Governor's Gambit - Star Wars SI into Imperial Governor

[Mistroz]

excellent chapter.

 

[Yacov]

Then, it was an academy for pilots in the militia. Now that the academy was being moved back to a facility on Minda, combined with the fact that the Belt Haven asteroid station is finished, the Lucrehulk is useless to both the Guild and the Empire.

At least, here on Edin.

Apparently, it was supposed to go to Minda and function as a trade hub there. Supposedly, the spaceports were being overwhelmed as trade grew, and it was cheaper to drag this behemoth of a ship over there than it was to upgrade the spaceports again.

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Considering this ship cost 500 million credits new and the thing can probably hold over a tenth of Ugea's population by itself? Yeah I can see this thing helping with Minda's housing and orbital infrastructure.

I can see this thing being a gathering point for the temporary shipyard workers. For all planetside housing will have way more amenities, spacers are probably going to want to stay in the black most of the time.

As a plus, since this thing is not on Ugea, that means a lot of the service requirements can be adjusted and probably just shipped to other locations than the Hulk itself.

However, KDY has immense influence. A company so powerful, the debt is owed directly to them.

Not to a bank. To the company itself. Because they're just that powerful.

Combined with the favorable position they hold in the Empire, suffice to say that if I fail to prove that I can pay this debt in a timely manner, I'll find myself in a far worse position

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Yeah especially with how "corpo friendly" this section of the galaxy gets in canon with how Penstar ran things. It is probably better to keep the hooks the mega corps have in Minda to a minimum.

Which is why I was speaking to Umber Tion. Governor of the Clok system. The connection over the terminal was shaky at the moment, owing to Clok's outdated comms systems.

Governor Tion was a fairly straight forward man, something I greatly appreciated about him. He was a native of Clok, his family having lived there since before the clone wars.

His first goal was to keep Clok ticking. Keep its people alive and happy. His second goal was to make a name for his home system, which had long stagnated as nothing but a traffic stop.

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Ah an ambitious native who just wants what's right for his system. I can see why the Empire doesn't favor Tion. Probably gave off Separatist vibes.

"See, the Guild has been looking to do many things. One is to more effectively streamline its main purpose, which is connecting various companies, contractors, merchants and producers together. As it stands, the Guild deals solely in physical goods and contracts. There is no official way to deal in more complex financial products."

"As in…?" I could tell Umber knew what I was talking about. Still, he wanted me to sell him on it. Fair enough.

"Futures trading. Investment opportunities. Insurance policies. The kinds of things the Guild doesn't deal in, but could. However, as it stands, the other members aren't sold on this sort of thing. At least not enough for every member to consider building their own. So, I come to you."

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Dear Force, the Guild is making an investment bank/hedge fund. I guess with all products trading and new businesses opening up it was inevitable. I suppose if the Bouny Hunters Guild can have a bank, the Guild can have one too.

Perhaps Gary can tap his colleagues on Muunilinst for aid? Besides Muunilist, most Outer Rim based banks are pretty brutal in terms of interest rates. Banks on Tatooine consider a 15% interest loan to be monstrously generous for instance.

If they do really well, the Guild may be able to convince the Empire to move its Imperial payroll garrison to Clok. I imagine the Myto's Imperial payroll has to be kept somewhere in the sector after all.

The fact that it will be located on a heavily Guild influenced world can be swept under the rug. Just ignore the fact a Guild world is where all the Imperials paychecks will come from in this sector.

"A market analysis team. One that will use the exchanges data to tap into patterns, identify shortages, and do a bevy of other things. For example, is it possible to determine a pirate gang's territory by analyzing the ships lost? That makes it easier to track them down, as many pirates strong enough to challenge the Guild have a base of operations."

It's here when I look him in the eyes. Eye contact was important in a conversation, but holding his gaze now put emphasis on what I was saying.

"Of course, this information would be available to the many merchants and companies that frequent the exchange. For a subscription fee, of course. A portion of the profit goes to the Guild, for the use of its data. The remainder is split between us, of course."

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AND it is also an insurance and marketing company? Truly the Guild Exchange will be a black hole of evil. It is going to make all the money if they can get their roots into the Myto Sector.