Headcanon: The field medics are the fastest troopers in the GAR. They have to book it during a battle in order to be of any help to fallen troopers, and even then they’re constantly aware of other troopers that also need their help, with even more getting struck down by the second. A fast medic could mean the difference between life or death for a battalion.
That’s all with several pounds of armor and gear constantly strapped on. Put field medics like Kix on a running track, wearing civilian attire instead of gear, and they’ll beat everyone, hands down.
My headcanons on Fox, Wolffe, and Cody's ages that are totally not overcomplicated: Cody is the youngest but he's the big brother and Fox is the little brother. However, when Wolffe's there Cody is his little brother and Wolffe and Fox are twins.
i love thinking of the clones preparing themselves for civilian life. obviously they can’t do much, but maybe Fox sends other Commanders information that he’s come across on Coruscant about things that are “common sense” for adults, like how to fix their own kitchen appliances, making a resume (though im not sure where he’d learn that), what having a regular doctor would be like, how to manage money, etc., and these Commanders can spread it to their men (as well as other stuff they learned on their own), who might have the time to learn. there’s also the possibility that a lot of these skills are already known, just not spread out, so maybe the chefs/custodians could show a neat trick or two to some other clones after the basics, who could show some other clones. so you have some clones already kind of set up if they survive + don’t all get recalled after the war. i just like it when they get the chance to do normal stuff :)
Wolffe has a weighted wolf plush that Plo Koon got him
Fox regularly falls asleep standing up
Tup is called the Vixus by his brothers because if you decide to cuddle with him he will not let you go until he wants to. Doesn't matter if the galaxy is ending, if he wants his cuddles he's getting his cuddles. (Btw a vixus is the creepy living vine thing from Umbara.)
Tup can rollerblade/skate and he can ice skate.
Hardcase has worn dresses before and he slayed it.
Every single clonetrooper has had at least one homosexual thought at least once.
Fives can absolutely slay it in heels
Thorn regularly brings tookas back to the GAR headquarters, Fox acts annoyed but the next thing you know it suddenly has a collar and is kept as a morale booster. they have an entire room for the Tookas filled with beds, toys, water/food bowls, Tooka towers(cat towers), heating pads, and everything they may possibly need.
I realized I’d never really explained my clone generations system? So when I write down “gen 5” or “gen 9” you guys probably don’t actually know what I’m talking about.
So here’s a quick guide to how I’ve organized clone generations:
Generation 1: Clones sent to fight to First Battle of Geonosis (Rex and Howzer are Gen 1). Completed all 10.5 years of training (20-21 cycles)
Generation 2: Everyone sent out a month after Geonosis 1 had begun. Most of the finalized units we know were freshly Gen 2 (Cody and Fox are Gen 2). Also completed all their training years.
Generation 3: Post Christophsis, near Battle of Ryloth. Corners start getting cut: All cycles are done, but the final year of training is condensed into a few months, and the requirements for the troopers to past are lowered drastically. Clones are sent out right when they “turn 20” by the later half of this generation. (Kix and Jesse are older 3rd gen, Domino Squad are on the younger side.)
Generation 4: Around Geonosis 2, 21BBY. Talks of skipping the final growth cycle and up to 1-1.5 years less of training. (Hardcase and Thorn are 4th gen)
Generation 5: Clones sent out post Battle of Kamino in 21BBY. Dispatched without the final growth cycle or final year of training, aged 18-19(9-9.5). (Appo, Vaughn, Hound)
Generation 6: During/post Felucia 2 until around the Republic victory over Onderon (20BBY). Dispatched without final growth cycle and a year earlier than average, putting them at about 18. (Tup and Dogma are early Gen6, CF99 are at the tail-end)
Generation 7: Sent out by the third year of the clone wars, until around the beginning of the mandalorian civil war/battle of cato neimodia.
Generation 8: Post Scipio (and therefore post Banking Clan’s full allegiance to the Republic, important political event) (mid 19BBY). Physically aged at around 17 (half of the 332nd).
Generation 9: Final clone wars era generation, sent out around the Battle of Coruscant and any main battle afterwards until the official end of the clone wars in 19BBY.
Generation 10: Final generation trained on Kamino before the destruction of Tipoca City and the complete halt to the production of clone troopers. Are sent out at around 16-17.
Generation 11: Remaining clone troopers alive who didn’t start their stack-specific training on Kamino like previous generations. Extremely loyal to the Empire, and were around + younger than 40 by 0BBY. Rare due to treatment by the Empire as well as the destruction of Tipoca leading to the destructions of all embryos and the younger clones still in their growth jars.
There’s no real consistency about how generations start/end or how long they go for. It’s mostly based on how training regulations changed, or major battles that kicked off a larger demand for troopers.
It doesn’t help that we don’t have specific dates for battles other than a vaguely linear timeline and 3 years. I kind of just picked what felt right.
im writing a longer post about it but what if the clone troopers are so ridiculously strong because Kamino is a huge ass planet (is it? I think so) and so they grew up training already hard as fuck in greater gravity, so smaller planets feel like nothing at all ?!
the unexplored astrophysics of it all
tl;dr star wars never seems to deal with different gravity for different planets and I think they should!
