Governor's Gambit - Star Wars SI into Imperial Governor

[RageKnight]

So how did he become force sensitive

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he isn't. His "Pet" is and is force bonding him

 

[Silvanus350]

Did Cad bane just die?

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Cad Bane wouldn't bother to hide.

 

[Andrew1993]

Lmao, as hilarious as Ahsoka would be she's pretty well known so its beyond unlikely

 

[Knight Sovereign]

Did Cad bane just die?

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They comply, dragging out the body of a duros. They were equipped with a scattergun, clearly hoping to deal with me up close and personal.

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I beg your pardon, dear reader, but we all know that Cad Bane would never resort to a weapon such as a scattergun when he has his trusty pistols, quick reflexes, and incredible accuracy (plus a theme that really slaps).


View: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7o4Jq4rd1es

EDIT: Oh, can't forget about his iconic hat, too. No hat? Not Cad Bane.

 

[Wobb Nox]

Thanks for the awesome update!

I'm actually surprised that there's another Chiss in the Empire so I wonder what her story is.

I'm also hoping we get an update that's just the various povs of the ghost crew or maybe some other important canon characters like Ahsoka or Han Solo.

 

[None of your bee wax!]

I`m honestly just excited when the Death star I gets destroyed: is for him to have both Grand Admiral Thrawn and General Rom Mohc visiting him for assistance in their own Projects. (Tie Defender and the Dark Trooper projects respectively.) The two of them would ether try and kill the other, or get along swimmingly. (There could be no in-between with the like of their personalities.) It`s going to be great!

 

[Andi rivers]

It's the cat doing something

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Miau

 

[Inbredmartian]

I can't wait for Thrawn to request a squad or two of his LECAs or even the prototype suits meant for the commanders since he can probably get the money for them easily enough. After all just add an extra 3 credit charge to the fleets caff supply charge and you suddenly have enough to buy a ISD probably

 

[Treangulator]

So, what are chances that Mugwuffing is basilisk?

 

[Aeroeng]

Can we get some Imperial Commando's?

Spoiler: image

 

[Mr.Dr.Professor Patrick]

he isn't. His "Pet" is and is force bonding him

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While a part of me wants the Governor to be force sensitive himself, I can't deny that it'd be a hilarious misunderstanding for someone to think, with his new drip and apparent force powers, that he's actually a Sith.

I could just imagine Force Cat one day mauling a Jedi trying to take out the Governor, taking their lightsaber and giving it to him, and he won't let him get rid of it.

Gov: *furiously whispering* "I can't keep this, you stupid rat!"

Space Cat: 'No! Gift! You keep!'

 

[Parthan]

I could just imagine Force Cat one day mauling a Jedi trying to take out the Governor, taking their lightsaber and giving it to him, and he won't let him get rid of it.

Gov: *furiously whispering* "I can't keep this, you stupid rat!"

Space Cat: 'No! Gift! You keep!'

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I kinda hope this happens and it's in a situation that he has to keep the intimidation going so he scrambles for something to say and goes for Grievous' Fine Collection line.

 

[firm-prompts]

I could just imagine Force Cat one day mauling a Jedi trying to take out the Governor, taking their lightsaber and giving it to him, and he won't let him get rid of it.

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Lmao, imagine that his cat just keeps bringing him lightsabers and no one has a clue where they keep coming from

 

[RageKnight]

While a part of me wants the Governor to be force sensitive himself, I can't deny that it'd be a hilarious misunderstanding for someone to think, with his new drip and apparent force powers, that he's actually a Sith.

I could just imagine Force Cat one day mauling a Jedi trying to take out the Governor, taking their lightsaber and giving it to him, and he won't let him get rid of it.

Gov: *furiously whispering* "I can't keep this, you stupid rat!"

Space Cat: 'No! Gift! You keep!'

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It likes the metal because it makes a great chew toy but it loves the crystal in it because it has a nice KICK and tangy flavor to it

 

[Vergil1989 Crossover King]

Okay first off, I love that cat alien thing. Not only did it save Mola's life, but she was quite amusing in her little exchange with him during that entire section of the chapter. Secondly, I about swallowed my tongue when Thrawn called our boy just outta the blue like that, having momentarily forgotten that he'd expressed interest in Las and his accomplishments in a previous chapter.


View: https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=7GAvcrYKxu4&pp=ygUaZ3JhbmQgYWRtaXJhbCB0aHJhd24gdGhlbWU%3D

Since we're sharing music, figured I'd throw my metaphorical hat into the ring lol.


View: https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=0bG8boJZ9j4&pp=ygUQdGhyYXduIGNvbWljIGR1Yg%3D%3D

Speaking of our Grand Admiral, this was artistically done.

