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 They say we're the same, just a clone from a lab. We have no family. We have no friends. We have only one purpose: obey. Beyond that, we are nothing. 
 
 What they mean is we're expendable, so when the pictures come of distant wars and our bodies are strewn like crumpled tissues through forests and deserts and corridors, it does not matter. Just clones from a lab. 
 
 But I am a clone from a lab. 
 
 When I was a child, I thought all children were like me; I thought everyone trained with blasters and armor while they learned writing and mathematics. I thought everyone played games that taught them how to take orders, how to survive. Mostly though, I thought everyone had faces, reflexes, intelligence, and loyalty that were the same as mine. 
 
 Because everyone did. 
 
 We were the same. 
 
 We were family. 
 
 But I am a clone from a lab. 
 
 I never had time for making friends. I never went to bars or parties. I was too busy learning about different terrain and how to fight in it. I was too busy running through foreign planets, covering my squad's back. I never made friendships because I was working to form something stronger. A unit. So that while there were many of us, we were one. The same. 
 
 But I am a clone from a lab. 
 
 They tell me I only have one purpose. They tell me to carry it out. 
 
 Now, in the forests, with blasters searing through the air, I fight with my unit. The trees are lit by the rays of death we shoot. Each shot is practiced, each movement smooth. I know exactly how my brothers will react, and they know the same of me. We go beyond friends, we go beyond family. We are one. 
 
 We are one when a blaster strikes home, when the armor cracks, when the pain smashes through the senses until there is nothing left. We are one when the soldier crumples to the ground, when the chest plate smokes, when the blood pours onto dust and rubble. We are one when one dies. 
 
 I have died a thousand times. 
 
 But it never matters. 
 
 I am a clone from a lab.
