Governor's Gambit - Star Wars SI into Imperial Governor

[Rubén Martínez]

Las: I didn't ask for this. This duty was forced on me. But by Jove, no matter how much I hate it, if I'm going to do it, I will do it well.

Somewhere, somewhen, a pigtailed martial artist dressed in a green-accented sailor suit and carrying an oversized skeleton key nodded in commiseration and approval.

 

[Vattensnok]

What goofy 40k fic?

 

[Yacov]

Why? Well, today was the day that the 20th and final berth of the shipyards had been brought online!

With all 20 pumping ships out, the full backlog would be finished within just a few more months. By the start of 2ABY, the full backlog should be finished, and the yard can begin profiting the sector.

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Huuzah! Now that Las is going be Moff, he can use the Mard for his political benefit. No one but the Empire dictates what order you sell to people after all.

They plan on entering the market with a new class of medium hauler, I hear. One meant for the many, many mid-sized companies in the sector, thanks to the Guild. With the benefit of building entirely in-sector, their lower prices and shipping times might just give them the edge they need

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Oooh, a Medium Freighter? Those things can haul hundreds of metric tons at minimum. Maybe even add some of the Separatist design philosophy with rounded edges and pointy antennas.

The second is from Thorne. It confirms much of Darna's information, and also includes reports on suspected rebel elements in the sector. Not many, and what is there seems to be mostly logistical. The plan is to keep an eye out, reinforce the yard, and blow up a few pirates every now and again and call them rebels. Keeps them thinking their hidden and safe, and away from important infrastructure.

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Ah yes, this is probably what you would call "controlled opposition". Train your enemy to stick to non-demolition actions and punish them if they step out of line.

He also included a cheeky little warning that the ISB were looking into me, as the next Moff, and were likely to send someone to meet with me soon, likely not long before the promotion. Calmly, I send an encoded message to Darna and Thorne to keep things on the down low for now.

The ISB may be Imperial, and therefore corrupt and inept, but they were still the ISB, the Emperors janitors, and not to be fucked with. I'd gotten lucky with Thorne. It wouldn't happen again.

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Would an approval message from Thorne be less or more suspicious?

But I decided that this route was safer. That it was safer for me to stick to this path and wait for the Empire to fall, for the galaxy to fall to chaos, before I make my escape. After all, what's one missing Moff in a galaxy on fire?

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It is something very different when said Moff is beloved by the people of his sector.

Regardless, the fact of the matter is that I chose to continue down this path, and that means that for as long as I hold this office, no matter how much I hate it, I will fulfill my duty to the people.

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And just like that Las is already more well intentioned than 95% of Moffs. Wonder how the ISB is going to feel when they investigate him and find out he actually believes that.

So no, I can't roll up to the Moffs chair, sit down, and declare slavery illegal. I'd get shot. Instead, I have to play the long game, and that involves a lot of information gathering, political games, and economic pressure.

Suffice to say, I'm going to make slavery very, very expensive.

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Taxes can allow you to do very funny things to societies. Take the squirrel tax that used to be in the US state of Ohio. It wasn't a tax on squirrels, it was a tax you could pay with squirrels. A species was overrunning the state.

And right now, Poti wanted nothing more than to raise his blaster and hose the two of them down. He'd been a slave, seen the worst the system had to offer, watched his family be destroyed by it. But he couldn't do it. Not now.

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How did this man get hired here? Oh right slavery and laxity tend to go hand in hand.

Still, as the day ended and Poti returned to his barracks, in the back of his mind he hoped that the day would soon come that he could use those thermal detonators he'd buried out in the hills. The people here would be saved.

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Alright, who gave HAVEN thermal detonators? Those things could level buildings if put in the right place.

 

[Mistroz]

excellent chapter.

 

[Rustic]

I mean. Muscle mommy doesn't have to weird unless you make it weird and approach it naturally like the MC getting nervous because sonehow the only red skinned pure blood sith in existence is trying to seduce him for some reason! Must be a plot, a scandal just waiting. Is fraternizing with bodyguards a expressly forbidden rule?.
Just think. We could have had a sith trying to have the MCs kids both for passing down the bloodline and to leverage the children for influence over the MC because that's how she was taught to think about marriage and children. Then we get some character development as she socialized with others and breaks the warped sith perspective on using relationships for nothing but power dynamics. And see the path to wholesomeness occur. Muscle mommy ends up becoming a muscular mommy. And we end up seeing her take bodyguard work much more seriously as she gets possessive over her little slice of heaven.

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While i do find female body builders scary. I have a female friend who is i think 45 with a live in 26 year old daughter both have huge jugs but otherwise look very slender and just good.
So while i am not certain what the term muscle mommy exactly means. it mentally pops up as my female friend then followed by female body builders. Who are rather scary.

 

[HereForWhy]

This dude is gonna be on his death bed of old age, still in charge of Minda, thinking about how he's gonna leave and be a smuggler any day now