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bedlamsbard:amemait:bedlamsbard:amemait:bedlamsbard:dogmatix:bedlamsbard:dogmatix:bedlamsbard:Other reasons why the timeline in TCW doesn’t add up. This is S2, at most two years into the war. These kids look, what, four or five (I don’t do kids, I can’t guesstimate ages)? And Cut Lawquane deserted while the war was going on, not while he was on Kamino. I get that they’re half-Twi’lek, and maybe Twi’leks age faster than humans, but…..huh. I hadn’t spotted that!I did look at the episode with the young clones (Jax, Hotshot, Whiplash, etc) and Boba and wonder how the hell long the Republic expects to be fighting this war. Because the young clones look, at most, twelve. It’d be two to three more years before they look 16-18 and can fight. So that’s a ~minimum~ of three more years. Four if they want them to look 20.Plus in Season6 when we see the inside of Kamino, there are still kids training. Clones are not fast to produce, so… what the heck?The clones are actually…there’s a specific term they use, but I can’t remember it off the top of my head. They have accelerated aging, though I’m not sure how accelerated, and I’m not sure if it’s still around in the new canon since it came up in the EU.…although, hmm, I wonder if that accelerated aging gets passed down, and that’s why Cut’s kids look older. Could be.They do have accelerated aging (force grown?) and for regular clones it’s x2 - it took ten years for the clones to look 20 years old. So Rex and Cody look in their mid-twenties, but they’re actually thirteen or so years old.Not sure if this stayed canon, but there were clones that were grown even faster, called speedies, whose growth was accelerated x20 - it only took a SINGLE year for them to look 20 years old. They had a lot of flash-training (basically info being piped into their brains) and a few months of practice before being shipped off to war. They were highly unstable and probably only lived to be 7 or 8 years old, IF the war didn’t kill them. (since humans in Star Wars are supposed to be able to live well into their hundreds)Wow, the more I think about this, the more disturbed I am.I’m surprised you hadn’t thought of it before. I have a surprising amount actually.I knew it; it just hasn’t been relevant in anything I’ve written, so it’s one of those details that’s been pushed to the back of my head, like Mace’s ability to see shatterpoints or Plo Koon’s telepathy.Although I have been thinking about it on and off recently due to Rebels and trying to calculate out how much any TCW-era clones have aged since then, because oh my god I need to know about the clones.I think it’d make no sense for them to age at double-speed consistently if they’re expecting the war to run that long as they’ve got little clones about in s6.The speedies would be the obvious exception, but that might be too much bodily stress.Tying back into the idea of bodily stress with steady accelerated ageing, possibly they’re vastly accelerated and to a certain age and then tapering off down to more normal ageing post-puberty. It might take half a year to hit ten, for example, and then another half year or so to hit sixteen, and then another half year to hit twenty. A few years more and they’ll be physically 25, biologically perhaps four.I’m using these numbers specifically because it’s either heavily implied or directly stated that Fives and his original teammates started growing AFTER Jango died, and we don’t see Fives continue to experience accelerated ageing after his introduction. But the remaining original genetic material was running thin by the time Fives was grown.Also, the other clones don’t immediately recognise Boba; they might be too young to remember him and his haircut and body language.I personally headcanon Wolffe as an earlier batch than Rex, Rex older than Cody.It seems the more the genetic material is stretched, the faster separate quirks and personalities set in.(For once I’ll ignore the Zahn books, although damn they d be useful under these circumstances for answering this one.)That’s a really good point. (I was going to say, “hmm, I don’t know if that’s possible,” then I realized I was talking about a universe that includes space wizards and shut up.) That makes much more sense than having them keep aging at that accelerated rate — I don’t know if anything in the New EU has touched on that yet, though.I always assume that Cody is older than Rex, since Obi-Wan almost certainly got a clone commander earlier than Anakin did (whether or not you count Alpha as his first commander). But even with Cody…there’s a line in Landing at Point Rain where Cody tells Obi-Wan that he wasn’t at the initial battle of Geonosis in AotC, so he’s not from a batch that was ready to go then.Quick detour into the Zahn books, as he’s at least consistent:Clones can’t be grown too fast or they go mad. Pelleaon remembers the later ones that got grown too fast and lost it.This was explained by the Force putting pressure on their minds and bodies during the growing stages. So Force-nullifying lizards during the growing stages is the answer, and clones can be grown in weeks, possibly days. A better and more stable clone comes in the form of the Thrawn clone - grown over an unknown amount of time and then left to hang out in a tank for an equally unknown amount of time, but he hangout time was at minimum ten years. But we’ve no knowledge of if that even worked very well (thanks Mara and Luke).The faster-grown clones have aged appropriately over the intervening ten years to match the human standard, although the only ones we meet as persons might have been grown over far more than a week (Soontir Fel’s clones). HOWEVER. Those aren’t Kamino-clones. They’re Spaarti-cylinder grown.I’d like to think they’ve aged appropriately. -- source link