Governor's Gambit - Star Wars SI into Imperial Governor

[averagejoe32]

Not really, cloaking devices are common enough that people at least generally know about them.

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I was being figurative not literal. Yes, people have heard of them. They also require rare natural materials to produce. Stygium Crystals for example. Actually running into one is rare, and they're not particularly scalable production wise due to the material requirements. Plus depending on the materials used, the cloaking device blinds the ship using it.

 

[OrderedOrb]

I was being figurative not literal. Yes, people have heard of them. They also require rare natural materials to produce. Stygium Crystals for example. Actually running into one is rare, and they're not particularly scalable production wise due to the material requirements. Plus depending on the materials used, the cloaking device blinds the ship using it.

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Fair enough, but the fact that the Tie Phantom exists proves tbe idea is feasible. It's just a matter of casting a wide enough net in regards to potential means and methods to make it happen.

 

[averagejoe32]

Fair enough, but the fact that the Tie Phantom exists proves the idea is feasible. It's just a matter of casting a wide enough net in regards to potential means and methods to make it happen.

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Given that the Empire had to crack open a planet to make that happen, and that basically rendered Stygium Cloaking Devices into Star Wars equivalent of archeotech post-destruction, I'm not sure Tie Phantoms are the best example there.

 

[OrderedOrb]

Given that the Empire had to crack open a planet to make that happen, and that basically rendered Stygium Cloaking Devices into Star Wars equivalent of archeotech post-destruction, I'm not sure Tie Phantoms are the best example there.

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True, but what I mean is that they aren't the ONLY example. Given time and incentive to do so humanity has found new ways to reverse engineer or synthetically produce many things. Hell, in WW2 we cound out how to make synthetic rubber and plastic because the natural sources were unavailable or couldn't keep up with demand. Given time, resources and incentive to.do.so, I can certainly see the techies at Mimda coming up with new methods of cloaking tech.

 

[RedDeadShyguy]

Just realised after playing a bit but Star Wars Alliance Rebellion for Empire at War is an absolute unit of a mod with some really silly things in it that wouldn't look out of place in an actual RnD facility, not an imperial RnD group unless you made something like this after all.

I'll see about posting some images of other units I come across.

 

[Bbob]

The thing with the Tie Phantom is that it literally turned the craft invisible, but it's a small fast moving space fighter, it doesn't need to be invisible it just needs to not show up on sensors or at least have a presence small enough to not get noticed or filtered out.

 

[Yacov]

Omake: A Report on the Theoretical MSDF Auxiliary Unit: The Verndari Heavy Troopers

Introduction

With the integration of Minda-2's native population into the Empire, the question of how to form a PDF to defend the planet was one of the natural next steps. Eventually it was determined that since the MSDF was a defense force for the Mindan system as a whole, that any non-Imperial army or naval formations raised on Minda-2 would fall under their jurisdiction and therefore be their responsibility.

The result of this conclusion was the creation of the Vendari Heavy Troopers. A third line formation to improve cohesion and coordination between the local national militaries and the Imperial military. This planetary formation was mainly tasked with defending Minda-2 from external and internal dangers against Imperial assets and civilians, engaging in search and rescue operations, and hunting down the enemies of the Empire who sought to find a haven in Minda-2's jungles.

Armor

Some debate was held to determine how to armor the Verndari. it was eventually agreed that the Swamp Trooper armor for Imperial Army troopers would serve as the base for the Vendari Heavy Troopers.

After the armor's design and some samples were procured, the Mindan R&D, being an old hat at designing infantry armor, quickly designed a cheap resize and refit package to fit the Vendari's larger frame. The result was something less capable than the Generalist Mk. 2 Stormtrooper armor, but still an improvement over what the Imperial Army enlisted had to work with.

These days the armor suits are well liked by the Vendari Heavy Troopers. The extra environmental protections and increase of the armor's range of motion compared to the Swamp Trooper armor were the biggest positives listed.

Note: There has been a trend of various stylizations, paint jobs, and touch ups that have left many an armorer frustrated. The reasons given by Heavy Troopers are often to show cultural ties or to blend into the environment better. The increase in discipline from forbidding these alterations was determined by Command to not be worth the loss in morale as long as said alterations were kept within reason and didn't impact the armor's performance or recognition as Imperial armor.

