Governor's Gambit - Star Wars SI into Imperial Governor

[Talimancer2]

Being fair here, if you can achieve (limited) flight with little weight and volume, adding it to a mech might be definitely worth it; Not to make it a makeshift fighter craft or the like, but it's a pretty massive improved mobility for the mech; But that's what it still is and should still be: A mech, if one capable of flying;

Dedicated flyers should be dedicated flyers.

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That's a big if, and even then it'd probably turn your mech into a slow flying target. You're also forgetting expense, and trying to find something light, low volume and cheap that is even remotely effective will be rather difficult to say the least.

 

[TheManW/oAPlan]

(((OOC, not my best omake but an Imperial Spy would definitely overthink the conversation. Watch Las fail upwards!)))

The young lady in red and white sighed. She had been hoping to get more out of the Moff. She had expected bad pick up lines, expected him to boast about his sector's military strength, but he chose to discuss taxation policy. Even if he was not attracted to her, he should have been more willing to talk to her about something less benign. After all, everyone should knew who she was. As much as she sometimes hated the fact that her heterochromia gave her away in field work, it was undoubtedly useful in being noticed. She had expected asking for favors, asking for a date, maybe asking to be left alone, but he had done none of those. He was completely nonplussed and wanted to discuss economics. Pulling up the dossier on the Moff, she noticed that he intended to focus almost to an absurd amount on economics, and generally let other people handle the other aspects of his sector. Though the presence of non-humans in nearly all corners of his administration was alarming, his focus on economics did bear fruit.

She then realized something. He was talking to well known Imperial intelligence agent about economics. What was he trying to tell her about? Granted, she generally did not care much about the administrative aspects of her work but perhaps that was a mistake. Pulling up a spreadsheet, she began to cross check the reports with the treasury reports. She frowned. While she had expected some discrepancies, she had not expected to find them that quickly. She was not a forensic accountant, so if this was what a cursory review did, perhaps she should bring this up the chain. A week later, she was in formal military dress kneeling before his Imperial majesty.

"Your highness, I am concerned with some of our accounting numbers. A moff brought it to my attention, and I believe he is correct to be concerned. As such, I would reque -" Palpatine raised is hand. She stopped talking.

"You are a faithful servant. You have earned enough trust that if you believe something should be looked into, it should be looked into. What specifically do you require of me?" Palpatine requested.

"My lord, clearly the man is an economic savant. He has somehow governed a backwater of a planet into a productive one and his sector appears to be undergoing the same transformation. Given his esteemed rank and loyalty, I thought it would be best if you order him to do an audit for the benefit of the Empire," she explained.

"Granted. You are dismissed," the Emperor ordered.

Three weeks later, in the Moff's office...

"What do you mean I am doing an audit of the entire Empire!" Las yelled.

"The order comes from the Emperor himself. Apparently you impressed someone on your last trip to Imperial Center." Zyx commented.

"Is there any way to get out of this?" Las aswked.

"Sorry bro. The orders came from the Emperor himself. Sometimes the reward for good work is more work," Zyx replied.

"But I wanted to take a vacation..." Las whined.

 

[RoyalOlive]

When can we upgrade to proper titans, instead of walkers and small LECAs?

 

[Psychic_Duck]

The walker is a good idea, its just poorly implemented, have the OG R&D teams take a crack at it and go full Armored Core, watch everyone shit themselves in terror/awe.

 

[Arisen gunmen]

i just thought of a solution to thrawn being gone in this fic. the one taken by the space whales was a clone. the real thrawn disappeared to create the empire of the hand.

 

[Felius]

That's a big if, and even then it'd probably turn your mech into a slow flying target. You're also forgetting expense, and trying to find something light, low volume and cheap that is even remotely effective will be rather difficult to say the least.

