Governor's Gambit - Star Wars SI into Imperial Governor

[swtoring]

They gave Karen Traviss complete freedom to write whatever she wanted!

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Damn, and here i was, thinking she'd gotten past her simping for warrior cults cultures & shitting on the jedi, but i guess like in all xianxia the righteous sects (jedi) have to be incompetent & corrupt so the demonic sects (sith) can exist and seem like a threat ... now i want the jedi & sith to throw xianxia lines at each other mid fight

During a boarding action above Coruscant:
Jedi: You had eyes, yet you could not see the Jedi Temple
Sith: Two things are infinite: the universe and jedi stupidity; and I'm not sure about the universe. (spaces the jedi)

 

[Orangeduke38]

The two corsairs were currently sitting in the Imperial Yards in orbit, being slowly repaired and refitted. They would make good patrol ships, if nothing else. The light freighters that were captured held little use, and so I had them cleaned, repaired, and put them up for sale.

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I'd just sell the corsairs: you don't know what kind of surprises might be in the software, the ships need repairs, they don't fit the logistics already in place, and you would need to train people to use them. Even if you can just get one additional Assassin it would be more useful than two pirate ships. Or you could buy a IR-3F-class light frigate and separate out the customs duties and the system defense fleet.
Some of the light freighters might be used as scouts by the system defense fleet to scout out the local area. Others might be used as inspection craft by the local customs patrol.

 

[noblej7]

I'd just sell the corsairs: you don't know what kind of surprises might be in the software, the ships need repairs, they don't fit the logistics already in place, and you would need to train people to use them. Even if you can just get one additional Assassin it would be more useful than two pirate ships. Or you could buy a IR-3F-class light frigate and separate out the customs duties and the system defense fleet.
Some of the light freighters might be used as scouts by the system defense fleet to scout out the local area. Others might be used as inspection craft by the local customs patrol.

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Ship Availability is always a big question on top of maintenance and part replacements when trying to get specific ships vs keeping scavenged ships. I could understand keeping a bird in hand over two in the bush scenario. Especially when he's on no ones priority list for new and fancy navy equipment

 

[CoolJacketjack]

Minda 1
- Population: 0
- Military Forces: 0
- Planet Type: Volcanic World
Minda 1-A
- Population: 0
- Military Forces: 0
- Moon Type: Barren

Minda 3
- Population: 200,000 Imperial Citizens(mixed species)
- Military Forces: ~3600
- Planet Type: Flat Plains
Minda 3-A
- Population: 0
- Military Forces: 0
- Moon Type: Barren
Minda 3-B
- Population: 0
- Military Forces: 0
- Moon Type: Barren

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The world the governor is on now has two barren moons and the volcanic world has a barren moon of its own.

The governor could at some point get one of the companies to design and build domed cities to place in the barren moons to be used primarily as mining or heavy manufacturing settlements.

It would allow the governor to fully make use of the planetary bodies within the solar system.

Spoiler: Domed moon city

 

[Orangeduke38]

Ship Availability is always a big question on top of maintenance and part replacements when trying to get specific ships vs keeping scavenged ships. I could understand keeping a bird in hand over two in the bush scenario. Especially when he's on no ones priority list for new and fancy navy equipment

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True but the IR-3F-class light frigate is actually an older ship so should be available.

As for what the Govenor can do he could extend an offer to Rendili StarDrive and other shipbuilders to establish production facilities on his world for the usual incentives. Rendili StarDrive has a long history of establishing satellite yards and is currently focused on building weapons platforms. Considering the local pirate problems there should be enough interest for a small slow production line. Others might be interested in establishing or licensing out production for spare parts.

 

[Solar Mechanis]

Is this a crack-fic? Because it reads like one at times. Everything is happy go lucky, even the lady garrison commanders murder happy tendencies. No real struggle, no intrigue, just quips and rubber ball gags. Where are the stakes?


You say it's not a harem, but the majority of the named characters we see are women for some reason. Not saying they can't be, but it seems like a set up for a harem, especially because we're on QQ. If it's supposed to be some commentary on sexism in the Empire it's not really present. More like the MC is a man and all the people in power around him happen to be women or old men (clones).