Main weapons

There was a short but fierce argument over what the main armament for the Vendari Heavy Troopers would be. Given the jungle terrain and other close combat engagements they would often have to deal with, a standard blaster rifle was ruled out. A blaster shotgun was proposed, but eventually the proposal faltered and a blaster carbine was chosen as the main blaster type.

Looking through what was easily accessible in the nearby Sectors' stores, the military planners eventually came across the DLS-12 Heavy Blaster Carbine. These things were highly popular at the end of the Clone Wars and the Republic purchased them by the freighter load. However most of these weapons would never see the frontlines as the war ended shortly after their purchase.

Unfortunately the carbine fell out of favor with the rise of the Empire. The heavy firepower did not make up for the bulkiness when used by the average sentient. This left large stores in Imperial armories that persist even after two decades of auctions being held to try and get rid of the excess stock.

It was hoped that the Vendari's larger frame would make wielding the normally cumbersome carbine easier for them. In addition diverting excess stockpiles to a minor and less suspected PDF formation would allow for more storage space for more advanced and preferred weaponry.

Heavy/specialist weapons

Although the standard armor and weapon had been chosen, questions still remained over what specialists to assign the Vendari Heavy Troopers and what to equip them with. A blaster carbine is not suited to tackle every challenge a trooper squad would face after all.

It was determined early in the debate that a heavy trooper squad should probably have a heavy weapons specialist. The main weapon chosen for this role was the FC-1 Flechette Launcher.

The weapon weighed in at 20 kg and was deemed appropriate in engaging in a wide variety of combat situations due to its dual ammo types. The anti personnel rounds were referred to as "swarm reaper" rounds while the anti vehicle rounds would known as "giant killer" rounds. These names were given due to how often the heavy weapons specialist use them on Minda-2's native fauna.

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Although the DLS-12 carbine might have a higher rate of fire than the average blaster pistol, there is something to be said for having a role dedicated solely to suppressing fire. The main weapon of this heavy gunner role was a bit difficult given the close quarters nature of the Heavy Troopers.

The procurement officers finally settled on the Underslung Rotary Blaster Carbine for the role. What the light repeating blaster lacked in accuracy due to only being able to be fired from the hip, it made up in rate of fire and sheer suppression potential.

Note: It was determined by Command that wielding two Underslung Rotary Blaster Carbines at once did little to increase the combat effectiveness of an individual heavy gunner. This has not stopped reports of heavy gunners attempting to duel wield them from cropping up. Please report any further sightings to your superiors.

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The Vendari came in with a request for a melee weapon with which they could utilize their combat knowledge and experience gained prior to their integration into the Empire. The request was deemed sensible by Command and the weapon chosen was a mass production version of the Force Pike.

The Force Pike was relatively light for a two handed weapon at 7 kg. Those with experience and skill can use a Force Pike effectively can often deal rapid and precise strikes.

Those who wield Force Pikes among the Vendari Heavy Troopers are known as Vendari Spear Troopers. They are usually recruited from the more rural communities on Minda-2. Respected for their CQC skills and bravery in battle, a Spear Trooper will often be seen leading a given ambush or a charge.

Note: While throwing the Force Pike may no longer automatically result in disciplinary action, failure to retrieve said Force Pike after utilizing it as a ranged weapon does still carry fines and other consequences.

Sub weapons

Given the lower tech level and varied cultures of Minda-2, it should come as no surprise that a variety of unique cultural affiliated weapons exist on the planet. These traditional Vendari weapons, although inferior to Imperial made equivalents, carry significant morale value to the Vendari Heavy Troopers.

As a result, Command has giving permission to utilize these weapons provided the Heavy Trooper in question can demonstrate enough mastery to not bring down the combat effectiveness of their squad. This is taken by the Heavy Trooper in question as a challenge to improve the mastery of their chosen weapon even further in order to prevent it from being taken away.

Significant amounts of a Heavy Trooper's off time may be devoted to training with their chosen weapon or obtaining upgrades for it. This is seen as a benefit by Command as it focuses the Heavy Trooper's attention towards better serving the Empire.