 

[kano547]

This is fun, I always love stories about the guy trying to avoid the plot and this is being done very well.
I'm not sure why Thrawn is sending him TIE designs to work on though, he should be smart enough to know when to stop beating that dead horse. The TIE is a giant dog turd and from my understanding of Legends, the only reason it even exists is because it's one of those under the table tug-jobs Palpatine was giving out to get arms manufacturers on board with his Empire plan. It's trash, everyone knows it's trash, everyone always knew it was trash and the designer literally had to support a dictatorship to force that thing off of the drawing board. Like the SU-57. So why is Thrawn still trying to find a way to polish a turd instead of having something made from the ground up?
Never mind, kind of answered my own question there.

So how did he become force sensitive

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I don't think it's him. The impression I'm getting is that the space-cat is connecting him to the Force because it think it's funny.

 

[Oroku Saki]

So how did he become force sensitive

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He didn't. The space cat is force sensitive and established a force bond with him. Or at least, that's what probably happened.

 

[Azure Mirage]

The True Master, Mugwuffin...
Is imparting valuable Force Training...
To their youngling, Governor Mola.
Rejoice, for you are loved by your scary cat.

Nice, we have the schematics.
And tacit support more or less from a Grand Admiral.
We're gonna go places, I can see it~

Looks like we'll have a hazing of sorts.
Gotta make sure the Governor's people...
Are loyal, competent, and efficient.

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Soooo, we got a better version of Jar Jar? A secret hidden master that is too adora-predatory to hate; that manipulates the empire from their literal lap of luxury with BBQ rations galore?

I can see it.

 

[Mr.Dr.Professor Patrick]

Lmao, imagine that his cat just keeps bringing him lightsabers and no one has a clue where they keep coming from

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One fine day, The Governor steps outside.

Trips over a lightsaber left on the welcome mat.

Lightsaber ignites.

The welcome mat is now on fire.

Goddammit Mugwuffin.

 

[KonahrikYol]

It likes the metal because it makes a great chew toy but it loves the crystal in it because it has a nice KICK and tangy flavor to it

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they then start tripping like on cat nip, sending random telekinetic pulses everyway at random. maybe make ear piercing screeching because they think it's funny at the time.

 

[Alenco98]

So, Thrawn says he has the Grisk to worry about while Las is worried about the Vong?

Does this take place in legends or Canon? I assume it's canon but I wanna double check

 

[gale]

So, Thrawn says he has the Grisk to worry about while Las is worried about the Vong?

Does this take place in legends or Canon?

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Could be a combination of both which is common in fan fiction

 

[theoretisch cool]

mmmh could it be that he gets an Inquisitor?

 

[OrderedOrb]

This is fun, I always love stories about the guy trying to avoid the plot and this is being done very well.
I'm not sure why Thrawn is sending him TIE designs to work on though, he should be smart enough to know when to stop beating that dead horse. The TIE is a giant dog turd and from my understanding of Legends, the only reason it even exists is because it's one of those under the table tug-jobs Palpatine was giving out to get arms manufacturers on board with his Empire plan. It's trash, everyone knows it's trash, everyone always knew it was trash and the designer literally had to support a dictatorship to force that thing off of the drawing board. Like the SU-57. So why is Thrawn still trying to find a way to polish a turd instead of having something made from the ground up?
Never mind, kind of answered my own question there.

I don't think it's him. The impression I'm getting is that the space-cat is connecting him to the Force because it think it's funny.

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Because it's very much NOT trash. The TIE Defender is one of the scariest and most advanced Starfighters in Legends and can alike and was basically a hard counter to the Rebellion. The Rebels usage of hit & run coupled with large numbers of heavily armed Starfighter forces was basically a hard counter to the Tarkin Doctrine and the massive Star Destroyers the Empire had such a hard-on over. The TIE Defender rendered that obsolete by allowing an even better fighter with even heavier armaments and shields WITH Hyperdrives to beat the Rebels at their own game. It was honestly a much better use of resources than the Death Star, Palpatine and Tarkin just have a love for ships and Battlestations of such a massive size because they think bigger is always better.

 

[OrderedOrb]

Lmao, imagine that his cat just keeps bringing him lightsabers and no one has a clue where they keep coming from

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Better idea: they see new lightsabers keep appearing and come to the conclusion that he is OBVIOUSLY a total badass who hunts down Jedi in his spare time as a hobby. He just doesn't go public about it because he's such a chad that he doesn't consider his very easy hobby to be something worth bragging about.

 

[Vlaadd17]

Another wife into his harem get?

