- Date
- 22 BBY
- Continuity
- Canon
- Location
- Kamino
Following the dart clue, Obi-Wan discovered that information about Kamino had been removed from the Jedi Archives. With help he located the world and traveled there, discovering a stormy ocean planet whose residents operated sophisticated cloning facilities.
An absent world in the Archives
Following the dart clue, Obi-Wan discovered that information about Kamino had been removed from the Jedi Archives. With help he located the world and traveled there, discovering a stormy ocean planet whose residents operated sophisticated cloning facilities.
An army supposedly ordered for the Republic
Kaminoan leaders explained that they had been manufacturing a massive clone army under a request attributed to the late Jedi Master Sifo-Dyas. Obi-Wan and the Jedi Council had not authorized the program. The apparent existence of an army ready for deployment presented an extraordinary political and ethical problem.
Jango Fett as the genetic source
Obi-Wan met Jango Fett, whose DNA served as the template for the clone soldiers. The bounty hunter said he had been recruited by a man named Tyranus. Obi-Wan attempted to detain him, but Fett escaped with Boba and fled to Geonosis.
Anthropological assessment
Kamino demonstrates the transformation of biological reproduction into an organized military industry. The clones were persons trained and classified as military property, raising questions about consent, socialization and control over bodies.
Interactive history lab
Did the Jedi Council openly order the Kamino army?
No. The Council was surprised by its existence and had not authorized it.
Compare the published event with its institutions and social consequences.
Sources and research notes
Attack of the Clones; StarWars.com Kamino Databank. Verify the source or story background. Interpretation is distinguished from events shown directly in the story.
Canon · 22 BBY · Original source context
The secret clone army on Kamino: primary history and social context
What the source establishes
Obi-Wan traced a projectile connected to the attack on Padmé to Kamino, a world missing from Jedi Archives maps. Once there, he discovered Kaminoan cloning facilities preparing a Republic army, and learned that Jango Fett had supplied its genetic template. The circumstances of the army's commissioning were obscure to the Jedi, even as the Senate was moving toward military authorization.
People, labor and political institutions
Control of information can determine what an institution sees as possible or lawful. An erased location shaped Obi-Wan's search, while Kaminoan specialists controlled manufacturing techniques that could create an army at scale. The clone troopers themselves were persons raised within a military-industrial system, not simply disposable equipment.
Original media and evidence limitations
The 22 BBY events are depicted in Attack of the Clones and related official stories, apart from the earlier Senate and Separatist political developments depicted across books and series. The illustration is symbolic, and its diagram labels do not supply dialogue or casualty statistics absent from the underlying work.
Test your historical judgment
Two graded questions with corrections and explanations.