The Clone Troopers of the Republic were the backbone of the Chancellor Palpatine’s military
force to fight the separatists during the Clone Wars.
Despite being commissioned under very suspicious circumstances by a long dead Jedi named Sifo-Dyas,
the Jedi Council felt they had no choice but to accept these new Clones and serve as their
General in the upcoming conflict…
Over the years, many different types and variants of Clone troopers were created to fill different
use cases, including everything from Clone Intelligence officers to Clones who hunt their
brothers who have deserted…
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**Number 1.
Regular Clone Troopers**
The Clone Army of the Republic was commissioned by Jedi Master and Council member Sifo-Dyas
after he foresaw a coming would which would ravage the Galaxy.
The other Jedi on the council refused to believe his insane ramblings, and as a result kicked
him off of the council.
Despite this, he put in an order with the Kaminoans, who were known for their high quality
cloning and thus the Clone Army was born…
Although there was a huge problem.
While placing this order, Palpatine found out about the deal and ordered the Kaminoans
to implant inhibitor chips into each of their heads, compelling them to follow any of the
150 Clone Contigency orders when activated…
These Clone Troopers were trained on Kamino using simulations and flash training, and
after passing the Citadel training course they were well on their way to joining the
front lines of the war…
**Number 2.
Special Operations Troopers**
Special ops troopers or stealth ops clones were a group of Clones that specialized in
low profile, undetected stealth missions deep into enemy territory.
They were trained to be able to move quickly and quietly, and detect enemies at a distance,
without much trouble…
They were also given advanced sensory gear by the Kaminoans which enhanced their senses,
including their hearing and sight…
They often operated experimental Republic technologies like the Stealth corvette in
their campaign against General Grievous and the Malevolence.
**Number 3.
Clone Shadow Troopers.**
Clone Shadow troopers were a highly secretive unit of Clones who were equpped with an extremely
experiemental and rare type of armor.
The armor was coated in deep black paint, with white stripes and a red visor, and contained
a group of strageically placed magseals.
These seals allowed the Clones to attach cosmetic plates to the armor, which could alter any
clone’s appearance to impersonate almost any type of human shaped species or profession.
For example, these clones could impersonate a Hutt Cartel Mercenary or a member of the
black Sun Crime Syndicate if they needed to go undercover within those crime families.
This unit eventually evolved into Imperial Shadow Troopers later on.
**Number 4.
Clone Lava Troopers**
Now these guys aren’t confirmed to be Clone Troopers in Canon, but based on the time they
served, it’s pretty likely that they are.
Now they wore deep black armor, with thick red breathing tubes, allowing them to serve
near the sulphur-rich lava rivers of Mustafar, under Darth Vader.
They followed him loyally into battle on Mustafar, especially against the Native Mustafarians,
who often caused trouble and rebellion near his castle.
**Number 5.
Covert Operations Troopers**
Now these Clones are probably the most dark and ominous variant on the list.
Cover Ops trooeprs were assigned to perform the “dirty work” of the Republic, that
most clones would find repulsive, unethical or just plain wrong…
This primarily included hunting down Clone Deserters like Cut Lawquane and executing
them on the spot.
Clones who showed dark tendences form a young age were pulled from their regular classes
to join this unit on Kamino, and they were so off the grid that they weren’t even part
of the regular chain of command.
Their work was given directly by the Supreme Chancellor or the Director of the Special
forces…
**Number 6.
Clone Medics**
Clone medics were troopers specifically bred and trained on Kamino to be able to treat
their injured brothers on the battlefield.
Because knowledge of the Clone Body was implanted into the Medic’s brains from before their
birth, their treatment was extremely effective in even the worst of situations.
The most famous Clone Medic is Clone Trooper Kix, and he is actually the last surviving
Clone Trooper in the Galaxy, making it all the way to the time of the Force Awakens.
During the dying days of the Clone Wars, Kix became extremely suspscious of the so-called
virus that caused his brother Tup to kill Master Tiplar.
After doing his own investigation into the matter, he found out that Fives had eventually
discovered the truth, and that that every Clone trooper in the Republic had an inhibitor
chip in their head.
These investigations didn’t go unnoticed through, and soon after count Dooku kidnapped
Kix and ordered that he brought back to his homeworld of Serenno for questioning.
To do this, Dooku froze Kix in cryostasis aboard a transport ship, but on the way to
serenno is was ambushed by Republic forces who didn’t know Kix was on oboard, causing
signficiant damage.
As a result, the B-1 Battle droid on board decided the ship was far too damaged to go
to Serenno, so he activated the hyper drives and sent the ship hurling in a random direction,
eventually crash landing on the sandly world of Ponemah…
50 years after the Clone Wars, Kix was discovered by the Red Pirate Sidon Ithano and was horrified
to learn that everyone he knew wasa now dead…
**Number 7.
Clone Purge Troopers.**
Clone Purge troopers were group of elite clones who were considered “expendable death squads”
by the empire, meant to hunt down any surviving Jedi from Order 66.
