However, as the Clone Wars progressed, some troopers customized their armor to show their individuality- an examples of this is Captain Rex modifying his armor with blue paint and a unique pauldron. The austere sensibilities of Kaminoan society resulted in the blindingly pristine white state of each set of armor, although command units originally had stripes of different colors, depending on their rank (yellow meaning commander, red meaning captain, blue meaning lieutenant, and green meaning sergeant).
It loosely resembled Mandalorian shock trooper armor. Because the armor would be used by an army of physically identical clones, only one size was needed. With some design assistance from Jango Fett, the basic armor design became composed of twenty form-fitting plates of lightweight plastoid-alloy composite, sealed to a black bodysuit and weighed just under forty kilograms. Phase I clone trooper armor was the armor worn by early clone troopers of the Grand Army of the Republic during the Clone Wars.Ĭlone troopers in standard Phase I armor.
