The Republic fields 1.2 million clones—less than the US military—to defend millions of planets, and even at peak war strength tops out around 6 million. When lore tries to plug the gap with billion-droid sabotages and supplementary conscripts, the math only gets messier. The real takeaway is that Star Wars fundamentally doesn't understand scale as a worldbuilding system.
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