The units usually served under an Inquisitor as their commander, and because they were
clones and the inquisitors were former Jedi this led to some pretty crazy scenarios.
One Jedi survivor who was hiding out on the planet Mon Cala managed to use a mind trick
to force the Clone Purge troopers into executing Order 66 for a second time, but on the inquisitors.
This allowed him to escape, but he was later tracked down by Darth Vader.
**Number 8.
Clone Paratroopers.**
Clone Paratroopers were a unit trained specifically for airbone operations, and were given speciazlied
helmets to aide in their high altitude drops onto the battlefield.
Now these troopers usually wouldn’t be too noteworthy, but after their attack on Utapau
and the call for Order 66, these guys went absolutely berserk and committed the most
horrendous war crimes on the war on the Utapauan people.
The paratroopers tortured, murdered and enslaved the people on the planet, in an event that
was later known as the Subjugation of Utapau…
**Number 9.
Clone Gunners**
These guys were pretty much just standard clones, except they were trained to man vehicle-mounted
weapons or artiellery, and wore specialized armor to assist in their duty manning the
guns.
**Number 10.
Clone Jetpack Troopers**
Again, these guys don’t need much explanation as they were trained to use jetpacks on battlefield,
and were called in when aerial support was needed or a location was hard to access.
Eventually after Order 66, they were phased out by the Empire in favour of Imperial Jumptroopers.
**Number 11.
Clone Scuba Troopers**
Clone SCUBA troopers were deployed whenever the Republic were forced to fight battles
on waterworlds such as Mon Cala.
The troopers were outfitted with specialized Clone Dive armor, which was extremely lightweight
and contained a rebreather system to recycle the oxygen needed to breath.
After the fall of the Republic sets of this armor were found on the black market, going
for a measly 4,500 credits…
**Number 12.
Clone Flame Troopers**
Clone Flametroopers were extremely effective on worlds with insect like populations, as
brutal as that sounds…
They were employeed against the geonosians during the second battle on the planet, but
there was one major problem…
Their initial Mk 1 armor had a severe flaw in it, with the Kaminoans forgetting to include
respirator filtration in the mask, causing many Flame troopers to die while firing their
weapons in confined spaces…
Thankfully the problem was soon fixed and all Flametroopers switched to Mk2 “Hotspot”
armor.
After Order 66, this unit evolved inot the Imperial Incinerator troopers.
**Number 13.
Clone ordinance specialists, or the Clone Bomb Squad.**
Now just like their brothers over in the Flame Trooper units, the Clones in the bomb squad
had a huge and fatal flaw in their armor…
Or should I say the lack or armor.
Most Clone Ordiance specialists were forced to wear simple Phase 1 clone armor, with only
a thin layer of orange paint as protection…
Yeah as you can guess, the survival rate of this group was low.
**Number 14.
Clone Sharpshooters**
In Canon, these troopers are only seen in the Star Wars: Battlefront 2 and Force Arena
games.
We know from those games that they are extremely proficient snipers and were given intensive
long distance arms training on Kamino.
Unfortunately they were very vulnerable at close quarters.
**Number 15.
Clone Scout Troopers**
This group of troopers were highly trained, elite soldiers who primarily focused on reconnaisance
and warfare on difficult terrains.
They were usually sent out before large troop movements to survey the battlefield, making
sure it was safe to move in.
Awesomely, Scout Troopers were trained in hardcore survival skills, and could survive
for weeks alone in a dark and swampy wilderness.
After Order 66, this unit was transitioned into the Imperial Scout Troopers that were
extremely common.
**Number 16.
Cold Assault Troopers**
As the name suggests, these guys specialized on cold and snowy planets and were outfitted
with HT-77 Cold Assault armor, which had insulated thermal seals, an internal temperature regular
and sensory assistance in the helmets.
The visors on this armor were also coated with anti-glare coating, to avoid the troopers
having their eyes burnt out from the reflections on the snow.
Also, the comms units in this armor dampened the sound of high and screeching wind.
After the Empire formed, this unit transitioned into the Cold Weather assault stromtroopers,
the same ones seen on hoth.
**Number 17.
Galactic Marines**
Sadly there isn’t too much information about the Galactic Marines in Canon compared to
Legends, but we do know that they were led by Genera Ki-Admi Mundi and were intensively
trained to operate in hostile environments like the fungal clouds of felucia and the
pure vacuums of space.
Their unique armor also had a helmet which filtlered pollutants out from their breathing,
again allowing them to operate in extreme environments.
**Number 18.
Heavy Weapons Trooper**
In Canon, all we know about these guys is that they specialize in using heavy weapons
and anti-vehicle technology.
**Number 19.
Clone Pilots**
Clone Pilots served at almost every battle across the Galaxy, and ferried in troopers
on transports, as well as manning their own fights.
