Governor's Gambit - Star Wars SI into Imperial Governor

[Sam I Am]

Advanced medical equipment in real life is in nearly every country on earth even the poorest it's just that there isn't enough for everyone or it's just for those in power or who owns it so I feel like las might have as something he took with him when he came to be governor or would be something he would invest in a the capital city's general hospital

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Tbh, the disparity between world in Star Wars is like the Mariana Trench: The highest highs and the lowest of lows.

It actually reminds me a lot of Rimworld, what with the tech disparities and such, with the exception that in Rimworld, you have hyper-advanced societies on the same planet as tribals wielding the most basic of weapons imaginable.

Like, in the SW uni, on one planet you'll have tribals wielding sharp sticks and rocks and on another you'll have the most cutting-edge of technologies around every corner.

It's really odd how much disparity there is given how long the Galaxy has been settled.

Then again, I'm not a SW lore nut, so...

 

[Rustic]

Do you think that all that advanced medical equipment is going to be in bum fuck nowhere outer rim colony? No it's not. Honestly Las is lucky they even have a bacta tank (though he probably bought that himself due to foreseeing exactly this situation) to keep him alive.

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Depends on how technical the author wants his planet to be. However, it sounds like while the population is small. It a really nice city to live in. Very nice organized and modern. Also you can have a med droid in small little freighters. Basically star wars semi trucks. A up and coming planet. Yeah i think they can have a good medical department. It might not be the biggest hospital. However, it probably has all the fancy stuff even if it only has one and a back up peice of equipment. Except, the mc been reinvesting constantly. Pushing money so the likelyhood of amazing medical equipment on his planet probably pretty high.

 

[Shane.W]

Las could have a great way of burning through money by starting a pod racer league and tournament like the V8 Supercars here in Australia. He would need to spend money on setting up tracks, safety, seating, insurance, broadcasting it etc.

 

[Doombringer]

Advanced medical equipment in real life is in nearly every country on earth even the poorest it's just that there isn't enough for everyone or it's just for those in power or who owns it so I feel like las might have as something he took with him when he came to be governor or would be something he would invest in a the capital city's general hospital

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Which is why he has the bacta tank, like I said. But the issue is that you are treating Minda as a 3rd world state instead of the literal frontier town it effectively is. People can and have died from not having access to medicine in such frontier towns before not because it doesn't exist but because the town can't afford it.

 

[Fanof1]

Tbh, the disparity between world in Star Wars is like the Mariana Trench: The highest highs and the lowest of lows.

It actually reminds me a lot of Rimworld, what with the tech disparities and such, with the exception that in Rimworld, you have hyper-advanced societies on the same planet as tribals wielding the most basic of weapons imaginable.

Like, in the SW uni, on one planet you'll have tribals wielding sharp sticks and rocks and on another you'll have the most cutting-edge of technologies around every corner.

It's really odd how much disparity there is given how long the Galaxy has been settled.

Then again, I'm not a SW lore nut, so...

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There's a few reasons why there's such a big discrepancy in tech and why primitive societies exist.

1. People/governments don't really uplift primitive (technologicaly) societies.
They generally will leave them alone if they occupy the same planet and don't harress them. The techno union did this on skako minor.
2. They act like the tusken raiders and refuse to have major positive interactions with offworlders.
3. There on non settled worlds and no one's "discovered" them. The ewoks and talz come to mind.

Also planets have a wide range of population densities and how spread out they are.
They can be like coruscant and be everywhere and in the billions/trillions.
They can be like Tatooine and have a few major settlements spread across the planet and a population in the hundreds of thousands/a few millions.
Or they could be a shanty town with a few hundred/couple thousands of people and everyone is located in one city. Some planets would barely have that.

 

[FollowingStars]

Which is why he has the bacta tank, like I said. But the issue is that you are treating Minda as a 3rd world state instead of the literal frontier town it effectively is. People can and have died from not having access to medicine in such frontier towns before not because it doesn't exist but because the town can't afford it.

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It most certainly is not a frontier town anymore

 

[FollowingStars]

There's a few reasons why there's such a big discrepancy in tech and why primitive societies exist.

1. People/governments don't really uplift primitive (technologicaly) societies.
They generally will leave them alone if they occupy the same planet and don't harress them. The techno union did this on skako minor.
2. They act like the tusken raiders and refuse to have major positive interactions with offworlders.
3. There on non settled worlds and no one's "discovered" them. The ewoks and talz come to mind.

