Governor's Gambit - Star Wars SI into Imperial Governor

[NinjaMAster]

Got both recipes from this huge ass cookbook I was given recently, the Joy of Cooking. Its thicker than all three of my college textbooks combined and its amazing.

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The Joy of Cooking is one of those incredibly famous cookbooks that gets treated as a must-read for many people. If you want to go looking for other cookbooks of similar quality for cheap, us your phone to look up whatever old cookbooks are in the clearance section at your local used book store or library clearance event. After about the 2010's computer-generated garbage flooded the market.

(That's not to say there's not good modern cookbooks, but cookbooks in particular got hit with the AI Slop flood before it even actually used AI. Just poorly translated web-scrapes of cooking recipe websites with often-random unrelated food photos. They looked great on their cover-photo when people were buying them online.)

You can also pick up actual college textbooks for Cooking Degrees in the same place, which is neat. There's all these absolutely giant books used to teach things like formal French Cooking, or how to cater for massive events, or things like how to make delicious preserves and jams from scratch, often on clearance for only a few dollars.

 

[Blackenedthorn]

Maybe they'll make something akin to the Pellaeon-class Star Destroyer, complete with its 8,450 Crew Requirement. I think it would be funny if the class was named as the Veers Class Star Destroyer, named for Sector Admiral Ife Veers.

I could still see the class being disregarded by the Core like the Arbiter

Spoiler: Veers Class Star Destroyer

 

[Hadrian.Caeser]

Can out favorite sentient rat reproduce asexually by laying eggs? She must live in beyond her limited time.

 

[Galanthus]

It would be a mess, no doubt, but if these grown children can't do their jobs then I'm not going to hold their wrinkled hands while the learn how not to embezzle funds.

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"the" should be "they"

Other than that good chapter.

 

[Heidao]

At least the Mando clans are aware of and respect Las for calling for them. The youth will always be skeptic but they will live to witness the times of growth and prosperity

Well hello there, you niche twin cannon destroyer you. The Aggressor class became one of my favorites cause of the funny idea of building a ship that dump stat all of its power into twin barrels firing an ion blast and a ball of plasma.

Just watch, he grants R&D a bigger budget to experiment, look away for a second, and look back to see plans of a ship in rivaling size to an Executor SSD

 

[Darik29]

For all that Star Destroyer's are resource hogs, they are also considered the pride of fleets they are in.

Genuinely, let them design a new ISD and see what shenanigans you can get up to with your own Star Destroyer. You kind of need one for any other naval admiral or higher to take you seriously in the Empire.

 

[Venerable Ro]

Got both recipes from this huge ass cookbook I was given recently, the Joy of Cooking. Its thicker than all three of my college textbooks combined and its amazing.

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Heck yeah, the definitive "how to cook" cookbook, complete with a comprehensive table of weights and measures and detailed explanations of cooking terms. Did you get the edition that covers filleting fish, butchering game, and the specific definitions of steak cuts?

 

[Sire-alien]

With all the new ship´s and mando´s on pirate fighting duty its just a matter of time before the pirates decides to go for more greener pastures really,
This will of course result in a diffrent headache because all the neighbours now want protection but also dont want to pay for it.

 

[Shane.W]

Destroyer - Ship class - Halopedia, the Halo wiki

Destroyer is a warship classification in the UNSC Navy, as well as the now-defunct Colonial Military Authority. Its hull classification symbol is DD. Fast, maneuverable, and designed for long-term endurance, destroyers are intended to escort larger...

www.halopedia.org

https://halo.fandom.com/wiki/Valiant-Class_Super-Heavy_Cruiser

https://halofanon.fandom.com/wiki/Punic-class_supercarrier

Change things to match the Star Wars universe and it would be great for protecting shipping lane's.
The punic class has a ridiculous amount of craft in its hold.

Standard Loadout for Punic class was
10 squadrons of 12 F-41 Broadswords, manoeuvrable fighters designed to match their advanced Covenant equivalents.
8 squadrons of 12 GA-TL1 Longswords, multirole combat fighters. The complement aboard any UNSC warship is rarely composed of a single monogamous model, as each different configuration offers tailored advantages to a specialised role. The most common models are the C709 and C712, used for bombing and interception roles respectively.
6 squadrons of 16 F-99 Wombats, small lightly-armoured drones capable of both interception and dogfighting, but most often called upon for reconnaissance purposes.
3 squadrons of 3 GA-TL2 Greatswords, dedicated super-heavy bombers able to unleash a very impressive amount of ordnance.
2 squadrons of 3 AC-220 Vultures, rare atmospheric gunships used to provide heavy aerial fire once air superiority has been achieved. Unlike all other aircraft on the supercarrier, these are manned and maintained by the UNSC Air Force.
1 squadron of 8 B-65 Shortswords, light bombers used to strategically eliminate key enemy assets.

 

[Silencian]

I'd make sure to send an Arbiter to

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The Arbiters had scared some sense

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Did Las actually name the Auditor program agents Arbiters as well? Or did autocorrect just ninja that in since you must've typed Arbiter alot recently for the ship name.

 

[Watching]

Is it unusual for shipyards to spring up in every system like it is happening to Las's in star wars?

I will not be bringing the Vong in at all

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Awww… no end game crisis?

I preferred the cluttered space of my old Gubernatorial office

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Gubernatorial?

R&D already started work on the Arbiter-II of all things, which isn't actually a sequel to the Arbiter. It's more like the original design.

See, the original design was a full 900 meters long with more fighters, more firepower, and overall more.

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Despite being lengthened another 100 meters that would still be considered a heavy cruiser, atleast according to the Anaxes war college system.

