Governor's Gambit - Star Wars SI into Imperial Governor

[False_Prophet75]

MW5 mercs Bullshark is bulls**t. I pull jump jets, and add 10 C-MPL + 2 C-LPL. Instant deletion of anything below Assault.

 

[Profilozof]

Why do I get the feeling that surrounding sectors' moffs will regret not helping Mola in few years when New Republic arrives

 

[ZzzSlothzzZ]

given you could see most of the signs it was the expensive core-world kind either.

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wasn't

 

[Yacov]

As the data compiled, it spoke of consequences. Shipments not arriving, ports clogged or empty, patrols sailing through darkness, no way to find the threat.

And all he could do was run the numbers.

The info cable detached with a hiss while his head burned with the new depth of information.

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Between the hate for droids and the prejudice against cyborgs, the ones running large amounts of data through their heads don't get near enough credit or Credits.

"Secretary Roius, the courier ships have returned. Reports indicate a rise in piracy sector-wide!"

Opportunity. They could smell it. With the entire holonet system offline so suddenly, remaining pirate elements were bound to take advantage of the chaos.

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Seems like the pirates last hurrah. Glad Las got rid of most of their capital ships or things would be so much worse.

Within a few seconds, his understanding of the situation increased. Guildmistress Sabrir had correctly identified the three day rule. Any on-demand economy, such as the Myto sectors, relied on constant streams of supplies instead of massed local storage.

Meaning most stores, especially those dealing in food, only kept enough product for three days. Now, thankfully the Myto Sector hadn't been an on-demand economy for more than half a year, so local storage was still common even if reduced. But that only extended that time period to a week at best.

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This is why you diversify production on your world, especially in the Outer Rim. When factions or powers can do stuff like that, that comparative disadvantage for producing things like food seems at lot more advantageous when the HoloNet is down.

Medicine. While many planets in the sector were still somewhat self-sufficient in terms of food, medicine was often an import. Sector officials had spent months assisting governors in structuring their taxes and other income in order to allow nearly every system to have adequate medical facilities. But those facilities relied on imported medical products.

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At least those systems have Imperial level medical facilities now even with a looming supply shortage. A lot of Imperial Governors expect the people they rule over to "make do" with local practices. At least the facilities still have their equipment.

The info cable told him other things.

A list of ships continued jumping into the system, demanding to know what was happening. Some were governors, others private concerns. From magnates to Muun bankers to ISB agents.

The system was never meant to deal with a load like this. Not without the central pillar. Not without the Moff here to deal with the political side of things.

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The downside of Moff Las working overtime. Everyone relies on him to be there when the next crisis hits.

My job, though at this point I found it more a duty to the people rather than a job given my employer was quite shit, was to deal with such chaos when it arose.

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Which is impressive considering who Las' both direct and ultimate employer is.

"This crisis is temporary, Agent, of that I can assure you. While the cause is still indeterminate, it will take no more than a week for the relays to be brought back online. Once priority problems are dealt with, the ISB will receive a full report."

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Wow a Sector wide HoloNet crisis taking a week to resolve is impressively quick for an Outer Rim government. The resulting supply chain disruption will probably take significantly longer.

"There are approximately 382 holonet relays sector wide. Of them, we've identified the status of just 40 through courier ships passing messages. 12 showed signs of physical damage, some form of ion-based explosive seems the best early guess. The remaining 28 had no evidence of physical attack, but show signs of internal code damage. Slicer teams are in-route."

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Yesh, ion bombs are really bad news. The kind of illegal stuff that gets you tortured first and hopefully executed later. Hopefully it is just something on the level of EMP grenades strapped together or there might be an even bigger issue.

The Braxant sector barely produced their own blasters, I doubted they had medicine to spare. And the Governor-General had been increasingly distant and unreliable.

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Huh, I wonder what silly little projects Moff Marv is going to get up to now that Las and the IGCPP are thoroughly distracted?

Until my eyes fell on one sector. One that, despite every bone in my body telling me it was wrong, fit all the criteria.

The Velcar Sector.

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Ah the Velcar Free Commerce Zone. The home of all those lovely corporations that held sway in the Penstar Alignment. The ones Las' has been probably been snubbing his whole career. The ones enslaving millions among the primitive species that call the VFCZ home. The chance these Corps might be more willing to work with Las than the other Moffs says a lot about the Moffs.

 

[AdrianXIV]

Like, Pirates attack Las's domain with such "single-minded determination" as if Imperium's equivalent to Fort Knox was there.

 

[RoyalOlive]

Will there be an amswer later to how pirates managed to hack dozens of brand new, extremely-well encrypted holonet relays, as well as destroy others?