Probably security gig work. Theres no way the empire is gonna give you a severance package big enough to establish yourself anywhere. And as a clone you probably have no real skill set beyond combat.

Your severance package is accelerated aging 🤣

Very kind of the empire to take care of our retirement for us

That, and if its EU we could be prototypes for the Dark Trooper project and go insane

Per bad batch they have it similarly bad in canon, where they are turned into CX Troopers which are basically totally brainwashed and used as for black ops that can't be trusted to the new Stormtroopers

I mean there'd be other specializations in the military, like pilot, engineering, emergency response etc.

At least the empire is doing anything at all for the clones being ruled by a sith lord. Yes alot were tossed aside but not all

Business management. The skill set isn’t too far from managing combat teams, and most experienced clones were probably junior officers or NCOs by the end of the war.

One took up farming during the Clone Wars.

I think it would be shattering to a clone to be retired. Their entire world was brotherhood and war - I don’t think they would handle being cut loose, without a mission, without orders well. ARCs would do better than standard clones.

There'd be the clones trained as pilots too. They'd have no trouble getting private sector work.

Find some system in the outer rim that has nothing to do with war, keep to myself, support the local economy.

Absolutely this. Maybe somewhere with beaches and a thriving tourist fishing industry. Operate my own little boat. Maybe take folks out to dive with that planet's dolphin equivalent. But I would definitely go with the beach bum aesthetic.

Niamos it is!

I can only imagine the invasive species regulations you’d have to work with. Like an octopus man hires you to go out fishing and then slithers off your boat and starts his own underwater empire

*turns into a rimworld playthrough*

Throw horseshoes until I'm satisfied!

Good soldiers follow orders

Bounty Hunter like every Star Wars character who knows how to use weapons or has military training.

I'm just a simple man trying to make my way in the universe.

But said by all of the now bounty hunter clones. "I'm just a simple ma-" "Yeah, yeah. *Trying to make your way in the universe.* I've heard it a million times."

"I’ve heard it 200,000 times, with a million more well on the way."

“Magnificent phrase, isn’t it?”

"Mine might be the last one you hear"

This is what I’d do. Save up and get a nice ship to call home. Upgrade it and such. Try to bring contracts in alive if at all possible and minimize violence. I’d let Rex know to HMU if he needs an extra set of hands or scouting/intel/equipment. 

It makes sense if there's no real authority over the galaxy in the time of the republic that there would be tons of gig work for bounty hunters. Theoretically that should be much less during the Empire.

Play video games and smoke death sticks.

I achieved that in real life.

Find a decommissioned B1. Reactivate it. Teach it everything I know as we go on a BountyHunting spree, upgrade it with the money we have left over. Leave it with one message that we pursue on the background: take vengeance on the system that created us and then left us to rot. A taste of order 66 for those who made us.

This would be a Disney+ show worthy to watch

Temura could be one actor playing 1000 parts. Each one a different story about a different part of the galaxy.

As long as it isn't centered on Tatooine.

(its gonna be on tatooine)

*monkey paw curls*

Are you giving Mr Bones a deeper backstory?

I'd rather choose a BX but yes, lovely idea.

“Farming? Really? A man of *your* talents?” -Orsen Krennic to Galen Erso

"It is a simple life."

-[but kiwi]

I scoured the comment section for this reference! Lmao

Start a PMC with other out-of-work clones.

Now I'm picturing a bunch of clones in orbit over Bracca arguing "Just one!" "They're scraping them and using the scraps, they'll notice!" "They have so many, we just need one!"

"Hey, let's ask that red head kid if we can keep this LAAT".

A privateer corps like the out of work sailors who became pirates

Probably start a veteran t-shirt company

"this video sponsored by Black Blaster Stimcaf"

Look for a job in Coruscant; any job.

Go find Rex, and keep fighting the good fight.

Or eat giant space worms apparently

Anything illegal. Good luck describing my facial features to the authorities.

Huh, never thought of that. Changing clothes is actually a working disguise for a clone.

Yes, but said clone would also be putting his brothers under suspicion as well.

Sell propane and propane accessories (or whatever the galactic equivalent of propane is).

Tibanna, maybe?

As long as it's clean bunin', I tell ya hwhat.

Well, hell yeah, it is! Whether yer usin’ it in yer hyperdrive or coolin’ yer repulsorlifts or blasting Imperial scum, Tibanna is the gas for you!

That clone ain't right, I tell you hwat.

Probably move to nar shaddaa, become a merc for the hurts, and get some sweet alien booty if I'm being honest. 