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Given the tight quarters Heavy Troopers find themselves in, most if not all carry a hunting knife as a holdout weapon and a utility tool. Although give the larger frame of the Vendari, it can appear to most sentients to be a small short sword in size. Engraving the handle of the knife is common practice among the Heavy Troopers. One can often find specialists who do custom engravings close by where the Heavy Troopers are stationed.

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One of the more uncommon weapons in the Vendari Heavy Troopers' arsenal was the RL-40 stun net launcher. This is meant to provide the Heavy Trooper with a dedicated range stun option they lacked with most of their other weapons.

This weapon is usually kept by an officer or a chosen Heavy Trooper in a squad. However further RL-40s may be distributed to Heavy Troopers should an objective of a mission include the live capture of prisoners or fauna. The Heavy Troopers' themselves view the RL-40 more as a tool for hunting rather than a weapon.

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One of the more unpopular weapons in the Vendari Heavy Troopers' arsenal is the humble blaster pistol. Given its status as an emergency holdout weapon, there is no standard model. Usually a Heavy Trooper is given whatever blaster pistol is available in the armory.

The source of this unpopularity is the Vendari's distaste for the look, size, and lack of firepower of most blaster pistols. They are seen as weapons for children and weaklings due to their diminutive size and capability when compared to a Vendari's frame.

This prejudice is compounded by the fact that a lot of budget conscious quartermasters for the Vendari formation see the DLS-12 as the answer to most if not all situations a blaster pistol could be useful for. This results in the quartermasters acquiring the cheapest and least powerful blaster pistols in order to save costs, reinforcing the bias among the Heavy Troopers.

A Heavy Trooper being seen wielding a blaster pistol in combat can be a source of mockery by one's fellow Heavy Troopers, despite Command's discouragement of the practice. It is to the point that some Heavy Troopers will resort to their hunting knives or even their fists when deprived of their main weapons rather than pulling out their pistols.

Note: Command's stance on the matter is clear. Despite the leeway given in other matters, every Heavy Trooper must possess a functioning blaster pistol in good repair in their kit. Officers who are found to have multiple Heavy Troopers under their command without blaster pistols during inspection will be punished alongside their squad.

Conclusion

National Vendari formations are still present on Minda-2, and Imperial formations like Stormtroopers still patrol and guard the more vital Imperial installations. However, the Vendari Heavy Troopers are increasingly becoming the main face for the Imperial presence on Minda-2. It is hopeful that the Heavy Troopers will eventually come take over a majority of duties currently being done by the former two.

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This is the result of the jungle warfare debate in the thread and imagining what a PDF for the Vendari using Imperialized tech could possibly look like. Turns out it is a mix of scrambling due to unexpected third line procurement order, "techno barbarity", soldiers being soldiers, and digging through old Imperial stockpiles like they were bargain bins at a thrift store looking for gear that is either cheap, in large quantities, and/or from brands that have fallen out of Imperial favor like Golan Arms.

Crossposted in SB and SV

 

[Vengeful-Astartes]

behold the carrot and the stick.

 

[Freefaller]

Chp-66

Garpastealap Hath
Minda System, Ugea, Accordia, Imperial Island

Garpastealap Hath, known around the office as Garp, was busy.

Very busy.

Ever since the Governor left to go deal with that kerfuffle on Minda-2, Garp had been left to deal with the busywork as Chief Secretary.

And wasn't that a promotion!

Garp had come to Minda from Muunilist to pursue his dreams. His dreams of fashion!

Muun culture was a strict thing to say the least. Business, money, and any other fiscal, high-paying career was the goal of just about every living being on the planet.

Everything was about money and merit. Or, more accurately, a person's merit in making money.

Garps family had been fairly influential on Scipio, the Muun homeworld, and Garp's great-grandparents were sent to Muunilist to establish more of said influence on the most prominent Muun colony.

His parents had pushed him the same way they pushed their other children, and how they themselves were pushed to work harder, study harder.

And Garp studied. He studied engineering, mathematics, finance, everything. He wasn't particularly talented by Muun standards (which are an order of magnitude above the galactic standard) but he worked hard. His future was incredibly promising.

And he hated it. Garp didn't know if the rest of his family hated their lives and hid it like he did, but he didn't care at that point.

Day in, day out, his life was nothing but studying and work. The worst part? He didn't even mind doing work. Once he actually got into a career, it wasn't horrible.

