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?

 

[Wratus]

Hmmmm while all this seemingly points towards a Pirate sabotage and attack operation... this just smells of sabotage by extremist rebel group, rival Moff and with how this is hitting his economy most likely Megacorps having a hand in it as well... heck wouldn't surprise me if some of the Megacorps where paying Pirates to attack Myto in the first place since the guild has been damaging their bottom-line.

...actually when i start thinking about it why didn't i bring this possibility up before, i know how some of these corporates does shit in IRL so why didn't i think of the possibility of the SW Megacorps hiring Pirates to attack and disrupt the ONE Sector not playing ball with them?

 

[NaraRias]

I know the story is Las being governor of his sector but it feels like too much is happening to this one sector too frequently.

 

[PersonablePlatypus]

I know the story is Las being governor of his sector but it feels like too much is happening to this one sector too frequently.

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You could technically compare his sector to a margraviate: way out in the boonies, beset on most sides by uncaring peers he kind of fucked over and having a border to wild space for all kinds of degeneracy to inhabit.

He got a pretty good thing going but he also has to at least in theory shoulder constant incursions to 'civilized' space.

He is kinda lucky that it was mostly Pirates up to this point

 

[Psychic_Duck]

This feels like the Empire (ISB, rival Moffs, other Imperial orgs, etc) shooting itself in the foot because it wants to cling to the idiot ball a little longer.

Looking forward to Las resolving this in record breaking time and punishing those who did it.

 

[AdrianXIV]

Guy responsible for "newest mess": Such situation means mass rebellions, administerial chaos and "regular" assassination attempts of "Incompetent Governor". If "Moff Mola" will not be killed by rebels by end of month, I will eat Lord Vader's helmet

 

[Fefebr]

Hmmmm while all this seemingly points towards a Pirate sabotage and attack operation... this just smells of sabotage by extremist rebel group, rival Moff and with how this is hitting his economy most likely Megacorps having a hand in it as well... heck wouldn't surprise me if some of the Megacorps where paying Pirates to attack Myto in the first place since the guild has been damaging their bottom-line.

...actually when i start thinking about it why didn't i bring this possibility up before, i know how some of these corporates does shit in IRL so why didn't i think of the possibility of the SW Megacorps hiring Pirates to attack and disrupt the ONE Sector not playing ball with them?

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It could be all options at the same time or a combination of them

 

[Wratus]

Guy responsible for "newest mess": Such situation means mass rebellions, administerial chaos and "regular" assassination attempts of "Incompetent Governor". If "Moff Mola" will not be killed by rebels by end of month, I will eat Lord Vader's helmet

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While i doubt this would happen, but this the kind of situation that would see Darth Vader come to the Myto Sector with his Death Squadron in order to re-establish Imperial order as such a big sabotage operation would smell of Rebel scum to the Empire, it would seem to sophisticated to be prepharated by mere Pirate scum no matter how ambitious.

It could be all options at the same time or a combination of them

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It most likely is and even more funny is how no one of them stopped to think that a Operation of this magnitude is something Vader and his Death Squadron would be on the lookout for and deploy too.

 

[Grimmouse197]

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

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Which is gonna be hilarious. Because he's probably gonna be the only one that they're not gonna actively target.

 

[BarrettSlayer]

Probably multiple parties doing their own thing to disrupt Holonet connection and not take it down completely.

If so and they didn't mean to coordinate the when one blew up the relays that activated the programming of the sabotaged ones since it might be easier to have them set to go off when they lose full connection with one so the hackers only need to send a signal to one of them and boom.

Hell could be the hacked ones are legacy remains of some other group that just made another's plan far more dire then intended ( though why only that sector was affected then might be weird unless the Empire just used already there sectors to divvy out to be ruled)

Look forward to finding out what actually happened!