And the reason Kamino isn't ruling the galaxy........?

A race of cloners that have seemingly unchecked powers to create clones of any species and they haven't tried to conquer the galaxy? They came across as decent people but they employed the services of Jango Fett so there certainly not perfect. I can't believe they would simply go along all these creating clones for others and they not thought to build a army for themselves. Further, the Republic doesn't seem to know much about Kamino anyway. If anyone is familiar with BattleFront 2, Kamino does start to take matters into their own hands to battle stormtroopers. So why isn't Kamino ruling the galaxy?

 

This is actually a very good question but i think the best answer anyone can give is that they simply couldn't be bothered with it. They seem content to simply do their jobs and live their quaint and uneventful lives on Kamino in peace.

 

Pretty much. The Kaminoans didn't care about ruling the galaxy. They cared about doing their work and getting paid for it. If you look at them, they are truly an emotionless race. Actually, you could say that they have a better grip on themselves. They are greedy just enough to care about how big your pocket book is, but not so greedy that they are in galactic domination like the Sith.

 

They lack ambition. Lazy, good for nothing Kaminoids. They just sit around all day watching Star Trek:TNG reruns on Spike.

 

Not to mention that Cloning is expensive, and even if you do have your army, they can't fly without ships (which the Kaminoans certainly don't make)

 

Kamino natives apparently put a lot of stock into science and technology type stuff. Scientists do not necessarily = generals or leaders. Sure, they could have found some allies, but look what happened to the CIS. The CIS council had wads and wads of money and were great at handling economic situations. They got themselves some powerful allies and tried to fight the Republic. They paid for the war and had others plan and fight it. In the end, the people with the resources were just pawns and the architects of the war desposed of them when they were done. I would assume this would happen to the Kaminoans.

Aside from that, Kaminoans didn't seem to have a lust for power over others, only a lust for knowledge. They study genetics and cloning and people pay them to do continue doing it. They didn't look like they were really hurting for cash, so the motives just were not there. I think they would simply be more content on staying on their own little isolated planet perfecting cloning techniques than sitting in a war room trying to figure out how to gain control of the Corellia trade route.

Carnage

 

They never thought about it that much, their heads are always in the clouds.

 

They are greedy just enough to care about how big your pocket book is, but not so greedy that they are in galactic domination like the Sith.

And how well your manners are.

 

Regardless, all they are good at is cloning, having a bunch of soldiers is pretty useless if they're stuck in a planet.

 

Maybe they were about to do it had the Republic not asked them to help fight a war for them.

Speaking of which, do you notice how you don't see any regular Republic soldiers? Besides the Jedi and Clones, we don't see anyone else for the Republic fighting along with them.

 

Your assuming the Kaminoans are motivated by human desires for greed and control, the very human trait's that cause most wars. Maybe they are more enlightened and their species has moved beyond wanting to attack and control?

And BTW, they didn't employ Jango Fett, Sidious and Tyrannus did.

 

Dex: "..These Kaminoans keep to themselves.."

 

They're paid to make those clone armies. Who's going to pay for them to make their own amry?

Yeah, and that too.

 

The Kaminoans didn't care about ruling the Galaxy. And Kamino on the whole was not an ideal location to have a group who did rule the Galaxy. It was a water planet near the outer rims. So it was an ideal location for Palpatine/Sidious to have the Clones made. The only problem was Obi-Wan found out and blew the cover.

 

And they seem to be very non-political. They dont even have a representative to the Senate. If they dont care enough even to do that, then ruling the galaxy is totally out of their thoughts.

 

Making money beats ruling the galaxy any day of the week.

Sides, the Kaminoan industrial capacity vs. the rest of the galaxy is prolly pretty one-sided for the rest of the galaxy anyhow. 999,999 vs. 1 odds.

 

We see Tarkin, whom we can assume was a Republic officer before becoming a Governor/Moff.

Also, we're told that Needa piloted the battleship which attacked The Invisible Hand at the beginning of ROTS.

In some of the EU material, such as Republic Commando for X Box, there are quotes from Republic Officers who helped train the clone troopers concerning their proficiency and training regimines.

There were definately non-clones working for the Republic during the Clone Wars. Likewise, there were non-droids fighting for the CIS.

 

Those were Mandalorian mercenaries, actually.

Plus we know from second-hand sources that Red Leader in ANH evidently flew with Anakin at *some* point.

 

There's the answer IMHO. I've always pegged them as being Xenophobes.

 

Give Einstein a trillion dollars. He'd make one hell of a science research institute rather than try to rule the world.

 

why would you give a dead man 1 Trillion Dollars?

 

Well, assuming he wasn't dead, obviously..

 

To me they came off as being more worried about making Clones and having and keepiong the money to substain that. As I said before it was a perfect place for Palpatine/Sidious to have them made. They were so far out (as far as the Galaxy goes) but, along came Kenobi and blew the whistle.

But, if you want the real short of it. Jango was too sloppy and he was tracked by Kenobi back to Kamino. So in a round about way Jango blew their cover.

 

Also they cant possibly have the time to rule the galaxy. Keep in mind, they have a million or more little kids running around. If you notice, they have been worn thin to the bone as it is.

 

Uh, he wasn't sloppy. He was intentionally told to use the Kamino saber dart. The whole point was to lure the Jedi to Kamino and then to Geonosis. Hence Dooku's proud as punch to tell Sidious that the war has begun. And Palpatine said that it is going as planned.