"I'm tellin' ya Finn. Them tin cans are gonna be droppin' on our heads any minute," Rabbit spoke softly while looking through the firing port in front of him. The view was open land and his squad was defending a portion of the prefabricated defensive strong points used as a staging area for the Republic. The ground to the front was  relatively flat with slow, low undulating hills. A small copse of trees presented a slight obstacle about eight hundred meters to his one thirty. The other trooper in the defensive fighting position with him was the Z-6 Rotary Gunner, Trooper Finn. The [i]pig[/i] was currently mounted on a tripod to provide some stability when firing. It enhanced accuracy and was very deadly as it swept the flat open ground in front of them. Although Rabbit respected the lethality of the big gun, he hated being near it because it always tended to draw all the enemy fire. The droids tended to focus on the high casualty producing weapons first. It was one of their primary flaws.

"Don't sweat it, Rabbit," Finn uttered. "Those digital soldiers won't stand a chance against [i]Rosita[/i] here." Finn smiled as he patted the back of his Rotary Cannon. He had taken to calling the high velocity weapon Rosita shortly after he was assigned the weapon three months ago.

"Yea, that's what I was afraid of," Rabbit's grim tone didn 't share the enthusiasm of his squad mate. "You recall what happened to CT 7944, don't you?"

"Yea, well he asked for that, if you ask me!" 

"No one asks to die, not even a clone, Finn."

Finn and Rabbit stopped speaking. They really didn't want to think about CT 7944. He was the last trooper to carry the Rotary Cannon. He had taken out over a hundred droids with his [i]pig[/i], but then every support gun in the area unleashed their fire upon CT 7944 and his Z6 Rotary Cannon. When assigned the job of carrying the squad's big gun, a trooper also strapped on a customary bullseye.