Mix Raphael, Miner

My name is Raphael, Mix Raphael, and I'm a humble miner. I am also a former clone trooper. I fought in several battles in the Clone Wars, until the Battle of Hypori, when all the clone forces were totally destroyed. No one knew it, but of all the troops, I was the lone survivor. When the dreaded General Grievous went to kill the Jedi Generals that had survived the battle, I knew that I couldn't help them by myself, so I fled. It still gives me nightmares from time to time.

Watching the way Grievous decimated my men, and the way the Jedi unquestioningly left me for dead, that made me feel like the war was futile, that there was nothing good to be gotten out of it.

Fortunately, I have found myself a new way to live: to choose not to kill for a living. I have become a miner here on Mygeeto, and I work in the dark mines, where the air is surprisingly crisp, digging for gemstones, crystals, limestone, and rock salt for the various purposes the Mygeetians use their rich supply of jewelry and stones. It's dark work, of course, but I get paid handsomely for it, (in Mygeetian currency), and it's rewarding in that I have now been promoted to project manager of our operations. And I have the best-looking apron and hardhat a miner like me could have.

And while I don't exactly have a family, like Cut does, I do have a new wife, a human woman named Luce. She is very supportive of me, and I am very supportive of her in return. Luce has a nice, simple log house up in the mountains, only about twenty miles from the usual mining site, and we've made it a home. She's good both at earning a living, and as a homemaker, and our house is splendidly attractive to look at. And even though the war has found its way out here, we (hopefully) live far away from where the bulk of the fighting is taking place, and is going to take place. We live in relative peace for now, and I intend to keep it that way for as long as possible, so we can live lives of peace and harmony.

I hope some other clones can consider some hard-working jobs like mining, that require sweat and grime, but pay off well in terms of rewards.