Governor's Gambit - Star Wars SI into Imperial Governor

[Rustic]

Myr'thos is a strange character for me. Made in a fugue state at 3am, initially they felt like a mistake, just like that whole cult arc. Too forced, too rushed, you get it. Not my finest work. But that doesn't mean I want to just leave them on the wayside. While I'm still not totally sure about how to go about their character, I've got some ideas which can be glimpsed here, and I hope to do it well this time around.

On another note, Escape from Duckov? While listening to Spandau Ballet's Gold and eating Biscoff cookies? Peak, makes life worth living. Also, if any fellow Duckov fans know what those purple crate things in the Warehouse area are, I'd be forever grateful.

-Freefaller

Chapter 80
My thoughts on this. This character might get really into food sciences. Turning poisons into tasty edible foods. Turning tasty edible foods into posions. Destroying ingredients and crafting sith inspired cuisine. Think of the waste how evil yet dectucant the charachter could be.

 

[Napalm222]

On another note, Escape from Duckov? While listening to Spandau Ballet's Gold and eating Biscoff cookies? Peak, makes life worth living. Also, if any fellow Duckov fans know what those purple crate things in the Warehouse area are, I'd be forever grateful.

-Freefaller

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Just a quest chain sadly.

 

[Thundersmight94]

No, you cannot execute a child for out-roasting you online. And no, you don't get your own custom LECA unit. We built two already and they were both really expensive for not a lot of gain."

"That child was worthy of death, and I most certainly deserve my own metal steed of death, but that is not the purpose of this meeting vermin."

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I wonder if one day, Las will get a priority request from Vader saying he wants his own custom LECA. All of this is to say, I'd love an interlude or Omake with Vader building a giant lightsaber for his mech.

 

[RageKnight]

"Your mother snorts bantha excrement, you vermin! Begone from my sight or I shall eviscerate your clan from this plain of existence!"

"Yeah that's right, tell em DarkLord!"

"Get your sweaty asses outta here noobs!"

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BAN ON CULTS MY ASS! HE MADE A PARASOICAL MMO CULT!

 

[TheVictor]

They lied about the cookies now feed me

 

[Zecevic081]

Turn Myr'thos into a gaming streamer, spread his parasocial cult fanbase throughout the galaxy!

 

[jerikoz]

BAN ON CULTS MY ASS! HE MADE A PARASOICAL MMO CULT!

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As a player with over 20 years of experience in Tibia, WoW, RuneScape, and SWTOR, I can say that most serious PvP or PvE clans, guilds, or groups have more rules than a cult and demand commitment and loyalty.

 

[Nickjr104]

oh no an MMO gamer sith. can't wait for him to pull a "i had no mana" and just abandon his team in a raid just to rage bait them only to laugh as they get taken out one by one. this of course after he pulls a Leroy Jenkins to force them to rush in with out a plan.

 

[Blackenedthorn]

Myr'thos as the Galaxy's first Gaming Vtuber with a human model to appeal to the typical Human-Centric Imperials and casually spit out Sith lore that goes over the heads of most, imagine the Emperor tuning in to hear Myr'thos raging about the stupidity of the Sith Empire of old

 

[Aaron Hardin]

Myr'thos as the Galaxy's first Gaming Vtuber with a human model to appeal to the typical Human-Centric Imperials and casually spit out Sith lore that goes over the heads of most, imagine the Emperor tuning in to hear Myr'thos raging about the stupidity of the Sith Empire of old

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If some historian Jedi is connected to technology instead of being in the wilderness the way Yoda is, I would also love to see their reaction to old Sith lore being spread over gaming channels.

Also, given that his rants would be internally consistent since it is how an actual empire functioned, either he or someone else could be involved in turning the way the Sith empire was into a video game with actual real lore, imagining Palpatine finding out that the best source for Sith lore from the old Sith empire, including how the force techniques were done, is not a holocron but a video game. He then starts playing and gets trolled by Myr'thos and sends assets trying to find the one who trolled him.

 

[IndraP]

Huh, I kinda forget about that guy, maybe he get a redemption arc? break his chain kinda thing? from sith codex

 

[Wonderbread16]

life support pod for a quest chain. been really enjoying escape from duckov. still get overwhelmed even with good gear

 

[SotF]

If some historian Jedi is connected to technology instead of being in the wilderness the way Yoda is, I would also love to see their reaction to old Sith lore being spread over gaming channels.

Also, given that his rants would be internally consistent since it is how an actual empire functioned, either he or someone else could be involved in turning the way the Sith empire was into a video game with actual real lore, imagining Palpatine finding out that the best source for Sith lore from the old Sith empire, including how the force techniques were done, is not a holocron but a video game. He then starts playing and gets trolled by Myr'thos and sends assets trying to find the one who trolled him.

