Governor's Gambit - Star Wars SI into Imperial Governor

[stads]

welp time to spin the pirate and rebel supporters trying to undermine the mc
should increase the support the mc has and put the rebels in a bad light

 

[Crixxis]

"Sir, we just got a report from a Guild Miner! A pirate raiding fleet has entered the system!"

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Hm, take out the guns on the larger ships then ion them and send boarding parties. Let some of your bloodthirsty troopers do 'live exercise'. Bam, ship capture for to add to patrol fleet or sell off to the guild for credits. Or scrap them for part if ships doesn't meet standards because an intact ship has better parts tgen one blown to hell.

 

[dazzle_dork]

Are these pirates or 'pirates's

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Who's the second one? Rebel or empires secret force.

I honestly want a fanatic rebel to come and try to start roit but meet with cold reception. While the local rebel branch hastily throws them out of the planet to not make themselves super noticable.

And, with only one go in office, and rules that insure these representatives can't make any money aside from a government salary, the chances of corruption were very low

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Heh, if there's politics there's corruption

the idea of this organization that exists to support this line of work was interesting

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So, something like adventure guild already exists

 

[bryanfran36]

So, something like adventure guild already exists

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It's called the Bounty Hunter's Guild.

 

[dazzle_dork]

Can we have a public POV chapter? Like one from people who came from different planet, how much MC changed, whats different from average Outer rim planets. Listening to MC is fine, but his accomplishment won't hit home untill we get to see them from the perspective of the benefited. If you can even get a kids pov, who has naive and pure view of things...

Edit: I wonder if these 2k semi retired clones starts having child, how fking weird the planet wide genetic code will look like. Will this planet have incest disabilities planet wise 4 generation later?

 

[Pastah-Farian]

I do love me some kingdom fics.

I also agree. We need some public POV's as well as some reactions from other moffs.

John Moff: He doesn't use slavery? Oh, what, is he paying his people a living wage and doesn't do excess taxing as well??? HE DOESN'T? POPppYcOcK!

 

[sxeron10]

It's called the Bounty Hunter's Guild.

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Yeah, but that's for killing, capturing and hunting people.

The Minda Imperial Guild of Industry and Commerce is definitely not that for that would be slander to Lord Las' reputation.

Meanwhile, the Rebels: Fuck! He's onto us! Quick, someone alert the Hutts!

 

[readsalot]

Sir, we just got a report from a Guild Miner! A pirate raiding fleet has entered the system!"

"...Can't have SHIT!"

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The only answer to this is DEATH
to the pirates of course
Muahahahahaha

 

[Seyum]

Minda Imperial Guild of Industry and Commerce

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Call it Magic!

 

[FutureFocus]

far out this next chapter is gonna be a fun read, really hopping its a POV but its okay if its not.

 

[Thomisannoyed]

Moderate yourself. If all this expansion happens to fast, not only do I risk bankruptcy, which might force me to beg the sector moff for money(not happening) or Las's family(just kill me), but if I bring to much prosperity in a short time frame I get the wrong kind of attention, which could get me killed for someone else's ego.

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Well he's failed there.
It hasn't even been a year and he's already altered the entire system's culture, infrastructure, economy, governance, industry, education, and probably a dozen other small and large things.

I'd love a pov of someone leaving the planet for work or a vacation right as Las arrived and only getting back after a year, they would probably think their navigation computer was busted.

 

[Inkogg Neetio]

I also agree. We need some public POV's as well as some reactions from other moffs.

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Yeah a new citizen pov would be interesting. Especially the disfranchised clones and outcast aliens dealt a bad hand to compare with his current governance. In legends canon, Kal Skirata took the Null and defects to Mandalore and formed a haven for deserters. Fixed their lifespans too. I could see him or one of the Nulls scoping the place out, either to recruit or see if they're being exploited.

John Moff: He doesn't use slavery? Oh, what, is he paying his people a living wage and doesn't do excess taxing as well??? HE DOESN'T? POPppYcOcK!