What was horrible was having nothing else. Being told that he could have nothing else, because that would distract him from what mattered for the family.

The one thing that kept him sane since childhood was the holonet. He would watch a series called Dra Gongo's Galactic Fashion, which explored fashion from across the galaxy. It even visited some planets in the Mid and Outer Rim! Once it ended, he rewatched every episode for years, and scoured the holonet for other fashion shows and the like.

As a child, it ignited a passion within himself. He, like most Muun, saw the beauty in money and numbers, but he saw more in fashion.

An aesthetic that couldn't be quantified. Something that resonated with his soul.

Something his family didn't agree with.

So, he left. The money, the power, the chains. And he came out to the Myto sector.

The Mindan Trade Fleet had passed by Myto offering job opportunities, so he took one and made his way to Minda. It was better than nothing, and he could always go elsewhere.

And once he got there? More work. But not overwhelming work.

Of course, his skills earned him promotions in the oddly meritocratic structure of Minda, and eventually, once Oioro was made head negotiator, Garp was promoted to Chief Secretary.

Admittedly, for all that he was 'Chief', he had few people working under him, and mostly just shared the workload with the Governor. It was a title made to justify the workload and the pay raise that came with it.

So, there he sat, dealing with that workload. The Governor usually took around half of the work, so Garp was swamped with it. Requests for funding, reports on the nearly complete shipyards, reports from the now nearly fully staffed Council, and more flooded his terminal.

He had even been given permission to approve R&D's little pet projects, within reason. Most had been rejected due to their inherent foolishness, but he allowed them to use the sims to play with this 'New-Class' Ship Project. Children needed toys after all.

This was on top of his regular duties, part of which was working with the propaganda department. With the shipyards closer to completion everyday, workers had to be drawn in, and he played a part in the propaganda posters and ads that were sent out.

It had him working through his lunch break, which greatly annoyed him. On the tram to work that morning he'd had an idea for a coat made of cascading geometric metal panels of sorts, based off of the tribal headwear the local Tula people use. He was looking forward to refining the idea on his PDA's 3d modeling app.

Still, he was making good progress. Taking a sip of some locally made tea and checking the clock, he could safely say he'd be done before nightfall.

Then, a message came through.

From Major Koran. Thornes Major.

At the same time, a message arrived from Commander Grant's secretary.

He could already feel the headache building, but he opened them anyway. He had to get that paycheck, the best threads aren't cheap after all.

The Major's message was about Augir. Rebels attempted to sabotage the refinery there, but were stopped. They escaped, and now Thorne had put the city under martial law, locking the entire city down to stop the rebels from escaping.

The Commanders message was asking the Governor to deal with this, as Thorne refuses to acknowledge the Commander's authority in this matter.

Garp sighed, pulled up his comms app, and messaged the Governor. He would surely love to hear about this.

He would likely have to meet with Thorne once more. What should he wear though? Something more intimidating, yes? Not overtly, but to showcase that he had power. Darker tones, then. Some armor plating, maybe? No, that seems paranoid. Perhaps shoulder pauldrons. A better hairstyle would be needed, something to remove the bags around his eyes…

So long as he didn't wear a helmet.

Garp liked helmets.

The Governor made him hate them.

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Diplomacy sucks major ass.

Especially when I have to consistently break the news to every nation/tribe of importance that yes, we are conquering you, and no, you cannot fight back.

The amount of times I've had to order a turbolaser barrage is annoying. The amount of assasination attempts is also annoying. They never get anywhere near close, but that doesn't mean it's fun to then go back, look the person who ordered them in the eyes, and tell them they don't get to sit on their little thrones anymore.

Minda-2 has a surprising number of nations. Some old empires existed like a thousand years ago, but they collapsed and left a shit ton of smaller nations bickering around.

Made it easier to conquer, to be frank.

Honestly though? They got a fairly good deal.

Most of the nations would be allowed to continue as they are, with their own laws and cultures and such, so long as none went to war with each other, and they all paid their taxes. In resources, since their currencies were worth jack-shit to the Empire.

Surveys had been and were still being conducted to determine what resources would be useful. Some native plants had medicinal properties that were being studied, but it would take longer to determine what was useful to the Empire.

On top of that, they have to send people to get educated. A few schools were being set up to see how Verndari children learned and adapted to Basic. Their vocal structure was similar enough to allow for it. From there, who knows.

