
Their successors, the recruited Imperial stormtroopers, use the same armor design for decades, so why do clone troopers go through two phases of armor throughout a three-year war, and what’s the difference between the two? Different answers can be found in-universe in both canon and the original timeline, Legends (formerly known as the Expanded Universe).

Republic clone troopers are shown wearing two different sets of armor in the Star Wars prequel trilogy.
