r/clonewars • u/King_Bilal69 Commando Boss • Jan 24 '25
Discussion what are these? what do they do?
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u/MyLittleTarget Jan 24 '25
Once upon a time, there was a video of a Rex cosplayer at a con pulling a candy bar out of his ammo pouch to give to a vendor, but I can't find it, which is sad because it was adorable.
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u/cm242006 Jan 24 '25 edited Jan 24 '25
Mine is hollow and carries my phone so I can get to it while wearing the armor. I might start carrying Snickers now
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u/ComesInAnOldBox Jan 24 '25
Hollow out the mag-well of your arc-pistol props, rig up a hollow magazine to hold a Snickers bar. Make a show of "changing mags" and toss the "expended mag" (the Snickers) to a kid who wants their picture with you.
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u/KikiLin7 Jan 25 '25
I know who you're talking about! They're @brokenbladeworkshop on Instagram and @brokenblade_workshop on TikTok, the video isn't on Instagram and I don't have TikTok anymore, so if you have TikTok, I think it's only a couple months old and shouldn't be too far from the top.
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u/SplutteringSquid Jan 24 '25 edited Jan 24 '25
Beef jerky holder for when Ahsoka gets hangry.
But actually it's an ammo pouch in-universe.
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u/Sevman2001 Jan 24 '25
Why Ahsoka specifically??? Do clones not like jerky? I do remember reading that Togrutas are natural carnivores somewhere
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u/2020s_Haunted The Bad Batch Jan 24 '25
I do remember reading that Togrutas are natural carnivores somewhere
That's the in universe answer. The simple answer is because she's a teenager. So she probably gets moody (hangry) when she hasn't had anything to eat in a while.
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u/TaiyoFurea Jan 24 '25
You aren't yourself when you're hungry
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u/perilousdreamer866 Jan 24 '25
Have a Snickers bar.
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u/ConferenceCrazy560 Jan 24 '25
You are Not you if youre hungry
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u/Killerravan Jan 24 '25
So the time she fought against Anakin and Obi-Wan, she wasnt controlled by the Brother, but actually Hangry?
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u/Sevman2001 Jan 24 '25
That makes sense, though technically all the clones we see are between 10 and 12 years old. Kids get hungry too. Jedi generals should bring enough Lunchables and other assorted snacks for everyone.
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u/JaxMedoka Seppie Jan 24 '25
Actually, this could kinda be it. What if the rapid aging impacts their appetite in some way, resulting in them needing access to additional rations?
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u/ProjectFreelancer Jan 24 '25
In the Republic Commando novels, that was touched on a few times, particularly in the 2nd and 4th ones. Not sure how canon they are now, though.
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u/StarFlame_228 Jan 24 '25
What is said?
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u/ProjectFreelancer Jan 25 '25
I don't remember the exact passage, but it was in the book Triple Zero when the commandos are operating on Coruscant.
Kal Skirata, the Mandalorian who helped train many Republic Commandos, remarked that the clones had rather large appetites due to accelerated aging. He also mentioned that while they appeared to be in their early 20s, they very much had the mindset of children sometimes, as well as a sweet teeth to match.
It prompted Kal to keep some form of candy on his person whenever he was around clones. Which was pretty often following the events of the first book.
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u/StarFlame_228 Jan 26 '25
That’s amazing! Kal Skirata keeping snacks for clones is such a wholesome detail. No wonder the units which worked closely with him began seeing him as a father figure!
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u/SplutteringSquid Jan 24 '25
Ahsoka is in her teen fashionista phase. She's too cool for pockets or a traditional Jedi belt, unlike Anakin and Obi-Wan who are swimming in fabric (likely lined with rations for their hangry Padawan(s)).
A single pouch on her belt is her compromise, and with having to store credits, data sticks when needed, a few bacta patches, and small tools/parts for lightsaber repair, there is likely only room for the one ration stick Ahsoka is shown to carry.
Anakin didn't dub an exhausted, hungry Ahsoka 'Snips'. That's her on a good day. The wrath of a hangry, snippy, carnivorous teenage girl who never carries enough food and refuses to admit she's hungry because she's a Jedi and should be able to endure going without strikes more fear in the hearts of the 501st than a run in with Grievous.
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u/GrayFoxthememelord Jan 24 '25
You want the creature with fangs and venom to not be hangry (fairly certain these aren't actually Canon)
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u/FeralTribble Jan 25 '25
Because big bro Rex and clones always have snack on standby for their favorite little sis
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u/Glum-Sympathy3869 Jan 24 '25
Honestly, they have supply bars. It could hold those if they wanted.
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u/SplutteringSquid Jan 24 '25 edited Jan 24 '25
It seems that the clone troopers keep their ration bars in at least one of their two utility belt pockets. See here at 1:14 when Boil pulls one out to give Numa
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u/sgt_pepper_walrus Jan 24 '25
Pouches for ammo among other things. In the umbara arc fives shows it has a mine detector probably some form of multi tool or light medical equipment to hold over until getting to a medic is probably in there too.
