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Governor's Gambit - Star Wars SI into Imperial Governor

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Oh boy! Is that invasion justification!?

But seriously bring that to Hiral and he'll green light a attack on the governor responsible and will probably put together a force to deal with the Moff, hell he'll probably even get Mola's help which will do wonders when his ships run circles around the others. Cause when they see the effectiveness they'll want some.
 
King0fHearts said:
Oh he is fucked

Why worry he has a old republic sith for a body guard
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Even if my bodyguard could save me from a sniper in dramatic fashion by getting a premonition a second before, and pulling me down before my head splatters, I still wouldn't feel safe knowing an assassin was trying to kill me and that they only had to catch my guard lacking once.
 
Mr.Dr.Professor Patrick said:
Even if my bodyguard could save me from a sniper in dramatic fashion by getting a premonition a second before, and pulling me down before my head splatters, I still wouldn't feel safe knowing an assassin was trying to kill me and that they only had to catch my guard lacking once.
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That's the thing you die so does the bodyguard remember he's relying on mugwuffin to keep him from expiring
 
Mr.Dr.Professor Patrick said:
Even if my bodyguard could save me from a sniper in dramatic fashion by getting a premonition a second before, and pulling me down before my head splatters, I still wouldn't feel safe knowing an assassin was trying to kill me and that they only had to catch my guard lacking once.
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Does it matter? Las has been almost assassinated, like, three times already. Just because the newest guy to want him dead is a named character it doesn't really change anything. He'll just have to keep up his already-there anti-assassination measures and hope it's enough. There's no point in adding extra stress.
 
Freefaller said:
I've also taken a lot of the economic and political analyses I wrote during my time as Governor and started sending them to the University of Coruscant, while starting to write more, of course
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Man's about to either get a visit from the thought police or start a schism within the empire.

Freefaller said:
The Droid-Reliance Paradox: Capital Expenditure vs. Labor Adaptability. It was about how droid labor, while seemingly great has a great deal of hidden problems and vulnerabilities that aren't present in sentient labor.
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Organic labor is nice and all but you're stuck in the outer rim where your man power is practically nonexistent compared to the inner rims population, it's why the separatists relied so heavily on droid armies to punch above their weight.
 
Well it looks like he might get rewarded with the traitor Moff's territory after the purge. If nothing else Hiral might decide to make an explicit deal with Las to give him his position once he is gone. Plus, being named the 2nd in command could give him a lot more control and work, especially after he finally got a "normal" work week.
 
Heh it seems like Moff Mola just got handed what he needs to get rid of the slavers in his sector.

Now I'm betting on that he will have to assist whoever takes over Moff Surrde's sector in pacifying and stabilizing it, thus it seems like the guild is about to become a multi sector organization, and it might become the reason for why the Pentastar Allignment ends up fully transitioning into the Imperial Remnant instead only part of it.
 
Freefaller said:
Oh, he had a hunch it was the same person who tried to kill the Grand Moff at his gala, twice! The first assassin had been caught, with Hiral only being alerted during the Grand Moffs speech. But the guards weren't able to catch the second one before they opened fire.
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Huh, even Hiral thinks the Grand Moff was the target.
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Other yards, like the Gwori yards, were limited in size and came with the stain of being former separatists.
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Gwori can pump out Star Destroyers, but I guess not too many of them. Also it being planetside probably means expansion is extra costly.
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What contacts did he have that could help with this…he had few criminal contacts, and with the debacle at the gala getting caught with one of them would be disastrous. But it might be his only option.
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There is always the Guild. I think a good 60% of them are people who would be criminals in any other sector. The crimes they are committing are just legalized now.
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Especially with the ISB investigating. They had far too much power for him to be comfortable, especially with his lack of connections in the ISB itself.
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Meanwhile Las has already subverted and integrated the ISB in the Myto sector.
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"Why else would I be calling! You promised results, Governor Trice. A shipyard in ruins! That rat Hiral embarrassed! You said those slaves were pilots! What was the point in threatening their families if they can't even finish the job!"
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First rule of discussing crimes over long distances or really at all: Don't Use Names! And especially don't spell out the actual crimes you committed verbally, use metaphors instead. You would think with all the crime and corruption in the Imperial hierarchy they would be more competent at it.
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"Slugthrowers are so outdated they bypass most scanners. More importantly, NO OTHER SECTOR HAS THEM!!! Mines the only one where slugthrowers are used in any capacity, if only by the rebels! It's only a matter of time!"
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Probably a bit of hyperbole. I am guessing slugthrowers are at least a known thing in every Outer Rim sector. However Surrde's sector probably makes a special and identifiable kind of slugthrower make.
Freefaller said:
"You will address me by my title, Governor. I have earned the rank of Moff and I will not be disrespected. Nor will I lay low like a coward. I've already had to resort to such dishonor as assassins. No, I will do what must be done to dethrone these soft hearted civilian fools and return this side of the Empire to its glory days, those of unparalleled military might, conquest and more! The Outer Rim Sieges were the best of the Empire's glory days!"

