Ty Cilias tried not to show his nervousness as he saw the transport shuttle approaching the platform. Much like the other people waiting, he had recently graduated from the Imperial Academy on Carida and was about to embark on his career in the Empire. Ty had spent the past few months of his life training to become a Stormtrooper and now he was leaving behind familiar surroundings for some Star Destroyer he had been assigned to.
"Been assigned to Admiral Drayson's Star Destroyer, huh?" a man standing next to Ty asked and appeared to be about the same age.
"Yeah," Ty replied. "I'll be serving on the Black Hole until I get reassigned or worse."
With what happened at Yavin a few days before, he didn't want to think much about the worse.
"Same here," the man with black hair and about two feet taller than Ty replied. "My name is Jacen Westan."
"I'm Ty Cilias," Ty replied. "You're a Stormtrooper, right?"
"Yeah," Jacen replied. "Maybe we'll get to go hunting down rebels together sometime soon." Jacen laughed.
"Who knows, we might get our chances very soon," Ty said. "I'm sure Emperor Palpatine is mad about what happened to the Death Star. It's obvious he doesn't like failure, especially on a level like the destruction of his superweapon."
"I'm sure the Rebel Alliance won't last much longer," Jacen replied. "Too bad Aldeeraan had to be destroyed, though. It was pretty nice there."
Ty wished he had gotten the chance to visit Aldeeraan. Growing up on Coruscant, he had heard Aldeeraan was nothing like it. All he knew and seen of Aldeeraan was from holos. But, he supposed it didn't really matter now. Because of their sympathy to the Rebellion, Emperor Palpatine had to do what he had to do.
"I'm sure our forces will put down this rebellion soon enough," Ty said.
The transport shuttle landed on the platform and everyone shuffled aboard.