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Governor's Gambit - Star Wars SI into Imperial Governor

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Morkail said:
Just gonna say it star destroyers are overrated, they should be the flagship of a massive fleet not a fleet on to them selves.

Time to kill some pirate scum, Almost as good as slaver scum, but not nearly as good as rebel scum.
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Yeah. I mean a Lucrehulk Battleship refit could flatten an ISD I or II and it was merely the anchor of a fleet with a strong escorts.
 
DiscoRed said:
Cant wait for the eventual meet up of the groups lol

Will mc be getting a harem? I know its still early into the story but im just wondering
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As of now the answer is no. I think it was stated in one of the authors notes in the earlier chapters, but there's no plans for it or lewds.

Thats (probably) why it was moved to the sfw section, so that there wouldn't be an annoying amount of asking for lewds and harems (we all know how this site can get at times).

This is a personal theory of mine. I think it was also moved here so that there wouldn't be alot of psychotic/sociopathic "suggestions" (since sfw is practically dead) that are often give for si/pragmatic/realistic/powerwank stories.

Edit: I also know its ironic that most of the prominent characters in this story are women and it not being a harem story.
 
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Fanof1 said:
As of now the answer is no. I think it was stated in one of the authors notes in the earlier chapters, but there's no plans for it or lewds.

Thats (probably) why it was moved to the sfw section, so that there wouldn't be an annoying amount of asking for lewds and harems (we all know how this site can get at times).

This is a personal theory of mine. I think it was also moved here so that there wouldn't be alot of psychotic/sociopathic "suggestions" (since sfw is practically dead) that are often give for si/pragmatic/realistic/powerwank stories.

Edit: I also know its ironic that most of the prominent characters in this story are women and it not being a harem story.
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I suppose mc is still panicking and trying not to die to be in a romantic relationship x)
 
Freefaller said:
It's around this time that I receive a call from Commander Grant, as I pull her up on my PDA I hold back my wince at seeing the blood she has yet to remove from her face.

"Before we begin, Commander, please remember to wear a face mask and other protective gear when interrogating prisoners. If that blood got in your mouth or eyes it could cause serious problems."
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OK, this is getting crazy. The MC apparently has gone full native Imperial and just ignores the fact that his subordinate is torturing people to death. Yes, they may be (or may not be) horrible people, but that's not an excuse. His only comment about it is that his subordinate should maintain hygiene? Is he now a psychopath? Because to ignore that sort of stuff and condone it, it really helps if you are a psychotic and don't have working emotions or at least a sense of empathy.

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"At this rate, we'll be seeing each other real soon." As the Nikto stood up and made for the door, Koran sent a discrete message to his team through a hidden button on his suit. The team knew that meant to get to the ship without drawing attention.
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That's a weird ship - isn't it supposed to be an old freighter? This ship looks like it is half engines - with engines of that size it seems to be more of a corvette or a blockade runner.

Freefaller said:
The creature trills.

"Oh, so you want me to drop dead of exhaustion."

A yip.

"You know that means no more BBQ treats, right?"

Mugwuffin immediately jumps down from her little bed tree and grabs the Governors sleeve, tugging him towards the door.

"Oh, so NOW you care. What a rat."

As he seemingly bickers with an animal, Darna can't help but be reminded of her own conviction.
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You are dropping into present tense again.

Freefaller said:
Hi there folks! Saw some people saying that Las's POV was good, but lacked a lot of interaction or interest. Considering that he won't be leaving the office for most of the story, since it's where he does his work, I decided that expanding on alternate characters would help flesh things out.
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That's because you are not letting the MC do anything but play SimCity or Tropico. He apparently doesn't have any relationships with anybody except for his cat and his secretary. That's pretty unhealthy - most people can't really function like that. They usually need friends and hobbies - things that they can do besides working and people they can relax with. If the MC had a life outside of his job then you would have something else to write about.

Although this does support my theory that he is a psychopath - it's possible that this is why he has no friends or even acquaintances that he could at least eat lunch/dinner with.
 
Lokabrenna said:
All the heroes turn out to be useless failures, everything they fought for and everything they built just turns to shit. Just thinking about it depresses the fuck out of me.
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I mean, Las thinking it would be like Legends is what excites me. Dude prepares like hell, paranoid about multiple conspiracies, and then the Empire dies with a whimper. He could swoop in to do so much after he gets over his shock.
 
Arrowthorne said:
Thinking of stopping posting on SV, well if you do go ahead with it then at least drop a 'Continuing this fic on XXX sites' as a courtesy.

But as someone who bounced between FFN, SV, SB, and QQ I have noticed that many fics over on SV have little to no comments. It also doesn't help that in there Writing forum they only have about 400 pages or so of fics, when compared to the near 1500 on SB and 666 on here.

