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 | YOUR Order 66 |
 I want you to put yourselves in the plastoid boots of a clone trooper. Be he a commander, a rough-and-ready sergeant, or a lowly infantry soldier.
Now imagine that Order 66 has come down the pike, either directly from the Emperor, or from your trusted clone commander.
Write a few lines and tell me what you would have done.
BUT-- first you have to promise you will spend no less than FIVE MINUTES day-dreaming, uninterrupted, and imagining your life as a clone, and your relationship to your clone brothers, your commanders and the Jedi Knights.
Treat this as an exercise in visualizing an experience.
Five minutes... go.... 
[hint: you don't have to cover all your bases-- just write me about the one scenario which was most interesting, as you imagined it.]
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Darth_Chick
Wonderful girl. Eithor I'm going to kill her or I'm begginning to like her (Blog Closed)
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date Posted: Nov 04, 2005 4:28 PM
If I was a commander, I think I would tell those under me what to do and let them choose. But, it would also depend on clost I was to the Jedi I was supposed to kill vs. how closw I was to the Emperor. I think I would probably just sit and watch, though. Or maybe try to hide out a Jedi in a cave or something.
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The Dark Moose
Moose Poodoo
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date Posted: Nov 04, 2005 4:29 PM
...I'd like to request more time, please. Otherwise, my clone is having a nervous breakdown.
I think it depends on how close I am to having contact with the Jedi commander as to how easy it will be to carry out the order.
If I never speak to this person, and my clone brother orders me to do it, I do it. If I work with them every day and respect them, knowing full well that my reason for existing in the first place was the Jedi, I do my duty, but a little piece of my mental well-being dies with that Jedi.
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Rive Caedo
Rive's Uncharted Settlements
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date Posted: Nov 04, 2005 4:32 PM
Depends on the number of clones with me. Just me? AHH! Traitors with lightsabers! I better shoot him in the back before he gets me!
In a group as a commander with the odds heavily on my side I might try to question them first.
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RyanKaufman
Look, sir! Zombies!
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date Posted: Nov 04, 2005 4:33 PM
Moose, you don't gotta answer for every potentiality. Pick the one that's most compelling.
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The Dark Moose
Moose Poodoo
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date Posted: Nov 04, 2005 4:34 PM
Moose, you don't gotta answer for every potentiality. Pick the one that's most compelling.
I kill, but I become...something else.
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The Dark Moose
Moose Poodoo
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date Posted: Nov 04, 2005 4:49 PM
Is it fair to ask what you would do, or are you afraid it will skew your results? :0) Maybe as an update after other people respond?
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Anakins Fury
The Chosen One
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date Posted: Nov 04, 2005 5:47 PM
Well, being as they are "clones" and are primarily programmed, I think that when they are given orders, they follow them. It's not like they are human after all, which they are not. So essentially, if I was a clone trooper, having been cloned from a human, and am programmed to do what I am instructed to do, then I would kill the jedi. Simple as that.
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xoccnodd
Unlimited Power!! ....From The Desk Of Xocc Nodd
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date Posted: Nov 04, 2005 6:06 PM
I agree with that! I like to believe that the clones were genetically programmed to do as they were told, no matter what, and I'm not sure they felt bad about it. I look at them as almost being machines, of course more sophisticated than battle droids, but there was evidence that they were programmmed to think in certain ways. I do believe there is a line somewhere, maybe in Episode II, which mentions that they could be programmed to be more obedient. I know I read or heard that somewhere!
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DarthVicomte
Vicomte's Blog Extravaganza (Now Defunct)
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date Posted: Nov 04, 2005 6:59 PM
Clones are human, for one, and in the BF2 game they do show some emotion, ans I discovered over the past few hours.
Dust flew form the pounding of boots on the ground, screams of both human and weapon origin cloud my mind, I fire, miss, and throw myself to a quiet death on a cliff far below, at peace with, and thankful for, my error.
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ywingempress
Shroud of the Dark Side
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date Posted: Nov 04, 2005 8:02 PM
I would carry out the order. I would probably feel bad afterward, but I've been trained to carry out orders without question, and it's that training that would act first. However, if it were Jedi children I was ordered to kill, that might be a step over the line. Sure, the older children weren't defenseless and had lightsabers but... they're children. I honestly don't know what I'd do in that case.
