Governor's Gambit - Star Wars SI into Imperial Governor

[Orphiex]

Okay, main question: what are the obstacles to clawing more coaxium out of the planet it's on? Extraction, refinement, or transport?

I think the best short-term solution might be to cut a deal with one of the galactic megacorps. I know Las has used the Guild to keep them out, but needs must when the devil drives. Unless Las can somehow finagle an exemption out of Vader, he's going to have to choose a least-bad option.

 

[Starseeker]

@Starseeker That was why I was focusing on General Veers, who, one way or another, would probably know about things like the LECA or the stormwalker as an Imperial Army officer who, at least in legends, was the one who came up with the idea of the AT-AT for use on the world of Jabiim, he then had to create a doctrin for use outside of the original use case

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Ah, you're right.
I somehow missed Veers in your comment because he got overshadowed by Vader.
Veers would indeed have a reason to look at Myto ground units, although he would have to convince Vader if the necessity.

 

[some one]

The solution to his problem is fraud, blackmail ,bribery , corruption and piracy

He needs to falsify the records to show that he is meeting his quotas , bribe the auditors and officials in charge of validating those records , blackmail mail , implicate or distract the local ISB , hire pirates and raiders to steal shipments to justify the shortfall in deliveries while blaming the security failures on Vader commandeering huge parts of the fleet which will stop any investigation flat

This is not sustainable but the MC only needs to buy time until the battle of Yavin when the empire will collapse

This will easier and cheaper and more doable than trying to meet the empire's unreasonable demands

 

[abrandentport4]

almost losing his "favourite" General may do the job, of course, it may just cause Vader to go right royal rampage through the Imperial Army, in which case a lot of the Army's dead wood will no longer be army officers

 

[PersonablePlatypus]

As for Las's section, its that classic exposition. I figured I'd end it without him having a solution, because I feel like a lot of these problems end up having a solution within the same chapter and then the next few are just about how that solution is implemented, and I don't really want that for this. Gonna make Las sweat for something, the lazy bastard.

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Eh, my bet would be that he already has at least four ways to close that gap - not counting simply asking his local ISB asset to check up on his superiors affairs.

If it really is just the coaxium Palpys Paper Pushers are interested in, call them out on feasability, stuff the gap with hopefully still somewhat decently stocked Droid factories and set the next poor schmuck the Navy sends to load strategic material to really learn of Myos privateer problem - Vader was ever so gracious to deliver a fun excuse to the ISB as to why an imperial Flotilla was bum rushed right outside sector borders.

'You see Ser, my Naval Capacity was recently rather diminished by Lord Vader, Ser - I couldn't possibly open up such a vital ressource like Coaxium to brigants and other neer'do - wells by pointlessly assigning already patroling vessels to a Task Force that was planned by the best and brightest of Naval Command, Ser.'

' … to shreds you say, Ser? I won't believe it! We will henceforth double- nay, TRIPPLE - the patrols of the corridor that was attacked and - … another Sector you say, Ser ? Well I knew of the possibility of course, Ser, even updated the Grand Moff on that explicitly, regularly!'

'-…would you like my personal com logs for your investigation to that end, Ser?'

Also: Myo bonds for the wealthier parts of the populus for Short Term Cash, just remember that they might become a liability when Endor happens and structure them accordingly.

 

[Aeroeng]

Considering the Myto sector was under Confederacy control during the Clone wars, there's probably some droid factories in the region, if so he could reactivate them and use them for mining and exploration.

Edit: Hell there's probably some droid stockpiles in the region too, hundreds of thousands to millions of droids sitting in long forgotten storage facilities. That'd probably be enough to help fix the fuel problem.(there's probably a few forgotten fuel depots too for that matter)

 

[Heidao]

Droids are a no no guys, it's only been 20+ years since the galaxy suffered Palpatine's orchestrated murder tide of droids that devastated the Mid and Outer Rim planets through the CIS.

That's why characters like The Mandalorian, Din Djarin has a hatred for droids, even when he made a friend like IG-11. Las suffered a lot of flak when he pushed for droids at the shipyards, even when they were to be assistant workers to the flesh crew. So he's screwed on the criminal workers but he'd be more screwed if he uses droids. Cause while criminals can be seen as getting what they deserve, droids would be seen as taken the working man's potential jobs

 

[LuckyRobert]

It's time to commit a great evil. It's time to implement games with micro transactions and loot boxes, and worst of all, gacha games.
This will provide the required capital.