Author Topic: I Am - Diary of a Clonetrooper (Updated 11/24/09)
JespisGrabecca  117 posts
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Date Posted: 8/19 5:09pm Subject: I Am - Diary of a Clonetrooper (Updated 8/19/09)
Okay, this is an awesome diary! I am a Jedi fan, as I can observe that many that read this are not, but I also like looking at the clone side of the story. It's cool to see them as humans, not organic machines. I have also been reading Republic Commando, which has also helped me.

Keep up the good work!

~Jespis

 

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CT-770492A3  140 posts
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Date Posted: 8/19 6:04pm Subject: I Am - Diary of a Clonetrooper (Updated 8/19/09)
Inspection today. I don't understand why we have an inspection once a month. My brothers are dying on a battle field and you want to make sure my armor is polished and I have my hair cropped nice and short.
There's the military for you.

All of the brothers I've helped or carried back to a waiting medic or to their grave.
Or both. tired

I passed, along with my team. They never really do anything to us when we don't pass. Here we are in a middle of a war we can't win, what else could they do to us?
Um... worried

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Date Posted: 8/19 6:24pm Subject: I Am - Diary of a Clonetrooper (Updated 8/19/09)
Inspection today. I don't understand why we have an inspection once a month. My brothers are dying on a battle field and you want to make sure my armor is polished and I have my hair cropped nice and short.

That's pretty much the military. tongue

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AzureAngel2  9847 posts
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Date Posted: 8/21 4:15am Subject: I Am - Diary of a Clonetrooper (Updated 8/19/09)
Inspection today. I don't understand why we have an inspection once a month. My brothers are dying on a battle field and you want to make sure my armor is polished and I have my hair cropped nice and short.

Well, everybody needs rituals, I suppose. Not only children.

Great up-date, telling us about another shadow side of war.

 

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Date Posted: 8/22 4:21am Subject: I Am - Diary of a Clonetrooper (Updated 8/19/09)
There are so many of us to inspect.

Don't give me ideas. tongue


They never really do anything to us when we don't pass. Here we are in a middle of a war we can't win, what else could they do to us?

Keeping up appearances. I wonder who finds it more calimg, the inspectors or the inspected...

 

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Corellian_Ale  706 posts
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Date Posted: 8/25 7:23am Subject: I Am - Diary of a Clonetrooper (Updated 8/19/09)
I polished the scratches out of my armor. I didn't like it though. I want those to remind me of all the places I've been. All the danger I've been through and come out alive.

Probably some general thinking it of the psychological effect of a clone army moving from planet to planet; looking "unscratched" as they win one battle and move onto another.
*shrugs* just my 2-cents.

but at least i didn't bring it down to Lanna's level... tongue


jespis posted:
I am a Jedi fan, as I can observe that many that read this are not


Very untrue my friend. I prefer the term clone-lover/sympathizer. You can be both. happy

 

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Takianna  805 posts
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Date Posted: 8/25 10:38am Subject: I Am - Diary of a Clonetrooper (Updated 8/19/09)
JespisGrabecca posted:
Okay, this is an awesome diary! I am a Jedi fan, as I can observe that many that read this are not, but I also like looking at the clone side of the story. It's cool to see them as humans, not organic machines. I have also been reading Republic Commando, which has also helped me.

Keep up the good work!

~Jespis


Well it might surprise you, but I'm a super huge jedi fan. Love them, especially Obi-wan. I've just been blessed with a degree in history focusing on military history and I kinda get strategy and stuff. So that is why the clones come more easily to me now. I've just applied that knowledge to what they are like.

Thanks for reading!

 

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Takianna  805 posts
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Date Posted: 8/25 10:39am Subject: I Am - Diary of a Clonetrooper (Updated 8/19/09)
CT-770492A3 posted:
Inspection today. I don't understand why we have an inspection once a month. My brothers are dying on a battle field and you want to make sure my armor is polished and I have my hair cropped nice and short.
There's the military for you.