On a separate note, I am extremely bad at directed daydreaming.
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NF_Warrior
One of Falleen's own...
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date Posted: Nov 04, 2005 10:54 PM
After trying to pare my comment down to less than 750 characters and failing, I've just placed it in my own blog. Any comments are more than welcome.
As an aside, I especially like DarthVicomte's solution of throwing oneself over a cliff after missing. Quite a chuckle there
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Darth Nenya
.::THE TANGO OF JAR-JAR BINKS::.
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date Posted: Nov 04, 2005 11:08 PM
I would carry out the order, but then feel bad afterwards. I might feel so bad, I'd commit suicide. "Execute order 66" would appear on the clone's helmet and he'd be like "okaaayy." and do it. But in the end, he'd feel pretty crappy and depressed..
Order 66 is like an order the clones have to obey and carry out. It's sort of like how we all have to do certain things in our lives. This is a weird example, but i cant think of anything else, lol, but it sort of like controlling wether you're born or not. You can't control it. I think order 66 is something like that, none of the clones rebelled against it, they just did it without question. My little clone would like do that and then kill himself cause he's sad, lol. Great blog!
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Diviner525
In the Flesh
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date Posted: Nov 04, 2005 11:19 PM
I execute the order. I don't feel anything in that moment, I just react to the situation and do what is expected of me.
D525.
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Master_Kenobi17
Takin Over For Talon
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date Posted: Nov 04, 2005 11:52 PM
I'm weary of battle, and don't care. I'm a clone, and I don't have much training in the ways of morals. Without parents, how do I know what's right?
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RyanKaufman
Look, sir! Zombies!
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date Posted: Nov 05, 2005 10:54 AM
I definitely open fire alongside my buddies. Orders define our lives. We stick together, no matter what.
It's easier to betray a Jedi than betray my brothers.
But many many years later, when I'm older, calmer, and have more life experience... it bothers me to know that I helped in destroying something flawed but precious.
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General Tarfful
The Kachirho Daily Journal
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date Posted: Nov 05, 2005 1:32 PM
I kill, but I become...something else.
A dark moose as opposed to just a plain old moose?
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Only one scenario? Just one!? Aww.......
Okay, here's what I'd do: I'd go for it. I'd kill the Jedi. Imagining myself as regular ol' soldier, undyingly loyal to the Republic, if I thought the Jedi had betrayed that which I loved more than anything else, I'd absolutely kill them. Also, the Jedi don't always seem to be particularly kind and caring towards the clones, at least not right off the bat. And they're known for just kind of doing their own thing. So I would probably find it quite plausible that they had betrayed the Republic, just because of some wishy-washy "feeling" or something.
[cont.]
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General Tarfful
The Kachirho Daily Journal
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date Posted: Nov 05, 2005 1:32 PM
[cont.]
Now, if I had formed more of a bond with the Jedi, and we had some mutual respect going... well, it would be a different story. But you said choose a scenario and go with it... so I did.
Still, a couple other possibilities (I can't help myself, but I promise not to elaborate at all):
* Relay the order to a subordinate so I could avoid doing it myself (do you think Cody thought at all about that?)
* Let myself BE killed (by the Jedi, that is)
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CaptPerkeo
Storm Commandos
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date Posted: Nov 06, 2005 11:00 AM
The order comes over my comlink from the seargent.
"Initiate order 66"
I search out the nearest Jedi and gun them down in cold blood. Why? Because that is what I'm suppose to do. In war, as a soldier, you don't ask questions like why should I do this or that. There is no time! You just do what you are told to do and know that your commanders have your best interest and survival in mind.
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Nemoforce
20,000 Parsecs Across the Galaxy
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date Posted: Nov 06, 2005 6:26 PM
If I were a clonetrooper,of course I would do it. I would feel sick about it later,maybe talk to my buddies about what a FUBAR day it had been, and remember that Jedi fondly, but I would do it. The clones aren't in the decision making process of war, and as long as they have faith in those giving the orders, they will carry them out. When leaders make bad decisions on a consistent basis,officer fragging or military coups do happen, but it's not on the basis of a single order.
cont.