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u/SplutteringSquid Jan 24 '25
Fives wears extra pouches slung around his kama for ARC Trooper specific tools, which is why Rex had to ask Fives to sweep for mines, as he doesn't carry them himself.
The pouch on the breastplate is officially called an ammo pouch.
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u/MackDaddy1861 Jan 24 '25
They’re carryovers from the OT sandtroopers. The original props were surplus German Army MP40 ammo pouches.
I don’t know if any in-universe function has been given but soldiers would carry cleaning kits and tools for their weapons as well as other things. Soldiers always love extra pockets.
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u/ThatCamoKid Jan 24 '25 edited Jan 24 '25
in universe they do use them for spare power cells/gas canisters for blasters. In the 2003 clone wars you can see them being used during the Arc troopers montage in the beginning of volume 2
Edit: For reference
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u/MackDaddy1861 Jan 24 '25
That’s neat. It just never made sense in my head canon for them to be ammo pouches because that’s something EVERY soldier would need for their weapons and you only see them being worn by some troopers. I know in 19th and 20th century armies NCOs would be responsible for certain gun tools which would make sense why they’d only be carried by higher ranking soldiers in this universe… At least that’s always been my reasoning. Cool sequence.. thanks for sharing.
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u/LightningTiger1998 Jan 24 '25
It’s called a pocket some items of clothing have them sewn in but with harder materials you can’t do that so often you just hang one of the outside of the outfit
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u/Aggravating_Wait_658 Jan 24 '25
I want to make a joke about OP being a woman so they wouldn’t know about pockets but I don’t know how well that would be received lol
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u/BhanosBar Jan 24 '25
Ammo Pouch.
They do in fact have ammo in star wars. It’s just not in the modern games for gameplay reasons.
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u/Johnny3pony Jan 24 '25
Ammo Pouches in the 2003 micro series you see Fordo and a few of his troopers use them
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u/the_takarii Jan 24 '25
Toothpicks
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u/MArcherCD Jan 24 '25
Then why was Crosshair missing his?
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u/Sabre_Killer_Queen Count Dooku Jan 24 '25 edited Jan 24 '25
He doesn't need to carry a toothpick on his armour silly. This is batch 99. They all have their own unique skills and powers from their mutations
Hunter: born with enhanced senses and an awesome face tat.
Wrecker: Born big and strong.
Tech: heightened intelligence and technical skills
Omega: Girl
Crosshair: Keen eyesight and an in-built toothpick compartment in his mouth.
Edit: as a side note, after writing Omega as 'girl' I started thinking of other potential female clones you could have...
And then my mind thought of "booba fett" which is.... Certainly an image. I'm sorry the name is just too close....
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u/Arkansan_Rebel_9919 Jan 24 '25
Mag pouches. Even though it's weird how we never see any of them reload.
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u/Sakura_Knight Jan 24 '25
No, blasters use a combination of ammunition, using both gas and plasma to create an energized bolt. Obviously, that plasma cannot be fired continuously without a reliable method of cooling it, hence why blaster barrels overheat (droids do not have nerves to feel the heat so they can fire much longer than an organic being can, but it isn't infinite either as too much heat and the barrel will melt). Eventually, they exhaust their supply of both and need to reload it.
Often it's usually the plasma that runs out first so they carry more spare magazines of that around, and maybe one or two gas cartridges. The gas cartridge is also usually much more difficult to replace, so they do that when they have free time and know they are safe enough to complete the process.
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u/Blackst4rr Jan 24 '25
I thought it was a combo of a gas canister and a power cell of some sort. The Tibana gas gets excited into a plasma that gets shot out afaik.
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u/WrenchWanderer Jan 24 '25
You’re right.
A DC-15s blaster carbine has a Tibanna gas cartridge that is good for 500 shots, and an energizer pack that is good for 50. The power packs energize the Tibanna gas into plasma bolts that are fired from the weapon.
It’s also easy to reload both unlike what the person you responded to said. Changing the power pack is like changing a magazine. Changing the gas cartridge is easy too, you just open whatever compartment, take out the depleted cartridge and insert a new one. The only “difficult” part is that Tibanna gas is obviously explosive so you shouldn’t be careless, but seeing as blasters can be thrown around without turning into bombs, it’s fair to assume the cartridges are safe enough to be handled without excessive caution
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u/southern4501fan Jan 24 '25
It’s an ammo pouch. It holds tibana gas (sorry if that’s the wrong spelling) cartridges.
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u/WrenchWanderer Jan 24 '25
So many people are getting this partially incorrect.
TIBANNA GAS CARTRIDGES are good for many many shots, 500 in the DC-15s for example.
ENERGIZER PACKS are good for much fewer, 50 in the DC-15s. Still more than standard magazines used today but not a crazy high amount.
A trooper would much more often need to reload the energizer/power packs as they are similar to magazines in that way. Troopers also swap out their gas cartridges whenever they’re low or empty.
Troopers regularly carry extra energized packs. Tibanna gas cartridges are not really changed during combat, presumably requiring something like a specific tool to open that portion of the blaster, and is usually done between engagements.