Also planets have a wide range of population densities and how spread out they are.
They can be like coruscant and be everywhere and in the billions/trillions.
They can be like Tatooine and have a few major settlements spread across the planet and a population in the hundreds of thousands/a few millions.
Or they could be a shanty town with a few hundred/couple thousands of people and everyone is located in one city. Some planets would barely have that.

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I think pirates found endor and the ewoks but there pirates and the ewoks ate a lot of them as well as just people that crashed on endor I think in legends the ewoks ate the stormtroopers

 

[Fanof1]

I think pirates found endor and the ewoks but there pirates and the ewoks ate a lot of them as well as just people that crashed on endor I think in legends the ewoks ate the stormtroopers

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As far as im aware, the empire and rebels were the ewoks first real off world encounter prior to endor. If there's some comic/book that refutes that, that's fair. One of the reasons for why the ds2 was being built around endor is because it was such a isolated system.

 

[FollowingStars]

As far as im aware, the empire and rebels were the ewoks first real off world encounter prior to endor. If there's some comic/book that refutes that, that's fair. One of the reasons for why the ds2 was being built around endor is because it was such a isolated system.

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Ewoks in the galaxy
Despite their primitive technology and their isolated homeworld,[1]​ Ewoks were not totally unknown in the wider galaxy; during the Clone Wars, "Ewok Jerky" was sold at Power Sliders, a diner on the planet Abafar.[18]​ Additionally, some Ewoks have been known to have left their homeworld and were seen across the galaxy even before the Clone Wars.[19]​

As a manner of recompense for saving Endor, some Ewoks agreed to travel offworld to help Rebel veterans recuperate, working with DoctorArsad as "therapy Ewoks." Therapy Ewoks were offered to those who had suffered the horrors of war, such as witnessing tragedy, and needed help with their recovery. Those that found this option distasteful were sometimes given the use of a therapy droid instead

This is something that I found on their wiki but i think before the clone wars there was an ewok that join a pirate crew call blood or skull or something like that

 

[Doombringer]

It most certainly is not a frontier town anymore

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It's only been a year, and grew from 200k population to 500k. While very impressive, it very much still is. Even the capital of the Myto sector doesn't have more than 20 million people in it. Hell the entire sector is a frontier region as far as the rest of the galaxy is concerned.

 

[noblej7]

Advanced medical equipment in real life is in nearly every country on earth even the poorest it's just that there isn't enough for everyone or it's just for those in power or who owns it so I feel like las might have as something he took with him when he came to be governor or would be something he would invest in a the capital city's general hospital

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The issue is the emperor bringing the ban hammer on the good technology for cloning and droids. To prevent the two massive tools of the clone wars from being weaponized against him. As a governor he would have an easier time than most getting ahold of it. But i could see him not getting rid of cosmetic issues to avoid the microscope attention that he may get trying to access the now heavily restricted technology. And he may willingly keep it for the visual reminder to others that he's a survivor. Something a footsoldier to Tarkin may subconsciously react to even if they may also remember the circumstances of the scar and decide to claim he was injured for incompetently not catching their assassination attempt. Ignoring the fact even palp had a few. Because logic doesn't always matter to politics. Side note. Biological technology like cloning seems to clash a lot with the force. So biotech also gets nerfed by the local magic system basically not liking it. Ironically enough.

 

[Stelarwand030]

You guys do know we, here on earth, can do skin grafts right? Doctors harvest good skin from another part of your body or donation by another or what have you. Even lab grown culture. It does a pretty good job with hiding the damage.

 

[Introverted]

Side note. Biological technology like cloning seems to clash a lot with the force. So biotech also gets nerfed by the local magic system basically not liking it. Ironically enough.

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Ehh... yes and no?

Normal biotech is fine as seen with the massed clone production and bacta healing tanks performing to specifications .

What actuallly gets nerfed is when you try and use the force to do cloning shenanigans like palpatine or that weird Spaarti mass produced crap.

 

[Shane.W]

As far as im aware, the empire and rebels were the ewoks first real off world encounter prior to endor. If there's some comic/book that refutes that, that's fair. One of the reasons for why the ds2 was being built around endor is because it was such a isolated system.

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If I remember correctly there was the Caravan of Courage movie with the children of a couple who crash landed on Endor.

