Governor's Gambit - Star Wars SI into Imperial Governor

[furiothecat]

Need some Golan-III's? There's gonna be a lot of fallout from this attack.

 

[Arnorian_Spartan]

Okay, things are excalating, I am now thinking we're dealing with a convergence of enemies. The Rebellion trying to cripple an imperial shipyard. And the Slavers alliance trying to undermine mola and dislodge him from power, the Slavers might be trying to cover this as a rebellion attack though so who knows. But attacking the shipyard, which is an important imperial asset might just get ISB to take interest, which brings eyes we don't want.

 

[Yacov]

And to be honest, she liked the challenge. Oh, sure, infiltrating Hutt complexes and high-sec Coruscanti apartments had been difficult, but she'd had the peak of Imperial spyware on her side.

Here, she didn't. She got some basic gadgets for sure. Bugs, poison, etc… But nothing fancy. Every challenge was a joy to overcome, a million paths open to her, so long as she was clever about it.

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Ah so no really fancy tools like baffleweave and multispectrum disguise suites. Just mostly pure wetwork.

But they were competent enough, and more importantly totally loyal to the Empire. MI was supposed to be that way as well, especially with that crazy bitch in charge. However, much of MI was former-Republic infrastructure, command structures and people.

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For reference, I give you Director Ysanne. She got that position from her father, after getting him executed for treason by the Emperor. The woman who had knowledge of a lot of Palpatine's atrocities and continuously rumored to find it romantically attractive. The woman who had a clone and no one could agree which one was the crazier one. She systematically starved an entire planet and forced them to beg to the deceased Emperor for mercy and praise his name.

But of course, I can't just rule by fear. That never ends well. So I have to show that I'm not just a tyrant. How do you do that? Infrastructure!

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Ah yes, having large public displays of where your taxes are going. The best public justification for collecting them.

Over a hundred enemy fighters had dropped into the system. They came in all shapes, from the most common hunks of junk to mismatched parts slapped together. But they all shared one thing in common.

They seemed hell bent on smashing into the shipyards. Sure, they engaged other fighters, but only to get them off their tails. Other than that, they simply focused on dodging AA.

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These are either droids or slaves with their loved ones on the line. Given the probable nature of the attacker I am guessing the latter.

 

[piledriven]

Isn't the Mindan shipyard technically "Rebel controlled" like it was at the start of the fic or was it taken over by the Guild sometime later? I'm assuming the enemies are some flavor or EVERYBODY (slavers, corrupt imperials, rogue Rebel forces, CIS, pirates, etc.) someway/somehow.

 

[paxus22]

Isn't the Mindan shipyard technically "Rebel controlled" like it was at the start of the fic or was it taken over by the Guild sometime later? I'm assuming the enemies are some flavor or EVERYBODY (slavers, corrupt imperials, rogue Rebel forces, CIS, pirates, etc.) someway/somehow.

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that's the refit yard, that has rebel cell onboard.
the minda shipyard is the old ronthana heavy engineering yard. that las controls

 

[Arrowthorne]

Suiciding Pilots....that's suspicious as fuck. Pirates are cowards above all else so the fact they're seemingly doing suicide runs is suspect.

I'm thinking its Droid Pilots, someone found a cashe of Pilot B1s from a seppie wreck and decided to ruin Las's day.

 

[drunkenBavarian]

Isn't the Mindan shipyard technically "Rebel controlled" like it was at the start of the fic or was it taken over by the Guild sometime later? I'm assuming the enemies are some flavor or EVERYBODY (slavers, corrupt imperials, rogue Rebel forces, CIS, pirates, etc.) someway/somehow.

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The Rebels have control with of a repair station build into a large asteroid (or was it the moon?) with several berths reserved for the empire iirc.

 

[readsalot]

They would not win.

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Kick their ass pilot

 

[faultlesselm16]

Okay, things are excalating, I am now thinking we're dealing with a convergence of enemies. The Rebellion trying to cripple an imperial shipyard. And the Slavers alliance trying to undermine mola and dislodge him from power, the Slavers might be trying to cover this as a rebellion attack though so who knows. But attacking the shipyard, which is an important imperial asset might just get ISB to take interest, which brings eyes we don't want.

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nah it wont be the rebels. they own the repair station nearby with a cell and that cell as in other interludes told off other cells for starting shit near them, if i remember right. they dont want minda to crack down on them because if i remember right they think he knows about them but lets them be if they dont act out, but i could be remembering wrong its been a bit since they were brought up.

 

[oscar e Sampedro Lopez]

Thanks for the chapter Great story as always.

