GrS 23:4:5 Attack of the (anti-) clones!

Haven't written in a long time, but had to jot this down. There was a huge uprising on Kamino--the Kaminoans were building their own "anti-clone troopers" to try to defeat the Empire. Boba Fett led a whole bunch of stormtroopers there and wiped out the new cloning facilities, but Palpatine is seriously upset.

I heard he called a meeting with Vader and wanted to know why Vader hadn't foreseen this vulnerability, and ordered him to open up stormtrooper ranks to clones from different facilities, and to recruit from the general populace.

Vader claimed he'd asked about this, and been told it wasn't a problem! Well, that got me pretty mad, so I fired Palpatine off a copy of the minutes of our meeting from 16:6:14, almost seven years ago, when I suggested this very possibility, and Vader shot it down, so Palpatine raked Vader over the coals during the weekly conference call in front of all the Moffs, saying "We will pay the price for your lack of vision!" Vader was so mad when he got out of there, he had to force-choke three captains, a TIE pilot, and a field marshall before he calmed down.

I probably shouldn't have sent those minutes, but I was mad. I sure hope Vader doesn't realize it was me. Man, I should talk to Tarkin, see if he still sells those force-choke protective collars on the side.

GrS 13:6:1 When Clones Attack...

Heard through the grapevine that the Republic's Army is an army of clones that they started building years ago.

The media have seized on this and are calling the conflict The Clone Wars. Wow, what a stupid name. Well, at least they haven't done a special documentary called When Clones Attack or Attack of the Clones or some equally stupid name.

But, I saw some of the clones on the news, helmets off, and they're all clones of Jango Fett. I thought he was on the Techno Union payroll. We paid him 5 million Republic credits a bunch of years ago, money that should properly have gone to fund R&D.

Why would he agree to be the template for a Republic army? Is he secretly working for them? Or did we know about this clone army? If so, why did we attack when we did? What the hell is going on? Does any of this make sense to anyone?

GrS 1:3:8 More on the mystery budget expenditure

Did a little digging around in the accounting computers. Some of those folks use the same passwords for everything!

That 5 million credit expenditure that killed our profit last year was paid to someone named Jango Fett for "clone template and training services."

Did a little more digging, but can't find anything out about what clones he's training or where. Just my luck to get my funding taken away by a black project. I can't even protest about it to anyone, because I'm not supposed to know. Sigh.