The revelation of the Grand Army of the Republic on Kamino presented both a solution and a mystery. Here was an army of two hundred thousand units, with a million more well on the way, supposedly ordered by the late Jedi Master Sifo-Dyas. The mystery deepened when the Jedi Council revealed that Sifo-Dyas had been dead for years, raising questions about who had truly commissioned this force and why.
The Kaminoans, secretive cloners who had operated in obscurity for generations, had created these soldiers from the genetic template of Jango Fett - the same bounty hunter responsible for the attempts on Senator Amidala's life. This connection, overlooked in the urgency of the moment, would later prove to be one of many threads in the complex web of deception that had been woven around the Republic.
The clone army represented more than just military might; it embodied the transformation of the Republic from a democratic institution to a military power. These soldiers, bred for loyalty and combat effectiveness, would become both the saviors of the Republic and the instruments of its transformation into something far more authoritarian.