Everyone is reasonable to a fault. The rebellion isn't staging attacks for freedom and the Empire isn't showing its characteristic inefficiency. I know you gave a bit of reasoning for the rebellion not to do anything, but that's never stopped them and if the system is stable and they have a presence you'd think they'd be planning an assassination to throw it all into disarray. Not everyone is reasonable all the time. Show that. For the Empire you could have him getting less supplies or not the correct type he ordered because it's been "requisitioned" by more powerful people, have red tape from the Imperial bureaucracy when he tries to implement change or have them start asking questions for why he has all the clones and non-humans running around being in charge of things. Hell, have pirates loot shit on the way to the system.


Right now it's just an incompetent man bumbling his way to success with no issue. Even the pirate attack was quickly repelled and we sat through Darna thinking he's competent (with margins telling us he's not). Like a wink to the audience, just in case we're too slow to see it.


For a backwater system full of the castoffs of the Empire, he's getting his way surprisingly easy. For a disgraced noble being put in charge and quickly turning things around he has way too little roadblocks. No one is trying to be selfish and advance themselves at the expense of others. The rebels aren't doing a terrorism to show that no one is safe the Empire. You have democracy and no one is asking why?


Where are you gonna take this story? He bumble fucks his way into a fleet of ships, kills Palpatine and becomes the new head of the Republic?

 

[Freefaller]

Chp-11: Various Interludes

Captain Ife Veers
Minda System, Ugean Orbit, Arquitens-Class Command Cruiser Rationale

As the crew rushed about the bridge, communicating orders, coordinating the defense fleet, and all the other things a bridge crew does, Ife immersed herself in the noise. It sounded like success.

She had been devastated when she had been assigned to Minda. After all the hard work and discrimination she had faced, she was tossed into a backwater. Sure, the Empire didn't officially discriminate against women, and to most it is a ridiculous thing, but especially in the higher ranks women are not common, and often kept down by higher officers. Not only that, but interservice rivalries plagued her rise.

All because of her father. Maximilian Veers, now a General in the Imperial Army, had raised her to be a part of the machine. She had joined the Army's Youth program when she was young, but then her mother died. A rare disease caught while on vacation.

It broke her father. He threw himself into his work, and pushed her and her brother further into their programs. While her brother was pushed into the COMPNOR youth program, he also tried to push her further in the Army. At first, she hadn't cared, but then nepotism started happening. Scores that she knew were higher than she scored. Trainees throwing matches. It was insulting

Ife would be damned if she let all her hard work go to waste because her father was a General. So she transferred into the Navy. The only reason she even got in was because an Admiral caught wind and approved the transfer solely for the purpose of spiteing her father.

Once in the Navy, she faced the opposite of nepotism. She was looked down on for being the daughter of a General. The Empire was a competitive place, and those in higher ranks were often closer to politicians than military officers. That meant that there was constant scheming and political power moves both within and between the various branches of the military, and her fathers position made her the perfect target.

Despite all that, she had persevered. She would no matter what, carve out her own future. Prove, to the Empire and to herself, that she could succeed on her own efforts.

Her scores were top ten in her class, she consistently did very well in all her courses and exercises, and in the end she was assigned to Minda. It should have been an honour to be given a Captaincy right out of the Academy, but it was in reality an insult. Captaincy of an outdated clone-wars era Arquitens, in a backwater system, relegated to fighting smugglers and small-time pirates for the rest of her career.

Then the new governor came to power. Reforms started happening. Prospecting, expansion, new ships, and so much more. She had often found Accordia to be a bland city, and rarely left the Gauntlet unless necessary, and yet now she actually enjoyed her shore leave. Not only that, but she had been given command of a far more advanced Arquitens-class Command Cruiser, from which she would command a much larger flotilla in the defense of the system.

She even found something in common with that cur Grant! Admittedly, tutoring the governor on starship command and flight wasn't something she thought she would find particularly interesting, but he was very attentive and studious, and it gave her a way to subtly one-up the Commander every now and again. Lesson planning with Kaela was a surprisingly relaxing task, and one of the only times they weren't shooting dirty looks and veiled insults at each other.

