Author's note
I've had this idea in my head for a while. Figured I'd try and bring it to life. This is my first fanfiction so pardon any problems you may face when reading. Although I do make a point of using proper grammar, spelling, and punctuation. So hopefully that is all squared away for you. Please review and leave any criticisms you have. I hope this story is just as exciting on paper as it is in my head for you guys.
Enjoy
Prologue
Colonel Jon Frost POV - Cloudy, too bad. Clouds never do it justice, cleaning your gear, especially your helmet. It makes it all worthwhile seeing the sun's reflection on your helmet. The shiny inner workings of your rifle… bayonets, who uses those anymore? 71st is old fashioned, and because of that looked down on by many. Although hardly used anymore, nothing is as reliable as a good slugthrower. Not the crap ones the trandos use, but well constructed and maintained rifles and machine guns. Ammunition is a problem, to an extent. Most calibers wouldn't penetrate clone armor, hence why we use larger caliber rounds. Tends to be a bit more messy, but it ensures a kill.
Now Jedi on the other hand, well I've dealt with them before. I respect them, the individual, but not their order. I'll feel bad once we are deployed, jedi against three companies armed with slugthrowers? The force better be with them, for their sake. Men in the 71st are armed with blasters that were converted into slugthrowers. Bunsen and his DLT-19 being the biggest example, that oaf. His aim could be better, but hell that doesn't matter if you give him a thousand rounds. The remaining men wield DLT-20As, modified to hold 50 rounds, versus 30 that the blaster variant uses.
Lucky me, today I get to inspect all those 20As, it's graduation day for the men. All the big dogs will be here, watching us, their pet project… Gunrey, Tambor, Poggle, and who can forget; Dooku. Most of those "men" were completely against the thought of organics possibly replacing droids. Not surprised, considering they are just profiting off all this madness thanks to their droid factories. Dooku, now there's a man who is hard to read. One minute he seems very interested in the 71st, the next he wishes we'd all drop dead. I don't blame Bunsen for shitting on the separatist council, who could?
There isn't a single man in the 71st who would put their life or the lives of their men to save Gunrey's slimey carcass. However there isn't a man in the 71st who would betray the CIS. We all come from a background in which the Republic made out well for themselves. The rest of us were left at the mercy of pirates, slavers, or any other degenerates who had a weapon and half a brain. Now I can… we can change that. I know the war crimes the higher ups commit, but the Republic was just as bad. They didn't straight up commit crimes, but they did something just as bad. Turned a blind eye to it.
Today that changes, today there will be a unit who shows the galaxy that it isn't black and white out there on the battlefield. The Jedi will know us, the clones will know us, and the council will be damn glad they commissioned us. Starting today, the separatists will win, thanks to the 71st Confederate Infantry Battalion.