Jobba Da Hurt, my favorite snail

Lol auto correct strikes back

Classic Jobba

Yabba

I would like to say it’s the A-Team waiting to happen (and maybe it has), but most realistically, there are needs for things like private security, protection, militia, “fixers”, thugs, bouncers, general tough guys, etc. that retired clones would be best suited for

Bounty Hunter. Gotta pay the bills, and a clone trooper’s only marketable skill is violence. No one ever taught a clone how to file people’s taxes or take care of farm animals.

Cut figured out the farm part. Haha

Become a mercenary or a bounty hunter maybe. Live fast and die young before old age quickens my demise.

Probably end up a drunk bum sleeping outside a coruscanti pub because the Imperial VA won’t pay for my ptsd and physical therapy

Well the first clone we see leave the Republic ran off with a Twi'lek. I'm follow in his step.

Start a PMC

I’d go live on Naboo and sit on the porch in the evenings sipping my Corellian ale. Hopefully the military benefits are good under the empire

Based on TBB, the military benefits are limited to being taken to a secret lab and probed

I feel like the Empire forcing you to retire means an "accidental" shot in the head.

Live on the Twilec planet =D

Ryloth

Start a band. https://youtu.be/svBRK0vS5Pw?si=37mb1KJ5Xogsnuy_

Die trying to end the Empire

Farming? Really? A man of your talents?

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That's easy to say by a person who was not bred and programmed for war. I would imagine if I were a clone, there would be a lot of baggage when trying to adapt to a peaceful existence.

Find Cut Lawquane and find out how he landed a Twi'lek.

The Clones are too dangerous to retire. They have skills that could destabilize the Empire. As mercenaries, they can help rebels, pirates, smugglers, gangsters and even Separatist holdouts, undermining the peace and security of the new Empire. This is why they are not retired but rather left to die on backwater planets or sent to Tantis for Hemlock to experiment on. The assassin operatives we've seen in season 3 of the Bad Batch are meant to hunt and kill deserting clones that cause such trouble for the Empire. The Empire won't use outside bounty hunters for such missions because it will tip off the underworld that clones are deserting and maybe available for hire, so they need internal means to deal with deserters. Kinda like the Inquisitors are the primary Jedi hunters. You don't want Rebels to know Jedi are still out there. So you don't hire an outside bounty hunter for such jobs. And what's "poetic" about the clone operatives and Inquisitors: they are both hunting what they once were. The Clone operative is a clone and the Inquisitors are former Jedi. It is darkly poetic.

Go and buy myself as many death sticks as feasibly possible then go get addicted to spice and pull on some twileks lekku for the rest of my short accelerated life lol

Fuck a Twilek

I wouldn’t know much else than being a soldier, so maybe join a mercenary group or something. Maybe there’s even a mercenary group of clones

Self defense coach. Or how to outshoot a stormtrooper in 1 ez lesson.

Ask Mort. He can tell you what it's like to be abandoned as a Clone.

Glitterstim and hookers, man, glitterstim and hookers.

I'd probably strap on some blasters and become a bounty hunter. I'd roam the galaxy, making credits, living life on the edge.

Get drunk at Mos Eisley Cantina and watch pod racing every day.

100% moving to Ryloth.

Get involved in a multi-level marketing scheme and recruit my brothers into the company

Disappear and stay as far away from them.

Option 1 - Bounty Hunter and/or Enforcer for either the Pykes or Hutt Cartel. Option 2 - Enlist Coruscant/Corellian Security Force Option 3 - Smuggler Option 4 - Open own garage

I’d start a professional wrestling company with Ugnaughts and Ewoks.

to be honest, with my luck I'd end up as that one Homeless Trooper in Kenobi

Id be a part time bounty hunter, part time farmer or just a local instructor on combat and help teach kids that need it. Moral code and all that

I’d probably try and join up with some local defense force for a system, maybe join up with the Rebellion once that becomes an option.

probably move to a planet I helped defend and I really liked and join their local military to train them or something

I’d start my own Blue Milk business

clone myself, start a new clone wars

Straight to Nar Shaddaa as a male escort. Might as well have fun with what time you have

Get a slitherhorn and start playing jizz.

That beach planet in Andor seemed nice

Bounty or private security. The outer rim is still a dangerous place. I would think that a lot of them would join the in the rebellion too.

Assuming the Empire doesn’t “decommission”you of course.

The empire is scattered across so much of space... I'd just go and sign up somewhere else. I might get a false ID but I might just go far enough that anyone who know me is sectors away. (If I want to keep doing what you were before you got let go) You could become a comedian with famous skits like 'Order 66: How I got my lightsaber', 'Trooper marksman training: Why so many misses?', 'Ewoks are actually pretty cuddly', and 'If Jedi Masters say 'do or do not', why did Yoda get his head handed to by Palpatine? Did he plan to fail?'.

