Governor's Gambit - Star Wars SI into Imperial Governor

[Phoenix Invictus]

Thrawn turned to view the vastness of space. Things were strained, but his objective was unchanged. If Minda could become another pillar that made him indispensable to the Empire, then so be it.

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In Soviet Empire, plot gets involved with you!

 

[Gordian_Knot]

It's just cheaper to engage in regular warfare to be honest

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You could have just not brought this debate up you know?

But since it is, this explanation just makes Holdo a goddamn moron. Like, absolutely brain dead for even thinking it COULD work.

There just ISNT an explanation that makes sense.

If hyper-ramming is at all a viable strategy, it would see use. Because a snubfighter scale hyperdrive is always going to be many tines cheaper than any ship you kill with the method.

If it isn't viable because of the odds, Holdo becomes an idiot for even trying what had to be one in a million odds.

If it only works because of the hyperspace tracking doodad, Holdo either has no idea it exists, which circles back around to being an idiot, or has to explain why she didn't sacrifice any of the three ships she started with to kill the single most powerful ship in the First Orders arsenal. (And frankly she probably should have tried to do it regardless once fuel ran low since they were scrap anyways.)

 

[Kelsier Vin]

Thanks for the chapter! MCs reaction to how bloodthirsty his subordinates are will never not be funny.

Hopefully Thrawns patronage will get him some more support from the empire. The seventh fleets got to have some ships it could spare.

 

[Sam I Am]

Hey, at least Ace will finally be able to talk with Las! I mean, she did seem very worried about Las.

And Grant is a bloodthirsty Lycan, like always! Though, instead of an unintelligent beast, she's an intelligent beast, which makes her far more dangerous than an ordinary Lycan.

 

[Mr.Dr.Professor Patrick]

You could have just not brought this debate up you know?

But since it is, this explanation just makes Holdo a goddamn moron. Like, absolutely brain dead for even thinking it COULD work.

There just ISNT an explanation that makes sense.

If hyper-ramming is at all a viable strategy, it would see use. Because a snubfighter scale hyperdrive is always going to be many tines cheaper than any ship you kill with the method.

If it isn't viable because of the odds, Holdo becomes an idiot for even trying what had to be one in a million odds.

If it only works because of the hyperspace tracking doodad, Holdo either has no idea it exists, which circles back around to being an idiot, or has to explain why she didn't sacrifice any of the three ships she started with to kill the single most powerful ship in the First Orders arsenal. (And frankly she probably should have tried to do it regardless once fuel ran low since they were scrap anyways.)

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I like the idea that she was just trying to save her own ass by escaping and leaving the rest of the rebellion to die.

 

[trudny1]

This had been nagging me ever since I saw it happen in the sequel trilogy, but now it made sense. That pink haired lady whose name I can't remember just got incredibly lucky. Like, stupidly so.

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Why would you curse this timeline by bringing up fannon? Not cool man.

 

[Gordian_Knot]

The only real answer to that scene is just to admire the sheer cinematography of that GORGEOUS shot of a fleet being torn asunder by relativistic shrapnel... and then throw it into the same dank pit where we keep the Christmas special.

 

[Crixxis]

Ahhh right the grysk, wonder if that'll kick Las into full research and war development mode.

 

[carbon1923]

My own headcanon is Hyperspace ramming requires you to be close enough to the target that they could easily disable your engines in the time it takes to charge the Hyperdrive, and that for it to be even mildly effective you need a capital ship sized vessel. Example, the Battle of Yavin in the first Star Wars Battlefront 2 or the Malevolence.

The only reason the First Order wasn't able to stop it was they were too busy watching the transports get destroyed and didn't pay attention.

 

[CommetKom]

The Governor's possible reaction when Grand Admiral Thrawn contacts him:

 

[PotatOS2]

But if thrawn calls him will he ask for an autograph tho? :3

 

[oscar e Sampedro Lopez]

thanks for the chapter

 

[GiganEtherax]

IIRC hyperdrives have a component that enables them to enter hyperspace , so assuming it works by letting the ship breach hyperspace then removing it would trap the ship close to lightspeed without anyway to slowdown or stop.

 

[AldariSiradla]

Our dear Governor will have a pretty good start in having contact with a Grand Admiral.
A lot of doors open, and a few more opportunities will come around.
All for the sweet, sweet reward of not getting drafted in the Army by Mother-Dearest.

The rewards of good work, Governor.
More work.
More paperwork.

 

[CommetKom]

Forgot to say this earlier, but Grand Admiral Thrawn contacting Las can be a double edged sword. On one hand, Las can possibly get some needed support or even get a valuable ally who can help him out. On the other hand, this can attract unwanted attention to him like Thrawn's political enemies or even "certain important and canon characters". But hey, Las has been pretty lucky so far.

