Location: Thani city outskirts
The shuttle never made it into the city. I'm not quite sure exactly what happened. One moment we were fine, if being constantly jolted around to avoid AA fire constituted such a definition, the next the shuttle was in a tail spin, spewing flame and smoke, heading straight for the ground. I didn't know about the rest of the crew, but I didn't care to make my tomb a burning crater in the ground.
I jetpacked right out of the troop bay along with a few other fellows who seemed to have the right survival instincts. Sadly, as soon as I escaped the spiraling shuttle I was at a loss for direction. The incessant spinning must have discombobulated my senses, because I couldn't tell up from down. I tumbled through the air chaotically, thinking I was going to die.
The ground rushed up to meet me and I felt a sickening crunch as I slammed into the ground, shoulder first the pain of dislocation and multiple fractures screamed through my body and then I felt a blissful nothing.
When I awoke who knew how long later, my system had apparently begun the healing process. I was feeling better, if not yet completely whole. I got to my feet, staggering slightly and glancing around with a bewildered expression behind my unremarkable green-painted armor. It stood for duty, or some such idealistic nonsense. Ironic, I suppose.
A muffled, accented voice came from nearby, gravelly and gruff. "Kept 'old of ya' rifle, eh? True vod."
Oh, dead stars. It appeared I was not the sole survivor of the crash. My armored companion started heading toward the city.
"Keep going? Alone? Shouldn't we wait here for reinforcements or something?"
He turned back, "Mando'ade never give up. Who needs reinforcements, they'll just steal our glory! OYA!"
"From our corpses, maybe," I muttered darkly, "Look, see here, can't we just wait a moment-" I started to move in the opposite direction.
"Eh," he turned back, "Where do you think you're goin'? A vod would never run from battle."
A dropship was coming closer to us. No wait, a gunship. Those were New Order markings on it! The Mandalorian raised his blaster, his stanging blaster, to open fire on the heavily armed gunship. Blaster bolts spat out into the sky. Dead stars, he was going to attract attention to us! We would both be killed! Grimacing, I raised my own rifle to my shoulder and - at a distance of two paces - sent two bolts of searing plasma straight through the gap between helmet and and chestplate, putting a gaping, charred hole through the middle of the trachea. He stumbled backward, gurgling incoherently, before falling to the ground, where he lay spasming in the throes of death.
"Sorry, chap," I muttered, "but better you than me. You would've attracted the attention of that gunship and then we'd both be dead." I sighed and sat down in the brush. Battles raged in front of me inside the city and behind, inside the prefab garrison. I? I was comfortable staying right where I was... in fact, a nap sounded pretty good about now.
I lay down in the dense brush, listening to the smoldering wreckage of my shuttle as it crackled and burned, and slowly drifted off to sleep.