Phase II armor, even though it was more expensive, offered countless benefits for the Republic. Phase I armor was mass-produced for an army bred to fight and die. In millions of tiny ways, their conditioning and experience were different, and that created differences in both performance and personality.” Steven Barnes' 2004 novel, The Cestus Deception, shows how Jedi value the clones as individuals. The book notes, “ didn’t matter that they’d all begun life in identical artificial wombs.
They were created for the sole purpose of combat. However, as the war progressed, the Jedi began to realize that clones were living beings with individual personalities, regardless of how they were created. Clone troopers often viewed themselves as expendable for the sake of the Republic.