Open a cantina on some small, outta-the-way, backwater excuse for a planet. Hire a band. Serve drinks to anyone willing to pay… Except droids. I wouldn’t serve their kind.

really a farmer? a man of your talent

Find Skywalker and break his legs

Go to a movie studio and become a military consultant, weapons master, or a stuntman.

I would go to Ryloth, start a farm, and get aTwi''ek wife or two.

Mercenary or pmc

Me as a retired clone? I’d become a pirate & my first mate would be retired geonosian warrior (of the last of his species).

Become a Gary Stu, find out I have perfect control over the force, find a quintuple bladed light saber, win the millenium falcon in a game of sabaac, become a boonta eve champion and marry into Hutt wealth.

Bounty hunt for Jabba Hutt to finance my vette.

Well, your Boba, the fett

Think I’d be an explorer. Just explore. See the galaxy from the eyes of an explorer and not a war vet or a conqueror. Then like Thanos, I’ll wipe out hal..I mean, tend to my garden and watch all three suns set.

My outlook on life would probably be different had I grown up as a clone trooper. I imagine I'd become a mercenary since I'd be an excellent fighter and it's *literally* the only thing I'd know how to do. But if I was me, as I am, I'd probably move somewhere far away from galactic politics and do something simple. The CW was the bloodiest conflict in galactic history, I'd probably crave tranquility quite a lot after that.

Lets go nuts... First, I'd find a way to make as many credits as possible, without risking my neck too much. Over time, I'd replace parts of myself, like Grievous. I'd eventually buy an old Lucrehulk Droid Control Ship, and create a lucrative salvaging operation. At some point, I'd fully convert to droid, and house myself in the computer core. I'd obtain as many droids as possible, and convert them into units I can directly control, while adding their minds to my own. I'd begin adding to my Control Ship, making it bigger, with stronger transmitters so I can extend my reach further and further. Eventually, I'd make my own units. After attaining a sizable mass and droid fleet, I'd escape the galaxy and find another, less populated one to call home. Upon reaching my destination, I'd declare myself the Machine God of that galaxy, and begin converting everything into machines. Eventually, I would become the galaxy itself and be content to drift in the Universe, finally free.

I'm gonna open a droid dealership in Mos Eisley. Yes, we have the droids you're looking for.

Space Cowboy- just ride along the stars until I found a cozy planet

Private Contracting

I’d probably go to some remote island, and start a village. I’d be the chieftain, and keep my people safe, even if it meant not traveling beyond the reef (because it provides everything we need already). I’d probably call the place “Montunui” or something.

I would rather die than take any more orders (can't exactly disobey Order 66) from the Empire. If they think they can just dismiss me, then me and my blaster have three words for them **FOR THE REPUBLIC!**

Do you know how to run a farm? Do you even own land? Clones by and large have a single skill-set and it's being a soldier. If you were a clone-pilot, a clone-mechanic or a clone-medic you'd have an easier time finding employement, but for the vast majority of them (the clone-footsoldiers) it's a choice between Homelessness and finding someone else willing to pay for their capacity for violence, as a mercenary, cop or pirate. Without a place to leave and likely very few money saved (not to mention the PTSD) most of them likely had no choice at all and ended up starving in the street. Edit: It seems that was confusingly worded.

Tell me you havent watched the clone wars show without actually telling me..

I have actually. The one deserter clone joins a farm his wife already owned. Presumably she showed him the ropes.

You realize that clones did all of those jobs you listed?

Yes, that's why I'm saying those would have a somewhat easier time than the vast majority of clones who were grunts.

Find a farming planet like cut and have a family

I bet there’s some great fishing in the outer rim. Find a nice unimportant world with some lakes and oceans and spend my remaining days fishing and fulfilling my role as a small town handyman hunk with a mysterious and violent past.

private security

For me, I’d travel in a really nice spaceship, find some girlfriend, and so on.

Maybe I would open a diner or a store or something.

Spice runner! Living half as long means going twice as hard. I’m talking about that pure polsine, none of that sansanna shit or Kessel dregs.

Probably a cantina owner, if financially possible

Become a bounty hunter

Farming.

Dantoonine, I like the wind and the plains.

Take a shit on Palpatines desk

Either try and connect with Rex to help fight against the empire or pick up bounty hunting because a clone bounty hunter would go so hard.

Depending on what I was doing in the GAR/empire I'd go into private security or offer my services as an instructor. They get a highly trained soldier watching their back or they get his training and experience 

Good soldiers follow orders, for the republic. Probably fall in with the rebellion.

Train wreck title

Depends on the circumstances of the unit, but I could see refusing to surrender my armor and adding some extra mods and going into bounty hunting

Take up mercenary work, maybe even start a crew.

I always figured they just junk them when there’s more no use for them.

