| abstract | - Anti-troopers composed the last generation of clone soldiers based entirely on the genetically-modified template of Jango Fett, a bounty hunter who served as the progenitor of the Republic clone troopers. At the end of the Clone Wars, which coincided with the Republic's transition into the Galactic Empire in 19 BBY, the Imperial Military seized control of Kamino, the original source of clones for the Grand Army of the Republic, and coerced the planet's native race to continue manufacturing more clone stormtroopers for the Empire. The loss of self-rule bred resentment against the Empire among Kamino's scientists and led some to form an underground resistance movement. Over the next decade, the renegade Clone Masters built a new army of Fett clones, mostly composed of anti-troopers with a complement of Rail-class Advanced Recon Commandos. When the conspiracy was discovered in 12 BBY, the Sith Lord Darth Vader deployed the 501st Legion to Kamino with orders to suppress the Kaminoans' fledgling rebellion, thus resulting in a battle between two sides entirely composed of Jango Fett's progeny. The anti-troopers made their first and last stand against the Empire and were subsequently annihilated by the Imperial stormtroopers of the 501st.
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