SV has always been the smaller site, you also can't leave a comment or follow stories without making an account and when most authors cross post anyway... Not to mention SV is lousy with Ads.
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Wait a minute. There's 666 pages here. That means I must get out my old Star wars episode 3 on PS2 and go kill a bunch of younglings. 🙄
 
ElimGarakovsky12 said:
OK, this is getting crazy. The MC apparently has gone full native Imperial and just ignores the fact that his subordinate is torturing people to death. Yes, they may be (or may not be) horrible people, but that's not an excuse. His only comment about it is that his subordinate should maintain hygiene? Is he now a psychopath? Because to ignore that sort of stuff and condone it, it really helps if you are a psychotic and don't have working emotions or at least a sense of empathy.
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They are pirates, historically they weren't afforded any protections if they got caught and their punishments were severe.

In Star Wars they are raiders and/or slavers. They are just in it for the fun, cruelty or money. They are completely undeserving of mercy or kindness, because they likely never showed their victkms that. I don't like the Empire and it's unneccessarily harsh, but they are getting what they fucking deserve.
 
CreepyUncleLuke said:
I mean, Las thinking it would be like Legends is what excites me. Dude prepares like hell, paranoid about multiple conspiracies, and then the Empire dies with a whimper. He could swoop in to do so much after he gets over his shock.
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How do we know it's Canon and not Legends with parts of Canon tacked on?
 
Havalt300 said:
How do we know it's Canon and not Legends with parts of Canon tacked on?
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Freefaller said:
I think I mentioned this briefly in one of my authors notes in the earlier chapters, but I plan on a mix of legends and canon. While I agree that Disney canon is just kinda mid, especially with the sequel trilogy just being a remake of the OT when they could have made more interesting new plots, I think that some of the ideas and designs are cool, and I want to incorporate them. Like, if I ever get this story to a post-empire state, then I plan for having both the First Order(because I like their design) and the Empire of the Hand. Why? Cause I think at one point old palps would look at Thrawn and think 'that guy has too much power' and make a cult hideaway empire that is less logical and more Sith cultist. That's just one example, I have other plans and the like. But rest assured, it won't all be canon.
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It's looking like a blend of the 2. I'm assuming legends content will become more relevant/pronounced when the civil war truly starts, or after endor.
 
Omake-5
Omake 5

Imperial News Bulletin

Governor of Minda offers Special Bounty

In an address today, the Imperial Governor of Minda offered a Special Bounty for the capture of the "Twin Crowns" Pirate Group's Lucrehulk. In exchange for the ship, he has authorized the granting of an Imperial Remit. Said Imperial Remit will authorize the acknowledgment of existing Beskar ownership sufficient to armor 2,500 Mandolorians infantry armor. Those Mandolorians who have not yet had a chance to declare their beskar ownership to Imperial Forces will instead be granted ownership of their current beskar armor in place of any beskar being paid out of Imperial reserves, while supply lasts. Additional payments are available for each ship captured above a Frigate weight class.

End of Imperial News Bulletin


20 days after first Imperial News broadcast about the bounty.

Imperial Sensor operator, "Commodore, sensors are reading a massive fleet exiting hyperspace. Sensors confirm the Lucrehulk is with the fleet. We are still trying to get an accurate count but it looks like over 18,600 vessels!"

Comms officer, "Commodore, we are being hailed."

Commodore, "Open channel."

"This is Kel of the Mandolorian Bounty Hunter's association. We are here to turn in our bounty. We have captured the Lucrehulk intact and another 300 vessels engaged in pirate operations. We expect acknowledgement by the Imperial governor of our ownership of the beskar currently in our possession."

Governor, "Well this worked a bit too well. But an agreement is an agreement. Be aware that I can only guarantee this acknowledgement will be followed within my own domain. How many beskar suits are you declaring?"

Kel, "52,450,500 armor suits with beskar portions, and another 345,000 tons of beskar ignots."

Governor, "The current ships delivered will only cover acknowledgement of 28,500 suits. Would you care to work out a payment plan for acknowledgement of the rest? I accept ships and vehicles in good condition, especially those from pirate and slavers, along with their heads."

Kel, "Governor, I believe this is the beginning of a wonderful relationship."

Thus the founding of New Mandalor occurred on the death world in the Minda system. It would come to pass that over time the governor would go onto greater postings but his influence would remain. This is especially true with New Manadalor and the Mandalorian Bounty Hunter Association at their new Headquarters in the Minda system. Along with, Minda's Refurbished Starship Lot, which continues to this day to offer rock bottom prices for ships recovered from pirates and slaver scum. All proceeds go to keeping the fight going against the pirates and slaver scum of the galaxy.

