One thing worth noting is that a good portion of Raynor's Raiders are on Aiur, right now. Dealing with the mess that is the uncontrollable mass of bugs on the planet and trying to rally scattered survivors. Their need for more weapons is absolutely time sensitive given that they're in active combat on the most zerg infested planet in the galaxy.
That's a good point and I'm favoring.
[X] Plan Trust Us Mengsk, This Dagger Is Just For Measuring Your Back w/ Statplans and Personal Fringe Benefits.
Guns for Jimmy.
Inspector-General should wait until after we've finished recruiting from the ex-cons, and havea trusted group of them into confidence.
Again, I think there's a real case for just
not having the Inspector General. The kind of stuff a disciplined, corruption-free government wouldn't allow its bureaucracy to get away with is to a large extent our bread and butter. We're personally taking a huge slush fund straight out of the budget, engaging in insider trading, and directing our people to make deals with illegal organizations.
Can we really afford to set the precedent that the are capital-R Rules to be enforced within the system right now? Because it's ultimately Mengsk who gets to decide those rules, not us.
We will be appointing them remember the whole point is to use them to root out other peoples corruption unless you like the idea of the supplies we want to send to the Raiders going into some profiteering assholes pocket because we've got no way to look for them.
Yeah.
On the other hand, sooner or later someone in the IG's office who's following paper trails around is gonna get the bright idea of following the paper trails of the corrupt stuff
we're doing.
In real life, one of the big reasons corrupt governments stay corrupt is because every powerful person in the system is relying on corruption to remain in power and get things done. Trying to root out the low-level corruption risks having the juniors and flunkies start reporting to the secret police on
your corruption, which they know about because they're the guys on the ground making it happen.
While in some abstract sense from the point of view of the disembodied spirit of a national economy or whatever, this is bad...
That's where we live. Our reality centers around this admittedly unwelcome situation. I'm pretty sure that in this situation, we can't actually risk destabilizing the Treasury by digging up corruption on a large scale (aside from crudely putting on the boots and kicking when it gets
too inconvenient). Because a lot of our employees could probably screw us over just the way we'd be screwing them over.
Yeah so when I first thought about it I thought about a more honest Inspector-General who is basically independent of their own boss and even monitors them. But that is not what this is, not really. Its a much more under our control - we appoint him, we direct him, we decide on what his decisions will be. From what it seems its not "he will even monitor us" and instead it is "he will make sure the resources we assign to particular areas get to where WE want them to be." He is our man.
I'm not so much against it as I was before.
(That said if I am wrong in this interpretation please tell me, because if he is actually full honest to even our own actions then yeah, I don't want to do this project.)
I'm not saying you're flat wrong, but once this office is established and regularly hunting for people who aren't doing what they "should" be doing, it's going to be hard to ensure that it remains fully reliable and on our side. Especially to the point of backing up
our crimes and corruption while still kicking at the crimes and corruption of our underlings.
I think it might be easier and more sustainable for us to just get our Treasury people to accept "Good old Boss Chuck is corrupt, but he's not a hypocrite about it, I'm not going to worry about his slush fund that's big enough to literally float a squadron of battlecruisers, because he's not going to worry about
my slush fund that's big enough to float a dropship."