It wasn't much on the surface, but all of that took a month and a half.

Now, I left behind a suitable garrison, a competent Commandant, and my hopes that the natives would rebel after I ran away.

Now, as my shuttle started the flight back to Ugea, I caught myself up on things I had missed.

The shipyards were but a month from completion, which was good.

The Guild was expanding to other systems, with 4 new systems having joined, which was good.

And…Nox. Fucking Nox.

Governor-General Nox Vellam. Put in charge of the Bright Jewel Oversector after Vanko 'retired' due to some manipulated books, he failed to find the Rebel Alliance's base on Yavin quick enough.

Because of that, some worlds were given to Vader.

And now, he was trying to kill Vader for some random fucking reason.

Thankfully, it seems that Moff Hiral is keeping loyal and not doing some stupid bullshit, so I have little to worry about.

What I do have to worry about is Ardus Kaine. Future leader of the Pentastar Alignment. And current Grand Moff of Oversector-Outer, which now covered Bright Jewel as well.

In fact, it covered most of the Outer Rim. Probably why Nox was given the title of Governor-General instead of Grand Moff, but I digress.

He was going around and inspecting each sector. Agents of his were sent to every sector, with the Grand Moff himself inspecting those sectors deemed most important.

Which Myro might be considered. Maybe. Possibly. Hopefully not.

I sighed, laying the PDA back on the coffee table. I was too tired for this right now.

A message beeped onto the screen.

I checked it.

"Thorne did WHAT!?"

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Hi there folks! Sorry if it's not my best work, but I've got too much going on IRL to write any compelling dialogue right now. Bio-Anthro is kicking my ass, plus a lot of other stuff. And a lot of V-Rising with my friends. Honestly, the game could do with more ARPG elements, feels kinda stiff as it is.

Regardless, chapters will be few and far between compared to before, and especially compared to the daily uploads way back when.

As always, feedback and commentary is appreciated.

Thanks for reading!

-Freefaller

 

[sxeron10]

Damn you, Thorne!

You truly live up to your name, don't you?!

 

[OrchiSucks]

Gary is so fun. He's literally overqualified for his job and has a fashionista soul. He's the reason why Lars and Darna are drowning in drip and I'm here for his fabulous works to set fashion wildfires across the Galaxy, given Lar's coat and Darna's outfit. Also good for him. Pursuing a passion and a career he loves instead of conforming to societal expectations or family and peer pressure and succeeding....I eager watch Gary's side hustle as the personal fashion designer for Govenor Molas and his staff.

 

[Rakdos92]

Garp liked helmets.

The Governor made him hate them.

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That's a shame. I wonder what was the tipping point for Garp to loathe helmets.

 

[OrchiSucks]

That's a shame. I wonder what was the tipping point for Garp to loathe helmets.

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Las's poor design choices and lack of design and color coordination.

 

[ThedudeManBro]

Typical imperial. When nettled, uses hammers judiciously like the UNGA BUNGA he is.

Other options are for sissies and rebels. Are YOU a rebel, boy?

 

[Vlaadd17]

Isn't thorne in the right here? Logical step to do lockdown and declare martial law if there is a terrorist attack on the city?

Like, immagine similar thing happened in US or do know, france. Big boom in major industrial center with terrorist shooting everyone and setting things on fire. Declare martial law, say don't go outside to civilians and let loose national guard and fbi.

Cant see why everyone hates thorn. He is doing his work, and does so successfully or half secsesfully.

 

[Yacov]

Of course, his skills earned him promotions in the oddly meritocratic structure of Minda, and eventually, once Oioro was made head negotiator, Garp was promoted to Chief Secretary.

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Garp would actually make a really good traditional secretary. Especially with his love for picking out outfits.

So, there he sat, dealing with that workload. The Governor usually took around half of the work, so Garp was swamped with it. Requests for funding, reports on the nearly complete shipyards, reports from the now nearly fully staffed Council, and more flooded his terminal.

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Good to see Las has a full team behind him, and it is still barely enough.

Most had been rejected due to their inherent foolishness, but he allowed them to use the sims to play with this 'New-Class' Ship Project. Children needed toys after all.

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Woohoo! New ship incoming. I imagine it is going to be some blend of CEC, Rothanan, and Mindan design philosophy.