I guess the repair of the shipyard will include a lot of AA guns now

 

[SwaffleWaffle]

MACs are cheap, probably, at least in the Star Wars setting, as they're basically just oversized Slugthrowers. Just spam a bunch of them all over the system, especially around critical assets and overwhelm the enemy with high volume of fire. They should be good enough for dealing with Fightercraft at the very least, even if they're not as effective on properly shielded and armored ships.

Perhaps one of the super weapons from the Onager-Class Star destroyer could be made without the whole Star destroyer around it, as a sort of overpowered floating turret. A weapon with a fraction of the power of the Death Star should be good enough for dealing with whatever enemies come by, right?…right?


I wonder if some part of this was an inside job, relying upon saboteurs disabling specific detection / early warning systems to ensure the element of surprise. If so, then I expect they won't get a second chance.

Maybe the enemy came through some secret way to the minds system, an unknown hyperlane only known to a select number of pirates and smugglers.

 

[al103]

*snip correction*

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I would say he's actually more first than second. "Can take risks, but prefer to kill them in infancy" instead of "scared of taking risks". So adverse is more correct than averse. Mola prefer to prevent risks, not avoid them... and crush them underfoot if not preventable - too many risky moves taken.

 

[Watching]

Because there aren't meant to be more than maybe 20 of these people. The larger the organization, the more prone to corruption it is after all. Their effect will be more psychological than anything really.

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Ehh… 20 still feels way too little for them to be an effective scare though.

Holo-net relays were being spread across the sector to help facilitate communications sector wide.

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Should probably poke R&D for better sector space infrastructure like hyper lane highways or quantum catapults or something.

It was as I was working through various possible paths of sector development that an alarm started sounding. Not the intruder alarm, but the general attack alarm. The same alarm that had rung years ago when pirates attacked Accordia.

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It's time to don the old helmet once more.

Sake lined up the first bogey, a Cloakshape. It tried to dodge, twisting and turning but he was faster, streaks of red ripping through it in seconds.

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Uhhh… wasn't he flying a Tie interceptor? Did he modify his fighter crafts guns or did the local navy decide to swamp to lower quality gas to save on money and logistics?

Need some Golan-III's? There's gonna be a lot of fallout from this attack.

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Might be better to use defense satellites instead of a full blown Golan 3 platforms. It'd be cheaper and faster to build.
Maybe build a Golan or 2 later down the line to help defend against capital ships since those things are mostly just turbo lasers anyway.

 

[Andrew1993]

MACs are cheap, probably, at least in the Star Wars setting, as they're basically just oversized Slugthrowers. Just spam a bunch of them all over the system, especially around critical assets and overwhelm the enemy with high volume of fire. They should be good enough for dealing with Fightercraft at the very least, even if they're not as effective on properly shielded and armored ships.

Perhaps one of the super weapons from the Onager-Class Star destroyer could be made without the whole Star destroyer around it, as a sort of overpowered floating turret. A weapon with a fraction of the power of the Death Star should be good enough for dealing with whatever enemies come by, right?…right?


I wonder if some part of this was an inside job, relying upon saboteurs disabling specific detection / early warning systems to ensure the element of surprise. If so, then I expect they won't get a second chance.

Maybe the enemy came through some secret way to the minds system, an unknown hyperlane only known to a select number of pirates and smugglers.

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Nah, cuz then people get worried about why some back water has superweapons, plus the empire would never allow it anyway

 

[SwaffleWaffle]

I would say he's actually more first than second. "Can take risks, but prefer to kill them in infancy" instead of "scared of taking risks". So adverse is more correct than averse. Mola prefer to prevent risks, not avoid them... and crush them underfoot if not preventable - too many risky moves taken.

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That reminds me of the enlightened self interest of Caiaphas Cain, where all to often the most safe option in the long term is to put himself in danger in the short term to prevent even greater danger later, or escape from some danger, etc.

With how Caiaphas Cain has impostor syndrome and is perhaps an unreliable narrator when it comes to providing a truthful perspective about his own virtues and heroism, and how similar Las Mola can be to him, I wonder how unreliable Las Mola's perspective is in this story - how much of his calm facade is actually a facade versus him slowly accepting his new reality and adjusting to it, and then just telling himself he's terrified out of habit / reflex, because he's unable to believe that he's confident / brave.


Speaking of avoiding taking risks, I think that there might be some non-Jedi force practitioners who might find themselves in Minda for one reason or another. According to at least one wiki I've found, the Matukai were nomadic, and could be found nearly anywhere spacefaring creatures could be found. Perhaps the Matukai, or another minor force sect of little importance and power, could be discovered by Moff Mola.

