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Governor's Gambit - Star Wars SI into Imperial Governor

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Freefaller said:
The next hour is spent doing preliminary organization. The basic idea is that Thorne and Darna will co-lead the three organizations, with Thorne only being present in meetings through Darna's earpiece, feeding her intel and helping make decisions without revealing himself.
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And that's how you end up in charge of your own Illuminati.
 
Between this and the Guild... Minda is just going to end up the capital of its own outer rim polity within the decade.

When Imperial authority inevitably dies with Palpatine, every world in the region is going to be looking one place and one place only for its leadership.
 
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As we both turned to the Agent, he did something unexpected.

He drew his blaster pistol.

Before anyone could react, it was trained at Darna's head. My brain was sluggish, so my own hand had only started to move to my panic button, while Mugwuffin sprang up, hackles raised, teeth bared.

"Do not move, Vice-Governor." He states calmly, though his eyes flicker about the room, scanning it.

"You have 3 seconds to explain what the hell it is your doing before I press this button and security storms in here, Thorne." I grind out, my body a little too tired for a fear response at the moment.
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Nice to see everyone is calm (or tired) enough to not start blasting.
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My mind is racing a million miles an hour, but I catch the slim cartridge. Grabbing my PDA, I shut it off and disconnect the memory core. Grabbing a spare from my desk (yes I keep spare tech parts in my desk, I don't want to waste time with repair technicians) I slot it in, then plug in the cartridge.
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Las knowing how to do minor electronic repair to avoid filing more reports and interacting with bureaucracy is so him.
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"Why haven't you already reported this to the ISB, Agent?" I ask, staring him down. I'm scared shitless, sure, but I have to project confidence. If Myr'thos was here, they would call me a coward for doing anything else.

Unfortunately, they were out at the gaming cafe here on Imperial Island. Their mmo clan had a raid apparently, and the cafe is within a mile so it works.
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Poor Sith missing the juicy inner court intrigue. Then again, they probably had to deal with enough of that back in the Sith Empire, so maybe it's a blessing.
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He takes a deep breath, as if to steady himself. "Minda, however, has proven to be exceptionally different, stable, happy. You, Governor Mola, have proven yourself to be a true Imperial, and because of that I believed it better to report this betrayal to you, as the ISB would certainly use this as an excuse to rip this place apart with their schemes."
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Yes Las is a true Imperial. He only has a Rebel sympathizer, an agent of a foreign power, a scion from a clan that probably contains ex-Separatists, and a non-(Galactic) Imperial force user in key parts of his government. Truly the Imperial way.
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Huh. Honestly, leave it to the ISB to be so shit one of their agents thinks some random ass backwater Governor is a better option. Truly, an agency worthy of the Empire.
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At least the ISB don't have Thorne running drug deals in back alleys like the ZB division. Dear Force that "let's make a criminal syndicate" operation probably disillusioned hundreds of ISB agents.
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Darna, somehow, started an information web of ex-rebels and such, then expanded into a slave-ring busting syndicate, then decided that, on top of all that, she needed a secret fucking kill team!?
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To be fair, Darna could probably have gotten away with everything up until she overstretched with the kill team. Maybe be able to play it off as being within the Guild's remit. It is when the Empire finds out you have a team of trained assassins at your beck and call with zero Imperial oversight that the Empire gets twitchy.
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If the ISB, hell, the Empire at large finds out about this? I'm cooked. Well and truly dead on the goddamn ground.

But if I kill Darna here, which I really don't want to do because, putting the secret shit aside, she's pretty cool. And then all the orgs go to ground and I get assassinated in like a month, tops.
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Las treating both sides like rabid dogs when they both state they really like him.
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"Both of you want Minda safe. Both of you want to build a better system. I don't see why you can't work together on this."
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The funny part is, Las is technically correct. As long as HAVEN has not targeted overt Imperial operations and kept their overt espionage strikes to Hutt and other criminal syndicate space, it can be argued they haven't broken any laws or acted against the Empire within Imperial space. They have even helped enforce Guild laws within Guild space. "Promoting" these "Pro-Imperial" "vigilantes" should be within Las' remit.
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Looking into Darna's eyes, I soften my eyes a tad. "You've been overworking yourself. This would help, big time. You deserve it."
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Las was already on Darna's case about overworking before finding out about the extra organizations, so it makes this argument more believable.
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"Hmmm…I see the benefits, and it seems the only way forward for us right now." A sigh escapes her body before she puts out a hand to Thorne.