I also now I can't help but funnily think that Las might now practically be mood kindred with a certain "Warmaster of Chaos" at this point, though I may be wrong. Either way, thanks for the great chapter!

 

[SomeCool_HonourableKnight]

That Pink lady was just a useless Disney Mary Sue that can't do no wrong just to push KK agenda. Just like Rey, Disney ruined Star Wars

 

[Peacemaren]

I'm kind of curious as to how the MC's mother is reacting to all of this. I know that so far we've gotten the idea that the governor's mom is essentially a mother who rules her children with an iron fist, but I kinda want to see it being the exact opposite.

Maybe she's actually super gentle and over-protective with her kids and had her children put into their current positions to protect them somehow, but has terrible social skills so she's always being misunderstood except by her partner. Or maybe she's like our MC: externally seems like a domineering hard-ass/bad-ass, but is internally screaming in fear and panic over what she's doing and being misunderstood when all she wants to do is hug her kids. It'd be funny to see a "like mother, like son" moment.

 

[theoretisch cool]

nice chapter. What he needs for his 2 systems is population, and lots of it. When he talks to Trawn he should perhaps see if he can get a few extra ships. He should make sure that his army is expanded since he now has 2 systems. He could build another orbital shipyard in Edin. In addition to all the infrastructure that he is building there anyway. He should perhaps see if he can invest in weapons production and development (his own tanks etc.). Now he just needs the system with the tank station. Then he would have the subsector complete.

 

[Gordian_Knot]

That Pink lady was just a useless Disney Mary Sue that can't do no wrong just to push KK agenda. Just like Rey, Disney ruined Star Wars

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Hey. Rey wasn't THAT bad.

Yes, she learned things that take Jedi years in a matter of days, yes that's kinda cringe.Yes, her coming up with a fix for the Falcon when Han couldn't is a bit unlikely, but she did have SOME tech experience and Han is by that point old and set in his ways. Yes, she should have been torn apart by Kylo Ren, a former student of Luke Skywalker and experienced Sith, in a 1v1 duel.

But that was all just the first movie. There was plenty of time to fix it in followup movies had Rian Johnson not been a hack.

The mind trick could have been explained as a natural talent, with her struggling more with telekinesis or other basic powers. Even played into the part of her being Palpatines grandkid down the line with a natural proclivity to mind control that could've been played to lure her to the Dark Side. If, ya know, they hadn't waited until the third act of the final movie to drop that bit.

Allll they had to do, to make people like her, was humble her a bit in film 8. Make her work for it, genuinely suffer a bit, maybe lose a hand as all great Star Wars protagonists do.

 

[Abba is the best]

My own headcanon is Hyperspace ramming requires you to be close enough to the target that they could easily disable your engines in the time it takes to charge the Hyperdrive, and that for it to be even mildly effective you need a capital ship sized vessel. Example, the Battle of Yavin in the first Star Wars Battlefront 2 or the Malevolence.

The only reason the First Order wasn't able to stop it was they were too busy watching the transports get destroyed and didn't pay attention.

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Funny thing is, hyperspace ramming existed in the EU lore... it was just so pointlessly weak relatively, that noone did it. Like having 3 ISDs ram the executor didn't even damage the shields all that much... and im pretty sure they actually only rammed the ship as they exited hyperspace due to an error in navigation *cough cough* the force happening to make the ISD in just the place to get crashed into by them before they could respond and take evasive maneuvers.

but from what I can recall from my eu lore, mass shadows from the main SW universe extend into hyperspace dimension and make it impossible for a ship to actually ram another from inside it, instead they would receive crippling damage from the mass shadow and either be destroyed or come out of hyperspace either as a wreck or in the cases of interdictors and artificial mass shadows, be pulled out of hyperspace by having all the millenia worth of failsafes put into all hyperdrives to stop them from critical faliure

(mind you I remember that the earlier eu lore explained that interdictors make artificial mass shadows that hyperdrives are damaged going through, causing them to flip the emergency switches to all the millenia worth of inbuilt failsafes and pull a forced reentry into realspace so that the hyperdrive doesn't break and strand or kill it's ship in hyperspace)

Either way this would ironically enough mean that hyperspace ramming could only be sucsessful on a small scale where a star fighter tries to ram another starfighter rather than the larger ships because the larger an ship or any object really, the more it's mass/weight, the more solid it's mass shadow is and thus the more damage a ship trying to go through that shadow receives before either being destroyed or pulled out into realspace.