The Major's message was about Augir. Rebels attempted to sabotage the refinery there, but were stopped. They escaped, and now Thorne had put the city under martial law, locking the entire city down to stop the rebels from escaping.

The Commanders message was asking the Governor to deal with this, as Thorne refuses to acknowledge the Commander's authority in this matter.

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Isn't thorne in the right here? Logical step to do lockdown and declare martial law if there is a terrorist attack on the city?

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It probably has to do more with Thorne not being willing to acknowledge anyone else's authority on the matter. Meaning they are trying and failing to mitigate Thorne's actions.

Thorne is an ISB agent so he technically has the right, however refusing to coordinate with the Mindans means he probably intends for more "traditional" methods for dealing with the matter of a city "harboring" Rebels.

Diplomacy sucks major ass.

Especially when I have to consistently break the news to every nation/tribe of importance that yes, we are conquering you, and no, you cannot fight back.

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It always sucks when the natives have delusions of independence. The Empire just hadn't gotten around to them yet.

The amount of assasination attempts is also annoying. They never get anywhere near close, but that doesn't mean it's fun to then go back, look the person who ordered them in the eyes, and tell them they don't get to sit on their little thrones anymore.

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I wonder if Las acted like a sneering Imperial during those speeches or a foreman giving a noncompliant worker a pink slip? Either way it demonstrates the Empire's power.

Wait until the Vendari realizes Las is the one who determines whether or not they classify as sentient under Galactic law. Ask the Ranat how bad things can get when you are hit with the even the semi-sentient designation.

Minda-2 has a surprising number of nations. Some old empires existed like a thousand years ago, but they collapsed and left a shit ton of smaller nations bickering around.

Made it easier to conquer, to be frank.

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On one hand, plenty of old ruins and cultural artifacts to plunder. On the other, probably not much in the way of high tech stuff given the Vendari's current tech level.

Governor-General Nox Vellam. Put in charge of the Bright Jewel Oversector after Vanko 'retired' due to some manipulated books, he failed to find the Rebel Alliance's base on Yavin quick enough.

Because of that, some worlds were given to Vader.

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I wonder who is going to be put in charge of those worlds? Vader isn't really ruler material, let alone for a bunch of worlds at once. They technically don't count as a whole new oversector. If only there was a place full of talented administrators nearby.

And now, he was trying to kill Vader for some random fucking reason.

Thankfully, it seems that Moff Hiral is keeping loyal and not doing some stupid bullshit, so I have little to worry about.

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Moff Hiral is probably waiting for the smoke to settle before trying to usurp Nox's position. Whether he succeeds or not, Nox isn't staying in that chair for long.

 

[Vlaadd17]

Thorne is an ISB agent so he technically has the right, however refusing to coordinate with the Mindans means he probably intends for more "traditional" methods for dealing with the matter of a city "harboring" Rebels.

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Egh, still don't see a problem.

Failed to coordinate with local authorities... Like... Alright. Terrorist tried to blow up a factory, they failed and escaped. What should you do? Lock dawn the damn city immediately and call for a martial law, or wait ten to thirty minutes to get a permission for that?

He is literally the guy who tries to save the day , the cop acting right, disregarding stupid politician who think about voters and other shit. Only this time, we see it from the politician perspective , and not from the 'cop' perspective

As for him being well... Oppressing, empire bad, tirany and all that things resulting in tensions rising and earning spite from locals... I doubt it.

Like rebels/terrorist launched multiple attacks on elected by people representatives, alongside planting explosives and trying to poison water reservoirs.

Just by killing representative live TM alone should warrant total lockdown and martial law. People would understand.Hell, people themselves would ask for it.

Minda is rich prosperous planet with literally zero oppression. Now comes terrorists rocking the boat. I can see normal people from the streets asking "what are you doing to prevent such attacks? What steps are taken to protect us? Capture rebels?"

In this situation they would not only accept some 'oppression' and loss of liberties, i could see them demand just exactly that.

Si literally can enact couple of opresing laws for 'stability and security of their society' and earn ovation just as big as the original. I could totally see that.

And the most fun part? i also could see that once the crisis is gone, normal people still asking to keep some of those laws around, just in case , to prevent similar shit.