"I can't tell how well this'll go, but it seems we have some things in common." He grabs her hand in response, and they shake like professionals as his gun is returned to its holster.

"It will be a difficult process, but I believe this could be a fruitful partnership." Is his response, voice returning to his usual deadpan.
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And this is the point Darna crosses the point of no return. She could have gone back over to the Rebels at any point before this and been welcomed warmly, especially if she brought Imperial secrets with her. That opportunity is gone.

Anyone who works alongside the ISB willingly is going to be persona non grata in the Rebel Alliance at best, much less any form of the New Republic when it forms. Hope Darna likes Imperial fashion, she's going to be wearing it for a long time to come.
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Its only when they've both left that I fully collapse onto my office sofa. It's nearly 3 in the morning, and the hot chocolate I made at the meetings starts is cold now.
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Las managed to restructure the entire intelligence landscape of Minda and the Guild at large. All in 3 hours while dead tired.
 
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At this point, Las is head of an informal federation of systems that's one step away from being functionally independent. The only thing concrete thing left of the Empire that hasn't been subverted is the stormtrooper detachment that his boss stationed there.
 
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Mugwuffin lays to my side, her warmth comforting, and I can't help but fall asleep.

My dreams are not peaceful.
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Damn that was a tense moment but it works out well.

I had to reread the bit where Thorne says the ISB sucks… my brain went Wut??????
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Looking forward to the next one ;)
 
Gordian_Knot said:
Between this and the Guild... Minda is just going to end up the capital of its own outer rim polity within the decade.

When Imperial authority inevitably dies with Palpatine, every world in the region is going to be looking one place and one place only for its leadership.
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Don't forget that by then he will also have loyal Sith, and the Rebellion also thinks well of him now, so pretty much every remaining power structure in the empire including the rebellion will be looking to him. Also screws up any Palpatine revival plans since there will be no imperial remnants fight and weaken what would otherwise be the New Republic, and he also will already have a better run intelligence service already in place that likely would include assets from Palpatine that have flipped, so a lot more of Palpatine's hidden assets will be found. There is also a high chance that some of Palpy's secret facilities will be found, so the revival may be prevented at all (I am not assuming the now canon Disney revival of Palpatine either, Palpy used Sidious's experiments on clones as a base to use clone bodies to revive himself in Legends as well, and the Legends revival mechanism just make more sense than current canon (which is true for a lot of things in Legends if you ignore the Vong debacle).
 
WerewolfEros said:
Ok, I have had enough of this, I need to know... is the Sith Bodygaurd a 'Male' or a 'Female'? It's triggering me something fierce, and it's starting to pass me off.
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Myr'thos ain't neither. They're just Myr'thos. I considered giving them a gender, but just got lazy so now they have none. This will be expanded on in an upcoming Myr'thos Interlude
 
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We can only hope that the emperor doesn't find out about this treason.
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Thankfully in under a year he should be getting kidnapped over Coruscant by a Grand Admiral trying to do a coup along with one of his Hands. So he should be busy trying to put down that resulting Imperial splinter government on the opposite side of the galaxy from Minda. At least if the TIE Fighter games are in this timeline.
 
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Huh, thorn choosing Minda over wider empire and his... Ugh, colleagues is probably too strong word, acquentenses in EBI... Lars really projects aura of common sense around him , isn't he?

Though, if we would be entirely honest here, shouldn't thorn as an agent of a galaxy spanning empire have an network of spies on his own? Like surely agents allowed to have a net of concerned citizens around their assigned area , or a kill squad of bodyguards to follow them on missions like inquisitors in warhammer, or something?

I cant believe that high ranking agents dont have that. Even if it isn't officially'allowed' i bet they have a network of 'friends' who listen and look in a couple of planets around their asighned sector or just in building they are working.

If this thorn isn't having that, than maybe his 'friends' in buro sabotaging his efforts in order to earn promotion themselves. Maybe he even tried to make a network of informants, but failed because those higher ranking agents snatched them?

Again, the less successful he is, the less chances he has for promotion, meaning his rivals own chances improving. That would make an ISB a pit of vipers constantly fighting themselves... Does anyone knows canon? How close it to the truth?

Regardless, that would explain why he wishes to 'join' into Lars and CO, if he has no future in ISB and it's toxic environment, why not to seek elsewhere? The fact that there is existing net of informants that he can take for himself and found his own little spy agency whe he would be in charge is too tempting.

Regardless, just my ranting. Thank you for the chapter.
 
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