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I'd like to believe the majority of Imperial governors are normal-ish. The Empire would probably collapse if every planet was dedicated to cartoon villainy at the cost of productivity. It's just not interesting so we never see them on screen, so the ones we get are nepobabies who get their kicks off another's misery. Too connected to remove, too insignificant to act upon.

 

[sxeron10]

Yeah a new citizen pov would be interesting. Especially the disfranchised clones and outcast aliens dealt a bad hand to compare with his current governance. In legends canon, Kal Skirata took the Null and defects to Mandalore and formed a haven for deserters. Fixed their lifespans too. I could see him or one of the Nulls scoping the place out, either to recruit or see if they're being exploited.



I'd like to believe the majority of Imperial governors are normal-ish. The Empire would probably collapse if every planet was dedicated to cartoon villainy at the cost of productivity. It's just not interesting so we never see them on screen, so the ones we get are nepobabies who get their kicks off another's misery. Too connected to remove, too insignificant to act upon.

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There could be three POV's that'll be important on gauging our SI's efforts: the newly-arrived immigrant, the old citizens and the Rebels.

As to why the Rebels and not any of the adjacent-Empire stooges like the local planetary governor or sector Moff? Mainly, because the Rebels offers a more dynamic and clashing view: like how the Moderates and the Radicals clash with one another and such.

 

[Guardian Box]

I'm snapped out of my thought's by the sound of Darna rushing in through the door, a frantic look in her eyes.

"Sir, we just got a report from a Guild Miner! A pirate raiding fleet has entered the system!"

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Look, loot has arrived.

 

[swtoring]

There could be three POV's that'll be important on gauging our SI's efforts: the newly-arrived immigrant, the old citizens and the Rebels.

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I'd add a fourth one, the super secret spy assigned by his sister (who advanced to the position of keeper or smthn, idk how the intelligence agencies are structured in the Galactic Empire so i'm using sith empire ranks) and gets an aneurysm since all the objections to imperial doctrine (OG Las was mentioned to have problems in the academy) were in fact proven correct by the SI Las implementing his policies well, leading to the sudden promotion once Vader & Thrawn somehow end up with him (since Thrawn got tired of his projects on Lothal being blown up & Vader was intrested in the Defender) and he goes on another rant as to why slavery is retarded and explaining how his version of managed democracy works, meriting him a promotion to Governor-General or Moff from Vader or smthn since "Hey, a competent governor who actually knows his shit, respects the clones and doesn't use slaves"

 

[Roaming_Guardian]

That's a LOT of stuff to be done inside a two year time limit I must say.

 

[sxeron10]

That's a LOT of stuff to be done inside a two year time limit I must say.

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Yeah well, a streamlined bureaucracy as well as ensuring the prosperity of the planet via actual competence does tend to do that.

 

[kingtaso01]

I once saw a great quote in somebody's signature which fits this story perfectly:

"Slavery is bad because slaves don't pay taxes."

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That's the Victoria 3 mentality speaking.

 

[SzymonO32]

Not only slaves don't pay taxes but they cost you money. You gotta buy them, cloth them and feed them or they will die.

 

[JoeSystem]

The big problem for the empire is Palaptin and Stih's mentality that he promotes in the academy and all forms of government. He is a psychopath and a control freak who fears that if his underlings are not doing Skaven shit to each other, they will team up and overthrow him. It promotes not the best for the job but the most self-serving and manipulative to the top ranks, not the smart and competent who are good people. It is a system that will evenly turn on itself. Se the warlord era.

The military-first economy is not self-sustaining as well. The empire around its first 10 years was mostly good for the galaxy, but later the cracks started to form, and its mask slipped off.

Is this story inspired by the koran manhwa, "The Greatest Estate Developer", but in Star Wars and different Mc?

 

[Yacov]

And so, I turn my vision to the future. While things are good, they aren't what I expect Las's mother to consider adequate. While digging through his memories is a foggy experience, the general sense I get from Commandant Mola is harshness. The kind of person that sets high standards because she herself is capable of achieving them. Very much like Tarkin. Probably why he promoted her to Commandant.

