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The Slave Who Makes Free: An Anakin Skywalker Quest

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[X]Plan: Comprehensive Action

There aren't enough hours in the day to get to Senate Intelligence, and even if there were I'm not sure they'd have teeth or guts enough to be willing to lay things out and burn corruption as far down to the roots as they're able. That said, being willing to actually stand up and go to the Council and have an honest conversation is relatively unusual for Anakins across time and space, and them actually being willing to have it is fairly unusual for Jedi Councils across time and space. Having more friends with political sway than just individuals from the number one most-sauna-like-world-we-know is a good call. So is being connected instead of a lone wolf. Leading a charge and being the voice of the younger generation is a totally different dynamic from being brash and fiery and on your own and I _like_ "I'll tell them to their faces, now who's with me?" Anakin.
 
[X] Plan Random Serious
-[x] Make contact with potential allies in the Senate.
-[x] Link up with the Senate Intelligence Division.
-[x] Advocate for the petition to defy the Banking Clan and deploy the AgriCorps.
-[x] Find out what's happening with the Council.
-[x] Check in on your friends.
-[x] Request help from the Chancellor.
 
Kirook said:
"Well, that's the problem, isn't it?" Sabé muses. "Where she wants to go."
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I have always wondered, what would have taken for her to have willingly followed Anakin in his fall? What would it have looked like? To look to the darkness he was walking into and go "I choose to walk beside him into that." What would there future have looked like? Interesting little thought line I have sometimes, but I'd imagine that it be totally depressing.

But lines like this always bring it to the for front. Because it's true, Padme goes where she wishes, and follows those she deems worth following, it just so happens that she wants to go where Anakin goes.
 
VampirelordX said:
I have always wondered, what would have taken for her to have willingly followed Anakin in his fall? What would it have looked like? To look to the darkness he was walking into and go "I choose to walk beside him into that." What would there future have looked like? Interesting little thought line I have sometimes, but I'd imagine that it be totally depressing.

But lines like this always bring it to the for front. Because it's true, Padme goes where she wishes, and follows those she deems worth following, it just so happens that she wants to go where Anakin goes.
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Padme's two great loves are Anakin and the democratic process. A Darksider is simply antithetical to the latter, they love domination too much.
 
[X] Plan: Engaging with the Premise
-[X] Make contact with potential allies in the Senate.
-[X] Link up with the Senate Intelligence Division.
-[X] Find out what's happening with the Council.
-[X] Check in on your friends.
-[X] Request help from the Chancellor.

I had this really long post all ready to go about how always avoiding Palpatine is not actually a viable long-term strategy, but ultimately it boils down to this: Palpatine is a great character and trying to meta-game around him is boring. If Anakin is going to distrust him, then I want there to be an actual story reason for it. Right now, he doesn't have one.

My proposal is that we avoid the actual intemperate and Dark Side-adjacent proposal, which is unilaterally throwing the AgriCorps into an unsettled situation, and focus instead on a multi-pronged diplomatic and official approach that might attack the underlying corruption in the Republic rather than patching over this one specific outbreak. That includes leveraging the power of the Chancellor's office. He is the chief executive of the Republic. It's not weird or out of line to petition him on this one.

This plan is a little high-Stress for my tastes but I think we have to focus as much on addressing the problems with the Jedi Order, which I'll remind everyone had just as much if not more to do with Anakin's downfall as Palpatine, as the ongoing political situation.
 
[X]Plan: Comprehensive Action
-[X] Find out what's happening with the Council.
-[X] Advocate for the petition to defy the Banking Clan and deploy the AgriCorps.
-[X] Make contact with potential allies in the Senate.
-[X] Check in on your friends.
 
Polaris37 said:
I can't even begin to imagine what Palpy will try and do with this. It's probably to public for him to actively sabotage the endeavor, but, this is the guy that orchestrated an entire civil war.
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Either Palpatine stabs Grievous in the back to get the Seperatist their general, or we give him a future Thrawn tier general for the Empire.

Either way , we know that one of his big long term goals is to gain absolute authority over the banks as groundwork to becoming Emperor, and erode the power of the Senate. I think even if we don't go to him, he is going to scheme about how to both look to be in the right and progress his goals.

[X] Plan: Comprehensive Action
[X] Plan Friends And Allies
 
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Andmeuths said:
Either Palpatine stabs Grievous in the back, or we give him a future Thrawn tier general for the Empire.
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Most likely he's gunning for the Huk be part of the separatist goon squad, maybe have Grievous die a martyr to justify a powergrab and anti separatist action(something similar was in the cards for Padme though it didnt work out for Sheev). I see no reason to give Palpatine any freebies. He's going to be working towards taking advantage of any political wins we get against the banking clan anyways but if we can limit how much their his wins it will go some way in forestalling his plans. The trap with Sheev beyond the darkside is that he can solve a lot of our problems but will do so in a way that increases his own poltical power and popularity which is uh a bad thing for what should be obvious reasons.
 
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Kirook said:
It's run by a member of the Judicial Forces, which is as close to an actual police/military as the Republic gets, so presumably they have at least some teeth when they're not getting perpetually stonewalled (which is where you and Obi-Wan would come in).
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I think it is unwise to assume that a police or military force will act in our interest.

If the anticorruption cops are powerful then they will have been co-opted by our enemies. They are only useful to us if: they are weak enough that no one has bothered; they somehow have a useful leader rather than a collaborator or a spineless liberal; and jedi magic can make them suddenly more relevant.
 
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