These guys were usually chosen to become pilots from a young age on Kamino when the Kaminoans
recongized them to have good reflexes and high spatial awareness.
Clone pilots even sreved as imperial starfighter pilots in the early days of the Empire.
**Number 20, 21, 22 and 23.
Clone Naviagtion, medical, intelligence and general officers.**
These guys are the ones you see standing around Republic capital ships filling the positions
that can’t be filled by Jedi or other trained professionals, because there simply aren’t
enough.
The navigators assisted in calculating hyperdrive jumps and moving to waypoints, the medical
officers obviously assisted with on board medical incidents, and the general officers
just filled every other role
**Number 24.
Clone Flight Crew**
These clones were trained to maintain Republic starfighters and walkers, and assisted with
takeoff and landings.
Despite being seen as lesser clones, they did serve a very important purpose.
**Number 25.
Maintenance Clones**
As far as we know so far, 99 is the only maintenance clone ever created, and he was put in the
role simply because he was part of a bad batch.
**Number 26.
Shock Troopers/Coruscant Guard**
The coruscant guard shock troopers were considered the most highly respected unit of Clone Troopers
by many, handling the protection of Chancellor palpatine, the Republic capital world of Coruscant
and the most highly guarded prison in the core…
They were highly trained and elite soldiers who could best almost anyone on the battlefield.
The reason they came into existance was becasue the Senate Guard, those guys in blue, became
hugely corrupt and ineffective, so Palpatine wasn’t satisfied with them anymore.
**Number 27.
Clone Riot Troopers**
This group has quite a bit of overlap with the Coruscant Guard, as some of their members
serve as riot Troopers, but their basic purpose is to keep protests and violence in check.
This is especially important in the lower levels of coruscant.
The troopers carried huge riot shields, and were given significant training on de-escalation
and crowd control techniques.
**Number 28.
ARC Troopers**
ARC troopers were the highly trained, elite variant of Clone Troopers, each chosen from
the ranks of Regular Clone Troopers.
The honor to become an arc trooper was bestowed on Clones who showed exceptional talent or
bravery on the battlfield, and some were lucky enough to be selected as cadets.
These troopers were sent on the toughest and most demanding missions, but they rarely failed
a task.
Their armor was unique and it even served as an experimental version of the Phase II
clone armor, before that was released.
**Number 29.
BARC Troopers**
BARC Troopers or Biker Advanced Recon Commanders were special forces Clones who, as you can
guess rode speeder bikes into battle.
They werer specifically taught how to navigate difficult or dangerous terrain efficiently,
while providing crucial battlefield information to their commanders.
As you may remember, Commander Neyo from Revenge of the Sith was a Barc Trooper and he used
his bike to assasinate General Stassee Allie.
**Number 30.
Clone Commandos**
These guys were elite soldiers in the Grand Army of the Republic special forces who wore
highly advanced Katarn Class Commando armor.
They were deployed when things got dire in battle, or if the Republic needed a small
but highly effective unit of troopers to carry out a mission.
The most well known group of Clone Commandos is probably the Delta Squad who have only
had a very tiny appearance in Current Canon.
As well as Scorch who randomly showed up in the Bad Batch…
**Speaking of the Bad Batch, Number 31.
Defective Clones**
Now just like 99 the Janitor, defective Clones sometimes came out with defects that actually
benefited the Republic army.
The obvious example of that was the Bad Batch, who each had problems in the cloning process
when they were created, giving them unique but useful abilities.
Because of how proficient the Kaminoans were at cloning, with hundreds of years of experience,
Defective Clones were very rare.
**Number 32.
Clone Artillerty troopers.**
These guys fire mortars and artillery pieces.
Thats all we know in Canon..
**Number 33.
Clone Comms Technicians**
These guys handle communcations between Clone Legions and transmit orders from Jedi Generals,
again That’s all we know in Canon.
**Number 34.
Clone Engineers**
The clone Engineers in Legends have some pretty awesome stories, but in Canon, we only really
know that they were thrown into battle when Republic vehicles or technology needed repairing.
They were outfitted with specialized Phase 1 Clone ARmor, usually with yellow trimming
to denote that they weren’t there to fight…
**Number 35.
Clone Heavy Gunners.**
Clone heavy gunners were the ones who used the heavy duty weaponry on the battlefield,
and were given much stronger Clone Trooper armor than Regular Phase 1 and two armor.
They were also given a kama and pauldron, and often served next to the Medics and snipers
of the attacking forces.
**Number 36.
Kamino Guard Troopers**
The Kamino Guard troopers were hand chosen by the Kaminoan scientist for their great
defensive and protective instincts during training.
These guys were almost the same as regular troopers, but were given highly specialized
training in how to defend watery planets from attack.
They also stuck around in the early days of the Empire to aid in Palpatine’s plan…
Sadly not for long though…
So that is every single Clone Trooper type in Canon.
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