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Ah yes, oversucceeding due to a parent's imagined expectations. A tale as old as time itself. I wonder what Mola's actual bar for success would be?

That plan was to invest, invest, invest! That is to say, invest in the people of the Minda system. After all, what is an economy if not the collective actions of a shit ton of people?

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Republic Senators, Trade Federation members, Imperial Governors: "It is? You mean we can't just use more "citizens"/droids/slaves?"

Each region that was inhabited would have a Nexus, that being the largest city in the region, and then multiple sub-Nexus's that connected to the smaller towns/villages that were spread about. This allowed for resources, developments, infrastructure and more to follow a route that makes sense, spreading from the most populated places down to the boonies.

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So like building railroads in the 1800s and having towns spring up along them. Only a lot quicker and with less corruption.

I invested 25 of the 49 or so million remaining right back into Minda, the 24 mil going into a vault for emergencies and the like.

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Las only spent 1 million credits out of the 50 million windfall on personal security and an escape route? That's pocket change compared to some of the budgets and even portions of budgets of his peers.

"Sir, we just got a report from a Guild Miner! A pirate raiding fleet has entered the system!"

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Time for the battle starved garrison and PDF to get some action. I wonder if Las can "request" the assistance of any ships from the new refit station? Clones, Imperials, and Rebels all assembled to fight pirates is a funny image

Not only slaves don't pay taxes but they cost you money. You gotta buy them, cloth them and feed them or they will die.

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"Feed a man fish for the rest of his life costs you money. Teach a man to fish and then saddle them with student loan debt earns you money for the rest of his life."

 

[PotatOS2]

He's gonna be called "The greatest interstellar government and infrastructure developer.

 

[John Jones III]

It's called the Bounty Hunter's Guild.

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I just love the image of Mando saying they're from the guild (bounty) and someone else asking what they mine. The interaction that happens is going to make me laugh

 

[Beligor]

Thank you for the chapter!

Time to put the eagerly violent Alderanian to work!

I just dont get how everything is going so fast, some of the buildings alone should take more than 3 months to build, the speed at which information is propagating is also very fast. If his goal was to not call attention, then he already failed.

 

[vgasdofija]

Well he's failed there.
It hasn't even been a year and he's already altered the entire system's culture, infrastructure, economy, governance, industry, education, and probably a dozen other small and large things.

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Yeah, nearly doubling your capital's population in three months with people who form a completely different power base than the previously ascendant farmers seems like it should be causing massive upheaval, but then again things are happening so blindingly fast people are probably shellshocked.

 

[Nikoli]

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Freefaller

"hyperdrive, sunlight,"

That sunlight is a new addition or did you mean sublight? Pretty sure you got victimized by autocorrect.

 

[Nikoli]

Omake "2". Collector's Edition.

Today we take a behind the scenes look at interviews from the various members of Minda's population who lived through the great Pirate raid of 2 BBY. The Imperial Archivists would like us to remind our viewers that these are first accounts and have not been edited. Viewer discretion is advised for younger sentients.


The following is a reaction to the recently published Imperial News bulletin. "If a Pirate Attack Is Imminent.

For maritime employers and shipowners, a well-defined protocol for managing pirate attacks is crucial for the safety of the crew and the security of the vessel.

In the event of an imminent pirate attack, the following steps should be implemented:

• Alert Imperial System Security: Immediately inform the nearest coastal security authority about the approaching pirates to initiate a timely response.
• Maximize Ship Speed: Increase the ship's speed to its maximum sublight, making it more difficult for pirates to approach.
• Aggressive Maneuvering: Employ aggressive piloting techniques to disrupt the pirates' approach and aim.
• Safety Measures for Crew: Instruct the crew to stay away from the outer hull locations to minimize the risk of injury from weapons used by the pirates or from hull breaches.
• Designate a Safe Room: Should pirates begin boarding, have a protocol for all crew members to retreat to a predetermined safe room, preferably a choke point with an automated heavy weapon or repeating blaster.

