Note 12
Master Sifo-Dyas,
While I am pleased that you and Jango Fett have addressed the issue of off-world security, that is something I may discuss with you at a later date after I have taken the time to read your and Jango Fett's letters in greater detail.
The purpose of this notice is to inform you that the first batch of clones have emerged. That includes Jango Fett's son, who has been grown separately from the others so as to make certain he doesn't undergo acclerated growth treatment by mistake. Based on our medical database, his son and the clones are perfectly healthy. In fact, we have taken medical readings of him and are using them as a standard upon which to evaluate the other clones to ensure that they have developed correctly.
I have already informed Jango Fett of this latest development. I should also inform both of you that we will begin the accelerated growth treatment in two weeks time. This will allow us time to make cetain that all the other clones meet the standards established by Jango Fett's son. We have invited Jango Fett to act as an "on-site" evaluator to make certain that the clones are in fact healthy. Regardless of whether or not he decides to accept our invitation, we will proceed with our evaluation.
The two-week time frame will also allow us to detect any potential defects in a clone that might impact on the accelerated growth treatment. Though we have perfected our cloning processes over the centuries, there have been occasions, despite all our meticulous efforts, where a flaw was detected in the finished clone. On such instances, we were forced to start over from the very beginning. While this has happened on a very rare basis, it has happened often enough that we cannot simply ignore the possibility of it occurring whenever we perform our work. The odds of this happening are in fact less than the odds of a citizen in the galaxy being allergic to the medicine bacta. Nevertheless, considering the importance of this operation, I think the two-week time frame will be acceptable.
In fact, when I indicated the length of time it would take to complete your army, I included evaluation periods such as this one and allocated additional time that would be needed should we need to replace any defective clones. I have applied the probability of a clone being defective to the size of your order, and I have found that at most a few dozen of the clones could emerge defective. While the evaluation periods cannot be shortened, it is with hope that my estimates are grossly overestimated and that none of the clones would emerge defective. In that case, we would be able to proceed and actually complete the order ahead of schedule. How far ahead of schedule that might be, we cannot say, but the effect would be cumulative.
In any event, I shall contact you again in two weeks time to inform you the results of our evaluation and to notify you when we begin the accelerated growth treatment.
Lama
Su,
Prime Minster
Kamino
