#clone trooper pilots

[dukeoftheblackstar]

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[propheticfire]

I have been so blessed with all this recent surge in talk and fic involving clone pilots. Bless you Clone Wars fandom, bless you.

[propheticfire]

I want more talk about clone trooper pilots.

Like, we get a lot of exposure to the ground troops, but there’s only a few episodes that deal with the pilots, and we don’t get a whole lot of characterization on them. Or you’ll see a big space battle with fighters exploding left and right, but it’s so impersonal. There are clones in there.

I imagine pilot culture is totally different from that of the ground troops. They don’t go planetside very often. Their lives consist of the star destroyers and their own ships and the vast expanse of space. They only cross atmo for pick-up/drop-off. Like, when Hawk gets back to the hangar after deploying Torrent Company on some godforsaken rock, what do he and his brothers talk about? Odd Ball comes to Cody’s rescue, but what does he do after he’s provided air support? Where does Warthog go when he’s not bringing the Wolfpack supplies? Do the pilots socialize with the ground troops all that often, or is it pretty separated? We see the dynamics of how ground troops function in battle; what is a clone pilot dogfight really like? There are snippets, but I want more.