I found that one split second of inexplicable incompetence in an otherwise impressive career could spark a chain of events that results in an entire change of government…and my subsequent dismissal...
My confidence shattered, I hit the bottle pretty hard and my wife ended up filing for divorce…she took the kids and left me…homeless and broke…

Here's what happened...

I used to work for the local forces a long time ago; and with my regular duties I had been briefed on two possible fugitives in my area. If I found them on my patrol, my job was to apprehend them – simple as that. Their arrest could lead to the promotion my family and I had been longing for.

So I couldn’t believe my luck when I thought I spotted them driving up to the simple road block we had set up.

There they were. RIGHT THERE in front of me - looking identical to the ones in the briefing. Spitting.Fucking.Image. Nailed on positive ID…or so I first thought.

My remit was simple. It was almost too easy…Yet as I started my interrogation, I was interrupted mid arrest by some old codger who starts blithering on…and before I knew what was happening I was racked with doubt and I let them escape!

I later discovered, much to my cost – that I should have gone with my first instinct...because it turned out they actually WERE the droids I was looking for.

Nobody thinks how the ‘normal’ people are affected by these small twists of fate.
( Pooflake braces for an onslaught..., Thu 13 Nov 2008, 10:06, 9 replies)

Never mind you
what about those poor contractor sods on the second Death Star?!?!?!!?
(Fuckarma was masturbating into your handbag, Thu 13 Nov 2008, 10:07, closed)

who cares?
... anyone building a weapon of mass destruction, especially one for a repressive regime, is a fair target during a guerrilla action.
(haberman is singing in the changes, Thu 13 Nov 2008, 10:56, closed)

Yes
but a man has to do a job? were these guys just supposed to turn down good work?
(Fuckarma was masturbating into your handbag, Thu 13 Nov 2008, 11:11, closed)

I dunno -
ask somebody German.
(haberman is singing in the changes, Thu 13 Nov 2008, 13:29, closed)

Oooh!
I missed the bit in my history lessons where ze Germans built a Death Star!

Chill out, it was only a film!
(Fuckarma was masturbating into your handbag, Thu 13 Nov 2008, 13:51, closed)

So
it's a choice between "Don't feed my kids anything this month other than scraps of boiled carpet" and "Work on the Death Star serving coffee to the lighting-system electricians", "Fly civillian transport so contractors can get home to see their families" or something similarly mundane.

Which would you go for?

And given that it was small-moon sized that implies a bloody huge crew- let alone the civillians on board. Same with the Super Star Destroyer. Most of who wouldn't have been high-ups- just normal boring console jockeys. And you cheer the rebels as they use force to kill all these people just for wanting to have a decent job. What actual GOOD did you ever see the rebels do? None. They just killed thousands - probably tens of thousands- of people in a vain attempt to stick it to Luke's Daddy.
( uberdeity Wondered why Owen Lars knew of the term "hell" on, Thu 13 Nov 2008, 11:46, closed)

Heh
Clerks, ace film!
(Fuckarma was masturbating into your handbag, Thu 13 Nov 2008, 12:17, closed)

indeed!
*Looks furtively about*
*torrents*
( uberdeity Wondered why Owen Lars knew of the term "hell" on, Thu 13 Nov 2008, 12:22, closed)

This^
Is very Austin Powers. No-one thinks about the family of a henchman...
( Rookie You'll have to speak up, I'm wearing a towel, Thu 13 Nov 2008, 12:01, closed)