***14 December 2004 –Execution

 

I saw on the Holonet that somebody was going to be executed by the Empire tonight. I went there and arrived I recognized the little rodian that was chased by Jabba’s bounty hunter a while ago. I have met him more times, I think he was a little thug but he has never acted rude to me. It is a pity that I haven’t got to know this rodian, and now he is going to be killed. As usual the Imperials make a show of it, with a lot of stormtroopers and such, and an Imperial officer gives some speech that is very vague. The rodian called Groobah has done a lot of criminal actions, and he is a rebel. A rebel? Was he a rebel? It could be, or not. The Imperials seem to call a lot of thugs rebels, terrorists. I wonder what really happened. Some troopers push us back in a rude way. Some of us, including me, question death penalty aloud. Maybe Groobah was a killer (?) but the Empire is killing too. How can you solve violence with violence, and take the life of somebody that.. what has he done? I meet more fellow Alliance members and we watch the poor rodian, in underpants, in the middle of the night. I hope one day the terror of this evil and corrupt government will end, that civilians won't have to fear their own government anymore. They are making us scared, that is what they are doing. This is one of the reasons why I decided to join the Alliance.

This has to end someday!

 

 

Groobah managed to run away, I allowed myself to cheer a little bit but not too much, because troopers where standing in front of us, ready to beat us up, arrest, or shoot us if we did something wrong. Never show too much what you really think or feel, always act enough so that they won’t put their attention too much at you. Well I haven’t managed this tonight, and suffered the consequences. It was bad, they captured Groobah again and executed him. Then the police started to push us back more and more. We were pushed towards the medcentre, but they didn’t say any reason. I just wanted to know, and then they started to beat me up, push me on the ground and cuff me. Were they arresting me because of this?!? There was that man in the weird green dress, he said that he was the mayor. And he said ‘I heard you saying anti-Imperial things, you won’t get out of this easily’. I remember the man from a Holotv picture and from those leaflets that hung on some walls in the city. It is the new city mayor, and he has started a new anti-crime policy: zero tolerance. Will I be the next person, will be the next zero-tolerance example? I was very angry and asked him why he was on the streets, he said himself that it was so dangerous but he dared to walk on the streets now, why wasn’t he in his big villa surrounded by a squadron of stormtroopers to keep him safe, the place where politicians like him belong? Then a bomb exploded, some of the cops fell down on the street, wounded. My ears were peeping and my head hurt even more. Who had done this? The cops were dragged into the medcentre and then some blue Twi’lek walked towards me, shot my cuffs and whispered ‘run!’. So I did.

I hid somewhere when I met her, she told me that the cops are after us. Then Kalendric and Sedo (from the Alliance too) came and they told us that the cops were coming. The Twi’lek and I shot him in the chase and then we bumped into the mayor, and in a rush I pointed my pistol at him. I realized what power we have when we take him hostage. We could even kill the man.. The Twi’lek seemed to be very angry at him. She told me that the leaflet that was spread a while ago told the truth. I wondered if she knew that I had spread them, or maybe she just told me this because I didn’t appear to be very Empire-loving myself to her. I thought for a few seconds, Kalendric shook his head at me ‘let him go’. If we really would take him hostage, then we would act like terrorists, and it would be bad for us, for the image of us rebels. They are already doing their best to make the Alliance unpopular. We would accomplish nothing by doing this, so I lowered my pistol and told the Twi’lek to do the same. And we continued our flight, and managed to make it to Eisley. There we met Kalendric and Sedo again. Kalendric was very angry at me, but well at one side he was right.. but on the other hand, we haven’t done anything lately with the Specforce company. There seems to be some leadership crisis. But I don’t want to keep myself quiet anymore, I want to do things again. I have waited long enough.. and the only thing that I have done wrong was questioning the behavior of the police. Sometimes it is very, very difficult to keep up my acting, if I’m really pissed. I was really pissed tonight.

 

The Twi’lek introduced herself as O’lis and we introduced ourselves. After a while conversing we told her that we are members of the rebel Alliance.

I have to hide myself now, and they arranged a little hotel where I can stay for this night. Tomorrow I will return to Azaki base. And again I have a new haircut now, this time it is red.