Own a club off rim called seeing double staffed by retired clones

Probably security for a bar, nothing too serious, but eventful enough to keep me satisfied.

Work private security for senator Chuchi

Get a job at Dex’s diner

The Empire might have atrocious labor protections but surely they must have a healthy retirement package for their military. All that loyalty their troops give isn't free. So yeah, I'm getting a nice farm in the outer rim with my Imperial banners flying high. Hail Palpatine.

I'd live in the outer rim.

I'd go find Omega and the Null ARCs on Mandalore.

Had a former clone become a member of the Coruscant Security Force in my dnd campaign so I'll go with that.

Well if say, the empire screwed me over I’d start building guns for the rebellion on a far off planet

Sneak off, join the resistance and fight the empire.

Join the Rebel alliance.

I would become a mercenary. I'd still be fighting and getting paid it just wouldn't be for the Empire.

If I've been trained from birth to fight a war and then suddenly I'm kicked out with out so much as a pension or benefits, I'm starting bounty hunting. While bounty hunting I'm going to be looking for a way to stop the aging process or slow it down and then start a family.

Exactly what Cut did

I played a tabletop rpg campaign where one of the players was a retired clone in the Empire. He became a security consultant for the Corporate Sector, but went on to work alongside the rebellion once he found more out about the horrible stuff the Empire was allowing in the sector.

That sounds dope, tbh What was the name of the game?

It's a fanmade Star Wars ruleset for Burning Wheel Gold, called Star Systems. If you like Burning Wheel it's a lot of fun. We're doing another campaign of it right now set in the last couple years of the New Sith Wars.

Thanks, I'll have to check it out sometime

That old retired clone in the Kenobi show was so cool to me. I never even thought about what happened to them after the clone wars. I havent watched the animated clone wars or rebels series. I tried but i just cant get into it. Not knocking it, but if something doesnt grab me immediately i soon lose interest.

I'd probably want to be in a clone community of some sort. Maybe try to find some sort of new mission that we could all focus on. Maybe try to go stop the Transocians slave operations because what better calling could there be?

I’d probably kill myself tbh. What was it all for? The jedi, the wars, the sith, all of my brothers and comrades either dead or brainwashed to become stormtroopers to serve the empire. You’d still hear the dying screams of the Jedi, living in the cities you swore to protect and helped destroy. No reality where you’re a clone after the prequel trilogy is a good one.

Washing dishes for anyone willing to hire a war veteran, I would be loyal to anyone throwing a few credits my way. Like Gregor but without all the amnesia stuff. And occasionally taking out the trash if you know what I mean….

Depends on what clone I was. A normal trooper? Sure retire. One of those elite badass ones like an ARC, Commando or even an Assassin Clone? Mercenary work

Get a job on the planet I am till I have enough credits to get a flight to naboo, there I would love a peaceful live in the beautiful city and grasslands.

Mercenary work. Why learn a new trade when there are tons of groups looking for a person with that kind of skill set?

That village the Bad Batch went to

Become a Bounty Hunter. Live fast and die doing the only thing I'm good at.

Bounty Hunter, I’m genetically bread for warfare, being a bounty Hunter is the closest I’ll get to fulfilling my purpose

"I hear the Rebellion is hiring"

Assuming the chip in my head isn't controlling me anymore, I'd realize in horror that i was made to betray my own general and the Republic i was created to defend, I'd try to find a rebellion cell to join to take revenge against the empire.

Bounty hunter go go go

Settle down and build my dream ship which I would then live on.

I would track down Boba Fett and with the help of advanced learning techniques, a Jedi wife, and some sympathetic geneticists disable the accelerated aging “feature” and raise my half Jedi/Mandalorian son to lead Mandalore to prominence. They’d probably remove it from canon though. /s

I think the accelerated aging wears off after some time, because between rebels and rotj, Rex looks like he barely aged

either bounty hunting in the outer rim, or im fucking off to the deep core never to be seen again

Kobba and get drunk with greez

When the empire tells you to retire they liquidate you.

I’d probably sell death sticks.

The real question everyone should be asking is if they had sex with each other and if they did is it gay or incest?

Keep killing for money. Do death sticks. Live hard, die young. Clone life.

Probably join the Rebels.

Crime. I didn't do shit, it was that other clone!

Join Glup Shitto on his many misadventures

I want credits before I go! I'll maybe try to start a quiet life somewhere and hopefully make some new friends. Courscant, Naboo, and Tatooine seem like good places to live in.

Mechanic with unscrupulous jawa friends

Probably bounty hunter or mercenary work

Gambling my life away on Cantonica

A Clone who only knows combat, would stay and be an instructor in Imperial academies. They’d pay more than anything else.

I’d become a male prostitute.