"You know about Carida?" That was the first time somebody had known what he was talking about all day. He'd done his best to get to work and help out at HQ, but it seemed like every fifth word he'd said hadn't entirely made sense to the people there.

"Yep. Carida trains the best," he's caught between beaming and trying to remain serious. "I'm a cadet the Stormtrooper Corps training program. Just got there a few months ago." He'd been in basic for the rest of his life before that. That was where clones started to get funneled into their specialties, or got booted into the regular army. Thank the stars he'd had good enough scores not to get stuck with that.

"You're a civvie--a civilian, I mean?" You never knew, maybe this was somebody from a different clone line he'd never seen before. "Are you going to join up?"