Life was finally looking up. Her career seemed to have a way up, after years of being stuck unmoving. If she did well enough, she might get noticed by the sector moff. Command of an ISD didn't look so far off.

Ife looks down at her PDA, scanning over the incoming stream of information. It seems like some smugglers thought they could sneak into Accordia. Not on her watch. She turned to her newest aide, and young girl who had just graduated from the militia academy. Her scores had been top-notch, and the fire in her eyes reminded her of herself.

"Align our movement vector, engage sublight engines, and make ready the ion cannons. I want them alive."

The aide saluted, then repeated the command across the deck. Ife received a collective response in return.

""""Yes Ma'am!""""

Ah. The sweet sound of command.
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Ebiam Fik
Minda System, Ugea, Shubeon, Roxatory Outskirts

Ebiam fiddled with the controls for a few seconds aiming to line the tracks as easily as possible. Once the computer beeped, he hit the correct sequence and watched the beams attach themselves to the supports.

He was some ten or so kilometers from Roxatory as an employee of the Imperial Construction Agency. He and his team were laying tracks for the new inter/intracontinental rail system.

"Three months," he grumbled. "Three frakking months of this mind-numbing work".

His co-pilot, Arkia, laughed. Her voice was scratchy, as if her throat was lined with sand.

"You complain now, but I've seen your face on payday. Like a kid seeing a sloop race for the first time."

"Well yeah, I love money" he grumbled, "it's just that this track laying is boring as hell"

She nodded. "Can't fault ya there. The worst part is the back and forth. We lay track for a week, then we get transferred back to apartment construction because it takes another two weeks for more track to arrive, then we lay track again. Wish they would just bring it all in one go."

"Same here" he muttered, already aligning the next track while she adjusted the settings and alerted the rail system. "But the budget is split between this, the militia academy, and the farming and apartment expansions. Also, I heard from one of the higher ups that they can't use all the space in the bulk freighters for tracks because then they wouldn't be able to store the fuel they buy for the MSDF."

The track was aligned, the buttons pressed, and another section added. Behind them, they could hear the second repulsorlift crane securing the tracks and ensuring they were functioning.

"Anyway's" Arkia said "How're your kids doing? Heard Hrax got into the MSDF."

A rare smile slid across Ebiam's face. "Heh, yeah. Her scores were so good, she was assigned as an aide to -get this- the Captain of the MSDF's command ship, the Rationale!"

Arkia whistled, a look of surprise etched across her face. "Your baby girl is up there with one of the head honchos? Captain Veers is one of the governor's advisors, right?"

"Not just that, she's in command of the entire MSDF! Hrax is going places I tell ya!"

"She sure is. But… how is Vulo taking it? He's pretty protective, isn't he?"

Ebiam sighed. "Yeah. I love him, I do. But Vulo has always been the overprotective sort. I think that once he realizes she's strong now, he'll be more supportive."

Arkia wiggled her eyebrows, the action causing her bright pink hair to almost sway from her safety cap. "Maybe you need to do something to…get him to loose-ouch! Come on!"

Ebiam retracted his hand, the nose flick of justice completed. "Me and my husband's sex life is perfectly normal and private. Thank you very much."

She whined, an odd sound to pair with her voice. "Fine. At least adopt another welp then. Kept him busy this long, right?"

Chuckling, he responded. "Maybe once JoJo is an adult. And has stopped calling people "Enemy stand users" and throwing rocks at them."
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Garrison Commander Kaela Grant
Minda System, Ugea, Accordia, Imperial Garrison Firing Range

Kaela was happy. Happier than she had been in a long time. Finally! She got a job that let her do what she did best.

The sound barrier shattered as she watched a solid chunk of metal accelerate down the repulsor rails of the weapon. It pierced the durasteel plating at the end, and went through

This beast of a turret was developed as a pet project by some of the R&D people on the side. It used many easy, conventionally sourced materials like the small repulsorlifts that lined the barrels, and leftover durasteel for the projectiles, and had been approved for limited research. While she was sure the governor saw the use in these, the fact was that many projects were being sponsored by him, and the budget as it was, didn't allow for much leeway, though she sorely wished it did.