Joining us tonight to discuss the impact this event had on the decline of the pirate and slave menance. With further discussion on the political problems faced by the governor and opportunities granted by his association with the Manadolorians. Also in discussion is whether or not the Mandalorians were responsible for the rapid rise of the governor to his position as Emperor. Speculation has always been there in part due to the number of Imperial Moffs, governors, admirals, and other government officials who were found dead over the coming years. Joining us tonight is Dr…

@Freefaller
Got another Omake for you to link.
Also feel free to re-post these omakes on the other sites you are posting this story on.
 
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For those of you who can't read in between the lines of Omake 5. The general implication is that the Mandalorians ensured the rise of the governor (our MC) to Emperor so that their ownership of their beskar would be recognized throughout the Empire. This was due to his comment that he could only enforce his remit for their beskar ownership where he ruled.
 
KentyEG said:
Hope he stays as an imperial good luck with the story.
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is hard to stay imperial,because is a "set up to fail" system
palpatine loves suffering and pain so he ensured that his subordinates sabotage each other all the time and are as ruthless and cause collateral whenever possible

at some point of the imperial government ladder you will get "burn orphanages" asignments because palpatine wanna have some laughs or some bullshit

and if you dont obey,then your fellow co-workers will stab you on the back and burn you along the orphanage
and the more powerful you get the harder to stay on the top

the best option for a imperial governor that wants to keep things neat and not die horribly or be forced to torture everything you love
is to stay away from imperial politics in a backwater region,build up industry and logistics,and when the time comes switch to ''neutral militarily'' but economically amicable stance with the rebels (aka sell them supplies at discount) and forget about palpatine
 
Armentho said:
is hard to stay imperial,because is a "set up to fail" system
palpatine loves suffering and pain so he ensured that his subordinates sabotage each other all the time and are as ruthless and cause collateral whenever possible

at some point of the imperial government ladder you will get "burn orphanages" asignments because palpatine wanna have some laughs or some bullshit

and if you dont obey,then your fellow co-workers will stab you on the back and burn you along the orphanage
and the more powerful you get the harder to stay on the top

the best option for a imperial governor that wants to keep things neat and not die horribly or be forced to torture everything you love
is to stay away from imperial politics in a backwater region,build up industry and logistics,and when the time comes switch to ''neutral militarily'' but economically amicable stance with the rebels (aka sell them supplies at discount) and forget about palpatine
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That is not quite true. Because there were plenty of planets that wanted to stay with the empire even after endor. The rebellion had to attack and over power those governments. Lots of terrorst attacks and such there a reason why most people didn't want to join the rebellion.
For the vast majority under the empire. It was a truly secure and safe place to live. More so than under the republic. They had to bribe and promise favors and such to the govenors or there subordinates quite often not to mention assassinate lots of leaders. To take over planets who stubbornly did not want to run under a republic.

The empire had weaknesses that is very true. After all they were the villian in this story. Also once the emperor died before the republic started to gain strength. There was a period were it could work. However the outcasted nobles from the center who wanted to be back in power started there rebellion. I still don't trust mon martha. There something really creepy about her. She needs to die.
However for the majority it was a breath of fresh air. You got to understand for the curropt people in charge. They were filling bank accounts. Scamming percentages. They generally were not making life harder for there citizens. The citizens were not affected any worse than under republican leadership. Often it was better.
 
Rustic said:
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Any good the empire did was despite of itself
Not a result of it

Eventually of those "life was better compared to the republic" would have gotten a "burn the orphanage" order from the moffs

Good outcomes were something palpatine and the higher echelons actively disliked and were activrly working against

A functional GE is in name only because all the chabges and reform needed to make it work well
 
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Z3r0Sama said:
They are pirates, historically they weren't afforded any protections if they got caught and their punishments were severe.

In Star Wars they are raiders and/or slavers. They are just in it for the fun, cruelty or money. They are completely undeserving of mercy or kindness, because they likely never showed their victkms that. I don't like the Empire and it's unneccessarily harsh, but they are getting what they fucking deserve.
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First of all, I suspect there are different types of pirates, some of which are much less horrible than others. I very much doubt that the officer doing the torturing is making any distinction on this or cares about such a distinction.

Second, on some level it doesn't really matter what these other people did. It's better that they are not torturing innocent people to death, but they are still guilty of the torture. It's about what the MC is doing (or is allowing to be done, which is very close to the same thing). In the end the raiders/slavers are guilty of having no empathy and doing whatever they want to people. That's exactly what the torturers are doing - the only difference is why they are doing it and why they think their actions are justified. What separates these torturers from any others?

Third, the fact that the MC can sleep at night means that he either has zero imagination and understanding of what is going on under his watch and what he is a part of, or he is a monster/psychopath.
 