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Imagine if said game was the in universe version of EVE...Palpatine looking at the history of "stunts" the playerbase has gotten up to over the years, potentially including assassinations and similar when sane people tried to ban it.

Palpy's instant mix of curiosity, panic, jealousy, confusion, annoyance, and more because it's essentially been running for force only knows how long and there's a massive pile of Sith lore bouncing around the place.

I mean there have been cases of players of the real EVE going and cutting power/internet to peoples houses over things, now imagine how much worse they'd be in the Star Wars Galaxy.

His first instinct would be to try shutting it down, until he realizes that it might end up with a pretty massive number of, essentially, Sith Lords on the loose in HIS galaxy and not under his control...

Then he starts crying...

 

[Blackenedthorn]

Also, given that his rants would be internally consistent since it is how an actual empire functioned, either he or someone else could be involved in turning the way the Sith empire was into a video game with actual real lore, imagining Palpatine finding out that the best source for Sith lore from the old Sith empire, including how the force techniques were done, is not a holocron but a video game. He then starts playing and gets trolled by Myr'thos and sends assets trying to find the one who trolled him.

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Alternatively Palpatine could just be Myr'thos' biggest donor of funds as he asks points questions about the past and uses his part-time Sith Archeology hobby as a cover when asked, now Vader and the surviving Inquisitors I can see interacting with Myr'thos via gaming to get more information via chat.

 

[Aaron Hardin]

Alternatively Palpatine could just be Myr'thos' biggest donor of funds as he asks points questions about the past and uses his part-time Sith Archeology hobby as a cover when asked, now Vader and the surviving Inquisitors I can see interacting with Myr'thos via gaming to get more information via chat.

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Palpy later gets pissed off after realizing the easiest way to turn Jedi to the dark side is via video games, hardcore gamers embrace the proper Sith attitude, so now all Sith trainees are given assignments on trolling and the like to get them in the proper mindset.

 

[Yacov]

Built from the mashed together souls of a hundred minor, failed Sith acolytes, Myr'thos had been a dagger in the night and a blade to be wielded by whomever held the chain. Without any unneeded organs. No gender or sexual ability. An internal biology so efficient it could subsist off of dirt for days straight. All for their master.

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Oh so Myr'thros isn't just a Sith, they are a Sithspawn. That probably makes them even more terrifying to those who are forced sensitive. Imagine seeing Las show up to a speech and then suddenly this amalgam of a hundred screaming souls shows up behind him deferentially. That is definitely going to color their impression of Las.

 

[Watching]

grabbed a nutri-bar. It was the standard fare for Imperial troops out on duty, and tasted vaguely of nothing, nada and zilch.

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Huh, would probably be good for moral if those bars also came with different flavors.

 

[Tankman585]

I sit here having read this chapter while listening to Gold by Spandau Ballet myself...in a way I feel called out, but more in a pointing spidermen meme way than anything negative. In any case, thanks for the chapter Freefaller! Looking forward to more!

 

[Vlaadd17]

Mytrhos reminds me of the black cursed dragon from anime my maid dragon. (Fafnir was it?) The guy who was chilling all days playing video games, and on one instance, turned himself into hot goth girl, to pretend being his rentor girlfriend, in order to placete their parents. (So they wouldn't bothering him about lack of one and they could play video games all day.)

Same energy. The fact that they identified themselves as asexual, and draged Si for a shopping spree... Anyway, let's not ponder on this question further.

Thank you for the chapter.

 

[Harman]

Looking forward to more of this, I can't believe I finished it in 2 days.

 

[Mistroz]

excellent chapter.

 

[Vhalidictes]

Looking forward to more of this, I can't believe I finished it in 2 days.

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Me too. Read through the whole thing in three sittings, I just couldn't stop.

I'm super curious about the partnership with the ISB agent and where that's going.

TBH I was certain that the Sith was secretly female, but the truth was even weirder.

 

[Inbredmartian]

Nah palpy would never….but Vader already has his isolation chamber and wouldn't be that hard for him to turn it into a gaming den. Just imagine Vader shaking the walls of his SSD and everyone's pissing themselves wondering what's up only for him to be getting roasted by a certain sith vtuber for not knowing acolyte tier sith healing techniques that would heal 95% of his burns and other assorted shit palpy said 'lol nothing I can do' too

 

[Freefaller]

Chp-81

It's a slow day in the office, and by that I mean the mountain of paperwork was climbable. Make no mistake, the boulder will roll back down the hill once more, but for now I can pretend I'm happy.

Because Sisiphyus surely fuckin aint.

Of course, because I have some free time, I immediately dedicated it to checking up on my favorite group of mad scientists. The R&D division.

