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Governor's Gambit - Star Wars SI into Imperial Governor

To be fair, our guy is a rim world governor. That's like expecting, a British governor of Falkland islands to affect the going of the Crown and American Revolution
I will say...

You know that George Washington, leading colonial militias accidently kickstarted the 7 years war right?

The war that bankrupted england and france (causing one to raise tea taxes, and the other to destabilise enough, so that sending aid to the americans, caused a revolution)

That guy stayed the leader of militia in a no name frontier colony right?
 
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Looks like the offensive is being called off early due to the PDA's being a thing in this timeline.

Butterflies and hurricanes las butterflies and hurricanes.
It makes sense too. Like Ackbar says while they're getting victories, logistics are saying another thing.

With the ability, thanks to the PDAs, to proper inventory their equipment instead of fighting till everything's exhausted, like I suspect they did in OTL, they've realised that they can't continue the offensive without crippling themselves.

Corse this means the Rebellion will have more resources when they finally form a defensive line and hunker down, but it also means they don't stretch as far towards the Core and several battles won't be fought that would have in OTL.

Wonder if this will mean that the rebels will start to fort up worlds and start native production lines instead of looting what they need?
 
I will say...

You know that George Washington, leading colonial militias accidently kickstarted the 7 years war right?

The war that bankrupted england and france (causing one to raise tea taxes, and the other to destabilise enough, so that sending aid to the americans, caused a revolution)

That guy stayed the leader of militia in a no name frontier colony right?
think u have that reversed the 7 year war and British victory in that led to the American revolution
 
think u have that reversed the 7 year war and British victory in that led to the American revolution


The seven years war bankrupted france, then when Louis, who was pissed at the english, sent event more aid to the now rebelling America, it sent the economy spiralling. To try and save his coffers, Louis summoned the french parliament for the first time in decades, which immediately got taken over by the Jacobins, spiralling into the french Revolution.

The seven years war, which was started by the americans, led to Britain going bankrupt, while the colonies were left room to expand into French lands (sans the indian territories). Which meant that the Crown needed to raise taxes (especially on the people who got them into this mess). The Americans didn't want taxation, without at least 2 representives in westminster. Parliament didn't like that (King George, when he wasn't talking to a pot plant, was in support of this offering, but parliament overruled him). Up until the final years of the revolution, there was still a hope they could remain part of the empire, or even get brought into the domain of Britain (with representation) but during the final years, they had enough and chose to break away, establishing the first representative republic. Which kickstarted a whole lot of things.

Arguably, George Washington is one of the most important men in history, even if he never led the revolution in America. The 7 years war flipped the board on a lot of things around the world. and set things into motion (eg - france would have democratised/constitutionalised, they just likely wouldn't have had a revolution without the yanks having a republic first.)


Getting back to our poor administrator...

He's probably closest to Claudius or Alfred the Great.

Neither wanted to be Emperor/King, they just sort of were forced into it by sword/axe point. But because they were so good as administrators and logisticians, people flocked to them.

Now we just need to make sure we have kids, set down a constitution; and don't marry our niece who's already got a son (or daughter) called Nero...
 
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And that's what's truly unacceptable. My current escape plans have been pushed back to the fall of the Empire, which means I need to make it to 4 ABY, maybe a little after it if need be, and there can be no unstable elements threatening my survival until I get out.
It'll be funny when, after the Empire falls, the various remnants try to put him in charge as the new Emperor.
 

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