Freefaller said:
I think I mentioned this briefly in one of my authors notes in the earlier chapters, but I plan on a mix of legends and canon. While I agree that Disney canon is just kinda mid, especially with the sequel trilogy just being a remake of the OT when they could have made more interesting new plots, I think that some of the ideas and designs are cool, and I want to incorporate them. Like, if I ever get this story to a post-empire state, then I plan for having both the First Order(because I like their design) and the Empire of the Hand. Why? Cause I think at one point old palps would look at Thrawn and think 'that guy has too much power' and make a cult hideaway empire that is less logical and more Sith cultist. That's just one example, I have other plans and the like. But rest assured, it won't all be canon.
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Legends does have a first order via palps equivalent. It's called the dark Empire, and involves the emperor using clones of himself which can't handle his dark side corruption like his old body on top of normal issues and they age to death rapidly causing him to sleeve into new ones on the regular as a resource drain. And he gets even more insane as a side effect seemingly. The main thing is that this happens like 8-12 years after endor and not 40 because the whole thing was already using black ops resources and pulled the blindly loyal to him already which further fed the warlord erA empire fracture. Along with the cracked in the head palp happily watching the imperial remnants kill each other to purge the unloyal for trying to replace him as leaders of the empire (ignoring the fact he was supposed to be dead) first order is rather redundant, dark empire had both droids and clones and super star destroyers and a galaxy gun to destroy planets across the galaxy wonder weapon style that was frankly crazy even for star wars.
If you are not familiar with it there was a large amount of content and more than a handful of YouTubers trying to do short and long form explanations of everything important regarding that timeline. First order also copied dark empire in having droid based or improved designs for the more limited pilots and crew. Which also makes sense when considering the dark empire essentially had all the black boxed and black ops technologies that no one was allowed to see or know about because Byss the planet the dark empire was based out of collected if not developed the advancements and then developed further from there while the rest of the galaxy fractured. Some of it gets a little far out but no worse than first order crap that feels like a worse fanfiction take on dark empire stuff. The vuzong vong invasion was supposed to take place far closer to the timeline they set the new trilogy in. The dark empire also had improved AT-AT designs. Fancier baseline tie fighters etc. I'd have to double check specifics to make sure I'm getting it right. But first order really isn't needed for that legends already did it better in a lot of ways.
 
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You should have las build a space elevator or 2 and eventually have a planetary shield with the space elevators being the only way though
 
swtoring said:
I dont know about space elevators but skyhooks are possible, relatively common too
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Sky hooks are basically space elevators (basically is doing some lifting).
But they were seen as a status symbol for the most part. They were mostly found on rich core worlds or places that the republic/empire wanted to move massive amounts of cargo/slaves (kashyyyk for instance).
 
swtoring said:
I dont know about space elevators but skyhooks are possible, relatively common too
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I remember there being a clone wars episode with baby boba fett and his bounty hunters crew where they save a girl in a box on a train. I think it was something to do with the planet's atmosphere that meant they couldn't fly into so space elevator
 
FollowingStars said:
I remember there being a clone wars episode with baby boba fett and his bounty hunters crew where they save a girl in a box on a train. I think it was something to do with the planet's atmosphere that meant they couldn't fly into so space elevator
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Found it

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Quarzite space station/Legends

This space station, used during the Clone Wars by Otua Blank, was a skyhook located in a low orbit above the planet of Quarzite. The skyhook consisted of a station section with docking hangars and a space elevator shaft. The shaft would deliver beings to and from the underground caverns of the...
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ElimGarakovsky12 said:
First of all, I suspect there are different types of pirates, some of which are much less horrible than others. I very much doubt that the officer doing the torturing is making any distinction on this or cares about such a distinction.

Second, on some level it doesn't really matter what these other people did. It's better that they are not torturing innocent people to death, but they are still guilty of the torture. It's about what the MC is doing (or is allowing to be done, which is very close to the same thing). In the end the raiders/slavers are guilty of having no empathy and doing whatever they want to people. That's exactly what the torturers are doing - the only difference is why they are doing it and why they think their actions are justified. What separates these torturers from any others?

Third, the fact that the MC can sleep at night means that he either has zero imagination and understanding of what is going on under his watch and what he is a part of, or he is a monster/psychopath.
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Pirates, not people.

You don't need to be a monster or psychopat or sociopath to complete disregard others lives. It might to evil. You could argue that it's evil, but it's completely banal form of evil. People are generally quite good at justifying their own immoral actions, especially when they can argue that the cause justifies the mean.

Also, let's not forget the situation they were captured under. They came to his home, his people to rob and likely enslave his people. Hard to feel sympathy and mercy when you reasonable belive that they would show you non. Hell the pirate didn't even bother to give them a ultimatum once they came into range.

Lastly these are pirates, professional criminals that lives of taking from others. Kind of hard to feel any sympathy for people who's reputation is one robbery, rape and ruin. They make their choices, and they reap what they sow.

Note that I am not trying to argue the MC is morally right, but rather that any assertion that he is monster, psychopath and/or sociopath is overblown or dissengenius. If he is guilty, then it's of a banal evil he is guilty for.
 
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