"Alright men gather round!" We heard Corporal Snoops yelling from down the hall. Dogbreath, Greene, and I formed up with the rest of the squad, as the Corporal started rambling off about our next deployment. Ever since our squad was formed, he has always been the type to want to get into the fight and bore the enemy to death with procedures and regulations. Dogbreath, on the other hand was the complete opposite. He believed his reason for existing was to break rules faster than Snoops could make them. Greene was always the quiet type. He's somehow a little different from the rest of us. The Commanders have asked him dozens of times if he'd like to go to the ARC troopers, but every time he turns them down and stays with us. I cant figure him out. Now as for me, I'm CC-7250, otherwise known as "Eddie". We've fought in a total of 3 major battles since we left Kamino a couple of months ago. We're all still pretty new, and we've lost a good portion of our original battalion. Currently we're on route back to a staging area somewhere in the outer rim to bring on more troops before deploying.
"EDDIE!" I hear Snoops yelling at me, and I snap back into reality. "Yes sir?" I ask, his face inches from mine. "STOP DAYDREAMING AND PAY ATTENTION!" He yells again. "Yes sir." I say, and Snoops goes back to rambling on. As he walks back down the line, something catches my attention out of the corner of my eye. Outside the porthole, I can see us traveling in hyperspace, But somethings off about it. Just as I'm about to say something to the Corporal, the entire ship starts to shake and maneuver violently as we are seemingly ripped out of hyperspace.
After regaining our balance we all rush over and look out to see a droid fleet firing on us. "ALL HANDS BATTLE STATIONS" the PA Blasts above us, as we rush down the hall to our assigned area. Our cruiser virtually defenseless as the droid fleet quickly destroy the frigates that where escorting us to the staging area. After about five minutes of being bombarded by the enemy, another message over the PA "ALL HANDS, ABANDON SHIP". We where nowhere near the escape pods, so our best bet for evac was one of the gunships. We made a mad dash for the hanger, finding Captain Smith, and Sergeant Barqs already loading into a gunship, quickly hoping aboard and making our escape just as the ship started to implode and crash down to the surface below.
We made it all the way to the inner atmosphere of the planet before getting intercepted by a Vulture Droid. The pilots tried to outmaneuver the droid, but it took out one of the wings and we plummeted to the ground below. After crashing I stumbled out of the gunship, as I looked apon the burning wreckage of the cruiser we where just on not 15 minutes ago traveling thru hyperspace. As I stood there I heard a voice from behind me "Well, I never did like that cruiser anyway." Captain Smith said chuckling, then taking off his helmet and looking at me. "Looks like we're gonna be here a while Eddie" he said, before turning back to the gunship "Come on, lets see if anyone else made it before we go scope out the cruiser"