The eclectic group of wackjobs that were attracted to Minda by good pay and better treatment. And a budget set aside for their little side projects. At least, that was the case last I checked, which was over a year ago.

Regardless, since these are the people in charge of making the shipyards ships more efficient and less costly, I figured giving them a check in is a decent idea. See if theres anything I can do for them, since their some of the most important people under my employ currently.

Gotta keep em happy.

Its with this on my mind that I'm led by Yop through the facility. It had been expanded since I was last here to accommodate the new divisions.

"And through here we have our new Starship Division" Said the director, showing me through a door into a very, very large room.

It was taller and wider than the average laboratory, mostly I imagine to accommodate the very large holoprojector in the center of the room.

The projector was on, displaying an image of what appeared at first to be a Strike-Class medium cruiser. However, something was off. Its hull was too angular.

Before I could ponder more, Yop continued yapping.

"This is our central design space. Here, all of our techs work on the overall theory side of modifying ships. It's much easier to communicate and helps us avoid siloing. At my old job there were so many delays and problems because people forgot that other teams existed, or just didn't talk to each other."

A few people looked up and spotted me with widened eyes, but a wave of my hand had them relaxing. It was kind of strange, to be honest. I was a decently common sight around the Imperial Tower, given that I worked and lived there. So people had gotten used to me; hard not to when I got lunch in the cafeteria every day. Sure, I could have a private chef or an intern bring me food, but they have better things to do and I need small breaks anyways.

So it was odd to still see people react that way to my presence, but I suppose its natural.

"...where we print our third separate physical copy, just in case the digital one has problems and the remote copier in the records room breaks down. And over here is the snack machine, we voted on it a month ago and it's been great!"

Refocusing on Yop, I stopped him for a second. "Sorry, Director, for the interruption, but my curiosity is killing me. What is that ship up on the projector? It reminds me vaguely of the Strike-Class but something's off."

His eyes seemed to light up a little bit. "Oh, I didn't think you'd recognize it!"

I wouldn't have under normal circumstances, but whenever I have a meeting with Veers she brings up the ships she'd like for the defence force no matter the topic. Budget talks? Victory Class. New orders? Dreadnought-Class. It never ended with her, but considering the excitement in her eyes I assume she's just a ship nerd or something.

"This is indeed a Strike-Class. However, its a specific custom variant called the Eidolon. It was custom made for Imperial Advisor Sate Pestage. The original ship went missing many years ago, but the design was kept by KDY. Most of the modifications were, shall I say, superfluous and unneeded, and the design itself isn't very far off from the original ship."

"But why produce this variant? The normal Strike-Class is plenty fine as it is, and this custom variant doesn't seem to add enough value to justify the work needed to build it." I say, hoping to cut any inefficiency at the roots. Though, I don't order it scrapped just yet. Yop at this point has proven his competency, so I trust he has a good reason.

"Well sir, that comes down to the TIE launch bays" He states, furry hand clicking around on the hologram terminal.

The projection shimmers as an x-ray view of the ship appears, with a series of tunnels and hangars highlighted in red.

"The mechanism allows for TIE's to be launched and landed with ease, not to mention shunted through maintenance and refueling before being put back in the launch bays. The thing is, most of this is in fact overengineered. Whoever designed it seemed to want to impress the Advisor more than build a good ship."

"However…"he says, pressing a few more buttons as I watch the projection shift again, this time to what I presume is their modified blueprint. "We were able to remove the maintenance section entirely, which was the biggest expense since it was fully automated and very complex, instead focusing on expanding the tunnels for larger TIE variants and only allowing refueling. This, alongside other simplifications, allowed us to drastically reduce the cost of production."

I nod, understanding the vision. "And I assume you chose this variant because the blueprint was cheaper, yes?"

Yop nods in agreement. "Correct. The head of the Office of Planetary Contracts and Acquisitions was able to acquire them for quite cheap."

Oioro then, huh? Makes sense, she could get a cow to sell her its meat if she wanted to.

After that, we left for the break room, since I missed lunch and wanted to see what they had. And so, as I munch on some of the fresh fruit available there, I spy something on the wall.

Not far from the couch there stands a big board on a wall. Plastered across it are many, many designs, blueprints, and other technical jargon. All on flimsi, all stapled to the wall.

Now, this isn't too surprising, since people are allowed to pursue personal projects on the theoretical level so long as they get their work done first, but something does catch my eye.

"Is that an ISD design?" I say, pointing at the wall.

Turning, Yop examines closer before explaining. "Thats one of the designs for the New-Class project, sir. Its a side project run on simulators where our design team gets together to design new ship classes during their off time. They aren't finished, and they jump from design to design almost constantly, but it's good for their mental health. And they also often run into data they can apply back to their actual work."

I humm, pleased with this. The workers aren't angry, get some off time, and that off time benefits their job? Providence, truly.

