The rage of those Mindan architects could power 10,000 Sith lightsabers.
Gary continues to be frighteningly powerful by naysaying an Old Sith from an era where character customization could take hours. Truly the PR persons are the most powerful. Waiting for him to give Palpatine a dressing down for stumbling around in a glorified bath robe.
Oh no Thorne is a desk jockey. Not much field experience, but heavy on ideological fanaticism. Probably got sent out after Yavin due to the ISB trying to look more proactive.
Thorne assumes the Governor would have all the answers due to them controlling everything. On most Imperial worlds he would be right due to Imperial Governors tending to be control freaks.
Plus even if you enslave everyone, that just means you personally are now in charge of finding them food and shelter. Before they would wander around, choose a spot, and make money and food for themselves. Now you have to decide where everyone lives, what they do, and how to get food for them.
Thorne: "Ah this Governor is a lazy one. Leaving everything to his subordinates while he relaxes in his office. Still workable at least."
The key word here being "majority". If the vast majority of the population have no reason to rebel, they'll jump on or sell out the ones that find some inane reason to do so anyway.
Some Governors have entire slave harems or enough drugs in their system to make a rehab worker have a heart attack. Las is a chocoholic. Imagine trying to find dirt on Las and this is what you find.
The contrast between the crisp and clear governor to this more relaxed one offering his subordinates iced chocolate. Waiting for the day Thorne gets called into Las' office expecting wine, and Las offers him his collection of chocolatey beverages.
Normal people response to fear: "That was terrifying, how do I prevent that from happening to me again?"
Honestly if Las can manage to pump out Gladiators, the Mindan Trade League is pretty much set in terms of fleet production for most of the Civil War even post-Endor. 600 meters is all you really are going to need in terms of hull for this section of the galaxy.
This isn't warhammer40k, it's 600 Meters not KiloMeters
Yeah, Gladiator is basically an all-rounder (capital weapons, orbital support, fighters, infantry barracks, vehicle bays) but is big enough to deal with most pirates and even rebel forces. It won't be able to stand up to real capitals but for Las purposes its basically perfect since in a pinch you can just drop Gladiator on most targets and expect it to come out on top.
Considering the Agent entire "interrogation" revolved around "WHY U NO DEW DIS EBUL?" instead of anything else proves that your lines are a legitimate result of this entire malarkey.
I can see most Rebel flotillas in Bright Jewel being mainly made up of a couple CR90s or DP20s, with the rest being made up of vessels under 100 meters like light freighters and squadrons of star fighters. At least a fleet being able to be supported via the smaller CEC and civilian sections of the Mindan Shipyard the local Rebel Alliance has access to via the cell operating out of there. Enough to take on small task forces and small odds of beating a Gladiator if it is entirely alone (which it shouldn't be).
I'm casually racist and I can assure you the The Empire is not..
It was all the Rebels doing it, they killed the competente ones fast and sabotages the others so they could not be effective and all that. The Rebels are the root of all Evil
Holy shit you might be correct
Waiting for him to quote Machiavelli. To rule you must either be loved or feared. If you must chose then chose fear. But never be hated. And then having to explain the different types of fear to an increasingly interested ISB agent trying to fit 'people care more about paying their mortgage and are scared of losing their job' into a mental model of oppression while also being increasingly glad that Mola didn't join ISB because this man is too damn effective.
Thing is, by and large, power ending up in selfish, malicious, and/or incompetent hands is something of a natural consequence of autocracies. Or rather, because even an autocrat depend on others to actually rule, they need to secure their collaboration, if not their loyalty. Autocrats like super-brainwashers that can scale up forever, or super-AIs with unlimited drone bodies and multitasking aside, no matter how strong the ruler, they need people to actually be their eyes and hands beyond their immediate reach. That's also true for other forms of government, but for autocracies that generally means concentrating power in fewer hands. And, specially for new ones that are lacking in tradition, institutions, and/or inertia, you aren't going to get people loyal the position and the job itself, but people that are good at getting and keeping power. Generally ambitious, not all that scrupulous, and nothing to say they are actually good at the "using power for the greater good" part of it. And those guys also need their own subordinates, with the same issue as you have. You're going to need to get them to be, if not loyal, at least collaborative towards you.
Empire is professionally racist they would not tolerate amateurs
, Well be fun if self insert as Trade Fédération lecture about Rule of aquisition