Tak wookiepedia vie najlepsie:
pocas novej trilogie pouzivali republikove brnenie potom ako Imperator reformoval Republiku na Imperium zacali vyrabat vsetko nove brnenia,uniformy,logo,star destroyere a ine lode...Imperator nechcel mat nic povodné z republiky..posledny zvysok z republiky co bol bol senat ale aj ten rozpustil v epizode IV...tudiz republikovy clone troopers boli premenovany na Imperial stormtroopers
"The clone troopers, now proudly bearing the honorable rank of Imperial stormtroopers, have tackled the dangerous work of fighting our enemies on the front lines. Many have died in their devotion to the Empire. Imperial citizens would do well to remember their example."
―Emperor Palpatine
klony pocas novej trilogie ochotne plnili rozkazy bez otazok..co by ludia tak ochotne asi nie..navyse mali rovnaku vysku a vahu(vid otazka princezny Leii v epizode IV. ked si dal Luke na seba stormtrooperske brnenie "Nie si na vojaka nejaky maly?"..dali sa lahko rozpoznat + by sa tam mohli infiltrofat rebelovia.
Samozrejme bavime sa tu o tych mladych klonoch co boli ukazany v epizode II. nie o tych ktory uz boli nasadeny v boji pocas novej trilogie ty by maly cez 60rokov pocas starej trilogie.
Po epizode VI. sluzili stormtroopers zvacsa novym despotom, ktory chceli svoje vlastne Imperium.
ludia boli verbovany medzi stormtroopers az pocas druhej Iperialnej obcianskej vojne:
By the time of the Second Imperial Civil War, long after the end of the original Empire, the vast majority of stormtroopers were composed primarily of enlisted soldiers recruited from both human and various non-human species alike.