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Cut Lawquane, Farmer

My name is Lawquane, Cut Lawquane, and I'm just a simple farmer. I am also a clone. I fought in the Battle of Geonosis, but my gunship crashed out on the dunes, and most of my team were dead or severely injured. Droids started to move through the rubble of the craft, and I knew there was no hope of saving my men, so I ran. It still haunts me.

It was the day I felt like my life had no meaning. I was just another expendable clone, waiting for my turn to be slaughtered in a war that made no sense to me.

But now I have found myself a new life, a life with meaning, and a life with something to look forward to besides a lifetime of war. I am a farmer on the planet Saleucami, in the wetlands. As a farmer, I grow crops and harvest them, and I raise farm animals such as nunas and eopies. The nunas make good roasts and sandwiches for lunch and dinner, as well as providing nutritious eggs, and the eopies provide meat, milk, and hides for my family, as well as serving as beasts of burden on the farm.

Best of all, though, like I said just now, I have a family, something almost all of my clone brothers don't have. Suu was a woman who was in need of a man in her life to help her raise her children after she lost her previous husband, and what else could I do but be gracious and loving to her? I like the fact that she can take care of herself, too, and isn't a damsel in distress when trouble comes to the farm. Our daughter, Shaeeah, and our son, Jek, are such sweet, cute young kids, and I know that they both adore me, even after I was revealed as a former clone trooper. Shaeeah seems to be especially close to me, because she said that she wants to learn how to fight when she grows up, so she can do something altruistic like the clones and the Jedi do.

After getting through to Captain Rex when he visited our farm, I think that there's some hope of more clones like me having minds of their own and deserting the army, choosing a life they want. And by the stars, I believe it's going to come true.