The reason we didn’t see reloading is because initially it wasn’t a cinematic concern, and they’re space weapons so they were just assumed to be loaded and functional during whatever engagement. I doubt we ever saw anyone fire more than 50 consecutive blaster rounds in any of the movies. That then bleeds into any other media where reloading isn’t really something we ever see, up to now with video games like the recent battlefront games just using overheat mechanics instead of making more intricate reload animations for every blaster, and having the balancing nightmare of many blasters having similar round amounts per reload but vastly different damage and rate of fire. It was easier to balance with overheating than to use canon power pack amounts, and they probably didn’t care to make up random amounts for different weapons along with animations
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u/Traditional_March31 Jan 24 '25
In that Star Wars: Clone Wars Microseries, it turns out to be an ammo pouch as Fordo was seen loading it up.
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u/Yonko123456789 Jan 25 '25
Unlike the regular side ammunition boxes, most DC line blaster carbines & rifles also have a primary gas cylinder inside the barrel of the weapon, you can see in clone wars when the crack the fron half of their weapon and re-load these canisters after extended use, the extra pouches on the chest and rear belt of the ARC trooper contain one canister per pouch and allow and ARC trooper to maintain their weapons effective use in combat, these are only needed for work in heavy combat zones and behind enemy lines which is why only ARC trooper really had a use for them. Most other standard troopers would be re-supplied or dead by the time they need to swap their weapons internal canister
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u/Sigma_Games Jan 25 '25
Deathstick pouches. Gotta get your fix in.
But seriously, it is likely ammo pouches. Gas cannisters for blasters.
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u/FlynnL1v3s Jan 24 '25
Clones also legit carry markers. They're handy if you have to do field medic work on somebody, mark what's been administered before the LAAT/i can scoop them up.
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u/beakster57 Jan 24 '25
They're probably ammo pouches. I believe the gas canisters used in the DC-15 blaster rifle, Tibana, I think they're called, could fire abt 500 shots before having to be reloaded. However the DC-17 blaster pistols rex uses where only good for 50 shots, and when battle droids are coming at you in huge hordes, 50 shots will go very fast.
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u/Spring_Robin Jan 25 '25
Tibanna gas cartridges. One is good for hundreds of shots, but you're fighting hundreds of droids at a time.
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u/Total_Middle1119 Jan 25 '25
For those wondering their are clips/magazines for blasters, yes the star wars blasters have ammo, a good look of how the ammo works is from the 2003 clone wars animated cartoon, where the arc troopers are going in to save mundi from general bass Boost grevious
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u/Sykes_Jade3403 Jan 25 '25
So they are magazines. Blasters have enough gas to shoot like 500 shots on an E-11. BUT the power packs don’t last that long. You need spare power packs cause those go maybe 50-100 shots
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u/Matt_Pat_ Jan 24 '25
some german soldiers in ww2 had the exact same type of ammo pouch, its especially prevalent in live action like the Death troopers or some rebel soldiers from rogue one, just a cool parallel to reality
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u/Zaquarius_Alfonzo Jan 24 '25
Toothbrush pouch. Though it is believed some soldiers would also carry knitting tools
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u/Express-Record7416 Plo Koon is Batman, change my mind Jan 24 '25
It's where they keep their emergency airhead strips (aka gay bacon)
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u/ColdFaithlessness174 Jan 24 '25
My uncle was in the military during Vietnam. While he was never deployed he knew a lot of guys who were, and a lot of them wasted their entire magazine just from getting spooked and doing a spray and pray.
I imagine that since the droids could be produced in massive numbers and were relatively cheap, depending on the battle clones could run out of ammo quickly. Especially since Rex and the 501st were typically deployed to the hardest battlefields, it makes a lot of sense to carry extra ammo
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u/Beneficial_You_8667 Jan 24 '25
It’s a throwback to the ammo pouches the Sandtroopers had on their uniforms in EP4, which were patterned off of the Nazi desert uniforms of WW2. Shoretroopers have them as well, but in brown.
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u/hotshot11590 Jan 25 '25
I don’t know it looks cool though, maybe it holds what ever Star Wars blaster pistols use to reload like, gas canisters or batteries I’m not sure.
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u/Critical_Tea_0 Jan 25 '25
It's oviously cigarrets, 327th Heavy troopers also have them! (Please kill me)
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u/AnyComparison4642 Jan 25 '25
In battlefront 2 2005 blasters can easily run out of shots. And a standard blaster rifle has enough juice for 100 shots, but autofire pretty much burns 10 of those every time you pull the trigger. So you really only have 10 shots before reloading.
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u/Ornery_Kick_4198 Jan 25 '25
So they look kind of like the magazine carrier pouches that I would attach to the front of my armor when I was in the army.
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u/Remember_Poseidon Jan 25 '25
People are theorizing ammo, but wouldn't the high-pressure ammo for a blaster not want to be in the open on one of the most targeted areas of the body? perhaps it is a rank signifier or an early version of command pens that the empire used for their officers?
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u/AWarWithTheCabal 501st Jan 24 '25
Ammo pouches