Chancellor Palpatine reinforces this reality by referring to the clone troopers’ actions as their “programming.” Furthermore, Dooku refers to the troopers as “assets.” For example, when speaking to the Jedi Council after Tups dissociates and begins to commit violent acts towards those on his side, Jedi Master Shaak-Ti explains that she would “like to implement a level 5 atomic brain scan to see if thought processes are still functioning normally.” Mentions of “thought processes” explicitly implies that the clone troopers’ thoughts were never really their own. He begins to be perceived as crazy or “malfunctioning.” This sparks several conversations that begin to dehumanize the clone troopers as just that: soulless clones to be reduced to soldiers of war. He experiences states of amnesia, unable to remember killing General Tiplar. Tups is the first member of the 501st to begin to experience the effects of the chips. In Season 6 of The Clone Wars, the clone troopers must grapple with the discovery of the inhibitor chips - implants in the clones’ brains that - when activated - would cause them to turn on the Jedi and complete Order 66, Chancellor Palpatine’s grand plan to exterminate all Jedi from the galaxy. The Clone Troopers, “Nightmares,” and Brain Electrode Implants Left: Finn at the beginning of his journey after breaking his conditioning and realizing the terrors of the First Order Right: Fives directly before his death attempting to convince his comrades about the terror of what would become Order 66 Gentle, droning voices at night fill their heads with sayings, propaganda, warnings, reminders that the First Order is the only answer, the only way to save the galaxy from itself, from destruction…Armitage Hux grew up at the Imperial Academy on Arkanis, watching his father deliver, manipulate, and program children to become killing machines…The children lose all sense of individuality, of self.” -Phamsa, Delilah S. “No, the young recruits are plugged into their beds like datapads downloading new information. Hypnosis can assist in establishing the desired conditioned responses.” - CONDITIONING (& Deconditioning), PROJECT BLUEBIRD, United States Central Intelligence Agency, 1952 He has been “conditioned” to Smith, “deconditioned” to Jones….Such trainings are integrated on all levels, conscious and subconscious. “Jones learns to respond to stimuli intended for a Smith, as though he were that Smith. Previous: Good Soldiers Follow Orders: Mind Control, Indoctrination, and Loss of Self in the Star Wars Saga (and what that means for the balance of the force in The Rise of Skywalker) - Introduction TW: This series of essays contains several written depictions of documented human rights violation Good Soldiers Follow Orders Part I: The Dissociation of Clone Troopers and Sequel Trilogy Stormtroopers and Allusions to MKULTRA, BLUEBIRD, and other C.I.A.
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