Or perhaps there could be a force / magic / sacred arts / whatever sect present on some unexplored world. It could have any of a wide variety of practices, but it would be really funny if their practices were based primarily on bonding with each other in the force, bonding with animal companions / famikiars, bonding with force ghosts, and other things like that. If that's the case then maybe their training could involve a way for Las to develop force sensitivity even when he is not naturally force sensitive, like what Matukai can sometimes do. He might be a rare case due to both an uncommon affinity to their practices and his bond with Mugwuffin.

Perhaps the force "sect", instead of being in a group of humanoids, could be in a group of the same species as Mugwuffin? Mugwuffin becoming some grandmaster or other high level character due to her connection to Moff Mola and smugging all over the place at her relatives and ordering them around as their new god empress or something would be hilarious.

Maybe Mugwuffin could view herself as the power behind the throne of Myto Sector, and she could spread her influence by getting other members of her species installed in various places in Myto, and perhaps even beyond. Having her true name be something absolutely menacing and terrifying which intimidates her species but her public, known name be "Mugwuffin" might make people even more afraid. A powerful and deadly creature is scary, but one which can hide its nature and subvert power structures and manipulate others can be even more so.

Having a humanoid species on that planet which treats mugwuffin's species as sacred / holy, like the ancient Egyptians might have, would be hilarious.

 

[TheVictor]

Reminds me of general kota in the force unleashed games where you hear tie fighters shrieking and laser fire in the background when you are sent to hunt him down by lord Vader

 

[LordEdric]

Honestly, this was probably the dumbest move Laz's enemies could pull. There is about a sector's worth of governors and Moffs, that the yards are building stuff for, and no one likes delays to their orders

 

[SwaffleWaffle]

Honestly, this was probably the dumbest move Laz's enemies could pull. There is about a sector's worth of governors and Moffs, that the yards are building stuff for, and no one likes delays to their orders

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Much more than a single sector, really. Las alone is now Moff of Myto Sector.

I'm unclear on the size of the territory / scope of responsibilities of his predecessor, the current Governor General.

 

[RageKnight]

Yo. Not super duper happy with the fight scene, but that's because I dunno how to write them and its late.

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I don't know how you're supposed to write pearl harbor from 1 pov

 

[Watching]

Vigil-Class Corvette go down, slammed into by two fighters while three more made a beeline for the yards

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Can't help but feel that ship went down a bit too fast there, I mean it was only 2 kamikaze fighters wasn't it?

Nah, cuz then people get worried about why some back water has superweapons, plus the empire would never allow it anyway

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Ehh… it depends on how big they build the MAC platforms. No one in Star Wars uses pure Kinetic weapons in star was outside the Chiss Ascendency so people might just dismiss it as worse than slug thrower.

 

[RoyalOlive]

A Vigil wouldn't be brought down by two suicidal fighters. Modern shields are incredibly effective against kinetic attacks. That's what phased out the popularity of mass drivers/railguns in the very early Republic. It's the in-universe lore for why kinetic strikes and suicide rams aren't really used.

 

[saylin021]

Damn, who is this Raina person, and how did she steal the Governor job from the highly competent, loyal, skilled, beautiful, good girl Mugwuffin? It's unfair!

 

[SwaffleWaffle]

Damn, who is this Raina person, and how did she steal the Governor job from the highly competent, loyal, skilled, beautiful, good girl Mugwuffin? It's unfair!

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Nah, Mugwuffin is the real Moff, Las is just her puppet. She can't let herself be distracted by minor system manners when she's now ruling a sector, and is progressing well on the path to becoming Empress.

I bet there's at least one person who has a conspiracy theory like that. Maybe someone will even try to assassinate Mugwuffin for some reason. Perhaps it would be some other member of her species, wielding a little weapon with their little paws / claws to kill the cute little villain Mugwuffin to stop her dastardly plans of galactic dominion.

 

[kano547]

Kamikaze pilots? Either they're putting slaves in there and threatening their families or the slavers he's been dealing with aren't actually slavers. Now I'm very curious where this is going.

 

[saylin021]

Nah, Mugwuffin is the real Moff, Las is just her puppet. She can't let herself be distracted by minor system manners when she's now ruling a sector, and is progressing well on the path to becoming Empress.

I bet there's at least one person who has a conspiracy theory like that. Maybe someone will even try to assassinate Mugwuffin for some reason. Perhaps it would be some other member of her species, wielding a little weapon with their little paws / claws to kill the cute little villain Mugwuffin to stop her dastardly plans of galactic dominion.

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Now I'm imagining this epic showdown happening, with Las and the entire office peaking in from the doorway cooing at the scene