The Great Military and Armed Clone Forces, better known as the Great Clone Forces, or simply called the Clone Forces, was the successor to the Grand Army of the Republic founded by Exhart Wyan Martineus in 50 ABY and officiated by the Galactic Republic two years later. Now led by a group of master cloners and expert biologists compiled as the Cloning Department, the Clone Forces was fully put to use during the devastative galactic conflict known as the Second Clone Wars.