They were calling it the RSTT-00(Repulsor Slug Thrower Turret ), and upon completion, multiple units would be fitted around key points of the capital as AA weapons, with others being sent to The Bore, as it was the most likely target for pirates not suicidal enough to attack the capital.

Projectiles fired from the RST-01 were shown to be able to pierce up to a quarter meter of durasteel. Not nearly enough to pierce warship armor, nor can it break through most deflector shields. However, the speed of the projectiles fired was faster than any blaster bolt. Combined with its power, it could destroy fighters in one shot. Two, if the deflector shields were strong enough. It could even tear through light freighters in a few shots. This was the perfect defense against pirates, which were the most likely enemy to be faced.

Kaelas excitement cooled, however, when the barrels of the weapon had to be removed. While small sized repulsor lifts could launch the projectiles faster than standard magnetic rail guns could, they both used a great deal of power, and were more delicate, leading to internal damage from overheating and recoil.

As the testing team took over the range, examining the turret for any further damage, Kaela left, having seen enough, and knowing she had paperwork to accomplish. Thankfully, that new terminal system R&D made was great for organization. That, and she had more aides and other number crunchers thanks to the better schooling system. Also meant more work for her, but she knew it would be worth it. At this rate of expansion, it wouldn't be long before she was burning the jungles of Minda 2 and engaging in some slaughter. She heard the beasties over there were particularly vicious, and she wanted to test that. Personally.

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Three hours later saw her in her quarters, gearing up for a private training session with Governor Mola. A month before the Mindan Raid, he had requested for after hours private training. Apparently, his schooling in the Academy had leaned more towards bureaucracy rather than self defense.

It excited her, to be honest. He had no real basis for combat, and so she could shape his fighting style herself. Guide him, with no pre-trained biases holding him back. It was like playing with clay.

Every other trooper she trained had been taught how to fight by Imperial Bootcamp. They, especially the standard Infantry, had been taught how to be effective cannon fodder instead of soldiers. It was pitiful, and both she and the clone teachers under her(who were very effective, and told good stories) spent half their time retraining troops to actually fight effectively.

But with the Governor? She could build him into the perfect killing machine, if only he didn't have all that work to do. So she resigned herself to making him a decent killing machine instead.

The sessions often covered a variety of topics. They started with hand to hand, then went onto blaster training, gear safety, and ended with vehicle handling. Occasionally, Captain Veers volunteered to teach the Governor how to fly. For a career officer, Kaela had been surprised at how skilled Veers was in fighters and other lighter ships. She was then immediately angry at that smug smile Veers would shoot her when the Governor wasn't looking.

Before she could descend into an internal tirade about her sworn enemy officer, her PDA dinged with a notification.

Sighing, she composed herself, picked up her gear(she always kept special made training gear in her quarters) and left for the emptied training center.

If nothing else, this was the highlight of her week.
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Zyx Mola
Nar Shaddaa

No sound came from the creeping of her feet, or the drawing of her blade.

As Zyx silently prowled through the room, she focused on the target ahead of her. A pantoran, dressed in fine silks, laying in an expensive chair, clearly just having gotten out of his bath..

Readying her blade, Zyx stepped to the side of the bookshelf. Her pitch black bodysuit allowed her to blend in perfectly, but it was really the stealth field generator around her waist that did the heavy lifting.

She pointed her weapon, its thin, almost invisible blade reflecting a mere modicum of light. As soon as the button on the handle was pressed, the blade shot out, extending the remaining distance between her and the pantoran.

Perfectly positioned as she was, the blade nicked the man so lightly he didn't even feel it.

Her current objective accomplished, she backed away, before slinking off into the darkness, heading towards her exit point. As she dodged guards and security cameras alike, not wanting to rely on the generator more than she had to, she marveled at the ingenuity of her plan.

