]]>Cept for all those cloning cylinders stashed on Wayland. But no one'll ever find those, right? I mean, we left a crazy Dark Jedi clone to guard them!
]]>My source for stating the Royal Guards as GeNode clones, with individual personalities and memories, unaware of their existence as clones, is the Crimson Empire series.
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Yes, because the Elite Royal Guards were "Geo-Node" Clones, meaning that they were all identical clones of each other, but not of Jango Fett at all, and they had implanted memories and identities so they didn't know they were clones.
No, because a) stormtroopers after a certain date weren't clones any more, as Jango's genetic material was basically degraded and you couldn't copy any more from that source and b) the Royal Guards existed before the Clone Wars (since they're in Episode II).
So I guess it's the same answer as when people ask if the stormtroopers were clones:
Depends on which Royal Guard you're talking to - maybe, maybe not.
Well, partly true...they were not clones of Fett, and as you say neither were the vast majority of stormtroopers after Episode 3. And the Imperial Guards did not exist prior to the empire, however, the Senate's Guards (And Supreme Chancellor's guard) did, and the latter were who they adopted the Uniform off, though arguably they were only a renaming of the Red Guard anyway.
Depending on what you refer to, Stormtroopers later weren't clones for one of a couple reasons, either its to do with an insurrection on Kamino, or the sheer lack of needing them to be a cloned force anymore when you have the population of the majority of the galaxy to draw recruits from.
Anyway, there is only a single piece of evidence to say they were clones, and quite a lot to say they weren't. And the fact they have been described as being "Hand picked" and "some are latent force sensitives" generally implies any clones amongst them were the exception rather than the rule.
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]]>As such they usually weren't clones I presume.
]]>Yes, because the Elite Royal Guards were "GeNode" Clones, meaning that they were all identical clones of each other, but not of Jango Fett at all, and they had implanted memories and identities so they didn't know they were clones.
No, because a) stormtroopers after a certain date weren't clones any more, as Jango's genetic material was basically degraded and you couldn't copy any more from that source and b) the Royal Guards existed before the Clone Wars (since they're in Episode II).
So I guess it's the same answer as when people ask if the stormtroopers were clones:
Depends on which Royal Guard you're talking to - maybe, maybe not.
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