 

[noblej7]

You guys do know we, here on earth, can do skin grafts right? Doctors harvest good skin from another part of your body or donation by another or what have you. Even lab grown culture. It does a pretty good job with hiding the damage.

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True. The question is whether he can legally get the treatment. Between vader and Luke and other examples. I really question it, even if the biotech is just avoided for narrative purposes. I personally weight more on the side of him keeping it for the tough guy rep. More than just not being able to get treatment. And the fact it's mot a crippling thing apparently.

 

[Stelarwand030]

If you're still looking for potential money sinks, why not try personal shields for frontline troops en masse? It's been discussed in canon sources and online that the reasons for lacking it are threefold: power supply, cost, and radiation from the shield related to problem 1.

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Get a shield like the gungans. Have them unfold like that knight Ironman from overwatch.

 

[PurpleTwilight]

Tbh, the disparity between world in Star Wars is like the Mariana Trench: The highest highs and the lowest of lows.

It actually reminds me a lot of Rimworld, what with the tech disparities and such, with the exception that in Rimworld, you have hyper-advanced societies on the same planet as tribals wielding the most basic of weapons imaginable.

Like, in the SW uni, on one planet you'll have tribals wielding sharp sticks and rocks and on another you'll have the most cutting-edge of technologies around every corner.

It's really odd how much disparity there is given how long the Galaxy has been settled.

Then again, I'm not a SW lore nut, so...

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Not all technological societies will advance, survive, or prosper. Some might be content at their level of stability or need. Some might be to restrict new ideas even when faced with them. Others might value concepts that do not improve society at large or general welfare of the people, so they do not advance.

A lot of early star wars was based on a range of 50s to 70s-ish sci-fi, but was a subversion of it. Instead of a pristine future, its gritty, broken, and corrupt. A good example of this is how in the first movie it shows Tatooine. Not a beacon of the future.

There are alot of SWd6 adventures where there is a primitive or post apocalyptic society on a continent that doesn't have a spaceport on it so it goes unnoticed until FUN occurs.

 

[FollowingStars]

It's only been a year, and grew from 200k population to 500k. While very impressive, it very much still is. Even the capital of the Myto sector doesn't have more than 20 million people in it. Hell the entire sector is a frontier region as far as the rest of the galaxy is concerned.

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It's a tech exporter that is constantly expanding with a booming population and economy that has a ship yard in systems that while doesn't function as a full ship yard is still a massive economic hub on its own and it appears to be food and water self sufficient and has an oversized defensive system fleet with its own trade fleet with warships and that's not even getting into the fact that the defence fleet which in any other frontier system is planning to launch offensive actions against pirates it is well past frontier territory and is becoming an economic powerhouse that even with what looks like las's best efforts isn't slowing down

 

[swtoring]

Las could have a great way of burning through money by starting a pod racer league and tournament like the V8 Supercars here in Australia. He would need to spend money on setting up tracks, safety, seating, insurance, broadcasting it etc.

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Even better, have him bring over formula 1 or nascar (after all who gives a shit about ground cars) ... only for the entire galaxy's marginalized groundcar racing community to move shop due to how hobby friendly Minda is to them and their passion (can also make military groundcars or smthn with their help idk)

 

[Rakdos92]

Las could have a great way of burning through money by starting a pod racer league and tournament like the V8 Supercars here in Australia. He would need to spend money on setting up tracks, safety, seating, insurance, broadcasting it etc.

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I like it! Could even serve as an excuse to have Vader race again, with Luke being another participant. I can already see it:

Luke's group are trying to destroy some blueprints or documents, but are caught and driven into a corner. Vader prepares to flush them out, but the governor, concerned about the losses of troopers spontaneously announces that he has put the macguffin up as the winner prize for his Racing Pod Tournament which will take place in two weeks. He proceeds to baffle everyone into agreeing to pariticipate before making a hasty retreat.

Vader on one hand is mad that he didn't capture the rebels, on the other, pod racing!

The rebels figure that winning the tournament less risky than a shootout with the local forces, especially since they are already aware of their presence. Luke is going to drive as Han Solo flatly refused on grounds of not being that crazy.

 

[D72]

Luke reformats the mouthy R2 unit.

Emperor: Your lack of ambition disgusts me, but your redesigned sandwich oven pleases me. Congratulations, Moff.
(It's a foreman grill with a power cell)