Guild accountant, John Smith, "This right here is an excellent common sense protocol that most already have in practice. None of this pie in the sky or woke nonsense that's you see some radicals try to push. Especially that crazy senator that wants to demilitarize the galaxy, who would protect us from the pirates then? I for one am glad the governor had taken measures to bolster the system defenses against any type of incursion.

Independent Asteroid Miner, Jane Smith, "This is pretty much the bare bones of our policy as it is. We get attempted claim jumpers all the time out here. The Guild that the governor set up allows for the rental of ground (asteroid) based defenses for our claim. Those pirates were certainly not expecting to have to deal with a few hundred extra laser and turbo laser batteries in the asteroid field. Lucy here even managed to shoot down a Gozanti class. It managed to land fairly intact. (Jane smirks to the holocamera) It is a shame there were no survivors though. We even got a bonus from the governor and 2 months free on our lease when we turned it over to be used by the system defenses fleet, after we heard about the governor's court ruling regarding the pirates. I hear it was part of the anti-pirate task force the governor sends out to keep the nearby uninhabited systems free of pirates."


(Retired) Dread Privateer Jaune Lafite, "I remember it like it was yesterday. (Interviewer, "It was.") There I was thinking about my lady, that's my ship btw, when suddenly I received an alert from the system fleet that pirates had jumped in. Now, I choose this system because I have certain understanding with the Privateers Guild that it was mine and that no one else could patrol it without my permission. Which I obviously did not give. So I did what any self respecting privateer would do in my situation. I called up a few friends and we decided to give them a nice Cajun welcome… (inaudible comment from offscreen) Oh you wanted to know my reaction to the news article? That's simple that is for "civilians," the governor gave us a different set of protocols when we were under his letters of marque. Maybe, I will show you them next time, the governor always had a way with words for our type." A copy is linked here for our viewership:

Spoiler: Letter of Marque

Imperial Stormtrooper, CT-01234-A, "…"
(officer speaks from off screen, "You are off duty you can say whatever you want, and the governor has already written an amnesty.)

"I like working for the governor, he makes sure we get enough range time that we can actually hit what we aim at."

(Interviewer, "Anything else?")

"Yea, he let me press the button to space the pirates after their trial in abstention. I remember he convicted all the pirates to death and their assets forfeited in 2 minutes after he was informed they entered the system. That is a very fast turn around time for most Imperial courts; most systems takes months to hear a case. Also, I hear we got several new ships and star fighters a few weeks later. They didn't even have blood stains in them that our newest acquisitions did. Let me tell you cleaning out blood from the air circulation system when the gravity platings fail are a punishment detail you do not want."


Independent Farmer, Oldson McDonald, "That news piece is for the spacers, everyone groundside knows that when pirates show up, there is only two responses. 1) Open Fire and 2) Reload. (Question from offscreen) Oh the governor? Never had an issue with him. That tax hike when he first entered office was of course a big issue at the time but when me and my friends went to talk about it. He saw the issue right away, I wasn't even away from home 2 days before he had the issue fixed. I swear there is an accountant somewhere that probably got fired or got shot because of that error. But The governor fixed it right up. Now most of us don't like government interference, it's why we moved here. But the governor is a very hands off person, we like that, he has my vote for reelection, you know if he decided to run."

Excerpt from "Rise and Fall of the Republic, Empire, and back to the Republic" Holovid. A dramatic historical reenactment of the True Story of the life of the Emperor from his humble origins on Corusant to his eventual death at the venerable age of 122. He stewarded the Empire after the death of the beloved Emperor Palpatine and the subsequent police actions taken to bring stability to a galaxy teetering on the edge of full scale war again.

 

[Mistroz]

excellent chapter.

 

[Nikoli]

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Freefaller

You mind threadmarking the 2 (unofficial) omakes on this page (12) and page 9 to make them easier to find.

Edit: Thanks.

 

[Just Some Guy]

Look, loot has arrived.

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even better free ships, wonder how effective would it be to bait more pirates(dangling some bait) just to block their escape with a interdictor then take their ships.