Ordo, never fond of alcohol, stared into his glass and wondered what the Republic’s armed forces would be like if they had to recruit wholly from nonclones. Whoever had ordered the clone army had excellent foresight. But, as Fi had once said, they might have set up the whole war anyway, not that a carefully planned war looking for an excuse to start was anything remotely new in the galaxy. It was still important to find out exactly who could plan so far ahead, and so well.