Edit: But damn, the force loves him for sure! Not only did he get advanced schematica for top tier fighter, he did it for free and from thrawn himself! Im sure the big blue won't be vocal about it, so as everyone concerned, to the wider public they are pretty much lost , burned with the fire and got stolen by space whales... Or so everyone thinks.

 

[Battle_Unit_3]

The fuckigy space cat rat thing. I swear it's probably some sort of minor force god or something and decided that Las is amusing enough to follow around.

 

[kano547]

Because it's very much NOT trash. The TIE Defender is one of the scariest and most advanced Starfighters in Legends and can alike and was basically a hard counter to the Rebellion. The Rebels usage of hit & run coupled with large numbers of heavily armed Starfighter forces was basically a hard counter to the Tarkin Doctrine and the massive Star Destroyers the Empire had such a hard-on over. The TIE Defender rendered that obsolete by allowing an even better fighter with even heavier armaments and shields WITH Hyperdrives to beat the Rebels at their own game. It was honestly a much better use of resources than the Death Star, Palpatine and Tarkin just have a love for ships and Battlestations of such a massive size because they think bigger is always better.

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Yeah but that's the TIE Defender which from my understanding was so heavily modified by the Empire's skunkworks that it can barely be called a TIE. And if I remember right it was so expensive to produce that there were never enough of them to see any real use. You are right about the Defender being an amazing fighter and a hard counter to the Rebel fighters, but that kind of proves my point since there were obviously better options floating around that they could have used, like what the Rebels were using, and they wouldn't have cost nearly as much to get any use beyond swarm tactics out of.
To be fair though, Legends has been ret-conned and changed by different authors so many times that my familiarity with the in-universe TIE history could be way off by now.

 

[OrderedOrb]

Yeah but that's the TIE Defender which from my understanding was so heavily modified by the Empire's skunkworks that it can barely be called a TIE. And if I remember right it was so expensive to produce that there were never enough of them to see any real use. You are right about the Defender being an amazing fighter and a hard counter to the Rebel fighters, but that kind of proves my point since there were obviously better options floating around that they could have used, like what the Rebels were using, and they wouldn't have cost nearly as much to get any use beyond swarm tactics out of.
To be fair though, Legends has been ret-conned and changed by different authors so many times that my familiarity with the in-universe TIE history could be way off by now.

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To be honest, the TIE Defender wouldn't need to completely replace the average TIE, that could be done by the Interceptor. That's basically a TIE +1 in terms of performance, and the average Tie was arguably better than the average -Wing in performance as a dogfighter, the X-Wing just had better ordnance with its missiles and Proton Torpedo's to take out larger vessels. The Defender was never meant to be a full replacement, it was meant to be used for small and elite squads that could initiate devastating hit and run attacks and counters to the hit and run tactics of the Rebellion. Couple up an elite squadron of Defenders with the Interceptor replacing the average TIE (not as hard as you think, the Interceptor cost only a little more than the regular TIE and made up 1/3 to 1/2 of the Starfighters of the Empire by the Battle of Yavin) and the Rebellion would be screwed.

 

[swtoring]

the average Tie was arguably better than the average -Wing in performance as a dogfighter

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depends on the author since some forget about the whole "it must be ww2 in space" thing and look at the low prices of concussion missiles and we get a debris field full of fighters since it's cheaper to throw several maneuverable missiles that don't cost much compared to craft (you can get 80 for the price of a single tie ln from what i'd seen on the wiki) to destroy the enemy fighters in a cost effective manner since "it doesn't matter how good you're in a dogfight if i don't need to dogfight you"

not as hard as you think, the Interceptor cost only a little more than the regular TIE

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"a little more" is A LOT on a galactic scale, with the official numbers there's around 1,3 million inhabited planets in the republic and the predictions are there's around 100 quadrillion sentients living in the galaxy (that's fifteen zeroes), even if we're talking about the deployments of token forces like the empire did most of the time it's still A LOT of fighters to replace, because SPACE IS BIG

made up 1/3 to 1/2 of the Starfighters of the Empire by the Battle of Yavin

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I think the shift happened between the battle of Yavin & battle of Endor with those numbers being reached only around the time of the latter (i might be misremembering or we might be refering to contradictory sources) since Grand Moff Wilhuff "shut that promising project down and divert the funding to my death ball" Tarkin had emp's ear a lot of the time and palps for all his political acumen & personal power was incapable of effective military command which lead to the Tie ln being chosen as the standard fighter since "who gives a shit about small craft (the things that won us the confederate crisis) if we hab big skeri ship, build more big skeri ship but biggerer and skerier"