P.s yes, thorn is racist... Spiciest? Humancentrist, and generally cruel. Yes.

But would it be better for some naive idealistic imbecile to take his place? Or corrupt incompetent inbred from the core?

 

[Sam I Am]

Throne is too used to Governors and Imperial leaders bowing donw before the ISB, but Las isn't gonna let that shit fly because he isn't a tyrannical moron Hell bent on using fear to cow the populace.

Besides, the problem with using Martial Law to attempt to capture terrorists is that terrorists disguise themselves as civilians, so they'd need to check literally every single civilian they find suspicious. It certainly won't help that Thorne and his Stormtroopers are gonna be suspicious of everyone.

Really, they most likely try and intimidate everyone when they don't need to. Minda and Edin are probably gonna have the most loyal, cooperative citizens the Empire has to offer; All they need to do is ask the citizenry if they saw anything, if they did see something, then what, and act on that information (if it is actionable).

Them again, Thorne is operating on experience at this point, so he hasn't experienced a cooperative world like this one before. All the other planets he's been set to have probably been uncooperative and stuff.

 

[Talimancer2]

Isn't thorne in the right here? Logical step to do lockdown and declare martial law if there is a terrorist attack on the city?

Like, immagine similar thing happened in US or do know, france. Big boom in major industrial center with terrorist shooting everyone and setting things on fire. Declare martial law, say don't go outside to civilians and let loose national guard and fbi.

Cant see why everyone hates thorn. He is doing his work, and does so successfully or half secsesfully.

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No, declaring martial law and locking down an entire city is rarely the correct solution which is why when there have been terrorist attacks in (for example) the US, UK and France the government rarely declared martial law.

 

[Andrew1993]

Honestly, im half expecting las to clash with thorn and it to get out that the Governor is fighting and ISB agent for the citizens of Minda, leading to said citizens violently dealing with said terrorists

 

[Talimancer2]

Thorne is basically doing the typical imperial thing of massively overreacting to anything the rebels do and causing more issues than he's solving

 

[Vlaadd17]

No, declaring martial law and locking down an entire city is rarely the correct solution which is why when there have been terrorist attacks in (for example) the US, UK and France the government rarely declared martial law.

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Well, maybe, but in US, UK, and france we don't have spaceships and flying speaders. We have cars, so closing/blocking roads/puting down police post would serve just fine.

But in SW? where every second knows how to drive flying spreader, and you have hundreds, or even thousands of those around... Closing airlines and implementing no flying zones so rebels won't hijack a space ship and fly into sunset is pretty much logical action?

It would be more surprising if they didn't do exactly that.

 

[Abba is the best]

P.s yes, thorn is racist... Spiciest?

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I've looked for the right answer to that question quite often and the answer has come to me in the form of my best friend's warhammer 40k obsession... its Xenophobe (works for litterally any type of alien, it can be used for someone who hates people alien to a nation aka foreigners, or litterally people who are an alien species)

 

[vtkun]

thanks for the chapter

 

[Scholar of Time]

@Freefaller It was good, it was compelling, and it set up the next chapter nicely while providing necessary dramatic tension & humor. It's an Empire Strikes Back chapter, and we love it for the character detail

 

[Mistroz]

excellent chapter, wonderful job.

 

[oscar e Sampedro Lopez]

Thanks for the chapter. Great story as always

 

[Talimancer2]

Well, maybe, but in US, UK, and france we don't have spaceships and flying speaders. We have cars, so closing/blocking roads/puting down police post would serve just fine.

But in SW? where every second knows how to drive flying spreader, and you have hundreds, or even thousands of those around... Closing airlines and implementing no flying zones so rebels won't hijack a space ship and fly into sunset is pretty much logical action?

It would be more surprising if they didn't do exactly that.

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Right, but declaring martial law is very different to that. A declaration of martial law is an announcement that the civil government is no longer in charge of the city, the military (or in this case Thorne himself) has taken over.

No fly zones and searches of vehicles leaving the city is pretty normal and people would probably accept it. What Thorne is also probably doing is enforcing strict curfews and anyone on the streets after a certain time gets 'disappeared'. Combine that with barricades on the roads out of town, military raids on literally anyone they think might have thought some anti-imperial thoughts and various other forms of heavy handed enforcement, the way the Empire does in other systems.