I think the Jedi and the Clones deserve to know about the chips. That Order 66 was neither group’s fault. That the love and loyalty and protectiveness they felt for eachother was still real, and the betrayal was quite literally not by choice.
CLONE UNIT 99 (CU99) - GAUZE AND BREXPY - ON CHIPS AND CHIP HEALTH
I figured, y’know, it’d be more entertaining if we had two characters talk about everything from their perspective, than me just going on another user based dragging rant about ‘blah blah this’ and ‘blah blah that’ and ‘should have been could have been’.
Frankly, this is more interesting.
=== RECORDING START
GAUZE: So about that recording
GAUZE: Look, I get it. There's good reason to be pissed about all of it, it pisses me off too
GAUZE: But everything that Specialist-- sorry Commander-- Crosshair said has to be taken into doubt
GAUZE: He had his very mind messed with. There was a medical record and everything
GAUZE: And of course, that fuckin Tumor
BREXPY: the chip right
GAUZE: Yeah that
BREXPY: karkin longnecks chippin the entire army
BREXPY: and people just went along with it
BREXPY: they even claimed it was for our own good and that it lowers aggression
BREXPY: were soldiers what karkin agression are they talking about?
GAUZE: Hell if I know. The Clones weren't ever going to be exact copies of... of the Prime. It was obvious we weren't
GAUZE: You can't expect exact copies when you get decanted by a tube
GAUZE: But off the topic
GAUZE: What happened with Specialist-- sorry, Commander Crosshair could be filed under being drugged medically
GAUZE: Until we have his chip in our hands, we cannot take him at his word. His judgement is compromised
BREXPY: yeah
BREXPY: itd be like a drunk wandering up to a Courscant Guard and tell him you havent be drinking
BREXPY: youd still get dragged to the drunk tank for intoxication in public
BREXPY: worse if your unit sergeant caught you
BREXPY: i heard the 501st used to run their drunks through morning physical training til they vomited if they caught you
GAUZE: I don't feel pity for them. It keeps people from asking me for medical leave
GAUZE: The point is
GAUZE: Is that our dear brother was full of banthashit
GAUZE: Even the Kaminonian's most advanced medical tools left scars. Chip Removal leaves a Scar
GAUZE: Sure, a bacta patch would clean that scar up. Bacta can fuckin do amazing things. It can heal broken bones, blaster wounds, plasma wounds, burns--
GAUZE: But you CAN'T TELL ME that they put him under Batca
GAUZE: BECAUSE HE STILL HAS THAT FUCKIN ION BURN ON THE BACK OF HIS FUCKIN FACE
GAUZE: And it was still angry too! Probably from a mix of rubbing against his helmet AND NOT GETTING PROPER TREATMENT
GAUZE: THEY SHAVED HIM AND PUT A TOURNIQUET ON HIM AND CALLED IT A FUCKIN CYCLE
GAUZE: WHAT THE FUCK KIND OF FUTURE IS THE GALAXY GONNA HAVE IF DISTINGUISHED OFFICERS GET TREATED LIKE THAT, HE'S A FUCKIN COMMANDER
GAUZE: BACTA ISNT FUCKIN WOUND SELECTIVE. IT DOESNT MAGICALLY CHANGE ITS MIND. SOMEONE HAS TO APPLY IT OR ALLOWED ITS APPLICATION
GAUZE: MOTHER FUCKER
GAUZE: YOU CAN'T JUST STAND THERE AND SAY "OOOH THE EMPIRE IS THE FUTURE" WITH THAT GAPING SORE ON THE BACK OF YOUR SKULL
GAUZE: IF THAT'S THE FUTURE YOU CAN DAMN WELL KEEP IT!
BREXPY: steady there Gauze
BREXPY: lot of troopers pointed out that Clone Force 99 had raised weapons against Commander Crosshair
BREXPY: but well according to reports
BREXPY: thats exactly what Captain Rex did to CF99 when they informed him that they still had their chips
BREXPY: so it can be reasonably assumed thats why they acted as they did
BREXPY: i cant blame them
BREXPY: chip activation means death or destruction for all involved
BREXPY: and from what i gather it really did look like Crosshair was going to shoot Hunter
BREXPY: lets face it
BREXPY: you cant claim sanity and the high ground when youre still acting as nutty as you were when you lost your head to start with
BREXPY: if they had kidnapped the Commander there is a good chance that he would report to the Empire behind their backs like he did when his chip went haywire
BREXPY: it wouldve meant their executions
BREXPY: and if they stayed with the Commander it would also result in their executions or possibly worse
BREXPY: frankly its a karked up scenario
BREXPY: damned if you do damned if you dont
GAUZE: We should've been there, you know, maybe we could've stopped it...
BREXPY: or we would have contributed to the problem
BREXPY: i just hope none of them pay for this with their lives
BREXPY: its none of their faults what happened
BREXPY: yes even the Commanders decisions stupid as they were
BREXPY: until we have that chip we cannot take him as being in full control of his faculties
BREXPY: 'exploring why clones stayed with the empire' my ass
BREXPY: thats exactly what everybody has been doing since the Prequels released
GAUZE: Prequels?
BREXPY: general stitched up records of lord vaders life
BREXPY: his time as anakin skywalker are called the 'prequels' like 'prequels to lord vader' or some nonsense
BREXPY: they apparently even come with a musical number
BREXPY: anyway
BREXPY: since those there have been people trying to explore whats been up with us clones since then
BREXPY: and we already got our answer: the chip
BREXPY: that hasnt magically changed and there isnt some huge secret about it
BREXPY: its just been that damn chip
BREXPY: and even if its not the chip most of the old soldiers would stick around because like hell the empire was going to let them leave
BREXPY: you honestly think that out of all four million of us that some didnt try to walk out
BREXPY: theres been plenty who tried
BREXPY: only Cut ever got away with it
BREXPY: the biggest difference is that the Empire is honest in its decommissioning of Clones and the Republic wasnt
BREXPY: and that just means theyre obviously evil
BREXPY: but theyre just the Republic with all the shackles off
BREXPY: but yeah
BREXPY: can only hope they find a way out in the end
GAUZE: ... It did seem like Crosshair was more coherent after that Ion blast
GAUZE: I'm not far off the mark. That Chip really is like a brain tumor
GAUZE: Radiation might mess with it, though probably not kill it entirely. Chemotherapy runs on the concept of radiation killing tumors
GAUZE: Might require repeated exposure
GAUZE: But that's hoping we can also drain the rads out afterwards. He had a full face of Ion radiation, I'm shocked he's not suffering radiation poisoning
BREXPY: didnt Captain Howzer have burn scars on his face
GAUZE: Yeah... Hm, maybe that's why his Chip didn't activate. Maybe he too got a face full of Ion everything and it messed with the chip
So I’ve been thinking for a while that maybe the chips are linked to hormone regulation, that’s why the clones struggle to fight back because their hormones are manipulated for compliance and so they can’t feel that they should be outraged or angry or anything like that which makes it harder to fight. Similarly this could be how they make them grow at an accelerated rate, by controlling their hormone levels.
So maybe Echos chip is damaged, and it’s link to his hormone control is messed up. That’s how he could hear the order but not follow, and also could be why he’s so pale, because the regulation of his hormones is messed up so melanin isn’t being produced properly as long as he has the chip.
They get Echos chip out and his skin and eyes slowly go back to normal because it can start regulating itself again.