Based on this what really should have happened in the Disney verse movies If they followed the EU's rules was Holdo's ship going into hyperspace and just being crippled instantly, either being lost in hyperspace forever or coming out as a unfunctioning wreck an instant after going in, likewise han solo in the forst Disney verse move should have instantly come out into realspace when he reached starkiller base's sun's mass shadow... or if he turned off the safeties, the millennium falcon should have just been disintegrated like any ship would be if it moves at a percentage of c and hits an indestructible immovable object.

Either way the ways that it has been depicted in the eu and disneyverse have been varied by multiple authors so we just got to accept that the way Freefaller has chosen to depict it is the way it works in this version of the universe.

Also sorry for the rant, I only noticed i wrote so much after I had already finished typing it

 

[Faralis]

Allll they had to do, to make people like her, was humble her a bit in film 8. Make her work for it, genuinely suffer a bit, maybe lose a hand as all great Star Wars protagonists do.

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"I'm sorry, but is a tradition!"

"Couldn't we create a new tradition? In which the protagonist do not loose their hand?"

"That is impossible!"

 

[Top Sun]

Now, he need to make super-internet to link the two systems ! (Or throw even more money to R&D to make it viable heh, perhaps a small wormhole just to pass cables through it !)

Thank you for writing !

 

[Aeroeng]

I don't think it was ever clarified what type of Lucrehulk it was, was it a freighter or warship variant?

 

[LoganGrimnar]

Now, he need to make super-internet to link the two systems ! (Or throw even more money to R&D to make it viable heh, perhaps a small wormhole just to pass cables through it !)

Thank you for writing !

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Why the fuck would he need to use cables when SW already have FTL communications? I'm pretty they even have a holonet which is like a galactic wide internet.

 

[swtoring]

Maybe she's actually super gentle and over-protective with her kids and had her children put into their current positions to protect them somehow, but has terrible social skills so she's always being misunderstood except by her partner. Or maybe she's like our MC: externally seems like a domineering hard-ass/bad-ass, but is internally screaming in fear and panic over what she's doing and being misunderstood when all she wants to do is hug her kids. It'd be funny to see a "like mother, like son" moment.

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She's ciaphas in his "i don't want to serve in the field anymore since i seem to stumble upon the worst shit ever, just put me as a teacher in the schola" which is going to get interrupted when she gets called into death squadron to hunt the rebels as Vader starts headhunting professionals for his new elite force

 

[paxus22]

what is the MC'S budget at the moment?

cause he could , if he wants to ''waste'' his money he could just give gov employee benefits like transport/ housing /paid holidays.
of course give wages comparable to the core and also spend it on a major recruitment drive in all sectors , although he would need homes for maybe half a mill + .

he could end up having his R&D doing a study on all existing/designed or purposed ship's ,from every company and take best ideas and making a minda own shipyard with new designs independent of the outside. have to big a big sink if building a shipbuilding industry.

I could just see his all his money sinks end up attracting more people and he has to sink even more money, expanding colony after colony.

lol failed successfully?

 

[Yacov]

A new SYSTEM!? Come on! I was already stressing the fuck out about the one I currently have, and I get an entirely new one dumped on my lap with absolutely zero fucking preamble. I didn't even meet the Grand Moff, he just sent a letter. And it wasn't even him! His secretary sent it!

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A higher up causing chaos via a single letter sent to the frontier? What are the odds?

"We could lock down the planet fairly easily. We captured a great deal of light freighters, gunships, and even the odd corvette or frigate, so while not the best or even most compatible with our current logistics lines, we have enough ships to blockade every major port, and monitor the rest of the planet for incoming and outgoing ships."

The Commander perked up at that. "If we combine this with the data we snatched from the Duets Dominion, we could have orbital supremacy over the majority of the criminal outposts on the whole planet. We could turn them to dust from orbit!"

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This is probably going to wreck Edin's economy in the short term. Those criminals probably represent a good chunk of Edin's economy, even if they are black market.

On the other hand, it also provides another massive money sink for Las to pump money into. The bailouts and business loans for a whole planet are going to cost a fortune. Probably why the Empire often doesn't do it when they pull stuff like this.

"The Sector Group might be willing to help? Their new Admiral is apparently not a complete douche." I responded, liking the idea of getting rid of these bases in one fell swoop.

Veers hummed. "I have yet to meet the new Admiral, but if he has any semblance of intelligence, then he will seek to ensure that his reputation is better than that of his predecessor. It would be easier now more than ever to gain access to few of the Sector Groups VSDs"

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It would also go a long way to reassure the part of the sector the previous Admiral abandoned of the Empire's commitment.

Holy shit. Every time I think she's just an overzealous Imperial, I get reminded that the Commander is a vicious predator that just so happens to wear the uniform. Thankfully, Mugwuffin is there to calm my spirits. I hide the rest of my fear behind a sip of hot chocolate.