That man, Hlira was a rich weapons dealer, and was here on Nar Shaddaa to meet with one of the Hutts, and negotiate a deal to supply ion and proton torpedoes to the Hutts. The one he was meeting with was Prattu. He was a collector, like many Hutts, and enjoyed collecting rare beasts and animals from across the galaxy.

His most favored pet was a Qakuh, a rare creature found on what can only be called a death world. Said world was under Imperial control, with which he named Cheeskar Killie, which roughly translated to Betrayer Killer. Great pet name, very nice taste in beasts, bad choice for Hlira.

You see, Prattu had trained his pet very well, and liked to scare newcomers by showing it off. If they displeased him, his pet got a little treat. If not, nothing happened. It was a classic.

The very tip of her blade had been covered in miniscule amount of a pheromone produced only by male Qakuh when they were challenging another to a battle for a mate. And considering the incredible sense of smell the creatures have, it was very likely that come tomorrow, when Hlira enters Prattus chambers, Cheeskar Killie is going to have himself a nice little snack.

Leaving the spot of torpedo supplier open. Conveniently, there was another supplier petitioning for the position tomorrow. Who just so happens to be an Imperial Agent.

Make no mistake, the Hutts and the Empire had come to an understanding, and the Hutts were allowed mostly free reign of their space, so long as they didn't frakk things up. But having infiltrators within their ranks was always a benefit to the Empire, so MI had sent Zyx to insure that it all went according to plan.

Arriving back at her hideout, she decloaked and took a breather, before beginning her report. As she typed, she noticed the files she had requested. A series of memos detailing the going ons of the Minda system, where her dear younger brother had been sent off to.

She had read through them all, and was surprised. Las had actually done something good, for once. Minda's economy was increasing, with colonists from nearby systems steadily flowing in, and a stream of resources steadily flowing out.

From what she could tell from the admittedly sparse reports(they weren't going to send an agent out on just her request, after all), he was actually trying to accomplish the goal Mother had set on his shoulders.

Zyx had expected to be tracking him down as he fled by this point, but they were almost seven months in and he was making a legitimate attempt. That… didn't sound like Las. She loved her brother, truly, but she also knew that he was lazy, prone to argument, and jumped from hobby to hobby, leaving one as soon as he had to put in the work to get good.

So for him to be actively working to improve the system was a surprise. Either the threat of service in the army was that bad, or someone was backing him.

Regardless, she had accrued much leave that she never used, and decided that she might as well check in on her little brother, and whoever might be pulling his strings.

Even if there wasn't anyone, it would be fun to poke around the system. Might be something interesting to find.
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Hi there folks. Decided to try a full barrage of alt POVs. Wanted to try and slow things down and take a look at Minda from higher ups and groundlevel folks. I also finally got around to introducing the second sister! Zyx is going to be interesting to write, and will most certainly play quite the role in the story going forward.

Also, I wasn't able to find that much on MI(Military Intelligence) stealth tech, and just went with something basic I found on Wookieepedia. Though the blade Zyx used was an original idea. Meant to be less of a blade and more of a way to apply poison directly onto the skin or into the blood with minimal chance of detection, though it can be used as an incredible deadly whip/sword combo. Not shown here, obviously.

As always, feedback, tips, lore tidbits, and general commentary is appreciated.

Thanks for reading!

-Freefaller

 

[Wonderbread16]

thank you for the chapter, one my favorite star wars stories so far

 

[Bringer of the End]

I gotta say the bouncing back and forth between construction projects based on avalible material is pretty damn relatable.

 

[Amonwight]

Would a MAC be viable for system defense?

 

[Kilvanya]

Would a MAC be viable for system defense?

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Unless it's the high C-frac SuperMACs mounted on orbital stations, eh?
Star Wars ships are maneuverable enough that unless its fired point blank they can likely dodge without much issue

 

[naarn]

I'm wondering if his mother needed a particularly incompetent and corrupt governor there or was betting on his failure somehow. His orders to make something impressive of the place within 2 years seem designed to incite destructive behavior.

