Those WERE the droids I was looking for…

“These aren’t the droids you’re looking for.  He can go about his business.”

I can’t get those damn words out of my head.  They’ve been on a never-ending repeat cycle in my head ever since it happened; and because of my weak-minded acceptance of the old man’s claim, the Death Star is destroyed, along with a couple thousand of my fellow soldiers.  Unfortunately, one of those fatalities was not Lord Vader.  I say unfortunately because, with him still alive, my time alive is now surely very limited.  If he hasn’t already, he’s sure to figure out what happened, and he will go looking for the moron that let it happen.  And given his history, I don’t think I can exactly count on his forgiveness.

A weak-minded fool I’ll surely be called.  Maybe I am.  However, if I am, I can hardly be blamed for it, and I’m surely not alone as such in this Republic’s army.  I mean, I’m a friggin’ clone, for Christ’s sake.  I’m only as smart as the guy they cloned me from, and every Stormtrooper out there shares my weaknesses.  Lord Vader must surely know this to be logically true.  I really doubt that matters, though.  Logic doesn’t apply here.  The fact is, I’m a dead man.

That fucking old man…  Rumor has it that he also died aboard that Death Star, at the hands of Vader himself.  I wish he hadn’t, though, as I’d really like a crack at him.  Truth be told, he’s the one who has signed my death warrant, and with nothing more than a few words.  It’s because of him that I, too, shall die at the hands of Lord Vader.  The Jedi are cowards.  I mean, really – mind tricks?  Get some balls and fight me like a man.  For all their talk of being the “good guys”, it sure seems pretty cowardly and manipulative to be messing around with someone’s mind.  How is that good?  The ends justify the means, but that only applies to them?  Bullshit.  If I come across a Jedi again, I shoot first and ask questions later.

Of course, Jedi are hardly my concern right now.  No, right now a particular Sith Lord is a far greater concern.  I really only have one option: run & hide.  The question is, where do I go and what do I do?