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This vicious predator is intimidating me. I will pet this other vicious predator to calm down.

After that, we finished up the remaining plans for Edin. Once the initial sweep of the capital cities crime families was finished, we would begin to upgrade infrastructure and increase the standard of living while Grant was clearing out pirates in the boonies.

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Showing the carrot while demonstrating the stick. Good way to establish the new boss in town.

The construction crews would be shipped over to start tearing down old, outdated buildings and bringing an actual decent living experience to the place. The Guild would also set up, putting out a great deal of bounties, and I would have to start a variety of programs to lift people out of poverty.

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Just make sure to include some of the locals in the planning. Now matter how prosperous you make a place, if they are subservient to a whole nother planet there will still be some resentment.

It was bad down there, but seeing as it was now mine, I had a solemn duty to fix it.

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Other Imperial Governors: "Wait we have to care for the populace under our command? That wasn't in the job description."

He had the data sent to the Lothal lab, as these advancements might be able to reduce the astronomical costs of producing the Defender.

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Ah yes the R&D cheat code: stealing advancements and innovations from other projects

 

[furiothecat]

Whatever was needed to eradicate the Grysk threat

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They're bad, but not on the level of the Vong.

 

[CanYouMeme]

While I think it was not needed, @Freefaller , I do appreciate you trying to establish that Holdo was indeed a twit and the Hyperspace kamikaze thing isn't going to be a factor in your stories. I'm annoyed that so many people are jumping the gun and missing the subtext of what you're doing, even if I ultimately chose to upvote some of them.

That Pink lady was just a useless Disney Mary Sue that can't do no wrong just to push KK agenda. Just like Rey, Disney ruined Star Wars

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Hey. Rey wasn't THAT bad.

Yes, she learned things that take Jedi years in a matter of days, yes that's kinda cringe.Yes, her coming up with a fix for the Falcon when Han couldn't is a bit unlikely, but she did have SOME tech experience and Han is by that point old and set in his ways. Yes, she should have been torn apart by Kylo Ren, a former student of Luke Skywalker and experienced Sith, in a 1v1 duel.

But that was all just the first movie. There was plenty of time to fix it in followup movies had Rian Johnson not been a hack.

The mind trick could have been explained as a natural talent, with her struggling more with telekinesis or other basic powers. Even played into the part of her being Palpatines grandkid down the line with a natural proclivity to mind control that could've been played to lure her to the Dark Side. If, ya know, they hadn't waited until the third act of the final movie to drop that bit.

Allll they had to do, to make people like her, was humble her a bit in film 8. Make her work for it, genuinely suffer a bit, maybe lose a hand as all great Star Wars protagonists do.

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The actual, functional definition of a Mary Sue/Marty Stu, going all the way back to the OG Star Trek caricature that lampooned the whole trend in the first place, is "A character who violates one or more of a setting's rules to their own benefit in a way that does not benefit other characters."

This is what pisses people off about Rey, because she is extremely flagrantly a Mary Sue...
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Except Disney shitcanned anything and everything that would get in the way of their nonsense.

Pretending the actual problem isn't a problem through the clumsiest possible legalistic weasel-speaking office politics they could have done.

Can't break the rules if we have no rules, amirite?

Like many characters, Rey was a significantly sub-par but potentially salvageable entity who was made much worse by continual doubling down and wilfull ignorance.

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But anyways, it's going to be interesting if this is what's finally needed for our plucky Governor to start delegating more. Although given that this is probably a test to see if this rags-to-riches is a fluke or an actual capability, I would be interested to see if he gets saddled with a minder.

 

[Hilight]

You could have just not brought this debate up you know?

But since it is, this explanation just makes Holdo a goddamn moron. Like, absolutely brain dead for even thinking it COULD work.

There just ISNT an explanation that makes sense.

If hyper-ramming is at all a viable strategy, it would see use. Because a snubfighter scale hyperdrive is always going to be many tines cheaper than any ship you kill with the method.

If it isn't viable because of the odds, Holdo becomes an idiot for even trying what had to be one in a million odds.

If it only works because of the hyperspace tracking doodad, Holdo either has no idea it exists, which circles back around to being an idiot, or has to explain why she didn't sacrifice any of the three ships she started with to kill the single most powerful ship in the First Orders arsenal. (And frankly she probably should have tried to do it regardless once fuel ran low since they were scrap anyways.)

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Yeah, there are a lot of reasons why most people don't even bring up the "Holdo Maneuver" in star wars fics. Either it works and everyone is dumb for not using it more often, or it's a literal 1 in a million chance and it's mor likely Holdo was trying to run away than throw the ship away in a fruitless gesture. Better to just leave it as though it has never existed at all.