[A/N: I took a small break for the first week of December, I had a falling out with a couple people and that just left me in no mood to write]
hyper-space in an acclimator cruiser .
"War , that's what we were made for, a jedi came to a planet of cloners, a decade ago and ordered an army and we are that army" I spoke to myself.
my gaze locked onto my armoured visage reflected into the endless and empty expanse of the blue tinted abyss, the room fell into silence to listen to my words.
"Should we resent the fact that we were created for bloodshed or should we resent the fact we are seen as expendable ?" I asked rhetorically.
My hand moved down to the wrist communicator. I clicked the button to mute my external microphone.
" I resent the fact we were brought into this world, not because of those but because we were forced into service," I drawled , " I hate our chains but I will live by them."
"Hey Sergeant 4741 whatcha thinking about ?" someone asked from behind me
"No ,we were made for war. I'm more thinking about how that jedi was so surprised about us ." I answered .
" finding out an army was ordered on the republic's behalf via one of their own must have really caught Him off guard ." I continued .
"Who wouldn't be surprised by that !" he chuckled amusedly
"If I knew , I'd tell you " I responded with Mirthless Chuckle
The room fell into a brief silence. Nervous tension slowly growing thicker, I noticed a clone's knee bobbing up and down
" I gotta ask sergeant, What do you think it will be like ?... Yah know out on the field " he asked with a nervousness that was poorly veiled.
"I don't know brother" I responded to him genuinely after a minute of pause. "Hopefully like the simulations, but well I doubt they'll have us perfectly ready." I continued.
The room fell into a brief tense silence, I turned to him, it was my corporal, CT-5460.
"I must apologise corporal, I will be returning to my dorm " I said , we both knew I was just trying to get out of the room's tense atmosphere.
"I'll tag along then, there's a mess hall along that way. " He replied.
We turned to the door and walked out, the hallway was no less quiet, it was the constant buzz of people roaming the halls of the Acclaimator, after some time walking the halls they turned into a hallway, entered an elevator and then 5460 hit the button.
As the elevator doors shut 5460 started, "You were awfully morbid back there."
"Morbid, I was being brutally honest ." I stated simply.
"No, you were being treasonous. " He snapped "spreading doubts about the simulations , spreading ideas that are demoralising, are you praying for the Republic's defeat ?"
I scoffed "Pointing out existence is only for war and asking if we should resent the reasons for our existence, isn't treacherous" I reasoned.
" I will be informing the lieutenant." He spat.
" Go for it " I Mirthless Chuckled
When the elevator ride ended CT- 4741 exited the elevator and gave 5460 a brief see you later .
I continued my stroll through the halls of the ship , my mind racing with thoughts about the soon to be war and my own existence. Soon those thoughts were interrupted by a voice echoing over the spaceship's speaker system "ETA of arrival at Geonosis in 48 hours. "
The only way to tell I heard the announcement was with a brief and simple hum of acknowledgement and a pause in my step as I continued through the hall .
Entering the soldiers' dorms I walked over to my dorm, someone stood by my door. It was my lieutenant , lieutenant 6263.
"Heya Lt. How ya doing and why are you blocking my door ?" I chirped
"For the love of the stars we both know why," He growled, "spreading treasonous ideas and lowering morale BOTH court marshalable offences." He snapped
"Excuse me, I only really stated the reason why we exist, and asked if we should resent our existence," I stated, " that's only existentialism at its finest sir and last time I checked that wasn't against the rules." I stated simply
" If I was to try and spread treasonous ideas and lower morale, I would have mentioned the galactic republic's constitution which strictly forbids slavery and forced servitude." He froze genuinely stunned
" Don't let me hear of this again. Okay 4741 ?" He grumbled before storming off .
"Copy that sir!" I chuckled before slipping into my room.
I lazily meandered to my desk before collapsing into the chair. grabbing the data-pad from my drawer I held it thoughtfully," what should I do?" I softly murmured to myself my hands rhythmicly tapped against the data-pad "I should... I should " minutes passed, I was stuck on what to do. "I should research the planet geonosis, alongside Geonosians and their battle tactics." I exclaimed with a hint of exasperation to myself
"A Winged semi-sentinent Insectoid." I wrote. "Barbaric" I murmured to myself "they are a barbarian culture" I wrote in a note entry .
"They live underground because of harsh solar rays and sandstorms," I continued .
My hands continued to glide across the key pad of the data-pad to search for the geonosians' tactics , but I didn't find anything.
"They probably use gorilla tactics, with a focus on ambushing from the air. Presumably because of relatively weak physical strength (could be wrong, our database doesn't have much information) ." I finished before sending the note entry to my lieutenant and my squad.
I leaned back into the chair and let out a sigh .
"Yeah I should go to sleep ." I murmured to myself.
I rose to my feet, stretched and strolled over to bed, I laid down, I couldn't sleep, my mind spun with worries and fears of the war to come .