[] Wat's Fate:
-[] Hand him over to some of the Eternal City escapees, odds are they'd be happy to have custody of him and could use him to get leverage over the TU as a whole.
-[] Kill him and collect the myriad bounties that are no doubt on his head.
-[] Write-in (Is there some other option that you haven't considered?)
Ordinarily, I'd be all for delivering Wat Tambor in exchange for bounties. But here's the thing: we have a
lot of money. Like, absurd amounts of it. And given the number of bases, base upgrades, and write-ins for next turn... we're going to have lots of money for the foreseeable future. So we don't need the bounty.
Handing him over to the Eternal City folks
might be risky, but only if we don't know who we're handing him off to. I'm assuming we'll pick and choose a
specific person or group from the Eternal City, to take responsibility (and have our agents check their background to avoid 'sudden but inevitable betrayals'. More importantly, though, the 'Eternal City' option would give us leverage over the Techno Union, adding it to our stable of "questionable Separatist megacorporations" that we can use as the war winds down.
[] Gurlanin Impersonator Is Go?
-[] Yes. Getting someone to impersonate Wat for even a few days could be invaluable. Who knows where you could get them? (Naturally you'd hold off on dealing with Wat until after they're finished with their mission)
-[] No. Dooku would probably pick them up and the consequences of that would be very bad.
A Gurlanin impersonator would be amazing, and they are
really good at what they do. But if we're giving Wat Tambor over to the Eternal City escapees, then we're already going to get leverage over the Techno Union, which would be main point of having an impersonator in the first place.
On the other hand, I
really like
@Killerflood's idea of using Wat Tambor to sow dissension within the Separatist ranks. We could use Wat's authorization codes to send a message to the rest of the Separatist Council, indicating that the 'Republic clone commandos' that attacked Metalorn were actually BX commando droids in disguise (it's happened before in canon...). This would indicate that either Dooku or another megacorp took down the Techno Union. Then we wait to see how the dinner with Dooku pans out, before deciding whether Wat's death should be blamed on Dooku himself, or on (e.g.) the Corporate Alliance. (Remember that Talesan Fry
hates the Corporate Alliance due to them murdering his parents, so he might be willing to forge whatever documents are necessary to cast them in a bad light.
@Dr. Snark: could we do something like this? If so, would that be a separate option, or would it be classified as using a Gurlanin impersonator (if only for the initial holo-message)?
As for the 'fine balance' between keeping the CIS weak or letting it live... remember that the Separatist movement has two sides, that the legitimate side has been more-or-less coopted by ourselves through the Council of
Neutral Systems, while the current CIS is almost totally puppeted by the Sith. Also remember that Palpatine wants the CIS to appear strong, to create an imminent threat that he can use to amass more power for himself. A weaker CIS does not pose a threat to the Republic, which means he'd have a harder time gathering that power.
Let Palpatine work to ensure that the CIS doesn't die out completely. The more we weaken the CIS, the more effort he has to spend keeping it alive.