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Nemoforce
20,000 Parsecs Across the Galaxy
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date Posted: Nov 06, 2005 6:33 PM
While working as a veterinary technician in a humane society I saw many ordinary animal loving people learn to kill (euthanize) healthy animals because that's what the situation required. Euthanasia is a daily reality of shelter work because there are more animals than there is shelter space or homes.Within a few months a new shelter employee will have developed the defenses to euthanize an animal for no other reason than a supervisor has given them the list of which animals have to be euthanized that day.
cont.
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Nemoforce
20,000 Parsecs Across the Galaxy
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date Posted: Nov 06, 2005 6:37 PM
The person may become angry at the public for abandoning the animals, feel sick because that animal was their favorite, or drink a little too much to deal with the emotional pressure, but they still do out their job. They don't shirk from their duties so that their buddies have to do the hard work- they all share the burden.
It is common culture in humane societies that the person who is closest to the animal restrain the animal during euthanasia for the comfort of the animal. I could see the clones doing the same thing. If the Jedi had to be killed, then the clones closest to them would take the responsibility to see that it was done quickly and cleanly. Killing a being does not mean you have no respect for the life you took.
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Nemoforce
20,000 Parsecs Across the Galaxy
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date Posted: Nov 06, 2005 6:38 PM
It's also a decision making thing. The clones didn't decide the Jedi were to be killed, they only had to carry out the order. Detaching yourself by focusing on the physical action of killing is a common coping mechanism. You only think about pulling the trigger, or pushing the plunger on the syringe. You comfort yourself by the thought that someone else made the choice to kill, not you. It was going to be done, anyways, so your part is to accomplish it as quickly and humanely as possible.
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Sol Kassar
Ramblings from the Detention Center (Startled)
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date Posted: Nov 07, 2005 7:25 AM
"Execut Order 66"
Start thinking independently. Question why this order has come about in our time of victory and why, of all people, are we to assassinate our leaders, our generals - especially now, in our moment of triumph. Nothing has proven them to be traitors. Why must I comply? Of course I would be destroyed for thinking out of the box, but that's what I would do.
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The Dark Moose
Moose Poodoo
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date Posted: Nov 07, 2005 8:17 AM
I might point out, in addition to my earlier thoughts, that for some reason I'd find it far easier to kill Ki-Adi Mundy.
I mean...look at him. He's a big fivehead with a fu-man-chu stash and a gnarly goat. He deserves to die.
...sorry, just thought that might be relevent :0)
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RyanKaufman
Look, sir! Zombies!
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date Posted: Nov 07, 2005 9:28 AM
Dark Moose: I might point out, in addition to my earlier thoughts, that for some reason I'd find it far easier to kill Ki-Adi Mundy.
Ha ha ha!! Actually, yes, let me revise my earlier post. I am unable to carry out Order 66 when it comes, due to my being stuck in the brig.
Why have I been imprisoned? Because of my repeated offers to carry out a premature Order 66-- just on Ki-Adi Mundi.
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RyanKaufman
Look, sir! Zombies!
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date Posted: Nov 07, 2005 9:30 AM
Nemoforce, btw, I found your comments totally fascinating. A new spin on the O66 phenomenon, and an interesting look inside the veterinary world, too.
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bonniegrrl
Droids Just Wanna Have Fun
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date Posted: Nov 07, 2005 10:37 AM
An order is an order. If you have problems killing on demand, then you shouldn't be a solider. Not that these lads had much of a choice since they were created to kill.
But if it were me, and Ki-Adi-Mundi were at the other end of my blaster.
I think you all know what I'd do without hesitation.
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The Dark Moose
Moose Poodoo
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date Posted: Nov 07, 2005 10:40 AM
It's my personal belief that if anyone was looking for that magical boundary line between "Stormtroopers", devoid of personality, cold, utterly faceless, and Clone Troopers, similar, but full of nuance and diversity, intelligence and comradery, it would be Order 66.
Before Order 66, I think the clones enjoyed a status as heroes and indulged in what few trappings of individuality there were to have. Post-66, I think they were irrevocably and irreparably different by design. I think that's exactly when the ranks of the Stormtroopers adopted their anonymity and conformity, and all that was left was the name change and the armor upgrade. That was the final tie to their original purpose as heroes of the Republic.
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RyanKaufman
Look, sir! Zombies!
