What is the relationship between clonetroopers and stormtroopers?
While LFL has not stated conclusively that the clonetroopers become the stormtroopers of the OT, there is definitely a link between the two. There is no small amount of evidence supporting the clonetrooper-to-stormtrooper theory (although it is debatable whether or not they are made of the same genetic material as the clonetroopers, who were created from Jango Fett’s DNA). GL himself stated in an interview in STARLOG magazine, “Boba Fett had a connection to stormtroopers. I sort of built him out of the stormtroopers, and I knew stormstroopers were clones. A magazine called The World of Star Wars: a Compendium of Fact and Fantasy from Star Wars and Empire Strikes Back (copyright 1981, with the official Lucasfilm Ltd. mark), had an article about stormtroopers as clones: “Origin. The creation of an Imperial Stormtrooper. A cloned man is one of a group of genetically identical humans, an assembly line product. He is a thinking man, but he serves a specific purpose and no other.” A link to