Now if only they'd stop requesting permission to build a so-called "New Star Destroyer Class" I'd like them more.

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Hmmm… so what would the new space battleship class they want to build look like?

 

[Yacov]

"Don't you see? They don't have a choice. The Consortium's fall means pirates are running around with more firepower than they expected. They need us."

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I think that is helping Mando morale more than anything. Actually feeling needed rather than rejected by the Republic, their sector, then the Empire, and just the galaxy as a whole.

And the map told a story. The incursions came mostly from the Myto's Arrow trade route, specifically from the direction of the Obtrexta sector. From there they seemed to spread, fanning out across the sector.

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Huh, so they are coming from the west of the sector? Wasn't expecting that. The Muun are probably pissed at all the pirates going through their sector. Bad for business to be seen as a source of pirates.

And now Ife was staring at a casualty counter, numbers glowing red.

268 dead, and an Arbiter forced back into the yard for repairs, slowing construction of further hulls. If only the Academies were worth a damn!

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At least this isn't age of sail numbers where a ship returning from a voyage with 75% crew casualties was not too uncommon, and that was the ones that came back. There was a reason pressganging was needed to keep the ships crewed.

If nothing else, the new station I now worked and lived out of had exceptionally fast holonet speeds. This was courtesy of the station pulling double duty as both my headquarters and a holonet relay nexus.

From this station, the wider holonet relay system could be monitored with ease. An outage could be seen faster than a system could report it.

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"You can't control the HoloNet Las!"

Las: "I AM THE HOLONET!"

The other price I paid was my time and effort, of course. Taking a long sip of my morning hot coco and a bite out of my first of many nutrient bars of the day, I opened the first report.

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Every Moff and Governor just shuddered at the cheapness of Las' meals. Not an entree or appetizer to be seen.

The report went on for a while, detailing the many, many systems designated as Fringe systems.

Of them, some needed subsidies more than others. For example, Draxon's Forge. As a system, it was on the lower end in terms of population, sitting somewhere around 380k people.

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On the other hand, a system like the Rodu system. A system with a single agriculturally focused world and only around 150k people, it had few prospects and fewer people willing to bet on them. But an agri-world is useful no matter what, so subsidies there would be focused on expanding crop production.

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Considering Las was initially dealing with the Minda system having 200k citizens (the Verndari hadn't been discovered yet), having the Fringe systems be in the same population range probably shows population growth is doing really well across the sector.

This urbanization and industrialization subsidy program is probably going to pump up those numbers even further. Maybe not to core sector levels, but maybe enough to start economically and culturally dominating nearby sectors passively through sheer disparity.

But what I hadn't expected was the industrial pushes the Developed and even Settled worlds were making.

Shipyards. They were building shipyards.

There were already a few in the sector aside from the Mard, but they were local, small. Hell, Abyssal Industries underwater yards were already the second largest in the sector because the company was just that experienced at what they did. And they brought over much of the material.

But now planets like Belladoon were beginning the construction of their own yards. They previously had some, but those were local ground based operations. These were orbital yards, clearly created to cater to the same scale as the Mard.

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I mean with the dearth of ships and pirates being everywhere, shipyards are basically infinite economic activity generators. Makes sense those with the capability are going to start building them. No one is going to say no to buying more ships in these circumstances.

I think this more than anything should be concerning to core world factions. Once a sector hits multiple and decentralized shipyards, it becomes much harder to conquer or reign in. A subjugation goes from a quick visit to a full campaign.

After Endor hits I can see poorer systems and sectors trying to align themselves with Myto willingly just to make sure they can keep getting ships and their bigger ones maintained. Heck they might even start offering subservience before then just due to how cutthroat and power dynamic centered Imperial politics is.

If too many of them were found messing about, I'd just take control of the yards directly. It would be a mess, no doubt, but if these grown children can't do their jobs then I'm not going to hold their wrinkled hands while the learn how not to embezzle funds.

I mean, look, its easy!

I sit there for ten minutes, staring into space, doing nothing.

See! Easy!

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Imperial official attempts to not be corrupt: challenge impossible.

At least Las can legally expand his control over his sector's naval infrastructure this way. Much less chance of a Governor going rogue when the Moff's government owns your main source of prosperity.

 

[crbox]

II. CRITICAL WEAKNESSES AND PRODUCTION FAILURES

Despite its tactical utility, the Arbiter is a product of desperation and rushed industrial cycles. Intelligence confirms these hulls are being completed in only 2.5 months, leading to several exploitable flaws.

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Kinda surprised with how Ackbar was salivating over those ships that Rebel High Command wasn't willing to take advantage of that short-term weakness to nab as many as they could. Potential LECAs deployment would increase the risk but given that these ships aren't designed for boarding nor have a standard boarding craft complement would kinda imply a minimal marine complement by design and therefore minimal chance and number of LECA's. Meanwhile the shoddy training of the crew would drastically lower their ability to stand up against trained marine forces. Also if you can get into the hangar before the fighters fully launch you negate the ship's primary threat.

And its not like the biggest weakness that make such an operation viable won't be mitigated over time as the crews gain experience. Some of the other weaknesses can't be, but the shoddy crews can and will. While its potential utility as ships for the Rebel fleet would stay the same. Also the ship picking up a reputation for getting hijacked can only further harm 'M-type's reputation in the greater Imperial bureaucracy making it even less likely to be integrated into the wider Imperial military.

 

[Watching]

Every Moff and Governor just shuddered at the cheapness of Las' meals. Not an entree or appetizer to be seen.

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I bet the hot chocolate he's addicted to is worth half a year of his salary.