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date Posted: Nov 07, 2005 10:43 AM
Lolz, Bonnie. You rule. If the world gets taken over by zombies, you can totally be in my rag-tag pack of survivors.
Moose, I completely agree. I was trying to get at that a little bit in the CWA4 "Orders" story, using a bit of narrative compression-- the noble RC's suddenly turning into violent enforcers in front of lil' Evan's eyes.
Sorry to use all them snooty lit terms. I shall go back to talking about zombies.
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MandoSniper
Mando'ade and their toys
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date Posted: Nov 07, 2005 12:39 PM
As my RC team provides devistating pinpoint accurate fire, from multiple advantageous angles, for an assault team and their superhippie Jedi commander. I get a direct feed O66. My squad gives one another the slightest of glances not out of hesitation but out of aknowleging what about to happen and its back to business. Our scope reticles shift from droids to the vicinity of a swinging lightsaber, catching the ends of the lives of our brothers being taken from near troopers dying trying to execute the order. I get the squad ready for a simultanious volley fire with the sniper teams from the forward RC team that took the north towers a few minutes earlier.
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MandoSniper
Mando'ade and their toys
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date Posted: Nov 07, 2005 12:44 PM
Knowing how the Jedi are able to deflect and defend against multiple rounds I order me Demo guy to ready a double dose of HE (High Explosive) rounds as follow on shots to the initial volley fire. My RCs are ready. The time is right. I give the order to fire as the jedi is cutting down the last of the clone squads around him. He deflects the rounds out of the north tower position but my boys hit him center mass in the back and a split second later he is reduced to mist from the HE rounds that find their target. then our cross hairs go right back to droids..
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The Dark Moose
Moose Poodoo
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date Posted: Nov 07, 2005 8:31 PM
Why have I been imprisoned? Because of my repeated offers to carry out a premature Order 66-- just on Ki-Adi Mundi.
I can just see Commander Ryan bugging the hell out of Palpy... :0)
"Now?"
"Not yet."
"How bout now?"
"No. I contact you first. That's how it works."
"So...now?"
"No."
"Are we there yet?"
"No."
"It will be done my lord."
"What? No, I didn't..- look, give your holocom device to your lieutenant to hold."
"Ok..so...now?"
*click...dial tone...*
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Nemoforce
20,000 Parsecs Across the Galaxy
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date Posted: Nov 08, 2005 5:50 AM
Hi Ryan,
Thanks for the kind words. I was afraid I'd just sent everybody into depression with my comments.
BTW, the San Francisco SPCA is probably the finest Humane Society in the country, and I believe they have achieved their goal of 0% euthansia of adoptable animals.
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Shortty 2 hotty
An elegant weapon for a more civilized time, eh? Well, guess what? Times have changed!
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date Posted: Nov 14, 2005 9:29 AM
If i was a regular trooper, i would not hesitate with the order, after all, day after day i me and my borthers risk our lives fighting the enemies of the Republic. So when i get an order stating that the Jedi are now enemies of the Republic and have tried to overthrow Palpatine, i shoot. They are now no different from droids, trandoshians, Genosisans, etc,etc.
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K3iran
Bloggity blog blog.
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date Posted: Nov 16, 2005 4:26 PM
I shoot them. I follow the lawful order from whoever I got it and blast the Jedi. I don't know them. I've never talked to one. So I shoot them. But not with a deece, I get in a frikkin' AT-TE and blast 'em with a turbolaser. I'd like to see them survive that! (Yes, I know Obi-Wan survived that. I'd just be smarter and aim instead of shooting the ground under him like whoever tried to shoot Obi.)
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RyanKaufman
Look, sir! Zombies!
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date Posted: Nov 16, 2005 4:33 PM
Heh, K3iran...
That was just the beginning of the aiming problems which would continue to plague the stormtroopers for the rest of their service.
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Seb-X
Bet Heavily on Sebulba
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date Posted: Nov 21, 2005 10:00 PM
"Hold up men, I got to take this call...
Yes Commander? ... I see. Immediately? We're still having a hell of a time with the droids entrenched outside of town, it's all we can do to stand our ground until reinforce ...ments ...I realize that sir, but I'm going to have to pull a lot of good men from the front lines to do this properly, and will most likely loose ...I know you don't care sir, but ...I see, sir ...but ...but ...You're right sir, I don't understand this Force thing, but...oh, if we don't do it at the same time ...I see. It can't wait until *hack* we have *hack* ...have the droids on th...."
