When a Pantser Starts Plotting
How does someone who normally isn’t into plotting plot out a book?
I have an idea.
After watching The Clone Wars (finally) I had an intriguing thought. What if you have created hundreds of thousands of warrior clones — and then your war ends? What becomes of them? They were purpose-built to fight a war.
Once upon a time, when I first saw Star Wars as a kid, the mention by Obi-Wan of the clone wars in which he and Anakin served brought up images in my mind of massive armies made entirely of clones duking it out — or taking on non-clones. What it became in Star Wars canon — clones vs droids — wasn’t where I thought it would go.
Okay, so I have this idea now from my youth of two armies of clones battling one another. So that would imply that two governments created clone warriors to fight a war. But now you have the problem of — war over, what do the warriors do and become?
Hence, my idea. This is NOT Star Wars or based on Star Wars, just FYI.
The war ended a decade ago — leaving behind hundreds of thousands of clone soldiers (different clone “template” people were used to get infantry versus pilots and other specializations). The remaining clones have become a new intergalactic underclass with little to no support…
