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@Packrat can we also meet that other options so we can ally we with them I would like to complement Imperial Scion and become their teacher since he have the capital and wealth while we have the skills and experience.
 
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So... we need to usurp the Empress. If she died and Had a young son, we could pull a Lohengramm (who i named our character's first name after)
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Can we really be satisfied with just that? No, the nobility must be abolished, it's former members shot, and a new meritocratic non-hyper-capitalist system must be put into place.
 
@Satar Heh you would try to overthrow the system which is made up of nobles and most of our subordinates who are nobles you know the guys who command ships and planetary governors as well. Oh let us not forget that most of the economy are also made up of merchant princes if we remove that as well we will have the imperium go to a great depression since the corporations a run by dukes.
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Who I have to remind you have their private fleets and armies to complement the imperial navy and army and one of the people we can use political capital on so they can lend their forces to us.
 
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I mean, he did pretty good considering everything. So State Capitalism?
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Our character is literally this era's Hannibal or Napoleon. If he hadn't been able to rise through the ranks, the system wouldn't be rotten-- it'd be a dead husk, just waiting for a rebel or invader to strike the final blow.
 
Satar said:
Our character is literally this era's Hannibal or Napoleon. If he hadn't been able to rise through the ranks, the system wouldn't be rotten-- it'd be a dead husk, just waiting for a rebel or invader to strike the final blow.
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Ok? So State Capitalism is what were shooting for when we usurp the throne?
Probably take a Princess as bride to legitimize it.
 
[X] Bring A Staff Officer. Request transfer of one of your staff officers from your time on the Righteous to your command, this will grant you a single elite officer who is personally loyal to you.
@Satar can we not be compare with napoleon and hannibal since you guys know what happen to them the nobility or the royals finish them off. Can we be Cesare or Octavian since those guys actually succeeded in jobs.
 
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[X] Bring A Staff Officer. Request transfer of one of your staff officers from your time on the Righteous to your command, this will grant you a single elite officer who is personally loyal to you.
 
[x] Retain Crews. Your most skilled crews will not be quite so savagely stripped, your flagship and one light cruiser will retain Regular crew instead of being reduced to Green like every other ship under your command.
 
[X] Bring A Staff Officer. Request transfer of one of your staff officers from your time on the Righteous to your command, this will grant you a single elite officer who is personally loyal to you.
 
[X] Bring A Staff Officer. Request transfer of one of your staff officers from your time on the Righteous to your command, this will grant you a single elite officer who is personally loyal to you.
 
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[X] Bring A Staff Officer. Request transfer of one of your staff officers from your time on the Righteous to your command, this will grant you a single elite officer who is personally loyal to you.

I have also updated the second post with a page or so on how the empire works and the nature of shares, though to summarise owning a share makes you a noble and it means a share in the state. The empire itself basically holds control over whole swathe of industries and essential services which are then run for a profit with regional monopolies being granted to ducal houses, who hold a large minority of all of the shares between them.

I will get started on an update but my desktop did die on me earlier today so I am likely to be slow as I try to use an elderly laptop.
 
A quick update, I have added details for all of your cruisers and corvettes, with the captains and XO of each cruiser rolled up along with the captains of your corvettes.

Apparently the dice decided that all of your corvette captains are godawful at their job but very sneaky and extra disloyal. The XO of the Peregrin is kind of a badass and actually loyal to you though?
 
Packrat said:
Apparently the dice decided that all of your corvette captains are godawful at their job but very sneaky and extra disloyal. The XO of the Peregrin is kind of a badass and actually loyal to you though?
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So their incompetent AND disloyal? While being good at intrigue? Why are they captains and not spies...?
 
Ghostdevil said:
So their incompetent AND disloyal? While being good at intrigue? Why are they captains and not spies...?
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Because (two of them at least) are nobles. Captains get both fancy epaulettes and fancy hats! Actually to be fair they are both passable at strategy just awful at tactics and probably graduated through staff college or something whilst having minimal experience in command of a warship. The non noble captain is however pretty excellent at tactics, in fact she is pretty okay at everything apart from diplomacy but rolled almost maximum for subterfuge and the lowest possible for loyalty.

She either resents your success or is being leaned on. Or she is a spy.

Edit: Given the vote was to bring in an officer, you will be able to replace one of the captains I just rolled up with said individual. Primary skill of said officer will be 15 and the others averaging 12, plus loyalty 16. So do consider just who to replace.
 
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Can we shuffle some officers between ships?
Swapping XO of LC Peregrin with one on our flagship looks tempting - that somewhat-loyal XO would give us immediate support in melee, diplomacy & spycraft on our flagship, while we could assign our vet to Peregrin and use it's former lord to bench, say, that corvette captain not of noble birth...
 
Guys let's not antagonize our people in the first day of the job. Let us get a feel of the captains before we plan to deal with them since they seem to be better at us at that.
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Also @Packrat are the non selected characters are their in the other sectors.
 
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@Packrat[/USER] are the non selected characters are their in the other sectors.
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Nope, the player character is definitely pitched to be more capable than almost anyone else in the setting, either through raw ability (such as the chosen option) or a combination of skill, position and opportunity. Of course there are very competent or very politically placed people out there in the universe.


Also @Dwergar you can swap officers around, but this costs political capital and moving people to inferior positions will also lower their loyalty. Moving somebody from command of a cruiser to an escort corvette is an insult after all, it might even lead to them challenging you to a duel.
 
@Packrat Heh and they are nobles that means they are slightly better at us at duels since they are raise to duel at young age or maybe not. Also can you summarize the playstyle and problems of the other characters just to check of the what ifs if they won the vote. This character after all is suited to wage war and conquer not maintain sectors which deals with the high and mighty.
 
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    @Packrat Heh and they are nobles that means they are slightly better at us at duels since they are raise to duel at young age or maybe not. Also can you summarize the playstyle and problems of the other characters just to check of the what ifs if they won the vote. This character after all is suited to wage war and conquer not maintain sectors which deals with the high and mighty.
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    Actually you are about on par with the 'average' noble officer in a duel with your Prowess 10, they might have had better training and better augmentation but you are a badass with a good deal of real combat experience. The captain of the Peregrine in particular is Prowess 12 though so he is particularly good at fighting, he would probably win.

    As to the other character choices?

    The Imperial Scion would suffer from just being worse at stuff, even if you specialised in tactics or strategy then you would be merely on par with a capable random officer. You would however have a 'free' battlecruiser with a veteran crew, more ships with better crews, the political capital and wealth to make your own choices and much higher loyalty from all of your noble officers. Your flagship would also have had several very capable commanders with a high degree of personal loyalty.

    A ducal scion would be almost a watered down version of the above. No battlecruiser but better skills and about 3/4 of the captains swapped out for high loyalty individuals your house has hooks in. You would also have had a fair degree of direction from your family, often in conflict with your overt aims as an imperial officer but rewarding you well if you completed these directives.

    The minor noble would have had you still very capable if less obscenely so. Your heavy cruiser would be the ship you had been commanding for a few years and arrived with a veteran crew plus a very competent XO and loyalty of your officers would have been on average about 3 higher (so, average to slightly above).

    The current choice of maxed out military skill is quite possibly hard mode but you are also ridiculous. The dice system is 3d6+Skill so with a Strategy of 22? You basically always win an even roll against even extremely capable elite opponents.
     
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