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	In addition to information about the training regimen of ARCs, The Cestus Deception is notable for also providing training statistics.  “Nate” states that in his batch 12 out of 1,000 were picked for ARC training.  As ARCs are genetically different from standard clone troopers (Clone Wars: The Defense of Kamino; Republic Commando: Hard Contact) it is unlikely the remainder were sent for conventional infantry training.  But as the Kaminoan’s quality standards did not allow for such waste (Attack of the Clones Visual Dictionary), it is also unlikely were they destroyed.  One possibility is that Jango trained the 12 specifically, and others trained the rest of the batch as was similarly proposed above.  In this case this interpretation would contradict other sources though (Guide to the Grand Army of the Republic; Geonosis and the Outer Rim Worlds), as they say only 100 Alpha series ARCs were produced, and “Nate” is an Alpha series ARC – thus a difference of 900 between the sources.  A better solution could be that they were trained as Clone Commandos; it is known that available and acceptable personnel were trained as such (Republic Commando: Triple Zero).  If this is the case and this ratio, along with the above rationalization holds true, then the total number of Clone Commandos would be at least 100 million.  This is not necessarily the maximum however, the alphanumeric designation first run clone commandos use allows for over 2 billion unique ID codes.  As later produced clones have longer designations with more characters in them (Jedi Trial) this may serve as an accurate indication of the production run for Clone Commandos. While this covers the initial strength of the Special Forces branch of the Grand Army of the Republic, the conventional infantry, cavalry, armor, artillery, air force and naval branches are unknown.  The latter two are more difficult to estimate then the others due to the significant presence of non-clones in them.  While see a great number of personnel in clone trooper gear on ships and in fighters, and while The New Essential Chronology and Revenge of the Sith have clones serving there, it does not mean that everyone in clone trooper armor is a clone.  Wearing that armor itself, particularly in space combat, is extremely practical.   It is vacuum rated so a loss of atmosphere will not impede combat or damage control operations, and the armor itself provides good shielding from the radiation flux that personnel would be exposed to from engine exhaust or nearby warhead detonations.  However, since the strength of the Republic Navy and Starfighter Corps should be close to what the Confederacy can field, even if clones make up only a few percent of the over a billion starfighter pilots (The Story of General Grievous: Lord of War) and the thousands of spacemen on the millions of ships (Revenge of the Sith Incredible Cross Sections) then there must be tens of billions of clones serving in space combat forces.  These would steadily be rotated out as more volunteers and conscripts came to the Grand Army of the Republic. This leaves only the ground combat forces.  As detailed in the Defense and Offense sections, we routinely see hundreds of thousands of clone troopers assigned to assault small targets, which matches the millions used to capture whole worlds.  As this was occurring on “thousands of star systems” (George Lucas in the opening of Shatterpoint) it translates to several billion clone troopers conducting active operations across the galaxy.  But this pales in comparison to the numbers stationed on worlds to protect them at the end of the war.  Coruscant had clones acting as police (Labyrinth of Evil), and the results of the Systems Governance Decree assigned individual governors to each and every system in the Republic with regiments for their “protection”. (Revenge of the Sith novel)  Both of these actions took place at a time when the Republic forces were stretched thin to the point they were being pushed out of system after system (Revenge of the Sith novel) and would require over 1 trillion troops.  With a conservative population of one trillion and a 50:1 enforcement to civilian ratio Coruscant would have 20 billion troops patrolling it.  With a minimum of 6,002 sectors (see Galactic Republic Territory) and an average of 40,000 inhabited systems per sector (extrapolated from the figures given in the Attack of the Clones Incredible Cross Sections) and only two regiments assigned to each governor, the Systems Governance Decree would require 1.1 trillion troops (1.6 trillion counting the command and support staff).  Two regiments is conservative, as The Imperial Soucebook states “divisions were commonly commanded by planetary governors” indicating that this should be the figure used instead.  This would bring the total to 4.4 trillion (6.4 trillion when one counts the command and support staff).  This is at a time when the Republic has been on the defensive, and the war is said to be escalating.  That they could so casually be assigned to these tasks with the Jedi Council not even raising an eyebrow when months before they were so tightly stretched that 200,000 troops was significant (Labyrinth of Evil) suggests that the Republic has since received another delivery of clones and they now represent only a few percent of the total forces or less.  This in turn suggests that the total army has to be in at least the hundreds of trillions to low quadrillions.
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