Then again, the story has economic and population growth and other policy impacts show up super quickly, maybe her target just reflects the story's innately accelerate timeline.

 

[Ironwar4321]

Would a MAC be viable for system defense?

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As a weapon, yes. As something they should make, no. Something like a MAC would be far too expensive for the system to maintain on its own while also being kind of useless for them. The Mac itself would be the most valuable thing in it so no one going to send a capital ship to get it but rather bum rush it with hundreds of small ships to overwhelm it in numbers.

 

[Fallout5368]

Unless it's the high C-frac SuperMACs mounted on orbital stations, eh?
Star Wars ships are maneuverable enough that unless its fired point blank they can likely dodge without much issue

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I would say it depends on the class of ship that is being shot at as well. The Bigger Ships would definitely get hit, and depending on the caliber and if we're talking Halo Level MAC guns then I would say that sure it would be a kill. The smaller ships though would be tougher to hit and require equipment designed to mission kill them.

Also for Some reason I really find it funny that Minda is likely producing some of the best Recruits the Empire has in the Outer Rim. I also really want to see Hell Divers in Star Wars for some stupid reason.

 

[Kilvanya]

I would say it depends on the class of ship that is being shot at as well. The Bigger Ships would definitely get hit, and depending on the caliber and if we're talking Halo Level MAC guns then I would say that sure it would be a kill. The smaller ships though would be tougher to hit and require equipment designed to mission kill them.

Also for Some reason I really find it funny that Minda is likely producing some of the best Recruits the Empire has in the Outer Rim. I also really want to see Hell Divers in Star Wars for some stupid reason.

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My issue with that is that the most common UNSC MACs were flinging rounds at 30 km/s which is relatively slow for space. This is with a 600 ton round giving it 64 kilotons of impact energy so honestly depends on the author for effectiveness.

 

[Lokabrenna]

Unless it's the high C-frac SuperMACs mounted on orbital stations, eh?
Star Wars ships are maneuverable enough that unless its fired point blank they can likely dodge without much issue

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Not only that, but it's not exactly new technology. Railguns used to be the primary armament of starships in the Star Wars galaxy... about 10,000 years ago. There's got to be a reason that no one uses them anymore, even when it would be much cheaper to do so. And I suspect that reason is a combination of ships being too maneuverable, and particle shield tech simply outpacing the ability of mass drivers to inflict damage on something the scale of a capital ship.

They still make good personal arms though. One of the most famous and expensive pistols/rifles in the galaxy is the Verpine Shatter Gun, which is essentially a Mass Effect-style railgun that fires rice-grain sized projectiles at lethal hypersonic velocities. They are also fairly flexible, with a variety of ammunition types available, including fun little tracker rounds that are essentially just a ball of super-light, dust-like nanites that puff into a small dust-splotch on the target and function as a short-ranged tracking device. Bounty hunters all over the galaxy salivate at the thought of getting their various appendages on a genuine Shatter Gun, even if only the more successful ones can actually afford it.

 

[Dust shaker]

Regardless, she had accrued much leave that she never used, and decided that she might as well check in on her little brother, and whoever might be pulling his strings

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Good.

Step one to Operation Oyakodon is coming together

 

[Fallout5368]

My issue with that is that the most common UNSC MACs were flinging rounds at 30 km/s which is relatively slow for space. This is with a 600 ton round giving it 64 kilotons of impact energy so honestly depends on the author for effectiveness.

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Did a quick check the 30km/s is the Ship based rounds. Super MACs go at 12,000 km/s while the ODPs reach about 4% the speed of Light. So yeah those things can hit and likely kill any ship they hit. Even then when it comes down to the effectiveness of slug throwers in Star Wars I always think that people have forgotten how dangerous they can be. Just because the bullet is stopped doesn't mean the force just stops. Especially if you are hit in the helmet, say good bye to your spine.

 

[Yacov]

At this rate of expansion, it wouldn't be long before she was burning the jungles of Minda 2 and engaging in some slaughter. She heard the beasties over there were particularly vicious, and she wanted to test that. Personally.

