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People created by mages for battle fucking off to form their own little villages and stuff is one of my favorite tropes.
Star Wars dipped into this with a clone that went AWOL and started a family. Later on, a group set up their own littlw found family on what amounted to a war machine turned into a walking house that they walked around to different fishin' holes
Clones in Star Wars is absolutely random and incoherent from top to bottom. Every way you can look at it, it's trying to retrofit new stories around a really poorly chosen set of throwaway lines with a very poorly chosen scifi technobabble from the original trilogy.
It would have been so much better if they retconned those lines or found a different interpretation of "clone" to backfill content for a recent war.
The number of ways new star wars continues to eternally double down on clones is just embarrassing.
Star wars is so expansive that some incoherency is just bound to be there. That said I think there is underexplored potential in storytelling around clones and how fucked up it would be to make a race of genetic supersoldiers bred specifically to kill. How can you call Jedi the good guys when they're so ready to exploit them?
Droids occupy a similar space, IMO