What happened to the clones after the Clone Wars?

**Canon** | Legends

In canon the Clone Wars lasted much longer than it's legends counterpart. The Clone Wars started in 10 BBY and ended in 24 ABY, it lasted for 34 years. In canon, Supreme Chancellor Skywalker survived the Battle of Downsend and remained Supreme Chancellor. The cloning operations on Kamino and the other hundreds of republic cloning facilities also continued. By 0 BBY, after the Battle of Downsend there were 59 billion clones in The Grand Army of The Republic and with the creations of at least 5-7 billion clones each year, by the end of The Clone Wars there were 119 billion clones in the military.

Anyways, just like Legends there were imperial remminants that the republic spent the rest of the war fighting but unlike legends, these remminants posed much more of a threat. All 1,000+ sith survivors of The Battle of Downsend allied themselves with these remminants and created their own mini sith-empires with each empire fighting for supremacy. With over a thousand known imperial remminants, the republic were definitley occupied during the rest of the war. In 16 ABY there were only a hundred of known remminants left. In 17 ABY something completely unexpected happened. The sith knew that alone they wouldn't have a chance against the Republic, but united they would prove a force to be reckoned with. All the remaining imperial remminants then united to form 'The New Sith Empire' The new sith empire would prove a huge challenge for the republic with millions, if not billions of clone casualties and over a thousand Jedi deaths.

In 23 ABY, Supreme Chancellor Skywalker managed to greatly weaken scatter the Sith Empire by killing Darth Caedus, the leader of the empire. The republic then launched a major offensive on the scattered empire and after 'The Second Sith Holoucast' that saw the deaths of over a thousand Sith it was clear that The Republic would be the victors of The Clone Wars. However there was still one major imperial remminant led by Gilad Pelleon, right-hand man to the late Grand Admiral Thrawn who died in 6 BBY. Since no sith were connected to this remminant and it didn't pose a threat to the republic, Chancellor Skywalker began peace negotiations with the fractured and extremely tiny Empire. Eventually the Treaty of Convergence was made and in 24 ABY, The Clone Wars ended after 34 tough and painful years.

After the ending of the Clone Wars, with much disagreement in the senate Chancellor Skywalker decided that the cloning operations would continue and the republic would remain a military power. He explained that there were still hundreds of sith hidden in the galaxy and he knew that eventually they would attack the Republic when it was weak, just like Sidious did with the old republic. After this this the Republic saw peace until 30 ABY when Arya's worst fears came true and the technoligial advanced Yuhzan Vong attacked The Republic. By 30 ABY the republic had over 150 billion clone troopers and billions of warships as well as personel and other ranks so at first nobody was concerned about these invaders. However, the Vong had something the Republic didn't have. The Unknown Regions. The Vong pretty much had control of the entire unknown regions which was bigger than The Core, mid and outer rim combined. The worst thing was it pretty much sorrounded the entire galaxy so the Republic were sorrounded.

The Yuhzan Vong aggresively attacked and exhausted Republic forces as the clones had to literally fight at each corner of the galaxy. And since the Vong had built up their empire for billions of years and had trillions of troops as well as far more advanced ships and technologhy than the republic. By the first year of the devestating war 78 trillion beings were dead including 10 billion clones. Chancellor Skywalker once again had to go on the front lines in complete Avatar State to push the Vong back. The second year saw a total of 156 trillion sentinent beings either dead or missing in action.

It was clear at this point to Chancellor Skywalker that the Republic would lose this war unless he opened human recruitment. With agreement from the senate, Human recruitment was allowed and in one year 50 trillion beings joined the republic military; man, woman, alien it didn't matter. All that mattered was was a win for The Republic. In the Battle of Coruscant the capitol of the republic also fell to The Vong which devestated the senators who were furious. At this point Skywalker knew, even with quintillions of soldiers the Vong would never give up. The Yuhzan Vong hated the republic because they almost killed all of their people during the old republic. Since republic forces were scattered across different galaxies at this point. Skywalker officially dissolved The Republic and united all it's forces, senators and remminants to create The Galactic Alliance. With the new government Arya completely re-writt the government. He knew most senators were greedy and power-hungry so he formed the new government as almost a dictatorship. Funny enough the Galactic Alliance was more like The old Empire in it's governing body and at this point Arya could just be considered Emperor since in this new alliance he had all the power.

After The Galactic Alliance was recognized as a legitimate government Skywalker officially opened up to peace negotiations with the Vong. It was decided the Vong would have the entirety of the unknown regions whereas The Core, Mid and outer rim were out of bounds to the Vong and vice-verca. Finally peace at last. So, the actual question, what happened to the clones?

Well we know at the end of the Yuhzan Vong war there were at least 70 trillion beings in the military. However they were all different genders and species. As far as we know the cloning facilities were not shut down and continued producing clones, however Skywalker noted in 42 ABY that the Kaminoans no longer produced pure Jango Fett DNA clones but clones of other templates as well to give more diversity in the military so the army could not be comprimised