Governor's Gambit - Star Wars SI into Imperial Governor

[Athain]

Been looking into expanding info on the Myto Sectors ground forces. After all, outside of the LECA's and the Broadsword hover IFV's its all bog standard. Obviously the Imp military has some decent stuff, if it was all awful they'd lose all the time. But I figure there has to be places they can improve, so tossing ideas/art of vehicles/weapons/strategies and more in the comments would be amazing, cause I am as far from a general as possible. Not even an armchair general. Mechs can be included, given the LECA, but keep them star wars themed and grounded to an extent. No Gundams flying around lobbing battleship killing nukes.

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How about rotary cannons for anti-fighter/anti-missile duty? Multi-layered shields? Or maybe ask why the bridge on the Star Destroyers is sticking out so much? Some Veritech fighters would be nice, but that's probably pushing it. Oh, here's a basic one: Flares. Something for the fighters and other spacecraft to shake off torpedoes/missiles. Maybe give the ground troops an E-tool.

 

[ActionJHW]

You know, considering how most authoritarian governments tend to really hate the intellectual culture of science even if they love the tech, I wouldn't be surprised if the examiners were expecting the standard Moff approach of arguing which form of torture is most cost-effective in keeping slaves docile and productive and got a Moff that actually understands and has implemented genuinely good economic reforms that aren't ethically shit.

 

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A suspicious 6 or 7 there. Should have known

 

[Yacov]

They were, in a single word, large. Like, at least 6 or 7 stories tall. At the base sat a series of perfectly normal sized doors instead.

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Why yes, I would like to fit an AT-AT into the university in case of purges.

They were enjoying their new armor way too much. The hooded helmet and monochrome color scheme made them a walking shadow, and Myr'thos took every opportunity to make the drip clear as day to all.

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Now that is a Dark Sider outfit. Could even pose as an inquisitor with that look. Then again most would assume they are just cosplaying.

One of them fell over, faceplanting so hard I was certain I saw blood. From Myr'thos's quiet snickers, I had a suspicion it was no accident.

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Truly an evil act. A Jedi would faint from the wanton cruelty displayed by the Sith.

Though they shot curious looks at Mugwuffin on my shoulders,

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Pay no heed, that is just Las' support sentient.

As it stands, a non-humans needs or wants are irrelevant, only their productive capability. And the data shows that these concessions allow that capability to rise."

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i.e. the galaxy has been multi-species for millennia, we have figured it out for a long time.

"The average cost of security per slave per capita is 237% higher than what it would take to pay even the barest minimum wage. They are effectively running expensive prisons that happen to produce something as a byproduct. This, combined with all the other evidence, is inefficient."

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Slavery at the end of it all does wealth distribution, not overall wealth generation.

Unfortunately, the atmosphere came to an end as an alarm rung out, my alarm. A quick tap at my PDA silenced it.

"My apologies, my alarm was ringing to remind me of a dinner reservation I made this morning." I glanced at the clock. "Unfortunately, I'll have to take my leave within the next half an hour if I wish to make it . It's at The Pinnacle, you see."

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Congrats Las, you managed to make a bunch of tenured professors actually stand up and engage with your material.

Honestly fairly proud of this chapter. Really wanted to showcase how Coruscant is kind of a glittery shithole through the academy. But at the same time, I figured there had to be people who were actually passionate about their field of study under the pomp. After all, this is just one lowly Moff, so they wouldn't send the trust fund babies with 0 passion, just the ones who are 50/50 on passion and profit.

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One thing Las could do while on Coruscant is go head hunting. It might be the galaxy's black heart, but by sheer numbers there are going to be specialists that he can't find back home. Might not be the greatest quality willing to go out into the Outer Rim, but at least they'll be takers.

 

[Filehej]

For army upgrades? Depends on how you actually define the imperial army. Simple stuff would be actually implementing current stuff into sw for in planet fighting ie over the horizon engagement, artillery, missiles, air support that doesn't just do strafing runs, actual athmosphere fighters, bombers, ciws, mortars, if you want to get fancy get drones and droids into the mix ala stuff we see now. Combined arms actually showed, specialists troopers.

It all depends how into the weeds you want to actually go.

Off the top of my head missiles is kinda the low hanging fruit there. I don't think the concept of cruise missiles is used that much. The jericho missile from iron man comes to mind. Concussion missiles just kinda do whatever the author wants them to. Proton torpedoes are either fucking stupid or the pants shiting thing like Halo plasma ones.

 

[PepeDeLosPalotes]

Thanks for tje chapter