Flash pumping

Flash pumping or flash-pumping, also called flash-teaching or flash-learning was a technique developed by Spaarti Creations and later adopted by Arkanian Microtechnologies that, unlike the Kaminoan flash training, which relied heavily on holographic simulations, was "pumping" huge amount of knowledge and memories directly into the brain of the clone late in the cloning process. This was made possible by Spaarti cloning cylinders' computer processing system that was connected directly to the cerebral cortex of developing clone.

History

In the late period of the Clone Wars, the Galactic Republic Military deployed millions of additional clone troopers, fully grown in a year by Arkanian Microtechnologies on Centax-2 with the use of Spaarti technology. Due to the new clones' extremely fast growth cycle, flash pumping was used instead of regular flash training and it composed the whole of their basic training. In combat, the Arkanian clones displayed poor marksmanship and a lack of strategy, effectively making them subpar soldiers in comparison to their Kaminoan-bred counterparts.

The remnants of the old Galactic Empire also utilized flash pumping for their clone stormtroopers, such as Grand Admiral Thrawn's clone army.

Appearances

• Imperial Commando: 501st (as flash training)
• The Last Command (First mentioned) (First identified as flash-teaching)
• The Last Command audiobook (Mentioned only)
• Dark Force Rising (First appearance)
• Dark Force Rising audiobook
• Specter of the Past (Mentioned only) (as flash-teaching)
• Specter of the Past unabridged audiobook (Mentioned only)
• Vision of the Future (Mentioned only) (First identified as flash-learning)
• Vision of the Future unabridged audiobook (Mentioned only)
• Legacy of the Force: Bloodlines (Mentioned only) (as flash-teaching)

Sources

• The Last Command Sourcebook (First identified as flash-pumping)
• The Thrawn Trilogy Sourcebook
• The Force Unleashed Campaign Guide (as flash memory)
• The Complete Star Wars Encyclopedia, Vol. I, p. 129 ("clone")
•  cloning in the Databank (content now obsolete; backup link)
• Star Wars: The Essential Guide to Warfare Author's Cut, Part 7 – The Grand Army of the Republic on StarWars.com (article) (backup link not verified!) (First identified as flash pumping)