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Originally Posted by Minuteman37

At TL11 which is preferable, an army of genetically augmented Clones, or one of Droids?

How it looks depends on the setting. I expect that there would be both, but that the ratio would favor the bots.

Most droids would be of lower quality so as to be easily replaced and therefore disposable. Think of actually effective versions of the basic battle droid in the Clone Wars. There would also be a lot (swarms even) of smaller, disposable flying bots. Then there'd be better bots (more armor, better weapons, etc.) to support those and so on. Flying bots are where meat just cannot compete - especially with size.

But why biologicals? Assuming that there's an assembly line process for making them en masse, then they, too, are somewhat expendable. Biologicals do best at dealing with other biologicals. Unless there's a total war scenario where civilians simply don't matter, having some amount of empathy is useful in protecting civilians from being needlessly killed.

One other consideration is how intelligent the bots can be. If AIs tend to go rogue, then bots will be a lot less intelligent to prevent them from rising up against their masters. (Biologicals can have short lifespans to prevent the same thing from them.)