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Well let's hope Las has a gentler policy for those native primitives on Minda 2 than most Imperials. The Empire and native primitives meeting generally ends badly for the primitives. Plus it gives the Rebels an excuse to move to start rabble rousing in the system by training the primitives to be insurgents.

Except for Endor, good gravy was Endor bad for the Empire's ground forces.

 

[Kilvanya]

Well let's hope Las has a gentler policy for those native primitives on Minda 2 than most Imperials. The Empire and native primitives meeting generally ends badly for the primitives. Plus it gives the Rebels an excuse to move to start rabble rousing in the system by training the primitives to be insurgents.

Except for Endor, good gravy was Endor bad for the Empire's ground forces.

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They brought bloody speeder bikes to a Forest Moon, they deserved everything that happened

 

[Aeroeng]

They brought bloody speeder bikes to a Forest Moon, they deserved everything that happened

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I would say that the Ewoks were unexpected, I mean in lore they have the strength of a Wookie while being that small, fucking terrifying.

 

[Fallout5368]

Not only that, but it's not exactly new technology. Railguns used to be the primary armament of starships in the Star Wars galaxy... about 10,000 years ago. There's got to be a reason that no one uses them anymore, even when it would be much cheaper to do so. And I suspect that reason is a combination of ships being too maneuverable, and particle shield tech simply outpacing the ability of mass drivers to inflict damage on something the scale of a capital ship.

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If I had to guess most of the reason why they use Blasters now a days can be boiled down to convenience. It's just easier to maintain and fire a Blaster Cannon over hauling the ammo needed to make the Mass Drivers as deadly as they are. As for maneuverability I would say that again it depends on the size of the ships. Main Ships of the Line most certainly wouldn't be that maneuverable, but the smaller craft would.

 

[Inbredmartian]

i love the pacing of the story because i feel like this is a great example of how quickly growth can happen in any system ripe for it under a at peace galaxy spanning single government with limited red tape. Star wars unlike 99% of Sci fi settings is a galaxy already settled from end to end with relatively cheap and accessible FTL equipped ships of all sizes and shapes. Its always made sense to me that starting up a colony, or expanding an existing one, would be more like what would happen in modern 21st century America if a town were to have a sudden boom in growth rather than cowboy era frontier towns. rapid expansion measured in months that could triple or mmore the size and infrastructure of a place rather than the years and decades of other settings.

as shown you can always just have stuff trucked in regularly with delivery measured in days to hours depending on where you are in the galaxy. unless your in the unknown regions i don't think your ever more than 2 days FTL from at least an competently and well equipped 'civilized world' to steal a 40k classification.

its nice to see a story where the benefits of living in such a well developed and easy to traverse setting are shown. its such a shame that star wars doesnt show the inter connectedness of the setting more and how the setting is more like our modern day world where trade and travel are so low cost and quick that conflict makes less sense and planets and systems dont have to do everything because they can just pop on over to the next planet over if they want X thing.

 

[Lokabrenna]

If I had to guess most of the reason why they use Blasters now a days can be boiled down to convenience. It's just easier to maintain and fire a Blaster Cannon over hauling the ammo needed to make the Mass Drivers as deadly as they are. As for maneuverability I would say that again it depends on the size of the ships. Main Ships of the Line most certainly wouldn't be that maneuverable, but the smaller craft would.

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This is true. And for the larger craft that couldn't out-maneuver the shot, they would have particle shields capable of stopping it cold anyway. It pays to remember that Star Wars ships are fast at sublight. An ISD has a max accelleration figure of 2,300 g, meaning it would be child's play to get up to very high fractions of the speed of light. Meaning the ship's shields must be capable of stopping or deflecting high c-fractional debris. Maybe not something the size of a large asteroid like the one that took out the bridge tower of that ISD in Empire Strikes Back, but for smaller rocks or railgun slugs? I'd bet it's no problem.

 

[CoolJacketjack]

The world the governor is on now has two barren moons and the volcanic world has a barren moon of its own.

The governor could at some point get one of the companies to design and build domed cities to place in the barren moons to be used primarily as mining or heavy manufacturing settlements.

