to reach full adulthood in a ten-year time frame. During maturation process, the clone's psychological development was facilitated through flash training and the downloaded memories of the original Thrawn.
The Skywalker clone was grown to maturity in less than a year through Spaarti growth acceleration and was armed with the lightsaber Skywalker had lost in that duel. In addition to cloning Tierce and himself, Thrawn also experimented with cloning several Force-users, whose DNA had been obtained and safeguarded during Emperor Palpatine's reign.
Created in secret on a frozen moon in the Unknown Regions , the Force-sensitive clones were developed and raised by Imperial scientists that served under Thrawn's Empire of the Hand until they rebelled against their creators.
They remained isolated until the Jedi Knight Jaden Korr discovered the clones on the moon. Korr killed Alpha , a mentally unstable clone of Kam Solusar , but the remaining clones and their children escaped from the moon.
The other templates for the clones included Mara Jade , Lassin , Lumiya and other Force-users that originally served the Galactic Empire. Darth Sidious' last clone deteriorates far too quickly, leading to his final death.
Six years after the destruction of his original body, Emperor Palpatine emerged from the seclusion of Byss while the remnants of the former Empire were devastated in the ongoing Galactic Civil War , as well as the fighting amongst Imperials. When Luke Skywalker infiltrated the Imperial Citadel , he was shocked to discover that his suspicions were correct—Emperor Palpatine had survived death itself, in a manner of speaking.
Despite the fact that Skywalker was responsible for Darth Vader's sacrificial act of redemption that led to Palpatine's first death, the Emperor still desired to turn Skywalker into his new apprentice. After revealing the unpleasant experience of constantly dying and transferring his essence into a young clone version of himself, Palpatine once more offered Skywalker a place at his side.
Skywalker, like his father before him, agreed to serve the clone Emperor, believing that the only way to truly defeat Palpatine was by using the dark side against him. After Han Solo and his wife Leia Organa Solo were captured and brought before the Emperor by Skywalker, Palpatine revealed his cloning laboratory to the wedded couple, including the numerous clone versions of himself; each one was meant to serve as his temporary vessel in turn.
By then, his latest clone vessel had already deteriorated to the point where he was on the verge of dying once again. But as he prepared to transfer his soul into another host, Skywalker confirmed what Palpatine already knew—the clone Emperor's new apprentice was a double agent who sought to destroy the Galactic Empire from within and secure the survival of the New Republic—mainly by ensuring that the Emperor's next death was a permanent one. Skywalker attempted to deny Palpatine's soul another opportunity to avoid absolute damnation by destroying all of the clones.
With his very existence on the line, the Emperor committed suicide by destroying his body, thus freeing his soul from the trappings of its decaying clone flesh.
Though Skywalker proceeded to destroy all of the clones with haste, one clone survived the attack and became the Emperor's new vessel.
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