Why Are Clone Troopers In The Rogue One Prequel, Andor?
The Rogue One: A Star Wars Story prequel series, Andor, will feature clone troopers, despite being set during the Star Wars franchise’s Imperial era. As shown in Star Wars canon properties like Star Wars: The Bad Batch, clone troopers were phased out of the Empire's military within a year of Palpatine’s coup. Cassian Andor (Diego Luna), the protagonist of the eponymous Disney+ series, has a grim history with the heroic Republic soldiers, providing a potential explanation for their appearance in Andor.
Andor will take place five years before the events of Rogue One and A New Hope, bringing back the heroic Rebel spy to tell the story of how he took up arms against the Empire. Cassian Andor explains in Rogue One that he’d been fighting what feels like a continuous war since early childhood, but his first enemy wasn’t the Empire. At six years old, Cassian was a child soldier for the Separatist Alliance, having futilely thrown debris at Republic clone troopers and their armored walkers years before he became a formidable Rebel spy.
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The first trailer for Andor briefly shows a quartet of clone troopers, clad in Phase II armor, indicating that the moment depicted is either at the end of the Clone Wars or at the very beginning of the Empire’s reign. There are several possible explanations for the inclusion of clone troopers in Andor. The scene in the trailer, which is likely a flashback, could be set in the Clone Wars, depicting a young Cassian throwing rocks at the troopers, the death of Cassian’s father during a protest on Carida, or the earliest days of the Empire before the mind-controlled clones were replaced by recruited stormtroopers.
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