(Comments welcomed and encouraged)

The shot changed my life. There's no two ways about it. From the moment before it, and the moment I pulled that trigger I was a different person.

Icy winds and a terrible battle on a frozen world known as Hoth and suddenly I'm seeing things in a whole new way.

Since then I've viewed life differently. I started thinking, probably a lot more then I should have. Things in the galaxy suddenly started to make a lot less sense.

I was a Trooper of the Imperial Corps. But more then that, I was a Scout Trooper. An accomplished marksmen, able to operate in more environments other soldiers dread. Proudly enforcing the Empires laws and projecting its power across the stars.

Yet all that I was shook so terribly. So much so that I felt like a different person when I left that icy hell known as Hoth.

I'm known as SJ-481….. though my platoon calls me S-man….

But to me, I'm not really either of those.

I identify myself by Rannik Dalgus… my birth name

And I was born

After the Shot