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You're massively underestimating the advantages of mobility, and also going for a very limited view of how it'd be used; Think a better version of battletech's jumpjets doctrine wise;

Fair enough, on the development difficulty side of things though, although given Star Wars bullshit tech at times, I feel it's entirely a matter of cost; It's unlikely that they can make it for default deployment, but I could entirely see it as a special project for elite special forces; In fact, I'm fairly sure that the Mandalorian Basilisk War Droids were almost that already, except a lot weirder and with sacrifices of effectiveness for the thematic bullshit of literally riding (on the outside) of the droids.

 

[OblivionFan007]

More mecha. The 10 m design just needs funding to make it better.

 

[Freefaller]

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Great stuff, really, but it needs a title for me to threadmark it

 

[oscar e Sampedro Lopez]

Thanks for the chapter Great story as always.

Haha poor Las didn't recognize Issard

How about some company made Code Geass Knightmare frames, at 4.5 meters are just barely taller than Lecas.

 

[JohnSmithMIB]

Tactical Unit for Next-gen Armor

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This is what happens when the smartass sneaks one by management. Guy clearly knew their prototype was a dead fish.

 

[PepeDeLosPalotes]

Thanks for the chapter

 

[Heidao]

Ah, so it's an ambush

Odds are this strange eccentric lady may be one of the leading voices for the "debate", but while her fellows may have planned to spring it as a surprise hearing on Las' very "Anti-Imperial" way of thinking and governorship, counter to "Core World Sensibilities", they are all stuck in creating a proper foundation due his sector wide success. With multiple moffs either following his lead or equal peers in alliance to him.

She's probably more enthused on the fact that his style and system is working, than the fact it's stepping on the toes of many people who see a potential shift in popular favor to Las if they fail to discredit him.

So as a potential oddball, would she go out of her way to dress up to code to enter a restaurant to meet and briefly pick Las' brain?

Yes



On another note, the Myto sector is quietly becoming Mecha Mecca of the galaxy. Everyone desperately wants to be the next person to sell there Metal Gear/Gundam/Armored Core/Patlabor/Variable Fighter to Las

 

[L0RDJ3STER]

Would be funny if Isard wants Las in her circle after the eventual death of the Emperor.

I can see the power struggle within the Ruling Council be more interesting.

 

[TheManW/oAPlan]

Great stuff, really, but it needs a title for me to threadmark it

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I really need to do better than that. Alright, let's go with Obscurum per Oeconomicus

 

[Hellkite]

My entire thought process for that chapter.. "Dinner, eh? Let's hope he doesn't run into one of the scary people that populate Imperial Center.. Iceheart! Iceheart! Iceheart! Damn, damn, nononononono! No! Be very respectful, do not draw her attention! You drew her attention. You are DOOMED. Well, it's been nice knowing you... Wait! What?! You are still alive AND not disappeared?! How!? Luckiest SOB on the planet... Whew. Still got her attention, though, so your still fucked." "At least it wasn't Vader"

 

[Shadowwarp]

Even though the products shown were clear failures, potentially seeing a heavier mech would be really cool to see. The LECA was originally meant to just be the Light weight model after all, even if all the other walker types never ended up in production.

While the execution of both those was horrible if you could rework something like the Tie Walker but less retarded you could create a LAM "land air mech" which if kept to a reasonable size could be a major boost not only to army but logistics.

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A Walker that can essentially cut out the middleman by being able to launch out ships, dogfight in the air, land on the ground for Walker operations, then fly back would be insanely versatile. The ability to rapidly lightning strike, harass, and dance around the enemy would be infinitely valuable.

I don't know if it's actually possible, but it's at least worth playing around with.

 

[Cthugha]

Would be funny if Isard wants Las in her circle after the eventual death of the Emperor.

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No what would be really funny is if different future Imperial Remnant leaders are fighting in the back ground over him like divorced parents fighting over custody. And he's entirely ignorant of it.

 

[Introverted]

No what would be really funny is if different future Imperial Remnant leaders are fighting in the back ground over him like divorced parents fighting over custody. And he's entirely ignorant of it.

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They might honestly end up fighting over his staff for their Secretariat. Losing the Capital means a lot of the Admin work is now something they have to actually do on their own.

I doubt any of them has an administration pipeline quite like Las has.