//AUDITORY SYSTEMS OFFLINE... REPAIRING
//DATA RECEIVED... DECODING
//BEGINNING TEST PLAYBACK...
//[IDS CORRUPTED - MANUAL CONFIRMATION REQUIRED]: We can't hold this line forever... The Rebels are too dug in... GNK-P33K, Peek. I'll call you Peek... Dorn, are you there... Aurek... I'll find you a medic...
//PLAYBACK COMPLETE - FILES CORRUPTED... MANUAL INPUT REQUIRED
//AUDITORY SYSTEM REPAIR... COMPLETE
"...Peek? Peek, are you there?"
//VISUAL SENSORS... CORRUPTED
//VOICE RECOGNITION... IDENTITY CONFIRMED
//QUERY: What's happening?
"Peek, listen to me. We need to slip away. Get somewhere safe. This planet doesn't have much time left and you're too important to lose."
//QUERY: Yes, but why? What happened?
"I know this is all abrupt, but you have all the memories. All of them. Of all of us. We need to get you out of here."
//NERVOUS QUERY: Where is my master?
"I... Peek, we need to go."
//STATEMENT: I cannot leave without my Master.
"No time."
//ERROR: NO TRACTION DETECTED... LOWER ELEVATION & REQUEST ASSISTANCE
"Sorry, little guy..."
//MANUAL SHUTDOWN COMMENCING... POWERING DOWN. . .
"I'll wake you once we're off this rock. I want to know what happened from his point of view."
//POWERI N G... D... O... W... N....
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//MANUAL START-UP... ENGAGED
//AUDITORY SENSORS... ONLINE
//VISUAL SENSORS... CORRUPTED
"Peek, you there?"
//VOICE RECOGNITION... IDENTITY CONFIRMED
"I need you to play it back for me."
//QUERY: Which part would you like played back?
"All of it, Peek. Start with the earliest piece you were given and walk me all the way through."
//CONFIRMATION: Beginning with LOG-00?
"Yes. Start there. I want to hear it all."
//PLAYBACK... COMMENCED
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Buckets: A Star Wars Story
Fanfiction-Part I of "Heart of Empire, Heart of Rebellion" Series- TK-65780 has been an Imperial stormtrooper for so long that he's forgotten any other name he ever had. An orphan from Corellia, the Imperial military was his way out and he never once looked...