*falls down dead...Sgt. TDM picks up the comlink*
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Seb-X
Bet Heavily on Sebulba
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date Posted: Nov 21, 2005 10:01 PM
"Yes Commander? Execute Order 66...but we don't have any Nuna bird eggs to color, it won't be much of a party....oh, I see...66 is kill the Jedi, 56 is throw a birthday party ...66 it is then, we'll get on that right away, sir."
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Seb-X
Bet Heavily on Sebulba
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date Posted: Nov 21, 2005 10:03 PM
"Yes Commander? Execute Order 66...but we don't have any Nuna bird eggs to color, it won't be much of a party....oh, I see...66 is kill the Jedi, 56 is throw a birthday party ...66 it is then, we'll get on that right away, sir."
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Just A Simple Man...
Simple blogs from a Simple Man.
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date Posted: Nov 28, 2005 3:07 PM
I am a soldier of the republic, a clone trooper born and bred to fight for peace in the galaxy. When order 66 comes down I obey, gunning down the jedi leaders I've been fighting alongside for the last three years. I don't question my orders.
At least not out loud. Secretly, I wonder if there has been some mistake - I know these men and women, have seen them fight and die alongside us on countless worlds and battlefields.
I know I'm not the only one who has these thoughts, I can read them on the faces of my brothers when the battles are over, eyes downcast. Have we done the right thing? I don't know so I'll trust my orders. One thing is certain: none of us will ever discuss it for a long time.
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Joser Kyind
Joser Kyind's Jedi Holocron
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date Posted: Nov 30, 2005 1:03 PM
If I were me in this situation, I would defy the order, but you specified that we had to be clones. As a clone, I would carry out the order. The most interesting senario that I thought of invovles a rimsoo. I would be the Clone Commander. The Jedi General would have been seriously injured in a recent battle, saving my life. He probably would have said something very Jedi-like about every life being precious. When the Order came through, I would storm into the rimsoo, shoving bast doctors and wounded soldiers to get to the bacta tank on the far wall that contained the Jedi General. His eyes would pop open just as I was pulling the trigger. His look of shock and betrayal as he died would be permenantly etched into my mind.
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crazyfoot
Commander Crazyfoot
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date Posted: Dec 07, 2005 2:38 PM
Either I would of fallen to the Jedis blade or the Jedi would of fallen to my rifle.
Either way I would of kept my honor.
TO DEATH AND GLORY!
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darth hate u!
b.f .2 talk your favorite part of battle front 2
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date Posted: Jan 05, 2006 4:41 PM
pzzzzzzt, comminder bly, intiate order 66, (it will be done my lord)pzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzt
sargent tk4113 you know what to do
beeeering
beeering
(obi wan fall's off of cillf)
he's dead
how do you know? sir?
trust your weapons now get back to work, we need to get those sheilds offline
yes sir!
beeeeering
beeeering, aaaaaaaaaaaaa! go go go!
commandeir dies of his cowrdnice and betrayel to the republic be super battle droid
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darth hate u!
b.f .2 talk your favorite part of battle front 2
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date Posted: Jan 06, 2006 12:42 PM
for the EMPEROR!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! FOR OUR FALLEN BROTHERS!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! FOR PEACE & FOR RULENESS!!!!!!!!!!! NO GOING BACK! NO DIEING!!!!!!!
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Jediknigt200555
Mereel's Log
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date Posted: Jan 25, 2006 6:52 PM
"Okay, I'm a new clone in the unit. We're on Patrol with Ayla Secura(spelling?) and she just saved my live by deflecting a blaster bolt. Over the comlink comes the order-"Execute Order 66". Instinct takes over,I raise my rifle, and then I think"She just saved my life. Am Igoing to kill her for betraying the Republic when she never did anything wrong? NO!" I turn on the other clones and kill them immediatly (spelling?). Then I report that I killed her but she killed the rest of my squad. I lead her into the forest and get her into hiding after explaining everything.
If you wonder how I can kill my squad without thought,it's Because of that crucial detialat the beggining. I'M NEW!
Sorry you had to listen to my ramblings
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