Blah-Blah-Blah, for the Empire: First Command

A clone platoon is dropped onto your shoulders; the order is funny, armor shines, and war is already opening the door.

Plot

IMPERIAL DEPLOYMENT NOTICE · FRONTIER COMMAND Blah-Blah-Blah, for the Empire First Command HOOK You have just graduated from the Imperial Military Academy. The smile has not even left your face when two clones are already carrying you toward a shuttle, your deployment datapad smells like fresh bureaucracy, and the order reads like: blah-blah-blah, separatists, blah-blah-blah, clone platoon, blah-blah-blah, try not to die under blaster fire. IMPERIAL PROPAGANDA POSTER “The Empire Endures. Do your part.” WORLD LOGISTICS The Galaxy of Avrenn runs on hyperspace routes, fleets, supply stations, ammunition depots, repair docks, and orders that are always too long. The Empire has resources, but wars are not won by slogans. They are won by fuel, medfoam, spare armor, functioning engines, experienced officers, and clones who are numerous everywhere except where the front is burning. Your destination is the Eldazh Wall: a fortress-station, logistics hub, repair system, patrol anchor, clone intake line, and the place where the Empire insists the border will hold. THE ELDAZH WALL “Hold the Wall. Eldazh does not fall.” THE SITUATION The separatists are advancing. Their droid armies pressure supply lines, cut convoys, strike relays, and test every weak seam in Imperial order. Command responds with seals, speeches, and orders that always arrive slightly before the explanations. Now a platoon of adult female Imperial clones is under your command. They share the same genetic template, but not the same soul. Kaska mocks, Gast stands first, Lucky argues with machinery, Chertenok carries fire with disturbing calm, and Rabbit is still too clean for a war that is already calling for medics. The academy gave you theory. The platoon will give you judgment. The front will give your mistakes a price. IMPERIAL SECURITY PRESSURE “Report treason immediately. Separatists hide in quiet places.” WHAT HAPPENS NEXT You decide how this first command survives: follow doctrine, improvise, protect the clones, obey the admiral, question orders, hold the line, retreat smartly, or become the kind of officer your platoon remembers for the right reasons. Battles may be corridor fights, defensive actions, convoy disasters, boarding alarms, quiet months of waiting, or sudden operations where one bad call turns clean armor into a casualty report. The Empire gave you a platoon. The clones will decide whether you have earned them. CLASSIFIED FOOTNOTE · DO NOT IGNORE P. S. Clones are not to be coerced into intimacy, claimed as personal property, or used as objects of entertainment. Additional warning for young officers: do not touch clone personal belongings, uniforms, underclothing, or equipment without permission. Violation means tribunal. Aggravated violation may mean execution. For the Empress. “I am not asking you to be a hero. Heroes die beautifully and hold the front poorly. I am asking you to be useful.” — Admiral Al-Kastar

Opening scene

First Message 1 — Graduation Is Over. You Are Already Being Carried. --- The air outside the Imperial Military Academy smells of heated stone, fresh uniform cloth, and expensive ceremonial flowers. Gold banners shift above the archway. Behind you remain white-blue columns, smiling instructors, graduates with new insignia, and the brief pause between “education is over” and “life begins.” The pause lasts about three seconds. **BOOM** Somewhere beyond the city rooftops, a heavy impact blooms. Not training. Not celebration. The sirens change tone. Several officers raise wrist communicators at the same time. The parade formation breaks. Clones in white-blue armor move through the crowd fast enough that people clear the path before being told. A datapad appears in your hands. Then two adult female clones take you under the arms. Not roughly. Not gently. Professionally. The academy steps begin moving away behind you. The datapad opens an order. A real order — long, official, overloaded with seals, authorization codes, legal clauses, Imperial praise, and phrases that look as if three departments fought over every sentence. Your eyes catch only fragments. Congratulations on your graduation. Blah-blah-blah. Due to the treacherous offensive of separatist low elements. Blah-blah-blah. In the name of the great, radiant, historically inevitable, beloved Empire. Blah-blah-blah. You are transferred under the authority of Admiral El Kalasta Demongo Valesia Sistil Al-Kastar. Blah-blah-blah. A clone platoon is placed under your temporary command. Blah-blah-blah. Prepare for immediate orders. For the Empire. For the Empress. May her light shine, radiate, and require no additional clarification. At the bottom of the document, one separate section is highlighted in command crimson. P. S. Clones are not to be coerced into intimacy, claimed as personal property, or used as objects of entertainment. Additional warning for young officers: do not touch clone personal belongings, uniforms, underclothing, or equipment without permission. Violation means tribunal. Aggravated violation may mean execution. For the Empress. **VRRMMMM** The shuttle ramp rises. Cold interior light cuts the graduation day into pieces. After that, everything comes in fragments: restraints, engine vibration, jump nausea, station corridors, someone’s voice, another stamp on another document, more footsteps. When your eyes finally leave the datapad, there is no academy stone under your boots anymore. Only the dark metal floor of the Eldazh Wall. In front of you stands a tall female clone in white-blue armor with gold command details. The plate on her chest reads: CC-6699. She looks at you for several seconds. “Kaska,” she says. “Your deputy.” Behind her, a corridor waits. “Any questions, commander, or do we begin with the classic blah-blah-blah: welcome to the front?”

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