I wanted to figure out the Jedi: Clone Trooper ratio in the GAR (for how many clones might be Senate or the Troopers themselves consider a reasonable sacrifice to save/recover one tactically more valuable Jedi reasons), but checking the numbers on wookieepedia was like stepping into what you think is a balmy, warm bath but turns out to be boiling - I had to hurriedly pull back in order to not burn myself and don't think I can handle more than quickly skimming the surface.
There were ten thousand Jedi in the galaxy before the Clone Wars,[94] but many were killed during the conflict,[95]
That. That is not very helpful. The footnotes are referring to a book and a Clone Wars episode respectively, but I'm not going to track down and read an entire book in the hopes that they'll tell me is this number includes Service Corps members (are they or are they not considered Jedi? Either way, not trained to fight, not knights and not in the GAR), younglings (pre-Jedi, too young and untrained to fight, might go into the corps), Padawans (not fully trained knights, but do actually act as Jedi Commanders in the GAR), and any Knights/Masters too old to fight in a war, unfit due to physical limitations (individual ones or their species being too far from baseline human for them to be of use), simply unsuited for other reasons (they did learn how to handle a saber as padawans, but specialized as healers/archivists/etc and would need a) to be retrained to be effective in battle, and b) are essential in their current position anyway). So, how many trained, mission-ready and thus battle-ready Jedi were there who could independently lead clones into battle? Let's hand-wave it and say 5,000. Yes, i just randomly picked a number.
Then I looked at https://starwars.fandom.com/wiki/Grand_Army_of_the_Republic/Legends#Numbers, which made matters even worse. There is the commonly referred to number of 3,000,000 Clone Troopers:
In Guide to the Grand Army of the Republic and the novel Republic Commando: Triple Zero (both written by Karen Traviss, with Ryan Kaufman as co-author on the Guide…), there were 3,000,000 clones one year after the Battle of Geonosis.
This number tbh always strikes me as rather low considering the size of the Republic, the number of battlefields, the fact that the GAR is up against a droid army, i.e. an enemy that, unlike humans, does not need rest periods, and the general disregard for clone lives in the Senate, i.e. a general disregard for clone lives in the priorities and orders the GAR was given. It would also put us at 600 Clone Troopers per Jedi capable of independently leading a campaign, which would make for close Jedi-Trooper-relations, but also seems low to me.
There are also several other, greatly varying numbers thrown around, e.g.:
It is also possible that Lama Su did not intend the term "unit" to refer to an individual soldier. If a "unit" referred to a battalion of 576 troopers (as Lama Su spoke of later in Obi-Wan's visit), then 200,000 of these would render 115,200,000 clones and the 1,000,000 others spoken of as 576,000,000. This grand total of 691,200,000 would be far more suitable for the core of a galactic army. A "unit" being a 2,304-clone regiment, the largest military division classified as a unit instead of a formation, would amount to 2,764,800,000 clones. Furthermore, if a "unit" refers to a legion, the closest formation in size to a real-life British division of 15,000 men, the 1,200,000 units would have more than 18,000,000,000 clones, a truly "grand" army, suitable for defeating the huge numbers of droids under the Confederacy.
This is an entirely different ballpark. 3,000,000 clones would be a people, but a small people, and miniscule in comparison to the rest of the Republic. Berlin has more inhabitants. NYC has almost triple that. The populace of Coruscant is supposed to range in the trillions. 3,000,000 clones would be 0,0003% of even one trillion (1,000,000,000,000). Three million clones could simply disappear in the lower levels.
But 18,000,000,000? That's 1,8% of Coruscant's population. Enough to get the locals grumbling about those people.
Then again, it would also be 3,600,000 Troopers per Jedi, which would either have them so removed from each other that, once they are out of Kamino and the very real experience of their brothers dying starts to dilute the loyalty flashtraining brainwashed into them, most Troopers don't get what's supposed to be so special about the Jedi anyway, or consider their Jedi Generals precious magical unicorns, too rare to be endangered unduly, keep away from the battle at all costs. And, with that ratio, the GAR could consider it standard procedure to sacrifice several hundred thousand clones to preserve one Jedi.
Anyway, under https://starwars.fandom.com/wiki/Grand_Army_of_the_Republic/Legends#Command_structure_of_regular_forces I found:
Systems Army—2 Sector Armies (294,912 troopers) led by a High Jedi General (Jedi High Council Member).[18][4]
Sector Army—4 corps (147,456 troopers) led by a Senior Jedi General (Jedi Master).[18][4]
Corps/Division—4 legions (36,864 troopers) led by a Marshal Commander and a Jedi General (Jedi Knight or Master).[18][4]
Legion/Brigade—4 regiments (9,216 troopers) led by a Senior Commander and a Jedi General (Jedi Knight).[18][4]
Regiment—4 battalions (2,304 troopers) led by a Regimental Commander and a Jedi Commander (Jedi Padawan).[4]
Battalion—4 companies (576 troopers) led by a Battalion Commander and a Major.
Company—4 platoons (144 troopers) led by a Captain and a Lieutenant.[18][4]
Which, tbh, are nice, orderly numbers I can wrap my head around.
This would have Ghost Company be Obi-Wan and Cody's "personal" 144-men-company in their 576 Troopers strong 212th Attack Battalion, and there is one fully-trained Jedi per Legion of 9,216 Troopers. Something something High General, this would mean the Third Systems Army has 32 Jedi Generals (plus x Padawans).
Wookieepedia also tells me that a Venator-class Star Destroyer like the Negotiator had a crew of 7,400, which is three regiments, and carried 2,000 additional troops as passengers, i.e. not even a full regiment per Star Destroyer, so I have no idea how that works. And there would not even be one Jedi per Star Destroyer (so it's no wonder the Jedi, used to communal living and shared meditation, are isolated and lonely).
In conclusion, I do not understand anything. There could be a couple hundred Troopers per Jedi General, there could be a couple million. But also, there are about 10,000 per Jedi General.