It would allow the governor to fully make use of the planetary bodies within the solar system.

Spoiler: Domed moon city

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The star wars spaceships would make delivering food from the farms on the planet to any domed moon cities fairly easy though the governor could also commission the farming corporations to design and build a vertical farming system to use in the domed cities to make them largely self sufficient, at least food wise. If there self sufficient its less paperwork for him to deal with.

Spoiler: Vertical farm

 

[Fallout5368]

What's going to be interesting is the conversation between the MC and his sister. He will likely out right say that he realized that he can't run because she would just kill him. That is going to be an interesting bit of drama for the sister realizing her brother fully expects her to be the one to kill him if he ran. Not on orders from the Empire he's much to small for that, but from orders from their mother.

 

[Doombringer]

Not only that, but it's not exactly new technology. Railguns used to be the primary armament of starships in the Star Wars galaxy... about 10,000 years ago. There's got to be a reason that no one uses them anymore, even when it would be much cheaper to do so. And I suspect that reason is a combination of ships being too maneuverable, and particle shield tech simply outpacing the ability of mass drivers to inflict damage on something the scale of a capital ship.

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If I recall correctly the reason was that a civilization they encountered had energy weapons that were better then their projectile weapons (the fact was that said civ was substantially more advanced and just had a preference for energy weapons) that they decided it was easier to reverse engineer that tech then try and develop their own to catch up.

 

[AldariSiradla]

Eyyyyy~
Looks like things are looking up for the system and its people.
Research is churning, infrastructure is building, and the people are safe.

Eyyyy~
Big Sis is coming to town.
Oh shit! Big Sis is coming to town!

 

[Lokabrenna]

If I recall correctly the reason was that a civilization they encountered had energy weapons that were better then their projectile weapons (the fact was that said civ was substantially more advanced and just had a preference for energy weapons) that they decided it was easier to reverse engineer that tech then try and develop their own to catch up.

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I think you got that backwards. It was actually their encounter with a warlord named Vall Kumauri, who used huge warships armed with spinal mass drivers made for planetary bombardment, that lead the Republic to adopt that tech. It was abandoned when shield tech, specifically planetary shields, made it obsolete. A much later conflict with the Waymancy Hollow (which from the sparse lore on them, sound a bit like a cross between Warhammer 40k's Adepta Sororitas and the Adeptus Mechanicus, but minus the prohibition on innovation) lead to the Republic gaining much more powerful and advanced energy weapons, but their own ships were already mostly using them by that point anyway.

 

[Knight Sovereign]

Life was finally looking up. Her career seemed to have a way up, after years of being stuck unmoving. If she did well enough, she might get noticed by the sector moff. Command of an ISD didn't look so far off.

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Ife is certainly ambitious to think she will be commanding an ISD of all ships when she barely just started commanding a far more advanced Arquitens-class Command Cruiser, especially since there was already a discussion earlier in this thread that the maintenance of an ISD is unsustainable for the Minda System's current economy and infrastructure, at least that is what I surmise.

"But the budget is split between this, the militia academy, and the farming and apartment expansions. Also, I heard from one of the higher ups that they can't use all the space in the bulk freighters for tracks because then they wouldn't be able to store the fuel they buy for the MSDF."

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I'm sure once the other projects made some progress that proper reallocation of resources will make progress on the rest faster and more efficiently. By the way, this is just a passing curiosity, but do we get to know what kind of train is being used for those tracks?

The sound barrier shattered as she watched a solid chunk of metal accelerate down the repulsor rails of the weapon. It pierced the durasteel plating at the end, and went through.

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This weapon immediately made me think of the MAC cannons of the Halo Universe. The UNSC salutes the governor in a galaxy far, far away.

Regardless, she had accrued much leave that she never used, and decided that she might as well check in on her little brother, and whoever might be pulling his strings.

Even if there wasn't anyone, it would be fun to poke around the system. Might be something interesting to find.

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Somehow, through either family instinct or the Force, a shiver runs down Las's spine. On another note, the local rebel cell better not get caught, more for the sake of Las and Darna than the rebels themselves.