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It's a few hours later, and guess where I am?

My office.

Myr'thos is on the couch reading through a recipe book of some kind while telekinetically throwing around a little red rubber ball for Mugwuffin to fetch. Thankfully, Mugwuffin is very stealthy and graceful, so I barely hear the ruckus she causes.

Leafing through my work, I sign off on some city expansions for new workers, mentally thanking the Union Rep for coming in clutch with those construction companies. Though I make sure to add a little note for them to remember to keep to the city standard guidelines. Fucked up city infrastructure, especially in an area that will be mostly filled with immigrants could cause a slum effect, and I wont have that. If the Alderaanian refugees and stuff got nice streets, then so do these people.

Aside from that, I work through more reports as per usual. Stuff like Guild reports on piracy rates, reports from the financial analyst team on Clok that has slowly been making more and more money, and even profit reports from Edin! It took some time, but now that Belt Haven asteroid station has been fully converted after being sideline for other infrastructure. With it, trade is increasing and so is profit. Very nice.

A report from Thorne is also here, as it is every day. Reading it through the cypher, its more info on his efforts with Darna. They are working on slowly but surely reorganizing the agencies to be more discreet and professional. He even called her "competent". Quite the compliment.

I also get a report from Darna that is also encrypted with a different cypher, because of course neither trusts the other. It's much the same, and she even called him "not half bad". Again, quite the compliment.

After that, I ran through some more stuff. An order for some more textbooks and economical analysis, alongside a bundle of philosophy texts. I was branching out, you see. That and they were on sale. But that one called Thesis on the Dichotomy of some tale or another seemed interesting enough.

It's at this point that my terminal pings with another message. A priority message from the Moffs office.

Opening it, my eyes widen, my jaw drops, my head starts to ache, and my soul starts to curse whatever cruel god hath put me here.

Hiral. The Moff. He was promoted to Governor-General of the Oversector by Kaine. With barely a few years as Moff under his belt, truly a momentous occasion. And while the message doesn't outright state it, in a few months once he's settled in he'll be choosing a successor, and I'm candidate number one.

Quite the decision. One that will put me in the position of Moff. One that will subject me to more scrutiny, to more eyes, more blades and blasters in the dark.

One that will trap me even further in the chains of leadership. A promotion that will make it infinitely harder to escape as more and more importance is put on my survival.

It makes me want to scream, to break something, to find Kaine and wring his neck for choosing this inexperienced upjumped nepo baby asshole nobody as Governor-General. It makes me, for the first time since I found myself in this god forsaken universe, look at my desk drawer where I know my blaster is and truly consider whether or not it's worth it to stick around.

STOPNOALARMFEARLOVENEEDEDVALUEDPAINSHOCKSURVIVALFUTURECONNECTIONEXISTENCEWANTEDLIVEDNOW

Before my thoughts can continue, my mind is slammed with a deluge of emotions, and then my body is slammed by 45 pounds of scales. Mugwuffin is practically wrapped around my torso as I nearly fall backwards out of my chair from the sudden impact.

As her ball goes flying I steady myself, hands going to pet her spines as I mentally reassure her that I'm not going to kill myself. I just had a moment of weakness, that's all. Got too much to live for, too much to see and do. Can't die a virgin after all.

Before I can preempt Myr'thos's incoming question, the red rubber ball Mugwuffin was playing with slams into their face, somehow bypassing their abilities with the Force.

As they look at the ball in horror, I scoot back up to my desk, Mugwuffin still in my lap wrapped around me like a small child. Sighing, I dial one of my contacts.

"Hey there. What can I do ya for?" Says Dornun Mola, the most annoying man I know.

"I need dossiers on all the Moffs top people. Then I need dossiers on who would be best to replace them with."

"...no way" It seems he caught on.

"Unfortunately , yes."

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Made apple fritters today. Was alright. Prolly needed more sugar, and a proper glaze at the end but I don't have powdered sugar. I do have sugar and cinnamon though, so I just tossed em in that.

Imma make chili mac next.

-Freefaller

 

[Collectors]

nice to see this again! I hope you continue to share the most truly important thing in this post. Your culinary endeavours!!

 

[Stivanderen]

Suffering from succes.

 

[AlreadyGoneAway]

Anakin's thesis!

 

[Robynthewitch]

Our poor boy... up the ladder he is thrown. Not climbing, no no! He wants to stay lower, but people keep throwing him higher.

 

[oscar e Sampedro Lopez]

Thanks for the chapter Great story as always.
The man is literally suffering from success

 

[NinjaMAster]

You can actually just toss regular granulated sugar in a blender and make it yourself. Google says you might want to add a little corn starch to prevent clumping, and to keep the blender closed for about four minutes to let the cloud of fine particulate sugar settle out of the air.