"Of course, if you say so, Moff Surrde. I will endeavor to create new plans to the best of my ability."
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Oh so it is the military guy in the Braxant sector. Guess he sees the Guild as "tainting" the military hierarchy of the Empire. Also the Outer Rin Sieges were not "glory days" they were absolute bloodbaths on both sides.
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But as Moff, it's not the same. Instead of reading a mountain of reports, I get like two dozen 3 page reports at best. Each an executive summary of various situations sector-wide. I then sign off on them, demand more information, or change directions.

I also get to interview Governors. Not the usual process, others tend to do that part, but since I purged some 500 people a while ago I had a few Governors to replace.
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Normal Moff: "I can't fire everybody corrupt. The increase in my workload would bury me!"

Las: "Boohoo I fired 500 corrupt high ranking Imperial officials and I still don't feel like I work enough."

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And of course, there was economic policy and all the stuff with the Guild and slavers, but its become almost monotonous, like background noise. I still do the work, of course, it's what I'm paid for.
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Other Imperial leaders: "You do the work you're paid to do?"
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At this level, there was far more delegation. As a Governor, I worked around 100 or so hours each week, weekends included of course. A tiny pinch of stims in the coco helped a great deal. As Moff? Closer to 56 a week. Insane amounts of time cut off. Not to mention the pay bump is pretty nice, makes it easier to funnel money to my work-in-progress escape plan.
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And Las still doesn't understand why everyone is trying to get him to take time off. I am pretty sure Las was breaking labor laws even outside the Sector at that point. That is "non-sentient" levels of work hours.
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I've also taken a lot of the economic and political analyses I wrote during my time as Governor and started sending them to the University of Coruscant, while starting to write more, of course.

I know it's a long shot and all, but I figure maybe it could get me admitted as a student over the Holonet and all. Even with time zone differences, I imagine there must be some equivalent of online classes that I can take. At least, I hope so.
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Las failing to graduate from the Imperial Academy but earning an economics doctorate would be hilarious. Imagine Kaine trying to set up the Alignment's government and finding out one of his Moffs has a degree in economics.
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Also, it's been almost a year now since I started this story. It's kind of crazy. Thought there would be more chapters, to be honest. At least the quality and continuity has kind of increased, though, again, not by as much as I'd hoped it would've.

Eh, I'll just keep going. Bound to get good at some point.
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You are doing great! I enjoy reading every chapter you put out.
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Organic labor is nice and all but you're stuck in the outer rim where your man power is practically nonexistent compared to the inner rims population, it's why the separatists relied so heavily on droid armies to punch above their weight.
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It also isn't so much organic labor as skilled organic labor. Slavery is still a big thing so there are at least enough organics to sustain that industry. Education in the Outer Rim is patchwork at best and nonexistent on a lot of planets. Trying to find someone for a skilled technical position on most worlds this far out is a trial.

Meanwhile droids come with most if not all of that technical know how downloaded into their droid brains. With updates a mere Holonet purchase and download away. Spending years training an organic versus getting a "skilled worker" shipped in from a factory has a lot of people defaulting to the latter.
 
Well, quite a string of conspiracy detected.

It seems we've seen the knock-on effects of Las' "Purge of 500". We knew that most of the people taken were businessmen or high/mid level bureaucrats in various worlds getting a cut in the corruption pie, but some were governors under his jurisdiction too. Replacing them with people like him means the corridors for shady business is diminishing.

The loud man Suurde did have the vibes of a guy who wants to go on expeditions and conquer new species. Bet he must've been pissed that the lizard folk were discovered on Minda-2 and was peacefully subordinated by Las instead of "Glorious Conquest". Now he and the rest of the corrupt moffs are starting to hurt from stalled replenishment of their slave workforce and had tried to crush the growing new trend of "Good Governance" that Las had started.

Slavery of Imperial citizens from local worlds
Attempted Assassination of a Grand Moff
Sabotage of vital Imperial Infrastructure


Las better prepare a gallows, cause Hiral and Kaine might prefer a show than stare a scorched wall
 
just a thought will the spy sister of las give thorne a list of name's to fill out the intelligence agency? or perhaps she lets her MI buddies know jobs and higher wages are in myto oh and did she forget to mention more pay , more benefits and less political purges just to look good but a actually working moff.
 
Freefaller said:
I've also taken a lot of the economic and political analyses I wrote during my time as Governor and started sending them to the University of Coruscant, while starting to write more, of course.

I know it's a long shot and all, but I figure maybe it could get me admitted as a student over the Holonet and all. Even with time zone differences, I imagine there must be some equivalent of online classes that I can take. At least, I hope so.
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He's about to accidently become the face of post-Tarkin imperial governing philosophy, the Mola Doctrine, if you will. The John Locke to Tarkin's Machiavelli.
 
Yacov said:
Probably a bit of hyperbole. I am guessing slugthrowers are at least a known thing in every Outer Rim sector. However Surrde's sector probably makes a special and identifiable kind of slugthrower make.
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As it was stated a few chapters ago, Surrde focused so much of his budget on the military his population is backwards tech wise, so instead of blasters his "rebels" use Slug throwers, so he's the only one with widespread slug throwers in his sector.
 
Dantaliens said:
I saw long ago unfinished animation from clone wars series where he died to Fett, that's also where he got helmet dent, did they retcon that? I stopped watching star wars after force awakens disaster
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Cad Bane shows up in the Book of Boba Fett series having been hired by Boba's enemies to stand against him since Boba laid claim to Tatooine
 
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