It's so insane, I'm tempted to actually read it and figure out how to phonetically prounounce it.

And then put it on a T-shirt!

[io9.com]

Anyone want to race me?

Good God, what have I committed myself to?
If I don't make it out alive, I just want you all to know I secretly loved Spiderman 3. There. I said it.

"In 11 BBY, the cloners of Kamino rebelled against the Galactic Empire by using their cloning technologies to launch a war against the Empire. The Empire retaliated with a massive assault on Tipoca City. Boba Fett, with his extensive knowledge of the complex, led the 501st Legion into the corridors of the cloning complex to disable the cloning technology. As the remaining resistance attempted to flee, two of their LAAT/i evacuation transports were shot out of the air.

This uprising provoked Palpatine, who had now made himself Emperor, to decide that an army of genetically identical clones presented too many possibilities of turning against him, just as they had done to the Jedi. Thus, it was through this radical reform that the Fett clones would gradually become overshadowed under a pool of clones from different genetic templates and many more birth-born recruits. Although the Jango Fett template would still certainly be used to produce more clone stormtroopers, the Fett clones would rapidly become lost under the number of recruits, conscripts, and different genetic template-based clones. For all of their loyalty to the Republic/Empire and their unrivaled fighting skills, the Fett clones were "rewarded with the chance" to fight alongside "inferior" and far less skilled soldiers. None of the Fett clones, especially those belonging to the "Fett-pure" 501st would ever truly grow used to fighting alongside the non-Fett stormtroopers that they dubbed as the "new guys".

Ultimately, the cloning program that was used to produce almost 50 percent of the stormtrooper ranks was finally ended with the defeat of the Galactic Empire via the Battle of Endor. After Palpatine and Vader's death, clones became increasingly rare and obsolete as the remnants of the Empire turned to birth-born recruits, both Human and non-Human alike."

So yeah, you were right; the clones were used through the original trilogy. I mixed up the timeframe.

If my new overlords aren't chomping Kerbango, the whole damn deal's off.

...I *really* need to stop reading Battlefield Earth. Is there some sort of 12-step program?

It's ok, Pluto; I'm not a planet either.

You are Jesus -- er, Number Six.

Yeesh, it didn't work once already; and yet you're going to ask for how many millions of dollars to try it again?

I think after I finish reading the book, I'll Netflix the movie just to see how it really is. I saw like 5 minutes of it about 3 years ago and my retinas are still scarred.

...I'm coming off as a bit of a masochist, aren't I?

I smell Oscar.

Boo.

Seriously, Hollywood, what the FUCK?

Although, they did both end up getting sued by every government agency in New York and performing at childrens' birthday parties afterwards... I'm not sure if you coud exactly termn that a victory.

"She had wrapped herself in a doeskin, really tight, and it showed her breasts and a lot of leg".

Bleah. PULP.

1066 frigging pages. Who the hell can write the utter crap I've seen in the first 16 pages for more than a thousand?!

Although the cover of the book is great. It's got Space Jesus/Chuck Norris standing on a big rock with two purple pistols, firing off in random directions, while a huge battle ensues behind him.
Great battle tactics, buddy.

It really is AWFUL.

And Hollywood gives us bullet-bending and a loom of death.

What. The fuck.