Rise of the Stormtrooper
A lot of the background of The Bad Batch’s transitory period from the last days of the Republic and into the full swing of the Empire has focused on the development of the next generation of Imperial armed forces. Admiral Rampart was a major advocate of moving away from cloned soldiers and into recruited civilians, funneling funding into Project War-Mantle, a research and training program that saw Clone Commandos train the non-clone conscripts and recruits that would replace them.
This climaxed in season two with the introduction of the Imperial Defense Recruitment Bill to the Senate, which would formally (and forcefully) retire clones from active service in order to ramp up recruitment for a new Imperial army. Although the bill faced pushback for declining to offer any kind of welfare support for the ousted clones, and was almost scuppered entirely by the revelation about Rampart’s embezzlement for Project War-Mantle and his involvement in the Kaminoan genocide, Palpatine managed to use Rampart’s exposure as a way to show the Senate that a need to move away from Clone troopers was necessary, garnering enough support for the bill to pass.