All of the brothers I've helped or carried back to a waiting medic or to their grave.
Or both. tired

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True, they really don't have their priorities in line sometimes! Thanks for reading!

 

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Takianna  805 posts
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Date Posted: 8/25 10:40am Subject: I Am - Diary of a Clonetrooper (Updated 8/19/09)
VaderLVR64 posted:


That's pretty much the military. tongue

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True. Your comments are always appreciated!

 

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Takianna  805 posts
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Date Posted: 8/25 10:41am Subject: I Am - Diary of a Clonetrooper (Updated 8/19/09)
AzureAngel2 posted:
Inspection today. I don't understand why we have an inspection once a month. My brothers are dying on a battle field and you want to make sure my armor is polished and I have my hair cropped nice and short.

Well, everybody needs rituals, I suppose. Not only children.

Great up-date, telling us about another shadow side of war.


Maybe this is the forgotten side of war. The part no one really wants to see. Thanks for commenting.

 

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Takianna  805 posts
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Date Posted: 8/25 10:42am Subject: I Am - Diary of a Clonetrooper (Updated 8/19/09)
MsLanna posted:
There are so many of us to inspect.

Don't give me ideas. tongue


They never really do anything to us when we don't pass. Here we are in a middle of a war we can't win, what else could they do to us?

Keeping up appearances. I wonder who finds it more calimg, the inspectors or the inspected...



laugh laugh laugh I'll stop giving people bad ideas! (NEVER!)

 

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Takianna  805 posts
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Date Posted: 8/25 10:44am Subject: I Am - Diary of a Clonetrooper (Updated 8/19/09)
Corellian_Ale posted:
I polished the scratches out of my armor. I didn't like it though. I want those to remind me of all the places I've been. All the danger I've been through and come out alive.

Probably some general thinking it of the psychological effect of a clone army moving from planet to planet; looking "unscratched" as they win one battle and move onto another.
*shrugs* just my 2-cents.




Your two cents are very thoughtful and full of insight. Makes them look as though they didn't even try to win. Thanks so much for the thought provoking ideas.

 

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Date Posted: 8/25 2:14pm Subject: I Am - Diary of a Clonetrooper (Updated 8/19/09)
if they keep polishing their armour, wouldn't the armour get thinner and thinner and thinner and thinner and thinner until...? just asking

great update! hmm, is that a teensy bit of Fett I see in there... no time wasting... etc. ...

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JespisGrabecca  117 posts
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Date Posted: 8/25 10:17pm Subject: I Am - Diary of a Clonetrooper (Updated 8/19/09) - Date Edited: 8/25 10:22pm (2 edits total) Edited By: JespisGrabecca
Oh blush Nevermind then (about the Jedi-semi-haters) lol laugh

Yeah, I lean more towards Jedi because I tend to act like one for the most part in RL. I'm really not knowledgable when it comes to military tactics and mentality, but I like the clones anyway.

~Jespis

 

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Takianna  805 posts
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Date Posted: 9/8 12:37pm Subject: I Am - Diary of a Clonetrooper (Updated 8/19/09)
Entry 17

Hit. I got hit. My arm. I was holding out my blaster to blast some clankers and all of a sudden, I wasn't holding it anymore. It was laying on the ground at my feet. Luckily Ki was there. He is the most medically trained of our group. He knew what to do.

There I lay, my eyes searching through the beautiful blue sky. I felt the life draining from me. I knew I wouldn't die. Ki made sure the bleeding was under control. I just wanted to sleep. He made sure I didn't sleep. Ki talked to me. We talked about things troopers never really talk about.

I feel very close to him. It's as though we were both vulnerable and now we have each other to depend on. I haven't felt this way since Seb was around. Ki has come to visit me everyday, well that is what the medical droids have said. I was suspended in bacta for a few days so I couldn't really see anyone.

Being in bacta is like being in the dacanting bottle again. Same kind of weird perception of time and space. Almost disturbing.

I'm on the mend though. I got a new arm. Don't know where it came from. I assume they keep clone spare parts around just in case we lose a limb. I should be able to return to combat in three standard weeks

 

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